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Colour-merging bugs When I first saw there was a game on the PAX East show floor calledShe Remembered Caterpillars, I was expecting some kind of 3D walking simulator about a young girl tending a garden. As it turns out, it’s something entirely different and apparently unrelated to its moniker. It’s actually a puzzle game about guiding colourful little blobs to flowers, so they bloom and fly away. InShe Remembered Caterpillars, blobs can travel across same-coloured bridges but cannot pass through matching gates....

The PC version will also be playable on Steam soon I haven’t forgotten aboutSludge Life, a wonderfully weird graffiti platformer-adventure game from Terri Vellmann, Doseone, and Devolver Digital, but Ihadforgotten that it was coming to Nintendo Switch. The day’s almost here, too — the Switch version and Steam release are both planned for July 08, 2025. The first-person / open-world / vandalism-centric SLUDGE LIFE is coming to Nintendo Switch and Steam on June 2!...

I shot the pilot, I’m begging you to fly this for me Halo 5takes place in 2558 but some players are turning the clock back some 600 years. Thanks to the wonders of Forge mode, you can get your fix of old-timey war right alongside all that futuristic war. Forge creator JoeAct20 made this Slayer variant where players pilot fighter planes in hopes of shooting one another down. It’s called Air Superiority, and it seems to mostly be a re-skinning and repurposing of the game’s Banshee vehicle....

Performance RT mode is a great compromise I’m starting to wish I hadn’t burned through my New Game+ playthrough ofSpider-Man: Miles Moralesso quickly (and deleted the game to free up some precious storage space on my PS5). Insomniac Games updatedMiles Moraleswith an alternate graphics mode– Performance RT– that ticks the right boxes. If you wanted to see cool ray-traced reflections but you weren’t willing to playMiles Moralesat 30 frames per second, there’s now an “alternate version of the 60 frames per second ‘Performance’ mode” that adds “ray tracing by adjusting the scene resolution, reflection quality, and pedestrian density....

July 16 is the normal raid (Eden), and July 30 is the savage difficulty So for the most part, the way players gear up inFinal Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringersis not changing. There are some tweaks, mind, but generally you’re going to be racing to the new level cap of 80, then acquiring better gear through tomestones (end-game currency), and the key items from the expected two EX trials (single-boss fights). Now,thanks to the last producer live letter from Square Enix, we have an idea of when we’ll be able to play the most challenging endgame content....

Training and Versus Modes reportedly included Over the last few days, a number of cool details have been revealed concerning Capcom’s upcoming compilationStreet Fighter 30th Anniversary Edition, which launches on multiple formats May 29. The fantastic looking compendium, featuring a selection of the finest fighting games of all-time, will also have an exclusive mode within its Nintendo Switch release. “Tournament Battle” is a mode which featured in richer arcades back in the heady days ofSuper Turbo....

The wait is over Sega’sSonic Forcesspeeds onto the scene today, with the spiky blue mascot and his edgy buddies coming together to once again battle the evil Dr. Robotnik,neeEggman, and his army of mechanical monsters. One last trailer has been released in an effort to put a boost into the brand’s fanbase. From music, to voiceover, to on-screen titles, it definitely feels like Sega’s marketing have taken a page from comic-book trailers of late when compiling this action-packed preview....

Premier of Pain It looks likeTekken 7is about to get political, in the most proactive sense of the word. During this weekend’s Japan Fighting Game Roundtable presentation, Bandai Namco teased the next DLC character for its 3D fighter, who is non-other than the Prime Minister of Poland herself… or at least the one that resides in the wacky world ofTekken. While the new character – the 13th to join the fighting game’s roster post-release – was not named or fully revealed, we see the sophisticated and officious looking young woman exiting a state vehicle while attending to some important governmental business....

If you’ve been mullingMonkey Islandone-liners all morning, well, you’re weird. Also, you possess mind powers. This afternoon Telltale Games announced a fantastic contest forMonkey Islandfans. Starting today the studio behind theTales of Monkey Islandseries is taking submissions for a comical one-liner that could be inserted into a futureTales of Monkey Islandgame. The setup is this: you’re a pirate who has been “wronged” by Guybrush Threepwood and you’re explaining how he did so....

Julie Uhrman will remember that One of the most well-regarded series of recent times (andDestructoid’s 2012 Game of the Year)The Walking Deadis shacking up with the infamous little Android cube OUYA. When Season One eleases this winter, Episode One will be entirely free, with Episodes Two through Five and the bonus episode 400 Days ready to unlock for those with credit card in hand. Season Two is also planned for OUYA release, with details forthcoming....

So after yesterday’s overload of front page stories, the boys and girls that run this little site realized that we needed an end-of-day recap feature. Sometimes, we have so much stuff going up that posts will fly right off the homepage. Plus, I know it’s a pain to go through everything when you’ve been away for a day or two. So here’s our first entry to The Daily Hotness, where I’ll be recapping all of the day’s stories....

[The Destructoid Comic is a community plot driven comic series drawn by Mikey.] Previously, on the Destructoid Comic: After surviving the streets and the underground of Destructoid City, RetroforceGO! and Jim Sterling meet up with Technophile at Good Will’s, a cover for the HQ of FORUM (Furtive Operations and Research Underground Movement), a secret society that has helped shape ‘Toid City since the beginning. With their state of the art surveillance technology, they have discovered that the Destructor-toid is being controlled by a signal being beamed from an as of yet unknown location....

That’s one big-ass screen Gamers are capable of doing someawesomely odd stufffor the sole purpose of saying they did it. A Drexel University professor is taking that concept and raising the bar. He’s raising it 437 feet, to be exact. On April 19 and April 24, Dr. Frank Lee will host a Pong tournament on the north side of the Cira Centre in Philadelphia as part of the annually-held Philly Tech Week....