Smash Ultimate’s latest event focuses on famous duos and trios

9-Volt and 18-Volt are quite the pair Smash Ultimateis moving at cruising speed with its Spirit Board events at this point. Every so often I’ll look at an upcoming activity and go “hey, those characters rock!” a true testament to Sakurai’s “include everything possible, even if it’s not playable” mentality. It’s insane how deep Sakurai and his team dug forUltimatewith its myriad references, both broad and obscure. The latest event is “The More the Merrier,” and it starts on January 25....

July 21, 2025 · 1 min · 135 words · Karen Callahan

Sony picks up samurai action-RPG Nioh for North America and Europe

Still set for June 23, 2025 While Koei Tecmo is still publishingNiohfor PlayStation 4 in Japan, Sony has stepped in to rep Team Ninja’s oni-slaying samurai game in North America, Europe, and Asia (outside of Japan). Considering this isthe gamemany of us hungrySoulsfans are anticipating in a post-Dark Souls IIIworld, that’s a fairly big move. Infamously, Sony decided against publishing From Software’s 2009 dark-fantasy action-RPGDemon’s Soulsin North America, instead leaving that job to Atlus....

July 21, 2025 · 2 min · 254 words · Elizabeth Nielsen

Suda51 talks fan input, the return of Shinobu, and the assassin he wishes could return in No More Heroes 3

The legendary punk-rock game designer sits one-on-one with Destructoid Suda51 doesn’t seem to be quite sure of what he wantsNo More Heroes 3to be. He knows the story he wants to tell. He’s currently in the middle of writing the scenario for it, with the general plot of the game mapped out and the smaller story elements starting to fill in. The invasion seen in the debut trailer, beings coming from space or something else along those lines, will be a major theme in the game....

July 21, 2025 · 6 min · 1212 words · Miss Jessica Gregory

Tax Fraud Tycoon codes (December 2024)

Updated: June 23, 2025 We added new codes! In this world, nothing can be said to be certain except death, taxes, and the printer not working when you need it most.Tax Fraud Tycooncombines all those wonderful elements because you avoid death by committing embezzlement and trying to prevent the printer from catching fire. Still, earning money often feels glacially slow, so you’ll want to hire as many orphans and homeless guys as possible to keep the operation going....

July 21, 2025 · 2 min · 303 words · Cameron Fletcher

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony featured some familiar video game tunes

Final Fantasy,Nier, and more were on deck The 2020 Tokyo Olympics hosted their opening ceremony today, officially kicking off the festivities in Japan. As part of the ceremony, the athletes all entered the stadium bearing their nation’s flags. And if you’ve been playing video games for a while, the music for the Parade of Nations might have sounded a little familiar. The tunes that swept through the arena included a bunch of cuts from video games from the host country....

July 21, 2025 · 2 min · 253 words · Sarah Perez

The Crew 2 is shaping up to be my open-world racer of choice

I have a soft spot for boats, apparently Ubisoft’s latest showing forThe Crew 2wasa lot like its last, but I’m not complaining. This weekend, I got another crack at the racer’s open-world antics. Morphing between a car, plane, and boat in real time without losing momentum continues to delight me. Last time, I wanted to fly around and change to a car mid-air, seamlessly dropping onto a highway. That didn’t go so well....

July 21, 2025 · 3 min · 433 words · Phillip Nguyen

Tickets now available for rePLAY: Symphony of Heroes

From the makers of The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses Music from Final Fantasy, Mass Effect, Halo, Journey, God of War, Portal 2, and other videogames will appear in new orchestral concert series rePLAY: Symphony of Heroes.Tickets for concerts worldwide are on sale right now. Next month, the concert is coming to Houston, Texas and Los Angeles, with the latter timed right with Anime Expo. If you remember the concert series The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses, rePLAY comes from the same creators....

July 21, 2025 · 1 min · 142 words · Karina Christian MD

Weird weapons, lilac hair, lady boys, it must be FFXIII-2

Is it a man? Is it a woman? Who the hell knows, it’sFinal Fantasy XIII-2screenshot time! More young girls and lady boys than you’re able to handle. Unless you can handle five or more screenshots. One of them has lilac hair, which is a lovely color. Having not even managed to get through the “tutorial” inFinal Fantasy XIII, I have no idea what to expect. Square Enix’s latest cinematic spectacle will be out in the US on January 31 and the EU on February 3 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, hopefully without a 30 hour tutorial....

July 21, 2025 · 1 min · 97 words · David Reynolds

Xbox One Kinect and Forza 5 bundle $120 off at Walmart

With your choice of Call of Duty or NBA 2K14 If there are still any Xbox One holdouts among you that would like a Kinect included, Walmart is running apretty nice promotion. For the standard SKU price of $499, you will get an Xbox One with Kinect, a download card forForza 5, and your choice between a boxed copy ofCall of Duty: GhostsorNBA 2K14. Naturally, this means you will be choosingNBA 2K14, and selling it back to your nearest GameStop....

July 21, 2025 · 1 min · 109 words · Carol Martin

You can download the Fallout 4 Pip-Boy app now

Plays a little game, too Calling all folks who bought thatFallout 4Pip Boy Edition what looks like you got a giant novelty gag dog poo on your wrist: Bethesda’s Pip-Boy app is live on theApp StoreandGoogle Play. Certainly you’ll feel alive, too, with yet another way to engage with your favorite content. It’s a bit limited five days away fromFallout 4, but, uh, think of this as pre-loading. It can play aMissile Command-inspired game,Atomic Command....

July 21, 2025 · 1 min · 104 words · Jessica Wells

A hands on with Devolver Digital’s Heave Ho

Get it, ‘hands on’? Just a few hours after its initial reveal I stopped by Devlover Digital’s PAX booth to check outHeave Ho, their new cooperative game about working together to swing your weird little legless gremlins towards a common goal. The game sees a group of up to four players grabbing onto each other’s appendages and traversing platforms and traps, with the aim to get every player to the goal alive....

July 20, 2025 · 2 min · 301 words · Valerie Henderson DDS

AGDQ Speedrunner finishes New Super Mario Bros. Wii while playing the piano

A speedrunner named Wes completedNew Super Mario Bros. Wiiwhile playing the piano in 41 minutes and 20 seconds on Wednesday at Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ). The player used two Joycons in unusual places to complete the task. Wes (FunkoPotamuswes) was able to finishNew Super Mario Bros. Wiiat a breakneck pace while playing the game’s soundtrack on a piano at AGDQ. The speedrunner was able to do this by tilting his head left and right for movement with one Joycon....

July 20, 2025 · 2 min · 297 words · Matthew Rodriguez

All Schedule 1 achievements and how to unlock them

Getting 100 percent in games is satisfying. MostSchedule 1’sare achievable as you play the game, but a few can easily escape your grasp if you’re unfamiliar with the mechanics involved. Here’s a completeSchedule 1achievement guide, including tips on how to unlock each one. All Schedule 1 achievements At the time of writing,Schedule 1has 11 achievements you can obtain. Most involve completing the tutorial and reaching net worth milestones, but there are some surprises in the mix....

July 20, 2025 · 1 min · 89 words · Katherine Wheeler