Stick with us this week CES coverage on Destructoid kicks off now. We’ve already seen a Steam Box or two as well as some crazy 4k monitors, and the show hasn’t even started yet. For gamers, the real show starts tonight with Valve’s press conference, which is planned to kick off at around 5pm Pacific tonight. We plan to cover any announcements live, so check back then. Also tonight, Sony will host a press conference, which may bring some interesting news for gamers....

Gratuitous Space Battles dev recounts ‘talking to the community too much’ In our interview with Cliff Harris, the independent designer ofGratuitous Space Battles,he spoke aboutwhat it’s like to communicate with an active fan base directly as a developer, something that can be taken for granted when working at a bigger studio. Prior to his current stint as his own boss, Harris was at Elixir Studios (Evil Genius) and Lionhead Studios....

;_; Sometimes life gets you down, and all you want to do is sit on the couch while eating peanut butter with a spoon and watching Netflix. Or if you are “Heartbreak Bear Hen” (as translated by Google), you would rhythmically alternate between donuts and slices of strawberry cake, conveniently sold in large grocery bags I’m going to call “sad sacks.” The sad bear eating to feel better is just one of many games in the upcoming compilationRhythm Tengoku: The Best+for the 3DS (a series better known asRhythm Heavenoutside of Japan)....

I’m in love. This is what love is Plenty of people didn’t for various reasons, but I absolutely loved pretty much every second of The Chinese Room’sEverybody’s Gone to the Rapture.One of the key things that made my time with that game so enjoyable was Jessica Curry’s fantastic soundtrack. Thanks to the announcement thatMusic on Vinylis giving it a vinyl release, I’m seriously considering getting a decent record player just so I can be a right proper littler hipster audiophile while listening to it....

So like a Norman Bates thing? Ubisoft released an interview withFar Cry 4executive producer Dan Hay that tip-toes around the relationship between the game’sstriking villain, Pagan Min, and its returned-home-to-spread-his-mother’s-ashesprotagonist,Ajay Ghale. Lots of maternal stuff going on here. Can’t wait for some psychoanalysis.

More than just a few laps Forza Motorsport 5has been on my Xbox One launch list since its announcement; I knew this was a game I had to have from the beginning. I’ve played it several times over the past years at trade shows and other events, but every instance was little more than a few laps around a course. Honestly, outside of showing off the fancy new visual muscle and some of the new Xbox One controller perks, none of these showings did the game any justice....

Kinda. Maybe. Possibly? Talking of backwards compatibility… did you notice whatwasn’ton that list of playable titles? Kinect games. There are no Kinect games. NoKinectimals, noKinect Sport, noDance Central. It seems that Xbox’s all-singing, all-dancing motion/voice control system Kinect – once Microsoft’s poster child – has been unceremoniously dumped in a corner. Sniff. Apparently, it’s not intentional. As the Xbox One will essentially be simulating an Xbox 360, it’s unable to take account of peripherals added by way of a USB port....

Irrational Gamesis continuing to tickle us with little knowledge drops — this time via an editorial titled“Five Cut Features,”which deals with, largely, features that were cut from Irrational’s dystopian FPS BioShock. Which one grabs us the most? The navigation robot. As explained in the article by technical director Chris Kline, “We wanted a map, but were concerned that this would take too much programming and design/art time to implement. So I came up with the idea of Nav-Bot: You could press a controller button to summon your Nav-Bot, activate him with another controller button, and then select from a list of destinations in a 2D user interface....

Along with some other Sega games A lot of stuff is free lately. PlayStation has a few free games each month; Xbox does the same thing. But, none of that istruly free. Those both require a paid subscription to a premium service to cash in on some gratis games. Steam has someactually freegames right now — three of them, all from Sega.Jet Set Radiois the one most people will fawn over....

Now move on, already WithHotline Miami 2recently released, I realized I am really, really tired of games that belong in its genre. When I say “genre,” I refer not to “action games” or “indie games” or even “violent games,” but a subtler, more hypocritical classification: I’m referring to videogames that criticize violent videogames and their fans, whilestill being violent videogames. Hotline Miami.Far Cry 3. Games that turn a mirror on the player and say, “look at you!...

Updated: July 18, 2025 Looked for new codes! Climate change is just a conspiracy theory, and luxurious planes are more than welcome on our planet, right? Well, at least in Roblox, you don’t really have to worry about your surroundings, so invest all your Cash into aLuxury Plane Tycoonthat you’ve always dreamed about. Maxing out your tycoon skills and purchasing every part for your enormous and super-fancy plane takes a whole lot of money....

Yes, it’s playable offline In a short, rather bland announcement, Maxishas announcedits next project:The Sims 4. It’s due out on Windows and Mac next year, and that’s about all we know at this time. I mean, it isThe Sims— not like folks need much of anything to go on at this point. You will simulate your friends, let them die in cruel ways, and then Maxis will put out a bunch of expansions for years to come....

Red vs. blue I have always been an unapologetic fan ofMinesweeper. I have been playing it for longer than any other single game, and I will be playing it as long as I can imagine. It never changes in any fundamental way, but it always works to pass some time when I just want to switch my brain into pure logic mode.0h h1is the same kind of thing; it could be solved by a pretty simple computer program, but the act of going through it is still mechanically satisfying....