Run it back (to launch year) Capcom has justreleased a free updatefor its flagship fighting titleStreet Fighter V, adding a brand new Tournament Mode to the list of available multiplayer options. This feature, found in the “CFN” section, will help hosts and T.O.’s create and manage bracket-based set play for a wide variety of custom online events. Street Fighter V‘s tournament mode was introduced first way back in early 2020, with a rudimentary beta made available to select players....

The Dark Pictures… or something else entirely? Supermassive Games has recentlyfiled a new trademarkfor something called “The Quarry.” Ownership of the brand was granted by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) on February 17, with the listing — complete with logo — appearing on its official website days later. While Supermassive Games remains very busy with its great horror anthology seriesThe Dark Pictures, the word on the street is thatThe Quarryrepresents something else entirely....

Check out everything Destructoid did today Well, not yet. But if Sony has its way, the controller for the PS4 — I’m sorry, “Orbis” — will be something completely different. Last time Sony tried that, fearful gamers threw a hissy fit, unwilling to break out of their comfort zone. Five bucks says we see a repeat of that. That wasn’t even the biggest story of the day. Today was simply packed to burst!...

“What if everything you touched was made of jelly?” Ordinarily, I’d say much like a pool full of jello, that’s an idea which sounds fun on paper but would in all likelihood be a nightmare to clean up. Practicality is such a buzzkill. But when that concept is the premise of a game, in this caseThe Floor is Jelly, I’m all for it. The moment when the house started wobbling every which way was the exact moment I became sold on designer Ian Snyder’s world of jelly....

Xbox One S holiday remnants Santa forgot your Xbox at the North Pole? No problemo, there are still a few lingeringXbox One S dealsfrom select retailers out there. It’s not Cyber Monday anymore, but hey, these deals will get you way more bang for your buck than sucking up the full price. The best deal out there is at Walmart, which keeps the $50 holiday discount intact on the 1TBGears of War 4white bundle and also offers you up to $100 in bonuses....

They didn’t make his day Back in the mid-2000s, Warner Bros. was planning on bringing Clint Eastwood’s iconic, brutality-friendly policeman Dirty Harry back to life in videogame form on the PS3, Xbox 360, PC, Wii, and even the DS. Eastwood had agreed to do voice work for the game, alongside Lawrence Fishburne, Lucy Liu and Gene Hackman,as reported in back in 2006. The game was apparently 70% done the first time that Warner Bros....

Valve’s got something brewing, it seems. TheHalf-LifeandPortalstudio appears to be working on something, whichmay or may not beHalf-Life 3(finally). But before that, there’sDeadlock, an unannouncedOverwatch-style game which, despite no official word from Valve as to whether it’s even real or not, is pulling some pretty hefty player count numbers on Steam. As noted by the third-party tracking siteSteamDB, the elusiveDeadlockrecently registered a peak concurrent player count on Steam. Over the weekend,Deadlockhit a high of 16,947 players....

After a few months oflegal shenanigansbetweenWitcher 2developer CD Projekt RED and distributor Namco Bandai, they’ve announced that Warner Brothers will be taking distribution duties for the Xbox 360 release of the RPG. The re-release was pushed back into 2012 due to a discrepancy between the two companies, but CDP was glad to have the time to “polish the title to perfection,” so it’s all good, very good. CDP President Adam Kiciński said that “[They] have added significant enhancements to the Xbox 360 version of ‘The Witcher 2,’ going far beyond simply editing the code to run on a new platform....

[Update:Contest extended!] YES! You read that right! The awesome people behindTechno Kitten Adventurewant to give you money and delicious meat products. DELICIOUS! MEAT! PRODUCTS! Don’t know whatTechno Kitten Adventureis? It’s a runner-style game where a cat flies through levels to crazy techno music. You can get the game on theXbox Live Indie Channelfor 240 MS Points and free oniPhone and iPaddevices. The game has received multiple updates, with the latest being the “Meat Pack” add-on content....

Can we pay for them to not make that “awww” noise? YouTube streaming groupYogscasthas announced that they will form a partnership with Keen Software. In return for a share of sales revenue for a month of the gameSpace Engineers, Yogscast will offer a series of videos and Yogscast-branded items for the game. The Yogscast presenters are calling their new initiative “YogDiscovery.” They state that this is the first in a series of paid partnerships with devs in the attempt to give smaller developers a chance to reach a larger audience of gamers....

It was tough for me to come up with a concept for this article. You see, I had the grand fortune of attending the Spike VGAs on Sunday night. It was an amazing opportunity and I had ablast… but afterwards I had no idea what I was going to write about. As I read in thelive blog postNick and the other editors did, it looked like most everyone watched the show when it airedlive....

That game title! My apologies for coming in with this a day after Mother’s Day. Naruto’s mama, Kushina Uzumaki, joinsNaruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolutionas a fighter. Namco Bandai says that her appearance in the game will be one of the keys to the brand new storyline between herself, Minato, and his team. you may see in-game shots of Kushina in our gallery below. This also serves as a kick in the pants for me as I’mwaaaaaaybehind on the story....

More loot and more skeletons to burn It’s a new year, and today developer Grinding Gear Games debuted a new trailer for its upcoming dungeon-crawling sequelPath of Exile 2. The newPath of Exilewas revealed back in 2019,right on the heels ofDiablo IV. Still keeping the dungeon-crawling, loot-grabbing spirit alive,Path of Exile 2‘s trailer today gives us a better look at some of the locales we’ll be visiting, and they sure do look pretty....