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If ever there was a game I didn't expect to spawn a horde of spiritual successors from startup companies of varying dubiety, that game was celebrated ******* hangover simulator Disco Elysium. And yet here we are with yet another claimant to the dance floor, Pera Coda. In fairness, it takes inspiration from a lot more than just ZA/UM's RPG, but Disco Elysium is mentioned rather prominently in the marketing. Created by Falan, a Turkish team founded by three architecture students, Pera Coda is a timeloop story set in a "surreal", "neon-noir" Istanbul, in which you play an attorney, Deniz, who is navigating a purgatory inspired by Bardo in Buddhism. The city is described as "both a stage and a mirror, where East meets West, chaos meets calm, and each district reflects a piece of your fragmented self." Certainly sounds quite Revacholian. Here's a teaser trailer. Read more View the full article

There are lots of epic superhero items you can find around the island in Fortnite Chapter Six, season three. One of the most useful ones for getting around quickly is the Surf Cube, so it's a strong item to use if you know where to find it. With so many items available to find around the island, tracking down the Surf Cube can be tough. It's also a tricky item to get used to since there's nothing else like it, so here's how to find and use the Surf Cube in Fortnite. Where to find Surf Cube in Fortnite Screenshot by Destructoid The Surf Cube can randomly be found anywhere around the island, like most other loot. If you want a guaranteed chance of finding one, though, you can meet up with Lightrider to buy one. Lightrider can be found hanging out slightly south of Shiny Shafts. She's one of the many NPCs you can find around the island and has one Surf Cube for ***** in each round, which costs 300 gold bars. It's not too pricey, but it's a bit tough to earn gold this season, so you may need to work on saving up for it. If you don't have the gold bars required but still want to add this item to your inventory, get to work looting around the island. You have a better shot at acquiring it if you take on certain challenges, like damaging Overlord Spires and Scout Spires. Opening hero caches is another great way to find this item. Otherwise, you just have to loot around the island until you're lucky enough to find one. How to use Surf Cube in Fortnite This guide is a work in progress and is receiving live updates as we test this item. The post How to find and use Surf Cube in Fortnite Chapter 6, season 3 appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article

Destructoid, I have gone down a rabbit hole I can't bring myself out of, and I'm writing this article in hopes others can join me. As I can't stop watching how insane some Mario Kart World tricks are, mere weeks after release. Most videos of people competing for world record speed times on tracks appear innocent enough at first. A few tricks here and there, some good Mushroom usage, and then suddenly a player is launching themselves off a map to get speed boosts of a single pixel of a tree or go to areas of the stage that feel out of bounds but actually aren't. [Hidden Content] Take, for example, Great ? Block Ruins, where near the end of the map, the player does a leap of faith into a pit, tricks off a lone tree onto a wall, and then hits a cloud to jump back onto the stage, essentially riding beneath the track but coming out of it fine. It's one of many examples where players have been able to create impossible jumps. [Hidden Content] There are also tracks like Faraway Oasis that take advantage of weird water mechanics to launch racers into the air to get on platforms and places they wouldn't usually be able to, while still finding time to do a trick off a beam or something you wouldn't even consider accessible. [Hidden Content] There's even a ******* shock when, in stages like DK Spaceport, you find out it's actually faster to not do any tricks at all and go in a straight line rather than wall riding off platforms or doing small jump dashes. Every second adds up, so after seeing some of the wilder tricks on other stages before, realizing sometimes it's quicker to do 0 tricks becomes equally baffling. These are just some of the many tricks and tracks I have been scrolling on YouTube shorts or in my spare time, and it makes me wonder what else players will discover as the game gets optimized over time. Also, what is your favorite track or trick you've seen so far!? Let me know in the comments below! The post Have you seen the wild tricks Mario Kart World players are pulling off!? appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article

As players begin marking their calendars and getting ready for the release of Resident Evil Requiem in 2026, Capcom has shared that the ninth entry in the hit survival horror franchise has already surpassed 1 million wishlists. Resident Evil Requiem is set to once again lead the series in a brand-new direction, and early audience enthusiasm is already bolstering support for the highly-anticipated title. View the full article

Bad news: after over six years in development, Nightdive's remaster of System Shock 2 has been hit by one last delay, for old times' sake. Good news: since you're reading about it on this website, it almost certainly doesn't matter to you... Read more.View the full article

If you're still running an RTX 3080 gaming laptop it might be time to upgrade - these are the top rigs I recommend in 2025.View the full article

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has one of the best stories we've seen in a video game in recent years, but the lack of a direct in-game explanation for a few details has left fans a bit confused. In particular, there are two specific scenes where the characters Lune and Sciel are able to defeat and/or resist major bosses while the other characters are seemingly unable to, and it's never clearly explained why this is the case. View the full article

Battlestate Games has released Escape from Tarkov's June update, bringing a greatly improved sound system, better AI behavior, and several quality-of-life changes. With patch 0.16.7.0 now available, the multiplayer tactical shooter Escape from Tarkov continues to evolve with its brutal gameplay set in the war-torn Norvinsk region of northwestern Russia. View the full article

It's Tuesday, so Helldivers 2 has gotten a fresh patch. This one makes the Illuminate's flying death slugs easier to battle and looks like it might have laid the groundwork for the game's long-awaited review bomb cape. Those Leviathan balancing tweaks have come after players continued to struggle to beat the airborne enemy, despite Arrowhead having previously added a spotlight effect to the attack it can use to one-shot your bottom into oblivion. Read more View the full article

Techland has pioneered some ideas that few studios have tried to replicateView the full article

Now Playing | Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army's historical setting is a wonderful example of just how varied Shin Megami Tensei can be beyond the popular Persona gamesView the full article

Xbox has partnered with Meta for the limited edition Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition. The special VR headset is available from today for $400 / £380 in “extremely limited” quantities from [Hidden Content], Best Buy (USA), Argos (***), and EE (***), and according to Microsoft, “once they’re gone, they’re gone”. The bundle includes a custom 128GB Meta Quest 3S in Xbox Carbon ****** and Velocity Green, matching Touch Plus controllers, a limited-edition Xbox Wireless Controller, an Elite Strap, three months of Meta Horizon+, and three months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Read More... View the full article

The summer celebration for Fortnite is here, and Epic is celebrating a little differently this year. Across the next 14 days, ... Read more View the full article

The writer of Final Fantasy Tactics has explained why he’s changed the script for the upcoming remaster. The classic 1997 tactical RPG is getting a modern remaster on PC and consoles called Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, which is set to arrive on September 30. In an interview with [Hidden Content], Yasumi Matsuno – the original script writer, scenario writer and editor for the game – was asked about recent trailers for the remaster, which promise “story adjustments” and “additional dialogue”. Read More... View the full article

The upcoming dinosaur-filled management and simulation game Jurassic World Evolution 3 had a controversial reveal. After the first trailer released just ... Read more View the full article

There’s a new Chicken Run video game in development, and its voice cast is sure to ruffle some feathers. Chicken Run: Eggstraction, from Outright Games, is described as an “action-stealth” video game that is of course based on the Chicken Run franchise. It’s a top-down, heist game that picks up where Aardman's 2023 film Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget left off. Expect a launch this fall on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, and PC. What’s interesting here is Chicken Run: Eggstraction’s voice cast. It sees Bella Ramsey, who plays Ellie in HBO’s The Last of Us adaptation, and Josie Sedgwick-Davies return to voice Molly and Frizzle from Dawn of the Nugget. But it’s also got Chicken Shop Date creator Amelia Dimoldenberg, too. You can see why Dimoldenberg is involved, given the nature of her YouTube interview show. Dimoldenberg has seen a meteoric rise to fame in recent years as ever more famous celebrities agree to a spot of fried chicken on a first date. The question is, will Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield join her on the cast? Back to the game! Here’s the official blurb: Chicken Run: Eggstraction follows the film Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, with an exciting new story that continues the adventures of its feathered heroes as they work to save chickens from the evil nugget industry, where chicken-kind is still in danger! Take control of the Chicken Run characters, and embark on a mission to infiltrate five fortified farms and liberate the captive chickens. But beware, there are plenty of eggstra security measures in place that players will need to overcome to lead these fowl to freedom. From avoiding watchful security cameras and hawkeyed humans to hiding in traffic cones, players will be tested on their stealth, skills and strategy. Equipped for up to two players in local co-op, players can tackle this high-octane adventure alone, or team up with a friend to hatch a plan for success. Image credit: Amelia Dimoldenberg / YouTube. Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at *****@*****.tld. View the full article

On the surface, Grave Seasons might look like any other nice, cozy farming sim like Stardew Valley or Harvest Moon: you’re a stranger who’s come into a farm in the small town of Ashenridge, full of seemingly friendly people. You plant and harvest crops, craft items, and make friends. But there’s a mysterious, unnerving sense that tugged at the back of my neck during my half-hour playing Blumhouse Games and Perfect Garbage’s not-so-cozy farming sim. One that kept me much more engaged than your garden-variety farming game, with its impressively intriguing threads that added a little drop of poison to the well. After a brief intro to the player character, who’s escaped a prison sentence in search of a new beginning, things start getting weird. Hari, a neighborly caretaker who’s maintained the property since falling into ruin, greeted me with an incredulous (but charming) hello, which doubles as a quick tutorial. At first glance, the stuff he introduced me to wasn’t that strange. I had the standard tool wheel, complete with a shovel, pickaxe, watering can, and so on. But I also had a crowbar? That’s because Grave Seasons isn’t just a grim or slightly spooky take on farming: it’s also a mystery game. And while I didn’t have a chance to use a crowbar during the early section I played, it sounds like you’ll need to use it to break open locked doors later on in the story. But given the mysterious circumstances under which my character came into their new home, I’m curious to learn about their motives and means. Grave Seasons isn’t just a grim or slightly spooky take on farming: it’s also a mystery game. After working my new land, picking some chilis, cabbage, and tomatoes that Hari so neatly planted – and doing a little planting of my own, burying some carrot seeds my new friend offered as a welcoming gift – I did some exploring. To my shock, I found a severed hand and a bloodied ring amidst the weeds and garbage littering the far reaches of the property. I tugged at this new thread immediately, taking it to Hari to see what he had to say about it, rendering shock and horror from my musclebound, tutorial-dispensing neighbor. Nothing really came from this interaction, beyond that reaction, and the revelation that I could talk to Hari about other stuff, and even offer them a gift. Obviously, I’m sure there are opportunities to spend more time with them (or any character, as I met later) and figure out what he might actually want. But a half-hour demo isn’t exactly designed for that kind of long-game mindset. So I gave them the chocolate ice cream cone in my inventory as a sign of friendship (and maybe more). Unfortunately, he reacted to the frozen treat about as well as he did to the hand… I didn’t get another chance to try my hand (no pun intended) at offering them something else, but given Grave Seasons’ dark, slightly comedic tone, I’m curious to see what winds up tickling their fancy in the full game. Then I retreated to my shed, where I found a pickling and fermenting station a while earlier to put my chilis and cabbage to good use by making some kimchi. This highlighted one of my favorite parts of Grave Seasons. Although it’s decidedly horror-focused, Grave Seasons doesn’t skimp on the stuff that makes farming games great in the first place. With a diverse menu, well-realized in a sharp, pixelated art style, this demo made me hungry as I marveled at the pixel art of garlic, hummus, pickles, and salads. Kimchi in hand, I set back out to my house to find a new character sitting on the edge of the well in my yard. Pilar, a fashion designer with a passion for vintage clothing, greeted me with another warm welcome before telling me about their plans to forage for some rare herbs that night. After agreeing to explore my new home a bit, I tried talking to them more, again about the hand, getting another shocked response. I gave them my fresh kimchi to see what they thought about it, but just like Hari, no dice. Pilar and Hari's dialogue was consistently engaging, funny, and distinct in a way that conveyed loads of personality and life. Here was another favorite part of the demo: just talking to Pilar and Hari. Their dialogue was consistently engaging, funny, and distinct in a way that conveyed loads of personality and life. I would’ve sat there for the entire demo just gifting them every last radish, head of lettuce, and ********** in my inventory if I could. Based on the trailer and other materials Perfect Garbage has shared, I’m excited to see what other characters I get to meet. And I’m eager to watch them play out their roles in this mystery, which deepened at night. After cleaning up some trash, mining for some minerals and iron, watering my carrots, and putting some crops into storage to be sold, it was time to take a walk in the woods with Pilar. Upon walking into the gulley, something was immediately off. Then, a pair of bright red eyes opened behind them, claws emerging at Pilar’s ankles, illuminated by their lantern. In the blink of an eye, some kind of eldritch beast mangled Pilar. It took me about a minute to refix my dropped jaw after seeing that… I can’t believe how expressively gory Grave Seasons would get, or that they just killed off Pilar like that. That was the end of the demo, but it absolutely left me wanting more. Setting up a story that blends in all sorts of seemingly disparate threads like this – from small-town murders to bloodthirsty creatures beyond comprehension lurking in dark woods – created just the right kind of intrigue. I’m sure I’ll wind up investigating my now-dead friend’s witchy ways, make more friends (and enemies), and grow crops to make tasty food while doing it. I’ve had a lot of trouble sticking with most farming sims because they lacked a certain sense of intrigue; that hook to keep me looking forward to the next day for something other than fresh crops. This is exactly what the developers at Perfect Garbage are looking to remedy with Grave Seasons; I’m sure this first day was a condensed version of the kind of pacing we’ll see in the full release, but I love the balance of visual novel-like mystery with the more relaxing pace of farming gameplay, ensuring that fresh crops grow in time with the narrative and dramatic tension. Grave Seasons promises to inject something sinister into the farming sim genre with a compelling horror-mystery that seems on track to deliver personality, fright, and charm in spades. I’m interested to see and learn more about Grave Seasons’ community of charming townsfolk and the secrets lurking underneath Ashenridge’s small-town veneer when it ships on PC and consoles sometime next year. View the full article

If you wish to stress-test your Linux PC or your Steam Deck, it's now easier than ever thanks to OCCT. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

Developer Fallen Tree Games has announced a new major content update for its hit neon-noir police game, The Precinct, which will add a new solo mode and some fresh customization options for Officer Nick Cordell Jr. and his squad car of choice. Fans of The Precinctwill be able to download the update on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC for free later this week. View the full article

It's no secret I was immensely disappointed in Starfield. Many of the 1,000 planets in the Settled Systems are empty, and the sheer number of loading screens between them made exploration a total slog. In all my time with the game, I never truly felt like I was exploring a living universe. No Man's Sky, on the other hand, uses its seamless cosmos to incredible effect. I can land a ship anywhere on a planet, explore, and set off towards the stars with ease. Both Starfield and NMS have their strengths and weaknesses, of course, but what if they were combined? That's exactly what Jump Ship does. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Helldivers 2 challenger Jump Ship is one of the biggest Steam Next Fest winners New space game Jump Ship is the ideal alternative to Starfield and No Man's Sky Seamless new space game Jump Ship has already been wishlisted 700,000 times View the full article

Indie darling SteamWorld Dig is coming up on its 12th anniversary this August, but the metroidvania mining game is just as good as it was over a decade ago. If you're yet to add it to your library, now's the perfect time to do so, as SteamWorld Dig is free to keep on Steam - but not for long! You have until Thursday, June 26 to add SteamWorld Dig to your Steam library if you want to start your underground adventures in Tumbleton at no cost. Read the rest of the story... View the full article

Opinion | Silent Hill games have never been about a place, but about a feelingView the full article

The Rematch executive producer recently revealed in an interview that, despite the industry’s expectations for an online competitive game, he never considered a free-to-play sales model—he focused on making “a very good game.” The arcade‑style third‑person soccer game has been making waves since its June 19 release, and its producer has commented on certain aspects of Rematch and offered his perspective on what it takes to make a successful game. View the full article

NBA 2K25 Season 8 is almost here, and it will include some amazing rewards for the players to grind out in the MyPlayer and MyTeam modes. Being the penultimate season of the game's annual cycle, you can expect to see a few 99 and 100-rated cards and exciting cosmetic items. The actual rewards are yet to be revealed, but we know the release date and time of the upcoming season. Table of contentsNBA 2K25 Season 8 release countdownNBA 2K25 Season 8 Pass rewardsNBA 2K25 Season 8 release countdown The release date and time have been known for some time as part of Season 7's Pass end date. However, 2K has officially confirmed the exact details in the recent patch notes. The new season goes live on Friday, June 27, based on the available information. This is also the same time when the ongoing Season 7 Pass will be replaced by a new one containing a fresh track of rewards to unlock. Image by Destructoid The following countdown will end as the season goes live. Here are the applicable times for different time zones. [hurrytimer id="1082310"]8:00am PT10:00am CT11:00am ET3:00pm GMT Once again, NBA 2K is following the standard schedule for kicking off new seasons. NBA 2K25 Season 8 Pass rewards As of this writing, the exact rewards of the new pass haven't been revealed. We expect to have the information on Wednesday, June 25, followed by the full reveal when the season goes live on Friday. However, it's almost certain that the pass will have forty reward levels. All players are guaranteed up to 80 different rewards if they can max out the season. Those opting for the paid upgrade will be rewarded with 40 extra levels, including VC and much more. Once NBA 2K reveals more, we will update it on our guide. To unlock the rewards, you'll have to gain seasonal XP by playing in the MyPlayer and MyTeam modes. Playing in any one mode also works, as you unlock the rewards level-wise. If you unlock the level 1 reward for MyTeam, it will also grant you the corresponding item(s) for MyPlayer. The post NBA 2K25 Season 8 release countdown, Season Pass rewards, and more appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article