Even Sander Cohen would be impressed I love video games, and I love musical theater. There isn’t a ton of crossover there (with the exception ofStarkid‘s parody musical ofThe Oregon Trail, orChorus: A Video Game Musicalbeing developed by Summerfall Studios), but there is a new unofficial musical that loosely follows the plot ofBioShock, created and performed by California’s John Burroughs High School Powerhouse choir (viaEurogamer). The students presented the performance at the Hart Encore 2022 choir show, where the group won the biggest awards of the day: Musicianship, Showmanship, Best Soloist, and of course, an overall First Place....

Heading off into a brand new world Blizzard Entertainment just announced a new project, and one that’s headed into a new world. Its next game is a currently untitled survival game, for PC and console, set in a “whole new universe.” Announced via a recruiting post today, Blizzard Entertainment describes the new survival game: We are going on a journey to a whole new universe, home to a brand-new survival game for PC and console....

[When we’re looking for blogs on a specific topic, we’ll put out a Bloggers Wanted call. Check out the blog prompt, write your own response in the Community Blogs and tag it with the “Bloggers Wanted Essay Response” tag, and you may see your blog promoted to the front page.— JRo] Diablo 3releases tonight, and I will finally get the game I’ve been waiting almost twelve years for. I don’t think I’ve been this excited for a game in a long time — certainly not since I’ve been an adult....

Hands-on impressions of the story mode [Disclosure: Years ago, Aaron Linde used to write for Destructoid. He now works onBattlebornat Gearbox Software. As always, no relationships, personal or professional, were factored into this preview.] To sum upBattlebornin an overly simplified sentence, it’sBorderlandsat a rapid pace. Or,put another way, it is: “FPS; hobby-grade coop campaign; genre-blended, multi-mode competitive e-sports; meta-growth, choice + epic Battleborn Heroes!” Still confused? You and me both....

Summer Game Fest has come a long way since it usurped the gaming expo throne from E3 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. What started as a slow trickle of game reveals across haphazardly scheduled presentations has tightened up intoa week of widely anticipated showcasesas well as the PC Gaming Show. The shindig kicks off on June 8 with a live show at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood and continues for the next few days with streams from Devolver Digital, Ubisoft, Xbox, and now Capcom....

Guess who’s back? Back again… The final edition of the UK Charts for 2019 has been released, revealing that this year’s Christmas number one is Activision’s blockbuster shooterCall of Duty: Modern Warfare,fending off strong opposition from Electronic Arts’FIFA 20andStar Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Nintendo has had a very successful Holiday period in the UK, withMario Kart 8 Deluxe,Luigi’s Mansion 3, andPokemon Swordall holding high Top Ten positions, while numerous other Switch releases hover in and around the Top 20....

Those who have purchasedCupheadon Xbox or PC will get access to an exclusive (and somewhat confusingly named) “Xbox Anniversary Update” featuring a wealth of behind-the-scenes content including unused art, the game’s soundtrack, and concepts that never made it into the final game.The update is set to release on September 29and is meant to celebrateCuphead’s sixth anniversary. “Knowing that we wanted to give our thanks to the Xbox community that has shown us love from day 1, we really thought about the kinds of things we would want to see as fans of Cuphead,”saidStudio MDHR’s Chad Moldenhauer....

Nerfed across the board Bungie is ready to give us the full rundown onDestiny 2‘s patch 2.2.2, and it brings some long-awaited fixes with it alongside of an expected Hunter subclass nerf. The neon sign of the patch is the Hunter spectral blades nerf, which lowers damage reduction while using the super, reduces the duration, and increases light melee cost while it’s active. Spectral blades has been a contentious super for months, with Bungie buffing the class a few months after theForsakenexpansion arrived due to player requests, only to pull it back now also due to requests....

During the Tokyo Toy Show 2024,Disney Lorcanamade its Japanese debut. The card game is set to be released in the region in January 2025 with a slimmed-down version ofThe First Chapterset, smaller and cheaper booster packs, and three starter decks to get new players started. As translated and reported byMushu Report,Disney Lorcana‘sThe First Chapterset has been officially revealed. Ravensburger is working with Takara Tomy as its distributor for the game in Japan....

Seems legit Wherever there is public interest, there are con artists preying upon the susceptible. How many shoddily-built iPod rip-offs must one buy or mid-life-crisis-inducing timeshares must one occupy, before this lesson is learned? Videogames occupy a rather extreme section of entertainment; one in which consumers have a rabid enthusiasm which rivals that of comicbook collectors and movie fanatics. This enthusiasm feeds into an online culture in which a single screenshot or scrap of info is cut open, examined front-to-back, and repeatedly discussed until anything that can be said has been said a hundred times over....

[Our final promotion for Bloggers Wanted: Downloadables is from meteorscrap, who shares his thoughts on an XBLIG title calledSequence. If you want to see your own blog on the front page next week, make sure you finish up somethingon the topic of Motion Controlover the weekend. A new topic will be posted on Monday, and Motion Control blogs will go up all week. – JRo] Sequencewas the title which immediately came to mind when the topic of downloadable titles was presented....

The Cole Palmer Winter Wildcards SBC is now live inEA FC 25, and you can complete it to unlock a special card of the English midfielder. This is the second time a Cole Palmer card has been released as part of the SBC. To play with the item, you’ll have to complete all the tasks before the SBC expires from Ultimate Team. Let’s take a look at all the tasks and how you can complete them at the cheapest price possible....

Miquella is back. From Software and Bandai Namco just released the official gameplay trailer for the upcomingElden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtreeand it looks exactly like I hoped it would. More epic boss battles, new weapons to find and learn, and lots of dying. You know, moreElden Ring.Shadow of the Erdtreeis set to release on July 01, 2025, and is even getting its own collector’s edition that looks pretty epic....