Upcoming Palworld x Terraria collab wasn’t on my video game bingo card for 2025

Indie hitPalworldkeeps growing in terms of content, and developers Pocketpair have announced an upcoming collab with Terraria. The news of the upcoming collab was announced on May 13 as a summer expansion. If you, like me, have been skeptical aboutPalworld’sfuture, there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic instead. The developers haven’t shared many details yet, but it has certainly caught me by surprise. Palworld’s Terraria collab will be a big expansion 2025 has been a surprising year of video game releases and announcements (Rockstar’sGTA 6delay broke my heart)....

July 13, 2025 · 2 min · 373 words · Sarah Lewis

What hellish humans have you crafted with Fallout 4’s character creator

Haha, these are amazing Haha, man, I can’t get over how good some of theseFallout 4charactercreation templatesare. Beavis and Butthead is probably my absolute favorite, but I’ve seen so many great garish creations over the past few weeks. Anumber of siteshavecollectedsome of the best ones, with standouts like Louis C.K. and Walter White. I can’t resist the fake John Cena inclusion, sorry. See if you can figure out the mystery characters in the gallery below, and feel free to share your own!...

July 13, 2025 · 1 min · 82 words · Lisa Juarez

Who knew Space Invaders could be so deep and emotional

Above is merely the first two frames of amassively vertical comicchronicling the life a green Space Invader. Created by Ehud Lavski for Dorkly, it ought to make you think about your actions towards gaming’s standard cannon fodder. Are they truly evil? Do they have families? Doesn’t it seem odd that Space Invaders, Goombas, Moblins, or other such low-level grunts could potentially have these rich personal histories, yet it takes but a matter of seconds to extinguish their lives?...

July 13, 2025 · 1 min · 81 words · Dr. Sharon Smith DVM

Who’s your favorite SoulCalibur fighter? Team teases ‘something huge’

369, damn I’m fine Project Soul is doing a thing. Probably developingSoulCalibur VI. On the team’s Facebook page, it’s asking fans to weigh in on the, “future ofSoulCalibur” by voting in a month-long poll of your favorite series characters. Mine is Link and I assume he is not included in the poll, which I will not grant the requisite Facebook permissions to enter. There’s adesktop linkto the poll and amobile link....

July 13, 2025 · 1 min · 106 words · Jenna Patel

Ziggurat acquires catalog of Amiga legends Rainbow Arts

Graffiti Man is stoked Publisher Ziggurat Interactive has announced that it has acquired the back catalog of legendary Commodore Amiga game publisher Rainbow Arts.According to GamesIndustry.biz, the deal reportedly includes somewhere in the region of 80 classic titles from the golden home computing days of the 1980s and early 1990s. Rainbow Arts — the logo of which is sure to bring memories flooding back to those of a certain age — was a game publisher founded in Germany in 1984 by Marc Ullrich and Thomas Meiertoberens....

July 13, 2025 · 2 min · 256 words · David Williams

A real Twist of Fate: WWE 2K18 is coming to Nintendo Switch

My god, that’s the Switch’s music! [Extremely The Rock voice] “Finally, a WWE video game has come back to a Nintendo platform!” It’s been an extended absence. Not sinceWWE ’13on the Wii has a licensed WWE title graced a Nintendo console. That changes with this year’s game. The Architect, The Kingslayer, The Man, Mr. Money in the Bank himself, Seth Rollins announced the news thatWWE 2K18is being developer for the Switch in the Twitter video that’s embedded below:...

July 12, 2025 · 1 min · 196 words · Jason Yates

Actor Clark Gregg to reveal the Marvel addition in Disney Infinity 2.0

Agent Coulson LIVES! Whoops! TheAgents of ShieldTwitter account accidentally let slip that actor Clark Gregg will be presenting at theDisney Infinity 2.0reveal event taking place tomorrow. Why would Clark Gregg present at a game reveal? Because Marvel, idiots! Clark Gregg is Agent Coulson in the Marvel universe, and it’s only fitting that he will be revealing the Marvel addition coming toDisney Infinity 2.0. Now the question is, will Agent Coulson be a playable character inDisney Infinity?...

July 12, 2025 · 1 min · 87 words · Timothy Crosby

Akiba’s Trip: Hellbound & Debriefed will be haunting the west in late July

Who You Gonna Call?.. XSeed Games, in association with Marvelous!, have announced that the western localization of the upcoming RPGAkiba’s Trip: Hellbound & Debriefedwill be arriving in the west a mere two months after its Japanese launch. The 10th anniversary remaster will launch in North America on PS4, PC, and Nintendo Switch July 20, with Europe to follow on July 23. In addition to the standard releases, this remaster of the first-ever entry in the supernatural series will also be available on PS4 and PC in Digital Deluxe Format....

July 12, 2025 · 1 min · 179 words · Marco Ford

All Fragment of Starmetal locations in Avowed

Across the different maps in the Living Lands inAvowed, you can randomly come across an item called the “Fragment of Starmetal.” Once you find this item, it begins the “Forged of Star-Stuff” quest, which can’t be completed until you reach the final map in the game. As you’ll soon learn, there is more than just one Fragment of Starmetal inAvowed, and they’re all needed for the quest. So where can you find all the Fragments of Starmetal?...

July 12, 2025 · 6 min · 1076 words · Margaret Dixon

All Secret Level episodes ranked from worst to best

Secret Level, the animated anthology series set in the world of famous video games by Tim Miller’s Blur Studio ofLove Death and Robotsfame, is finally (all) out. There are some gems here, but the overall output is rather unbalanced. Let’s rank all the episodes in a way no one on the Internet will dare disagree with, shall we? 15. PAC-MAN: Circle RememberBomberman: Act Zero, the reimagining of the classic for the Xbox 360 that seems to have mistaken one of the most immediately recognizable characters in gaming history with a cyberpunk version of the Unabomber?...

July 12, 2025 · 9 min · 1864 words · Diana Crawford

Bethesda opens Battlecry Studios, installs Rich Vogel

Bethesda announced today the opening of a new development studio, Battlecry Studios, in Austin, Texas. Heading up the new team will be Rich Vogel, the former executive producer at BioWare responsible forStar Wars: The Old Republic. The studio is hiring for other positions as well. Theirjobs boardhas listings for a Lead Designer, Art Director and a number of other key jobs (few more critical than thatMonetization Designer, I suspect). So they’re still in a very early stage, which is probably why they’ve revealed absolutely bupkis in regards to what the team may or may not be developing....

July 12, 2025 · 1 min · 127 words · Dalton Shaffer

Comments of the Week 02: An Englishman is Always Right

It’s tea time Good evening fellow Destructoid dwellers. This is Comments of the Week, hosted this week by me, TheLimoMaker, the only English person in the team who runs this weekly blog. Now, since I am the only English person in the group, I feel compelled to bring some elegance to this section every week which I’m sure, for those of a higher class amongst you, will be greatly appreciated. That being said, I do also feel compelled to feature nothing but penis jokes because who doesn’t like a good phallic object?...

July 12, 2025 · 3 min · 461 words · Brittany Valdez

Comments of the Week 16: The Next Best Thing

Second best is just first worst Hello there guys and gals, it’s your resident Nintendo lovechild Gmana here bringing you another round of Comments of the Week! There are laughs, there are tears. Actually, wait, there are no tears, only laughs. Review: Last Day of June Gmana:It’s like calling your baby April and having her being born in November Gmana:Pics or it didn’t happen. Need a cure for that Mother itch?...

July 12, 2025 · 2 min · 329 words · Laura Carter