North America is getting a new white PlayStation 3 bundle

Limited-edition bundle with PlayStation Plus Ten-year life cycle? Why, we’re only just getting started. Despite the fact that new consoles from Sony and Microsoft are on the way, if you’ve got the money now for one of the current-gen systems missing from your collection, it’s not a bad time to dive in. Sonyhas announceda new PlayStation 3 bundle which offers serious bang for your buck and looks nice, too. Priced at $299....

May 31, 2025 · 1 min · 208 words · Yvonne Hamilton

Not April Fools’: Nintendo will mail you a Shadow Mewtwo card for Pokken Tournament

Nintendo has always made it clear that prospectivePokken Tournamentbuyers would only get the Shadow Mewtwo card if they bought the game physically, but it’s going the extra mile with a new promotion. Provided that you have signed up for the Nintendo Store, anyone who bought the game digitally can nowsend in a support ticketto try to get a physical copy of the card. You just need your Nintendo Network ID and the serial number....

May 31, 2025 · 1 min · 132 words · William Lawson

One weird trick is cruise control to shorter XCOM 2 load times

SCIENTISTS HATE HIM! XCOM 2is pretty hitchy and janky, though I’ve not encountered any game-breaking issues. Still, worse than the lazy virtual camera man too busy on his phone to always keep the focus on the action are the sometimes lengthy load times. Especially on that flight back to HQ, giving you more time than you’d like to feel bad about the folks you got all shot up. Weirdly, pressing Caps Lock WILL SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE LOAD TIMES INXCOM 2ON YOUR WAY BACK TO THE BASE....

May 31, 2025 · 1 min · 163 words · Joel Ballard

Overwatch’s Sigma has an intense origin story

Hero 31 is playable on the PTR, here are his abilities After a few teases,Blizzard has officially introduced Sigma, the next tank hero lined up forOverwatch. Even if you aren’t in the habit of watching these origin story videos, this one is worth a look. It’s genuinely unnerving! Blizzard describes it as a “peek inside the mind of an eccentric astrophysicist who hopes to unlock the secrets of the universe, unaware he’s been turning into a living weapon....

May 31, 2025 · 1 min · 155 words · John King

Path of Exile (PoE) Trial of the Ancestors 3.22.0b patch notes

The newPath of Exileseason,Trial of the Ancestors, has been out for almost a week now. Even though the league has received a few smaller updates and hotfixes since its release, it just got its biggest update yet. The 3.22.0b Hotfix forPoEprimarily targets the league mechanic, Trial of the Ancestors. For the last week most have considered the league mechanic underwhelming and honestly not worth doing. The potential rewards have not been that great, and the actual mechanic itself is a bit challenging....

May 31, 2025 · 1 min · 132 words · Greg Spencer

Peggle 2’s Jimmy Lightning is less exciting than the first DLC

Not a fan of his redesign either Peggle 2is one of those games that’s good to just pick up and play every so often, and whenever a new character drops, I get the itch to play again. This time the newcomer isn’t an original character likeWindy the Fairy, but a familiar face in the form of Jimmy Lightning from the originalPeggle. Of all the characters they bring back, it had to be Jimmy....

May 31, 2025 · 2 min · 253 words · Felicia Rodriguez

Pinball Arcade adding Elvira table in time for Halloween

“Party Monsters” now available on PS3 I love Pinball, as I’m sure readers of this blog are well aware. I’m also deeply affectionate for the Mistress of the Dark, Elvira, late-night spookshow queen of the eighties and nineties. So, it’s no surprise that I’m highly interested in picking up the latest release toThe Pinball Arcadeon PS3, as it brings the 1989 classic,Elvira and the Party Monsterstable to their library of original machine simulations today as part of “Table Pack 6....

May 31, 2025 · 1 min · 156 words · Tonya Powers

Psychonauts 2 partially funded by silent partner

Is it Notch? Tonight at Geoff Keighley’s TheGame Awards, Double Fine officially announcedPsychonauts 2, the long-awaited sequel to the developer’s now 10-year-old debut project. To bankroll development, Double Fine has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Fig, asking fans (and potential investors) to raise at least $3.3 million to support the project. While that is no small amount of money, speaking with Destructoid prior to tonight’s big reveal, Double Fine founder Tim Schafer says his team will need more to finance development....

May 31, 2025 · 2 min · 400 words · Amber Arnold

Rainbow Six: Vegas free for Xbox Live Gold members

Better late than never? The latest free game from Microsoft’s Games with Gold promotion is another one you may have gotten years ago, but if not, great — it’s worth nabbing. Queue your download forRainbow Six: Vegasover here. This is one of the rare few that I never got around to playing, so don’t mind if I do. More than anything, I was eager to share that infamous picture of the baby-faced soldier....

May 31, 2025 · 1 min · 141 words · Brandon Smith

ReadySet Heroes mixes hack-n-slash combat with online competition

Competitive Diablo During Sony’s inaugural “State of Play” stream, a new title calledReadySet Heroeswas announced. The title will be a mixture of the hack-n-slash genre with competitive multiplayer, pitting teams of players against each other in randomly generated dungeons. I suppose saying it’sDiabloPvP is correct since the main goal is to reach the end of the dungeon first. In a nice move, offline play will be available in addition to online options....

May 31, 2025 · 1 min · 116 words · Rachael Thompson

Rebuilding Dante in DmC: Devil May Cry

Ninja Theory talks overhauls and backlash DmC: Devil May Cryhas been controversial to say the least. Ever since Capcom announced a new game, developed by Ninja Theory and starring a redesigned Dante, fans have been furious, declaring this a grand travesty of the highest order. Of course, that wasn’t the point, merely the end result. So why did DmC reboot the series, and why does Dante sport an all-new look and attitude?...

May 31, 2025 · 6 min · 1242 words · Michael Johnson

Recipe for Disaster is the next Epic Games Store freebie

An idiot sandwich… It’s the end of another week, and that meansEpic Games Storeis ready to reveal the next game it will be offering up to all of its users free of charge — And its a matter of fires, fights, and fricassees, with the arrival of kitchen and restaurant management simRecipe for Disaster, available from February 9. Developed by the fantastically monikered Spanish outfit Dapper Penguin, and launched on PC in the summer of 2022,Recipe for Disastertasks players with the smooth operation of a professional kitchen and its attached dining room, ensuring the quick, efficient, and accurate work of its chefs and waiting staff, delivering high-quality meals to customers while keeping everybody happy and safe — the former being something of an impossibility in the catering industry....

May 31, 2025 · 2 min · 265 words · Miguel Pierce

River City Saga Three Kingdoms Next continues the historical beatdown this November

Arc System Workshas revealedthat R-Force Entertainment is working on a sequel to 2021’sRiver City Saga: Three Kingdoms. TitledRiver City Saga: Three Kingdoms Next, it’s coming to PC, Switch, and PS4 on November 7. As the name implies,River City Saga: Three Kingdomstakes the beefy-armed beat-’em-up series to China’s “Three Kingdoms” period. Kunio and his pals stand in for historical figures such as Guan Yu and Sun Quan and fight in a number of historical events....

May 31, 2025 · 2 min · 269 words · Brandon Mcconnell