I’m sure you’ve seenthose damnedEvonyadsaround the internet lately. Nothing about these ads for the free-to-play online game is memorable, save for the focus on busts and cleavage. We’re not the only ones who noticed these ads, though. The fine folks at PopCap have also come across these eyesores of internet advertising, but instead of complaining, they poke fun. Theirkickass tower defense gamePlants vs. Zombiesis used to make fun of theseEvonyads. How?...

It sure does look good though If there is one genre that has been all but perfected for mobile gaming, it’s the racing sim. Gameloft’sAsphaltseries has been killing it since it jumped to iOS in 2009, and even if its monetization systems get more aggressive with each release, the actual racing in those games is second to none in the mobile sphere. They’re just legitimately fun and have created the perfect template for other racing games to mimic....

You’ll never find us, but victim or perpertrator, if your number’s up, we’ll find you Orwell‘s first seasonwas an unexpected nail-biter anda personal GOTY on release. It wasn’t much to look at, but for all the data input and web browsing, it ended up being a fascinating conspiracy thriller, where the line between surveillance and stalking was easily blurred. Even with the high stakes involved,Orwellworked because of its intimacy as your agency picked apart the lives of a small but fully realised cast to expose a terrorist cell....

Double the bawks I have the good fortune of being able to cover console launches before, during, and after their release, which gives me plenty of time to study trends. Seeing Microsoft riding high off of the Xbox 360, clawing at Sony after their big Xbox versus PS2 battle, was something else — as was the blowback from the Xbox One’s draconian DRM stance. They’re still licking their wounds over that, but they’ve bounced back when it comes to console features....

Kazuma Kaneko had a long and storied career at Atlus, which he recently left after 35 years. His next move had him heading over toCOLOPL, known for games likeAlice Gear AegisandVolzerk: Monsters and Lands Unknown. Now we have a kernel of an idea of what he’s working on over there. According to COLOPL’s latestfinancial results report, Kazuma Kaneko is developing a new game that’s currently just known asProject MASK(viaGematsu). The title comes up with a visual spotlighting a mysterious character in a financial report slide that mentions new smartphone game plans....

Cody and Guy were clearly unavailable SNK’s shamelessFinal FightcloneBurning Fight, is now available for download as the next title in the ACA classics range. The sluggish brawler, originally released for Neo Geo hardware back in 1991, has players choose from one of three characters before setting forth to clean up the mean streets of crooks and low-lifes. You know how this works: wreck some heads, smash some barrels, pick up pipes, beat-up bosses....

Starfield’sMantis quest will send you to a planet called Danebola I-B in the Danebola system, the hideout of a particularly brutal and famous vigilante. You will get the mission by fighting Spacers anywhere in the game, then looting them. If you get a dataslate called “Secret Outpost”, then you are in luck. The Lair of the Mantis is home to one of the most vicious enemies the Spacers have ever faced....

But will David Hayter be replaced by Kiefer? Republiquewas a nice little indie stealth romp, created by several of the folks who worked on theMetal Gear Solidfranchise. It had its share of highs and lows (an especially low point was its insane wait between episodes), but if you can get the complete edition on the cheap, it’s worth a spin over a rainy weekend. Its journey isn’t over yet, either, as the Kickstarter page (created in 2013) is still trucking, and as of this week, asked fans if they would want a potential Switch port....

It sure sounds like it I wasn’t blown away by any means byDying Light, but I was very surprised that Techland managed to cobble together an open-world game that wasn’t broken, and was rather fun to roam about in. Recently though the dev took to Facebook to announce that if you are playing an unpatched version, you are “playing a different game.” Enhancements are said to include…well…basically everything you can think of....

WWI multiplayer mayhem meets sci-fi tower defense Two tried-and-true PC games have resurfaced this week with a free-to-keep deal on the Epic Games Store. From today through July 29, you’re able to redeemVerdun, a World War I FPS multiplayer game that could surely use a player-count boost, andDefense Grid: The Awakening, a pretty good invasion-halting tower defense title, for your library. I’m not entirely sure what to make of playingVerdunin 2021 unless there’s a huge influx of players, andDefense Gridis in a lot of folks’ collections at this point....

Check out everything Destructoid did today As yet another E3 winds down, we take time to reflect on what was. Consoles were shown, prices were revealed, games were announced, and sooner than we know it a new generation will be upon us. It’s a good couple of months before the new hardware is out, giving each of us time to reflect on which system we’ll dip into first. Unless of course you’re that weird person who didn’t pay attention to the show at all....

Check out everything Destructoid did today So first everyone was all like, “Look, first Valve-supported Steambox,” the surprisingly pricey $1,000Piston by Xi3. Then Valve was all like,Eh, this ain’t really our bag, daddy-o, distancing itself from Xi3’s Piston and saying there isn’t currently any open collaboration between the two companies. But then Xi3 CEO Jason Sullivan fired back, statingValve had asked them to make the Pistonand that that directive came, of course, from his Gabe-ness himself, and that while the Piston is not the official Steambox, there may be joint doings in the future....

Check out everything Destructoid did today Yesterday Ed Boon announced there would be more DLC characters coming toInjustice: Gods Among Us. Frankly, there’s only one character I want to play as, and that’s Conan O’Brian’s comic character “The Flaming C”. I don’t even care if it’s just a DLC costume for Superman, just get it in the game! I mean, c’mon, LOOK AT THAT OVEN MIT! Today, Chris reviewed the newBlopsIIDLC, Darren reviewedRush Bros, Kyle previewed all the wackiness inSaints Row IV, and more happened here at Dtoid on the 3rd of July....