Regain System revealed at gamescom A new system for upcoming From Software PS4 titleBloodbornewas revealed at gamescom today in a behind-closed-doors meeting. It’s called the Regain System, and it lets you recover health after taking a hit. It’s not as easy as it sounds to get your health back, though. It aims to draw the player into combat, into a kind of exchange of deadly blows. It was designed to add to the emphasis that every encounter is a life-or-death situation....

So here it is, ladies and gentlemen: not only my very last BritToid, but also my very last front-page post as staff here at Destructoid. As of tomorrow, I will be the new Consumer and Community PR for Namco Bandai in the UK. On a quick personal note I would like to thank to all of those who showed me love and support when I discovered I was nominated for the Games Media Rising Star award....

The latest look atCall of Duty: Elite’sservice breaks down how Compete works. Basically, Beachhead wants to give you stuff for playingModern Warfare 3, more or less. Everyone who uses the service can enter in contests to win stuff based on their skills or enter sweepstakes and maybe get lucky. I’m really digging the Elite service and love that they want to give back to fans. Of course, if you don’t care about any of this, then there’s a ton of new multiplayer footage to checkout throughout the Compete breakdown....

Be on the lookout for version 10.12.01 [Update:Monster Hunter World: Iceborneversion10.12.01is now live for PC with the promised CPU utilization improvements and a fix for the save data issues. Performance gains will be “dependent on the individual user’s PC configuration and hardware component,” according to Capcom.] Sorely-needed fixes are coming to the newly-launched PC version ofMonster Hunter World: Iceborne. In the “next few days,” Capcom is looking to address two major issues: “unusually high” CPU usage that’s causing performance woes, and asave data compatibility bugthat has eaten players’ progress....

Tremendous total will go to providing PPE worldwide Image Credit:Direct Reliefwebsite The video game community has,once again, mobilised our favourite pastime to help a worthy cause. Despite lockdown legislation, the good folk atGames Done Quicksuccessfully hosted an impromptu speedrunning marathon this weekend, where they succeeded in raising over $400,000 USD for front line health care workers. Corona Relief Done Quickshowcased back-to-back speedruns streamed live from players’ homes. From Friday through to the early hours of this morning, a slew of players hacked their way through over 100 great games, from classics such asSuper Mario Bros....

With new tunes from Virt We’re quite fond of the rhythmic dungeon-crawlerCrypt of the NecroDanceraround here. I like it. Darren likes it. Patrickgavethe PC version a 9.5 out of 10. The more platforms it’s on, the better. The PlayStation 4 and Vita ports arecoming up soon. They’ll be available digitally in North America and Europe on June 22, 2025 with Cross-Buy and dance pad support. Now, you won’t be able toimport your own musicor use mods thatMega Man-ify everything, but developer Brace Yourself Games is adding “a new exclusive soundtrack created by Jake ‘Virt’ Kaufman, the composer forShovel Knight, and one additional surprise....

You’re not even close to baseline CD Projekt REDhas announcedthat it sold 13.7 million copies ofCyberpunk 2077in the final few weeks of 2020, quickly making the future-noir RPG the Polish developer’s best-selling release to date. Of this number, 56% of sales were on PC, 28% came from PS4, with the remaining 17% on Xbox One. Overall CDPR’s profit grew 558% year-on-year. After an expensive development process and several delays, CDPR’s sci-fi adventure arrived in December 2020in a famously disastrous state— at least in regard to its console editions, neither of which had been offered to news outlets for review....

God rollsare the bread and butter ofDestiny 2’slate game, especially if you’re a PvP player. The late game of anyMMOlikeDestinyinvolves much min-maxing your build, so changing every stat you can along with perks can make a huge difference. One such weapon is quite new but can be farmed as part of a common activity. Here’s the god roll for the Scintillation Linear Fusion Rifle inDestiny 2. The best perks and attachments for the Scintillation linear fusion rifle in Destiny 2 Scintillation is part of a group of weaponsfrom the Nightfall activitythat receive the Origin Trait Veist Stinger....

Updated: August 02, 2025 We searched for codes! Nothing can escape the Mouse’s iron grip, not even cute pixels. Since park tickets andDisney+prices are skyrocketing to the point of absurdity, it’s nice to immerse into the magical world in an alternative way. Put your Mickey ears back on and explore the enchanting kingdom inDisney Pixel RPG. If you love collecting, this game will be your promised land. You can unlock many iconic characters in a charming retro form—from Donald to about ten new princesses I don’t recognize....

The Track Thunder evolution is now live inEA FC 25, and it’s a great free evolution to upgrade one of your lower-rated items. The latest evolution has been released as part of the Track Stars promo, and you may include several items. But there’s a set of requirements that determine which items can be used in the evolution. EA FC 25 Track Thunder evolution requirements Here are the requirements for the Track Thunder evolution inEA FC 25....

The $10Horde Command Packreleased forGears of War 3this week. The file size for this content is 1.42 MB, and that predictably upset some people. Epic Games’ Rod Fergusson has tried to explain why much of this DLC was already on the disc in a chat with Kotaku. “We didn’t want to artificially pad [the download],” he says. GivenGears of War 3‘sdelayed release, the team opted to treat the disc as “another delivery mechanism” rather than having all players download a large compatibility pack, even if they had no intention of getting the Horde Command add-on....

True Fantasy Live Online? Level-5 is a storied, 20-year-old company with a lot of properties under its belt. A lot of folks don’t know that they actually created theDark Cloudseries, as well as memorable games likeJeanne d’ArcandRogue Galaxy.Before they shifted into a multi-media powerhouse with stuff like aProfessor Laytonanime andYo-Kai Watchtoys they were simply a game developer, and now one of their old properties might be coming back to roost in the modern era....

Pick a god and pray As with previous weeks, Nintendo has released another arrangement for the upcomingSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate. In a first for the reveals,Fire Emblemis the first franchise to have a second track on the blog. This is a surprising move given that franchises likeSonicandXenobladehave not had a new song shown off yet. The new arrangement is for “Id (Purpose)” fromFire Emblem Awakening. If the track seems familiar, that’s because it played during Chrom’s reveal in the August Smash Direct presentation....