Best Temple order completion strategy Tears of the Kingdom (TotK)

Hebra is a good start Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomonce again tasks players with going through four core dungeons: but this time, Divine Beasts are replaced with temples. Just likeBreath of the Wild, you do have the option to choose which one to go to first, and we have some suggestions! Here’s how the temple order played out in our session. Where should you go first for the Regional Phenomena quest, and what are the rewards?...

June 16, 2025 · 2 min · 277 words · Stephen Gomez

Black Desert, that Korean MMO, is getting a King of Fighters costume

Haha, I want to play it You may recognize the nameBlack Desertfrom its insanely detailed character creation tool. At this point though my interest has transcended mere avatar construction, and I want to play the damn thing. My interest has been further piqued by thisKing of Fighterspromotion, which brings in a Mai costume into the fold. It will be added in by way of an in-game cash shop (read: microtransactions) later this month on November 11....

June 16, 2025 · 1 min · 111 words · Brandon Montgomery

Breath of the Wild’s strategy guide may have been pulled from pre-order due to spoilers

That won’t stop the internet, though There is a lot of speculation going on with this current story, but it looks like Nintendo may have ceased pre-orders on the strategy guide forBreath of the Wilddue to story spoilers. Amazon.com, in both the US and UK, no longer lists the SKU for the guide on its website. A quick glance through Google shows that no other websites even have the guide available, lending more credence to this rumor....

June 16, 2025 · 2 min · 221 words · Michelle Cantrell

Call of Duty 5: World at War debut teaser and trailer

If you are still skeptical aboutCall of Duty 5: World at War, there’s a chance that the above teaser trailer, as aired on GTTV, may warm your cockles to Treyarch’sModern Warfarefollow-up. It has flamethrowers in it.The full trailer after the jump promises a visceral and gruesome World War II game, and if they can capture the horrors of the Pacific Front, then maybe they will win the hearts of we who didn’t want to go back to WWII....

June 16, 2025 · 2 min · 286 words · Megan Howard

Can we just get Mario Maker on Switch now?

Please? Nintendo snuck out a brief Direct the other day and among the announcements, we saw a few more Wii U titles making their way to the Switch. BothDonkey Kong Country: Tropical FreezeandHyrule Warriorswill soon be playable on the Switch with some additions. As Nintendo makes every effort to leave the Wii U in its rear-view mirror, it seems to be slowly porting over every big release from the forgotten son of its library....

June 16, 2025 · 2 min · 313 words · John Johnson

Cblogs of 9/26 to 06-06-2025: Persona 5, The Outer Wilds, and gaming annoyances

Cblogs Recap: Week 40 –LaTerrydetails this month’sBand of Bloggersprompt which focuses on the theme of “Darkness” in videogames. –Goemardetails five MINOR annoyances he faced in all his years of gaming. –Black Red Gamingthinks thatThe Outer Wildsis one of the best gaming experiences he ever had. –Kerrik52reminisces about how relatives and classmates unwittingly supported his gaming hobby. -LaTerryresponds to September’sBand of Bloggersprompt about waiting for game by detailing his wait forPersona 5(Should have waited forPersona 5 R)....

June 16, 2025 · 2 min · 218 words · Kristin Thomas

Determined modder puts Google Maps on the NES

See the world in 8-bit Hackers and modders have found ways to port all kinds of games, usuallyDoom, onto other systems. But a new video shows how one person managed to get Google Maps working on some old Nintendo hardware, complete with retro graphics. Creator “ciciplusplus” posted toYouTubeandReddittoday about the Google Maps they made for the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES. (Thanks,Gizmodo.) In the short video, they show how, inspired byan old Google April Fool’s joke from 2012, they ended up creating a version of the world you’re able to view in all its 8-bit glory....

June 16, 2025 · 2 min · 275 words · Steven Woods

Dragon Ball FighterZ is hitting Switch in the west in September with a Super Butoden pre-order bonus

Same day, same tree It’s always a downer to hear a release date of a major game or port and get that “in Japan” modifier. That’s what happened with theDragon Ball FighterZSwitch port,as we found outit would be launching in that region in September at E3 of all places. Thankfully after some simmering time, Bandai Namco has confirmed that the western launch date will be relatively the same — September 28 in the US, and September 29 in the UK....

June 16, 2025 · 1 min · 132 words · Evan Webb

E3 08: id shows their Rage, Partners with EA

At the very tail end ofEA’s press conferencetoday, id’s John Carmack took the stage to give us the first look at their new game,Rage. This title will be released on the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. Ragewill be the first id title to be published under EA’s new partnership with the company, following the example of other smaller studios like Valve (Orange Box) andHarmonix(Rock Band). This deal will give id the marketing muscle of EA, but will still provide them with the independent freedom they’ve always enjoyed....

June 16, 2025 · 1 min · 127 words · Brent Wallace

English translation underway for Mega Man ZX Prequel

I’d like to see Inti Creates make another one Mega Man games never stop. Capcom might, outside of collections and anniversary editions, but fans won’t. Earlier this year another fairly big project came to the surface calledMega Man ZX Prequel, a Chinese-developed fan game that took place beforeZXandZX Advent. Now it’s getting a fan translation, and the project is already underway as of last week. It’ll arrive with a tuned version of the original game, so by the time it’s ready for the west it’ll be even better than it already is....

June 16, 2025 · 1 min · 156 words · Suzanne Schmidt

Fan turns Killzone into a Killectible card game

A very bored (but heroic)Killzonefan calling himself “thepineapple1” has decided that playing Guerrilla’s games on his PS3 just wasn’t enough glow-eyed fun. He has shouldered the burden of turning the series into a CCG — or collectible card game to you old granddads who aren’t down with the kids. It’s a game for two players, who each spend “Action Points” to command soldiers, upgrade weapons and utilize vehicles. This isn’t just some cobbled together game, either....

June 16, 2025 · 1 min · 176 words · Sean Stewart

Five huge games still coming out in 2022

It’s going to be a packed Holiday season Welcome back! It’s another Tuesday, which means tonight there will be a new episode of Spot Dodge: A Live Nintendo Podcast exclusively on Destructoid.Topics:The crew discusses the major titles that are still slated to release this year. The team also reacts to Geoff Keighley’s Game Awardsnominations(Xenoblade didn’t get snubbed!?),Segawants Sonic’s universe to be more “meaningful and connected”, and so much more! Pokemon ScarletandVioletare launching later this week on November 18 — introducing a brand new open-world direction for the series....

June 16, 2025 · 2 min · 313 words · Christopher Santiago

Glorious! Mario 3 airship constructed out of LEGO bricks

I said, “Daaaaamn, son!” In November 2011, LEGO hobbyist Julius von Brunk began construction of aSuper Mario Bros. 3airship, the realization of a dream he’s had ever since playing the original NES game way back in the day. He would work on weekends, ordering specialty pieces fromBrickLink.comand overcoming engineering roadblocks via the magic of alcohol. Over 8000 pieces later, he has finished his masterpiece, dubbed “The Fireflower.” This thing is ridiculous!...

June 16, 2025 · 1 min · 170 words · Darren Brown