Supergiant Games’ third project is Pyre, and it’s at PAX East this week

Coming to PC and PS4 next year After knocking it out of the park withBastionandTransistor, Supergiant Games has revealed its third project, simply titledPyre. Not content with a mere set of screenshots, there’s a full trailer available ahead of the game’s debut at PAX East this weekend. A brief story description states: “At the beginning of the game, your luck has almost run out when several masked wanderers find you and revive you from the brink....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 150 words · Christopher Bartlett

TAKE THAT! Fan-made Phoenix Wright musical has free OST!

So, how about that Takashi Miike-directedPhoenix Wrightfilm? Excited? Nervous? In the meantime, why not enjoy some catchy show tunes based on everyone’s favorite courtroom drama game series? I don’t know how we missed this previously, but a gang of fans gathered back in 2007 to begin work onTurnabout Musical, a Broadway-style play that retells the events of the firstAce Attorneygame. It has even been sanctioned by Capcom, because Capcom is cool like that!...

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 144 words · James Strickland

Team Fortress 2sdays: Back from E3

Every Tuesday a bunch of us Dtoiders get together and hop online to play someTeam Fortress 2on theofficial Destructoid server! You should join us! Phew, it’s been too long Dtoid. I missed you all. Last week was incredibly hectic, and I didn’t have a round of Team Fortress 2sday to relax with. Fortunately, it’s been a week and it’s time for us all to get together and shoot each other in the penis....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 122 words · Fred Richardson

The best way to farm MGP in Final Fantasy XIV

The Gold Saucer isn’t exclusive to only Cloud Strife’s universe, asFinal Fantasy XIVhosts its very own gaudy gambling joint within Thanalan. The in-universe casino is home to plenty of painstaking MMO grinds and some of them gate beloved mounts, minions, and titles. The Gold Saucer’s currency, MGP, stands between you and those prizes. Ultimately, it doesn’t have to be the most miserable, grindy experience, and you can make the best use of your time with a few of my favoriteFFXIVMGP farming tips....

July 23, 2025 · 5 min · 982 words · Meagan Harris

The Forgotten Sands gets collector’s edition (Update)

Cool, something that’s not a joke! Ubisoft has released the latest trailer for the upcomingPrince of Persia: The Forgotten Sandstoday. Beyond some new gameplay, it also acts as the reveal for the game’s collector’s edition… because I don’t think Ubisoft is allowed to release a game without one. Available for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, the collector’s edition appears to come with a number of nice bonuses. An extra disc, some art work, and — here’s the best part — a free game!...

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 242 words · Holly Wilcox

The House of the Dead: Remake creeps onto PS5 this week

Don’t Come! Forever Entertainment has announced that MegaPixel Studios shooterThe House of the Dead: Remakewill bring its decaying destruction to PS5 on January 20, following on from its previous releases on PS4, Xbox, PC, and Nintendo Switch platforms. First launched in the spring of 2022, The House of the Dead: Remakeis a fully overhauled revisit to Sega’s widely popular 1997 arcade release, and follows special agents Rogan and G as they once again infiltrate the mysterious Gothic mansion of god-complex motherfucker Dr....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 206 words · Chad Daniel

The Pokemon re-releases were downloaded 1.5 million times

So bring on Gold, Silver, and Crystal! We touched on Nintendo’sfinancial resultsfor the fiscal year ended March 2016, noting that profits fell 60.6 percent in part because of a “lack of major titles,” but there was another breakout tidbit that caught my eye: thePokémon Red,Blue,Green, andYellowsales on 3DS. As expected, they were great. Altogether, the four titles broke 1.5 million in worldwide sales, and that figure does not include any hardware bundles....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 132 words · Janet Adams

There’s an exclusive furnishing reward in Genshin Impact’s new Lantern Rite web event

Genshin Impacthas a new web event for this year’s Lantern Rite celebration for Lunar New Year. If you’re someone who usually skips web events, you might want to participate in this one, lest you miss out on an exclusive in-game reward. The web event, titled “Dancing Beasts and Soaring Kites,” lasts until February 17. you’re able to find it on itsofficial website. Parts of it are time-gated over multiple days, so it’s better to get started sooner rather than later....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 340 words · Sandra Macdonald

This Mayan-styled Mother Brain painting is amazing

Pretty freaky, no? Okay, this might very well be one of the most amazing pieces of video game art I’ve ever seen. It’s aMayan-styled paintingby RedditorNotSureHowItGoes’wife, who is obviously quite the skilled artist. I’m immediately drawn to how surreal she’s made theMetroidMother Brain fight, a pretty innocuous event in the game that doesn’t normally affect me in the slightest. Looking at this gorgeous painting, however, I can see a disturbing side to the battle that I never even considered....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 116 words · Jessica Hopkins

Turbine cuts staff, not tied to economic crisis

Turbine, developer ofLord of the Rings Online, recently axed staff from its QA and Account Management departments. The layoffs, according to a gamesindustry.bizreport, were made because the positions were considered redundant. A spokesman for Turbine spoke to GI and ensured that the layoffs wouldn’t affect quality of service or the three upcoming titles in the developer’s portfolio. In addition to this, the spokesperson said that the studio would continue to grow in 2009 and are currently “still hiring....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 132 words · Eric Carr

Twitch Plays Dark Souls has beaten the whole game

Hooray, Dark Souls is done forever Despite not being the biggest fan ofDark Souls, I’ve been strangely invested in tracking Twitch PlaysDark Souls’ progress. It’s been a wild journey, from spending over three days stuck in the game’s first area, to then blasting through Ornstein and Smough only a few weeks ago. Well, my friends, the end has come. We must say goodbye to Twitch PlaysDark Souls, as they have finally managed to defeat the final boss....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 187 words · Jessica Mayo

Ubisoft goes Hollywood: new special effects business

Ubisoft isn’t looking to make special effects for movies, but they want to create a new business that would be capable of that kind of output. In fact, they look to work with the film industry to strengthen ties between film and games. “We want to create the capacity to develop special effects for movies” he said, speaking toThe Financial Times. “Those worlds have to merge more and more.” Developpoints out that Ubisoft recently purchased Canadian effects firm Hybride, who did work on Sin City and 300....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 207 words · Tammy Kirk

Valve has sold over 500K Steam Controllers

Still getting new features More than half a million Steam Controllers have been sold, according to Valve. The funky, big-eye-looking device has continued to improvesince we reviewed it. Here are some of the recent enhancements for further customization and ease of use as outlined by the company: And in another update coming soon, “You will soon be able to use Activators to assign actions to press-and-hold, double click, toggle and more....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 144 words · Maria Parker