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We meet again, Gandhi Though the game has been out since 2010,Civilization Vis still selling strong through the years. If you’re a turn-based strategy fan and you somehow, magically, inexplicably don’t have it in your library, consider the Complete Edition now that it’s $10 this week in Green Man Gaming’sCivilizationfranchise sale. In this sale,Civ V,IV, andIIIare all 75% off, plus there’s a stacking 20% code you can use too. All the keys are Steam Play titles, meaning they’ll also work on Mac without an issue....

Promoted from our Community Blogs Good evening. For those who do not recognize me, you may call me Dreamweaver. I am here to host the Decision Game. On this page, is a collection of comments I have personally scoured and collected throughout the week, all of which are deserving of your time. However, once you read through these comments, you will soon feel an aching void in your heart when you realize that you will have to wait an entire week for the next edition, and the agony you’ll endure in the meantime will be simply unbearable....

Steely Dan? Well hell yeah! That’s one way to warm me up to a very teasery trailer for a new IP calledContraband. Announced during the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase for E3 2021,Contrabandis an open-world co-op game from Avalanche Studios coming to PC and Xbox Series X/S. The trailer has one big clue about what this game even is:Contrabandis a “smuggler’s paradise set in the fictional world of 1970s Bayan....

Armageddon It’s great to see a series likeDead or Alivefinallycome to PC. Less great, however, is that“Online modes forDead or Alive 5 Last Roundwill be added in a patch within three months of release.” I suppose it comes down to which we would prefer: getting the feature-incomplete game on February 17 alongside the console versions, or having the PC port arrive later with online enabled from day one. Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja thought the former option was the way to go, clearly....

Steam has kicked off their Midweek Madness promotion and you can grab some decent deals. The biggest price slash is forDead SpaceandDead Space 2, priced at just$4.99 each. So, if you’ve somehow managed to avoid playing either of these titles, your low-risk proposition has arrived. I played the hell out of the first and went through the second a couple of times as well and would consider this to be a pretty easy suggestion for folks to follow through on....

Closing out the Latin American Games Showcase was an impressive new trailer for the gorgeous pixel-art hack-and-slash Mariachi Legends, with a mixture of live-action scenes and high-fidelity side-scrolling action. You’d be forgiven for overlooking the Latin American Games Showcase last weekend. Let’s face it, with over a dozen unique showcases over the span of a few days, it is unlikely most audiences will catch them all, particularly when the shows are each focused on a specific niche....

Dig deep “End of the mine” sounds like something an ’80s beefcake action star would say before tossing a vaguely European villain into a mine shaft for trying to steal bearer bonds or something. But, it’s actually a new game onKickstarter. The 2D action-shooter is all about spelunking through creepy alien mines, shooting bizarre enemies, and finding weird items. Normally I don’t check out too many Kickstarters. We get emails everyday from different campaigns asking for coverage and trying to pick and choose between them starts to feel a little arbitrary....

Fungah! Foiled again! Experience Points is a series in which I highlight some of the most memorable things about a particular game. These can include anything from a specific scene or moment, a character, a weapon or item, a level or location, a part of the soundtrack, a gameplay mechanic, a line of dialogue, or anything else about the game that is particularly noteworthy and/or awesome. This series will no doubt contain spoilers for the games being discussed, so keep that in mind if you plan on playing the game for the first time....

In case you missed my announcementyesterday, Destructoid will be hosting aCommunity Playdateon Xbox LIVE on April 13! Conor Elsea, Abel Girmay, Brett Zeidler and myself will be representing the Dtoid staff for three hours ofBattlefield 3action, and we’re looking for four community members to join us! To win a spot on Team Dtoid, simply join us for one of theBattlefield 3matches being hosted tonight and show us what you got! My minions and I will be monitoring your scores, playstyles, and preferred classes throughout the night in an effort to pick the best of the best, so don’t f*ck around!...

Suddenly, aliens… thousands of them! Next March, THQ bring us the forth game to the Red Faction family,Red Faction: Armageddon. And after showing us abrutal balls-to-the-wall action demo, Jameson Durel, Senior Designer, let me pick his brains. Jameson gives you guys insight into some of the amazing new weaponry, which had my camera man Roy Malcomber’s mouth on the floor. He also takes time to reassure us that just because this is the forth game, it doesn’t mean that people new to the series can’t join in....

And it’s not afraid to kick your ass While it feels likeThey Bleed Pixelshas been in development for a considerable amount of time, the wait is over and looks to have been worth it for fans of challenging platformers. Spooky Squid Games released the title on Steam earlier today whereit can be boughtfor $7.99 during this early promo pricing period. It’s not just a platform game, however, as you’ll beat the crap out of enemies with your gross, elongated hands as well....

A laid-back discussion of this week in gaming Refreshed from a lovely holiday break, we’re back with another episode of Destructoid’s news discussion podcast, Hardline. With the Consumer Electronics Show giving us something to chat about in an otherwise dry month, we couldn’t have returned at a better time. Hamza, Steven, and Conrad spoke with me about Sony’s backwards-compatibility solution for PS4,PlayStation Now; the laundry list ofSteam Machinesshown at CES; Razer’s crazy-looking modular PC; the new survival-horrorAliengamethat sounds shockingly good;Titanfall‘s12-player limit; and ourmost-wanted gamesof 2014....

There’s tons of useless junk too A number of people have asked me how all of the DLC forBatman: Arkham Knighthas measured up since the Season Pass is done. My response is simple — you can skip out on the pass itself. Instead of paying out for a bunch of useless character and Batmobile skins, you may as well just go in piecemeal for the few bits of content you want....