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After unlocking the Fontaine Reputation board inGenshin Impact, you’ll see a Quests section with a list of quests that grant Reputation points. Some of these are impossible to miss (like the Archon Quests) but others are less obvious. Here are all of the quests that grant Reputation EXP and where you can start them. Archon Quests The Archon Quests are impossible to miss and will show up in your Quests log automatically once you unlock them....

I might not be the biggest American McGee fan, but I can never pass up a good videogame intro song. Needless to say, the opening number forAmerican McGee’s Grimmdoes not fail on that front. The concept of turning family-friendly fairy tales into their original, dark forms is an interesting one, but I haven’t seen enough of the 24-part episodic series to make up my mind on the game yet. I will, however, say with certainty that I’m likingGrimm’s art style quite a bit (not to mention the title of the game)....

The one-hit kill is the ultimate middle finger to any opposing player, a demonstration that your skills are so incredible (or your tactics so incredibly cheap). You earn yourself bragging rights, as well as the seething scorn of your enemies. But watch out! That same punishment can be meted against you at any time. Corridor Digital’s latest video is a game of one-upmanship, a string of successive VG icons battling it out to see who is the ultimate instakill dick....

I’m practically swimming in Atlus releases here.Arcana Heartis still kicking my ass, and I’m preparing to draw my stylus out forRondo of Swords. Oh, and I’m constantly reloading from last save/dying inPersona 3: Fesfor an upcoming Destructoid review. I love these games, and I’m not complaining, but lately my bank statement has. To be honest, I’ve been sweating (well, my wallet has) the upcoming spring and summer Atlus releases. Today Atlus sends word of new release dates for two of those titles....

If “Boomer Shooters” are the way to go for players who want fresh takes on the mechanics ofDoomandDuke Nukem, thenBattlebit Remasteredis the game for players who enjoyed the golden age ofBattlefield-like games before those got filled to the brim with unnecessary stuff. That’s not to say, however, thatBattlebit Remastereddoesn’t have a lot of stuff, as this back-to-basics fun-first shooter gives players a huge arsenal to pick from. What are the best weapons of the bunch?...

The Notorious D.E.F. Evolution is now live inEA FC 25, and you can complete the upgrade in exchange of 100,000 coins. The new evolution is especially useful for those whose current defenders are pretty underpowered. You can level up a CB of your choice with stat upgrades, new roles, and playstyles. Cards rated up to 93 are eligible for the evolution, so let’s quickly take a look at the best possible candidates....

Well, it looks like we’ve finallyfound out whyBobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, is in Brad Pitt’s new movieMoneyball. Kotick happens to be pals with director of the flick Bennett Miller and agreed to play a part in the film as long as Miller would direct a short film for him. The short film in question is a piece forThe Call of Duty Endowment(CODE), Activision’s non-profit organization that aims to help former soldiers gain careers in their post military lives....

Those are a sacred gift I have a deep fondness for theCastlevaniaseries. The original title is among my favorite games on the NES, theMetroid-style detour kept me addicted for weeks when I collected them all together, and I have plumbed the series’ highs and lows. For such a long series, a surprisingly high percentage are gravy, but then you come across the odd entry that is still gravy, but it’s really old gravy that has been left out....

This RPG crosses time and space to end the year with a bang Every now and then, a game arrives late in the year to surprise us, right as the calendar is coming to a close. We’ve seen it with games likeOmori,Gris, andGorogoa. And this year, it really feels likeChained Echoesis surprising folks. Chained Echoesis a new RPG from developer Matthias Linda, a communication designer who started working on the game in his spare time after work back in 2016....

On June 5, Electronic Arts will officially drop a demo for their upcoming first-person shooter,Battlefield: Bad Company. Available for both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, the demo will include single-player gameplay, as well as the all-new Gold Rush mode on the “Oasis” map (featuring land, sea, and air vehicles). Sounds good? Don’t want to wait. You don’t have to. EA has given Destructoid a slew of tokens to download the demotoday....

More of this stuff, please When the world of pinball bleeds into the world of video games, the results can be pretty dang awesome. Look no further thanYoku’s Island Express, or an old favorite,Devil’s Crush. The next game in that vein to grab my attention isCreature in the Well, a hack-and-slash dungeon crawler. It was shown today during Nintendo’s indie showcase for Switch and I’m buzzing. Playing as a sword-wielding robot, you’ll explore a bygone desert mountain facility in hopes of saving a city from a sandstorm....

Nintendo hasreleased an interviewwithThe Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdomstaff Eiji Aonuma, Tomomi Sano, Satoshi Terada that gives some behind-the-scenes background to the development of the game. Among the tidbits of information is the fact that the game once took a very different form. Specifically,Echoes of Wisdombegan with a “Game with dungeon creation in mind,” according to Aonuma. However, from there, it quickly changed to an “edit dungeon” format. In this concept, Link could change the perspective or move objects to “edit” the dungeon and solve puzzles....

And now for (another) something different The nextDead Islandgame isn’tDead Island 2. Of course,Dead Island: Riptidealready showed the series’ disregard for numeration. Counting the early access MOBA,Dead Island 2should beDead Island 5. ButDead Islandis doing things differently in order to “create a universe in this IP.” And from this comesEscape Dead Island, a single-player only, cel-shaded “survival mystery” that’s “Groundhog’s DaymeetsMemento.” I wouldn’t go that far. It’s something different, though....