Super Rare Games Contest: Win Fairune Collection, and check out Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf

Another chance to win a SOLD OUT game! Since taking over the Community Manager role here at Dtoid, I feel like we’ve become the go-to place for readers to win free games. I’ve done absolutely no research into that claim, but hey, it’s nice to be able to say while hoping no one proves you wrong! What we do excel at is partnering with excellent publishers likeSuper Rare Games. They’ve just announced their newest limited release game,Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf....

May 27, 2025 · 4 min · 651 words · Andrew Pierce

Technoblade Never Dies as YouTuber gets fitting Minecraft Movie tribute

MinecraftYouTuber Technoblade has been honored in the upcoming Minecraft Movie, set to release worldwide on April 4, with a touching tribute easter egg. The reveal comes from fellow content creator Tommyinnit leaking the tribute before the premiere, along with images that are starting their rounds on social media and online, showing a lone pig with Technoblade’s famous crown walking around the village. Technoblade’sMinecraftskin was a royal pig with a crown, so the tribute is subtle and fitting....

May 27, 2025 · 2 min · 323 words · Elizabeth Morales

The Daily Hotness: Hamza isn’t here (8/27/08)

Yep, unlike my esteemed colleague (who has itever so tough) I wasn’t able to make it out to PAX this year (this video isn’t making me feel any better about it), and because I’m such a nice guy I offered to cover some of his columns. Now then, let’s get this not-nearly-as-fun-as-the-one-they’re-having-in-Seattle-right-now party started! Nick Chester is challenged to an arm wrestling contest,Castle Crashersis experiencing some technical difficulties, Dennis Dyack still hasn’t learned to shut his mouth, and plenty more happened at Destructoid today....

May 27, 2025 · 2 min · 327 words · Katie Shields

The Daily Hotness: The best laser tag on Earth

I’ve been spending the past few days at my brother’s apartment in Orlando, where he attends the University of Central Florida. He’s been showing me around town, taking me to the best pig-out joints and whatnot. Today, he took me toHard Knocks, the greatest laser tag establishment I’ve ever seen. You can select from a variety of weapons, including pistols, shotguns, sniper rifles, M16s, grenades, and more. There are arenas decorated to look like an office, a warehouse, and a house with a minivan....

May 27, 2025 · 2 min · 394 words · Dave Smith

The House in Fata Morgana is coming to Switch in English this week

Crack a (digital) book Visual novel fans hoping to take more of their libraries on the go are getting a new one this week. ANintendo eShop listingshows thatThe House in Fata Morgana: Drams of the Revenants Editionis hitting the Switch eShop in North America on June 21, 2025. The eShop listing popped up sometime recently, asnoted by a few sharp observers. We reached out to publisher Limited Run Games for confirmation and a spokesperson confirmed that yes, it will be released digitally this Friday....

May 27, 2025 · 2 min · 257 words · Tammy Mitchell

The Outer Worlds is due in 2020 on Switch

No window yet Before this past weekend we knew thatOuter Worldswas coming to Switch at some point, but now we have a more definitive release window due to a launch press release (thanks to my colleague that pointed this out!). Here’s the line in full: “After much anticipation, Private Division and Obsidian Entertainment’sThe Outer Worldsis now available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC (and will be coming to Nintendo Switch in 2020)....

May 27, 2025 · 1 min · 201 words · Angela Mahoney

The weirdly late PS4 version of Zombies Ate My Neighbors (and Ghoul Patrol) is finally out

It’s a less-than-ideal port but hey, it’s still Zombies Ate My Neighbors on modern platforms Every so often, there’s a last-minute issue that holds up a game’s launch on a specific platform, and fans are left hanging when there aren’t any clear answers from the publisher about a new timeline. One recent example:Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Ghoul Patrol. Four months later, it’s now possible to play this two-game collection on PS4....

May 27, 2025 · 2 min · 331 words · Mrs. Rebecca Quinn

This Smash Ultimate mock-up once again proves that everything looks great on the Game Boy Color

I’d play it Man I adore the pre-DS Game Boy era. I mean the DS and 3DS were giants in their own right (and the latter is one of my most-played systems of all time), but there was something special about the compact, post original Game Boy designs that I loved. Don’t even get me started on how perfect the SP is. It’s that love that led me to this video from Nintendo Wire, which recreates the opening cinematic forSuper Smash Bros....

May 27, 2025 · 1 min · 145 words · Benjamin Richmond

Welp, Cassie Cage has a jaw-dropping (hah) selfie fatality in Mortal Kombat X

Gross God damn millennials and theirsocial media. Just last week a police officer was telling me how social media is incredibly helpful in solving local crimes (muggings, burglaries). What the hell do kids think they’re doing playingBatmanwhen they should be working at stagnant minimum wage to pay for exponentially increased loans? Time to grow up, throw away the picture books, and go work in the salt mine like the rest of us....

May 27, 2025 · 1 min · 118 words · Jonathan Gentry MD

Who is the Nightsong, Dame Aylin in Baldur’s Gate 3?

In the second act ofBaldur’s Gate 3, should you insist on killing Ketheric Thorm, you will need to complete Shar’s Gauntlet, a massive dungeon resting beneaththe Thorm Mausoleum. In this dungeon is a necromancer named Balthazar, who is seeking the enigmatic Nightsong. It’s not all too clear who or what the Nightsong is until the end of Shar’s Gauntlet, but we are told that it’s the only thing keeping Ketheric immortal — so, if we’re going to kill him, we need to deal with this mysterious Nightsong....

May 27, 2025 · 2 min · 369 words · Denise Cherry

Wonderful 101 Remastered is getting a special Bayonetta-themed demo, with no new news on Bayonetta 3

It’s out today! Bayonetta 3is still a mystery, but today, we’re getting a little more Bayonetta in our lives. Platinum has announced that the demo forWonderful 101 Remasteredis out today, and it comes with a special tweak that allows folks to play as Wonder-Bayonetta from the start. The demo is available on PC, PS4, and Switch: the same platforms as the current remaster. In case you’re wondering, it does allow save transferring from the demo to the full game....

May 27, 2025 · 1 min · 194 words · Sharon Roberson

Work-in-progress DayZ standalone screenshots show indoors

Pardon the lack of blood and guts And here I was, thinking we’d be stuck reusing that same old piece of art that came out alongside the announcement of thestandaloneDayZgame. Not so! Creator Dean Hall has posted a batch of unfinished screenshots on the development blog. Hall notes that these images are showing only basic texture work and initial lighting passes and were taken at Normal graphic settings. Even if these are only medium-resolution textures, seeing fleshed-out building interiors is a nice sight in a place like Chernarus....

May 27, 2025 · 1 min · 102 words · Jonathon Rhodes

Xbox Live Games with Gold doesn’t put its best foot forward to welcome Xbox Series X

PlayStation wins this round There’s an inevitable comparison between every month’s PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold games. Sometimes it’s a knock-down drag-out war, as it’s tough to declare a definitive winner. This month, it’s a massacre. Yesterday, Sony revealedBugsnax,Hollow Knight, andMiddle-earth: Shadow of Waras the three PS Plus games that will welcome the PS5’s arrival. Today, Xbox announced its Games with Gold, and none of the four freebies live up to any single game in PlayStation’s lineup....

May 27, 2025 · 1 min · 185 words · Craig Clark