If nothing else, you have to give credit to Locomalito for excelling at capturing the essence of aged, beloved videogames. And hell, they have the best faux old-school box art I’ve ever seen. First there was the shoot-’em-upHydorah, and now we haveL’Abbaye des Morts. It’s a platformer in the same vein as Matthew SmithZX Spectrum titlesManic MinerandJet Set Willy. Sold yet? Well, it is a free download, so that’s okay. The influences are a little before my time, but I can appreciate what Locomalito is going for nonetheless....

Oh yes, it’s Ladies’ Fight This week sees the coming of two new DLC characters to the roster of cult anime fighterMelty Blood: Type Lumina, as Dead Apostle Noel and Aoko Aozaki will be stepping into the ring come Thursday, January 13. Developer Project Lumina has dropped new trailers showcasing the abilities of both scrappers. Our first throwdown sees the cheerful but incredulously dangerousDead Apostle Noellocking horns with one of theTsukihimefranchise’s main protagonists: the holy Ciel....

You can also win a ticket into the press conference In addition to the usual show floor booths and Day 0 press conference, Microsoft will be holding a series of events to allow the general public a chance to be a part of the action. You can get afull list here, but the more interesting events are as follows. It all starts on Sunday with a fan event at the Century City Microsoft store, where fans can get a look at Microsoft’s E3 line-up....

Apple’s unnamed new iPad was unveiled today in San Francisco at a morning press event. As expected, this new iPad will sport a Retina display with a resolution of 2048 x 1536, coming in at 264ppi, the highest in a mobile device yet. The size and shape haven’t changed much, with the whole kit coming in at 1.4 lbs, and the battery still pumping out 10 hours. Under the hood it comes with a A5X processor and quad-core graphics that are supposed to spit out four times the performance of the Tegra 3....

Recently, Nintendo games have been training our brains, eyesight, and more, but they haven’t done much for our common sense. Enter the new Wii titleMinna no Joushiki Ryoku Terebi, which roughly translates toEveryone’s Common Sense TV. Japanese Web siteDengekihas pictures and info on the upcoming Wii title, which looks to teach everything from tie knots to geography. General knowledge of sports, cooking, manners, fashion, and more will also be taught in this title....

Parental Advisory Explicit Content Twitch is adopting a new range of labels and tags with which it hopes creators can better classify mature content on their respective channels — The new tags, which are live on the platform right now, are the latest step in the company’s efforts to improve community safety on the popular streaming service. Initially, the site had a catch-all “Mature Content” label, but the new tags hope to be a little more specific as to what audience members can expect when visiting one of the site’s millions of channels....

Midas Touch Back in March, Oculus made an aggressive course correction when itslashed the priceof the Rift and the Touch controllers by $100 each. The move was viewed as borderline necessary by a lot of people, as purchasing the pair would run about $800. Oculus recently shared a new statistic that seems to heavily validate its pricing strategy. In a presentation atDigital Dragonsin Krakow last week, Oculus’ Paul Jastrzebski told a room full of developers that nearly everyone who is buying a new Rift headset is also picking up the Touch controllers since the price cut....

Share your thoughts on the latest next-gen systems Now that theXbox OneandPlayStation 4are finally here and the dust has settled, the Destructoid team is curious to know what everyone thinks of their shiny new consoles. Did you get them both? What do you think of each systems user interfaces? How about games? Are they the best launch lineups to date? Any surprises? Has it been worth the wait? Let us know all your trials and tribulations below!...

Swim away from impending doom Now that we’re two months deep into sweaty girl summer, you might be dreaming of an oceanside escape, sipping margarita mix while the little sandcrabs also drink margarita mix, but, like, a tinier version. This season, though, going out into the real outdoors can be depressing, what with itsacidic land lobstersandocean of fire. Thankfully, video game beaches are idyllic in perpetuity, their 8-bit waters always a perfect, iced Gatorade blue, their sunny steel drum backing tracks bubbling through yet another game ofvolleyball....

In the lead-up to one of the most highly anticipated Xbox exclusives of this generation, Bethesda has used a few terms to describeStarfield. Todd Howard has called it “Skyrim in space”, though this doesn’t really do justice to how much of a unique identity the game forges for itself. The term “NASA punk” has also been thrown around to describe the game’s aesthetic, and this may not initially clue you in on what to expect....

‘Techland always has an eye on the latest new toys’ Dying Light 2is scheduled to arrive at some point in the first two quarters of 2020. According to developer Techland, however, that could just be phase one of their release strategy. Speaking to Wccftech, an unnamed Techland rep, during an interview with big-wigs like Chris Avellone, confirmed thatDying Light 2is making the cross-generational leap. Hinting that “Techland always has an eye on the latest new toys,” the rep specifically states that “the plan since the beginning of production has been to makeDying Light 2a cross-generational title....

Tap! Tap! Tap! Tap My Katamariis now available foriOSandAndroidplatforms the world over. While the free-to-play spin-off has been out in some regions since January, other markets, including the United States, haven’t been able to sample the clicker-style experience until now. Perhaps it just took a while for the game to amass enough small objects to roll across the globe. Tap My Katamarimarks the first new entry in Bandai Namco’s delightfully bizarre franchise since the release of PlayStation Vita launch titleTouch My Katamariin 2011 (JP) and 2012 (WW)....

Check out everything Destructoid did today I turned 6,000 pounds of cement into a driveway today with a cold that came on this morning, so I think I need to go to bread. I mean bed. Today, Chris Carter reviewedKiller is Deadand wrote a quick tip guide for it, Jim reviewedRayman Legends, Chris also previewedHearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft,Samurai Gunngot a PC/PS4/PSVita release announcement, and some ugly, stupidjerkwrote a big dumb piece aboutKiller is Deadthat a lot of people hated....