To my knowledge, Gearbox’sAliens: Colonial Marineshas been given release dates in 2010, 2011, 2012 and more recently 2013. Four consecutive years. Four years slated for release, with shifting dates in between. One could justly assume that the game has seen a lot of delays, but senior producer Brian Burleson insists it’s never been postponed once. “It’s actually never been delayed,” he toldVideoGamer.“The trick is with development, and this is always of those weird things … Actual production of the game started not so long ago....

The final content drop forGroundedhasarrived in update 1.4, aka the ‘Fully Yoked Update’, bringing with it many changes. One such addition is the New Game Plus mode, and here are all its features inGrounded. GroundedNew Game Plus mode isn’t one for those who are freshly shrunk. The mode is aimed toward experienced players who have completed the game’s story, beaten many of its bosses, and are hungry for more. New Game Plus features changes that shake up theGroundedformula, adding more content andremixingthe backyard....

Mistwalker’s first portable RPG is calledArchaic Sealed Heat, and although we’ve been hearing about it for awhile, it wasn’t until recently that we started to see some real details. First off, Nintendo Japan’sWeb site for the gamehas moved from teaser site to the real deal, giving more details on character and story information. Famitsuhas some new screenshots from the game. Most noticable are the pictures of the cutscenes, which will probably have you double-checking if this is really a DS title....

Walmart is listing them as such Walmart is listingAnimal Crossingamiibo cards on its website for $5.96 for a pack of six, so essentially a dollar a card. That isn’t that surprising as they go for around the same price whenimported from Japan, though it has been pointed out that those packs only come with three cards. In comparison, you can get 10PokémonorHearthstonecards for $3. Are these really worth the price of admission?...

Box Office Round Up Anyone want to take a wild guess at what movie won the box office this weekend? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller? Yea, it wasThor: Ragnarokby a long shot. In fact it made over $100 million more than the next movie on the list,A Bad Moms Christmas, which actually had a decent opening relative to films that aren’t Marvel movies. Its box office was incredibly good and pushed the 17-film MCU series past the $5 billion mark in domestic box office and the $13 billion mark worldwide....

Red vs. Blue Assassin’s Creedis growing. Last year’sOriginsproved that Ubisoft putting the series on a brief hiatus could mature it into something more complex. The upcomingAssassin’s Creed Odysseyseemingly follows this trend, as it’s the first game in the franchise to offer dialogue options. It’s more of a role-playing game than ever before. ButAssassin’s Creedis growing in terms of sheer size too. TheOriginsmap was absolutely ginormous. Judging by a quick glance at theOdysseymap during our hands-on E3 demo, this game will be similarly massive....

Free Mixed Reality Headsets up to $400 Forget the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, because Microsoft is pushing their Windows Mixed Reality platform hard this Black Friday season. At participating retailer, you can pick up a VR-ready computer with a Mixed Reality headset for FREE (up to a $400 value). That’s a pretty aggressive promotion all things considered. You’ll need to act fast because while we were writing up this deal, the HP Mixed Reality headset beingoffered at Best Buyis already out of stock (the Acer and Dell models are still available as of writing)....

Take a trip down to the bayou NORCOwas one of my favorite games of 2022, with an eerie tone, surreal visuals, and a setting that has some of the most profound political commentary I’ve seen from a game of late. It’s a must-play if you like story-driven games or point and click adventures, and it’s honestly a crime that it wasn’t nominated forBest Narrative at the Game Awards, because the writing is absolutely gorgeous....

A closed beta test is in the works Amazon Games and Bandai Namco Online’s online action RPGBlue Protocolis setting up for its official June launch in Japan. But while one region will see the service go live, others will have to wait a bit longer for the big day. During aBlue Protocolstream this morning, Bandai Namco announced that the western launch ofBlue Protocolhas been pushed back. Originally set for thesecond half of 2023,Blue Protocolwill now launch in the west in 2024....

::extremely Crash voice:: whoa! Activision-Blizzard recently shared its latest 2018 financial resultsamid a series of mass layoffsfor what it calls a “best in history” year. That’s…a huge yikes. Tucked away in that briefing is the statement thatCrash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, yes thatCrash Bandicootremake, sold “over 10 million units” since its original release in June of 2017, citing that it highlights the “enduring nature of Activision’s classic franchises.” Which, among many other odd and unfortunate comments in that briefing, is especially strange becauseCrashis not a “classic Activision franchise,” it’s a classic Naughty Dog series that was purchased by Activision 12 years after it was created....

Next week marks the release of Capcom’s 2DBionic Commandoremake,Bionic Commando Rearmed.Rearmedadds bigger boss battles, two player co-op, and severalmultiplayer modesto the classic “use a retractable grappling arm instead of just jumping over those crates” experience. In addition to these exciting new features, the PC version will have exclusive access to a price point that’s five dollars higher. … Wait a minute, what’s the deal with that?! “It has nothing to do with Piracy concerns....

‘Not the other way around’ Chatting withGamesIndustry Internationalabout GOG.com and the upcomingCyberpunk 2077andThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, CD Projekt RED studio head Adam Badowski has shared his thoughts on the importance of independence, balancing creativity with financial realities, and why the company isn’t jumping headfirst into free-to-play gaming. There’s something about the company I could never put my finger on; maybe this is it. “We have always aimed for ambitious projects,” he said....

You have several minits to win it Here’s a cool one for ya, kids — Devolver Digital has given us 23 copies ofMinitto give away to the true believers of Destructoid. Why 23? Who knows. Who cares? All I know is 23 of you are getting a free game. And this isn’t just any free game. Our very own Brett Makedonski (whose emails are translated from Croatian every single time I get a message from him, which is a true and strange story) gaveMinitaperfect score, saying, “Everything aboutMinitshould feel overwhelming....