Best Yaoyao healer builds in Genshin Impact

Yaoyaois a 4-star Dendro healer inGenshin Impactwith both on-field and off-field support capabilities. Here are the best weapons and artifacts to maximize your Yaoyao’s healing! Weapons Favonius Lance / Rightful Reward / Kitain Cross Spear These 4-star Polearms all have passives that generate energy. If Yaoyao is using her Burst, then these three will be your best options. Moonpiercer If Yaoyao is not using her Burst, then she can equip Moonpiercer to grant teammates an ATK buff when triggering a reaction....

May 22, 2025 · 3 min · 475 words · Lisa Roberts

Bit.Trip Runner2 encourages you to f*ck the past

Runner2 PAXfromCommanderVideoonVimeo. Bit.Trip Presents: Runner2 Future Legend of Rhythm Alienwill be at PAX Prime this year, and it’s clear the team at Gaijin Games is driving hard to push forward. If you are one of the many fans of the priorBit.Triptitles and you’re having a tough time letting go of the past and acceptRunner2, then this trailer has a message for you. Just likeJim Sterlingsays, you’ve got to assess a game for what it is, and not how much it fits your preconceived notion of what it should be....

May 22, 2025 · 1 min · 157 words · David Taylor

Boom Boom Rocket explodes onto XBLA this Wednesday

Developed by Bizarre Creations (makers ofGeometry Wars) and published by EA,Boom Boom Rocketwill be the first rhythm-based game to grace Xbox Live Arcade. It’s going to set you back 800 Microsoft Points and will first launch in the U.S. Canada, and Europe on Wednesday. If for whatever reason you don’t live in any of those fine regions,Boom Boom Rocketwill be available in the near future in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore,Australia, and New Zealand....

May 22, 2025 · 2 min · 214 words · Eddie Coleman

Contest: Win a four-day pass to PAX Prime!

[Update:Contest over! Winners are Rackdar, ooktar, and Albatross!] To help celebrate the impending launch of their badass brawlerCharlie Murder, our friends at Ska Studios have given us three four-day passes to PAX Prime to hand out to the Destructoid community! For a chance at one of these highly sought after badges, you need to create your own fictional band for theCharlie Murder-verse. Think up a cool name for the band, pick a style, tell us the band members’ names and instruments, and give us the title of their first hit single....

May 22, 2025 · 1 min · 143 words · Linda Galvan

Crusader Kings II gets a subscription service for its hundreds of dollars of DLC

Still available for purchase piecemeal Even thoughCrusader Kings IIIis already out and available for all your nepotistic megalomaniacal fantasies, Paradox is continuing to push itsCrusader Kings IIcandy on strategy fans at large. The base grand strategy game was previously madefree for alljust before the announcement of the sequel in late 2018, and it’s currently free-to-play onSteam. The problem is that theCrusader Kings IIbase game is simply that, a base – and Paradox used that base to build and sell six years’ worth of DLC and expansions, some of which vastly changed how the game was played....

May 22, 2025 · 2 min · 248 words · Shannon Garza

Details on DSiWare game Legend of Exidia arrive via ESRB

It’s no big secret that some of us around here think that DSiWare is a big pile of poop. As someone who watches theweekly download releasesof Nintendo pretty closely I can tell you that the service has had many, many lackluster weeks, but there are gems every once in a while and it appears Gameloft is attempting to deliver one in the form ofLegend of Exidia. TheESRBhas once again leaked details on a game we haven’t heard anything about and it sounds pretty juicy....

May 22, 2025 · 2 min · 234 words · Jerry Wilcox

Development studio Terminal Reality has shut down

Studio behind Ghostbusters and BloodRayne has closed 2013 hasn’t been to kind to struggling game studios, and it appears we’ve got another casualty before this rocky year in gaming closes out. It is now reported that the Texas-based game studio, Terminal Reality, has shut down. In a new report from Gamasutra, Jason Sosa, a former employee of the studio spoke out on his Facebook page and said that the developer “seems to have finally shut down....

May 22, 2025 · 1 min · 144 words · Stephen Henderson

Director del Toro says Silent Hills isn’t going to happen

It breaks his ‘greasy heart’ [Update:this has beenconfirmed by Norman Reedus, who was supposed to appear in the game.] Looks like thepending delisting ofP.T.was a bad omen after all. According to a quote procured byphotojournalist Matt Hackneyat a recent Q&A event, famed writer-directorGuillermo del Torohas confirmed thatSilent Hills is “…not gonna happen and that breaks my greasy heart.” He went on to say some unrelated things like he “actually hope[s] to destroy some (SF buildings) inPacific Rim 2....

May 22, 2025 · 1 min · 181 words · Susan Johnson

Doom: Annihilation, which definitely won’t be good, unleashes hell on earth on October 1

My condolences It’s with a heavy heart that I’m obligated to inform you the straight-to-videoDoom: Annihilationhas not been canceled. Things were hopeful for a minute when it was delayed to improve the CGI effects. But, alas, it is releasing in the near future. Universal Pictures announced today thatDoom: Annihilationis slated for July 13, 2025. Bypassing the silver screen altogether (as most good films do), it’s launching on Blu-Ray so that viewing audiences can be disappointed in the relative comfort of their own homes....

May 22, 2025 · 2 min · 223 words · Shannon Humphrey

EA FC 24: Best players for Road to FC 25 Evolution

If you’re looking for a smooth transition fromEA FC 24toEA FC 25, the Road to FC 25 Evolution should be a must complete. This evolution allows you to upgrade any one card of your choice to take their overall up to 99. That’s not all, as completing the evolution unlocks an 81+ x7 Players Pack, which is redeemable inEA FC 25. First, let’s take a look at all the requirements....

May 22, 2025 · 1 min · 155 words · Nathan Davis

Employee kidnappings up 500% after Doug Bowser begins work at Nintendo

Bob Ganondorf in billing also suspected The warm welcome for Doug Bowser, the new Vice President of Sales at Nintendo of America, is over after it was reported female employee kidnappings have increased 500% since he started earlier this week. More than 10 beautiful blonde employees and the one requisite brunette have been missing for more than 24 hours. Witnesses say they spotted Bowser laughing maniacally as he threw the women into his airship and flew away....

May 22, 2025 · 2 min · 339 words · Debra Kane

Experience Points .21: Katamari Damacy

Oh! I feel it. I feel the cosmos! 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....

May 22, 2025 · 9 min · 1883 words · Todd Daniels

Fallout 76’s huge NPC-adding Wastelanders update will drop on April 7, which is when the game comes to Steam

The update is still free for all platforms After a delay and the start of a private testing period, Bethesda is ready to lock in a full release date forFallout 76‘s massive upcoming freeWastelandersupdate: April 7. Announced by way of a new trailer, Bethesda also gave us a twofer [Grace] reveal: that’s the release date of the Steam edition of the game. The publisher also reminds us that the update will include “a new main quest,” as well as new creatures, additional gear, actual voiced NPCs (not scattered datalogs) anda reputation system....

May 22, 2025 · 1 min · 139 words · Jennifer Hartman