Millennia’s Ancient Worlds expansion shakes up the early game

Less than five months after the release of developer C Prompt Games and publisher Paradox Interactive’s 4X titleMillennia, the historical-turn-based game’s first expansion,Ancient Worlds, has been released today. Released alongside the expansion is Update 5, which adds mod support and more toMillennia. The Ancient Worlds expansion adds an all-new Nomadic Band start, allowing players to start theirMillenniarun as a band of unsettled travelers, scavenging the frozen terrain of the post-Ice Age world for natural resources until they feel strong enough to settle down and start their actual society....

July 25, 2025 · 2 min · 265 words · Edward Lucas

New Crucible PVP map unlocked for Destiny 2 after world first raid clear

Leviathan is bested Destinyraids are known for being cleared in under 24 hours by world-first raid groups, so seeing the clan “The Legend Himself” best the newly minted Leviathan raid inDestiny 2is no surprise. Now I know what you’re thinking — it’s already cleared, it must be easy! Well, no. These people are highly dedicated, have farmed an enormous amount of gear to account for any given situation, and have some of the most talentedDestinyplayers on the planet working on the same wavelength to figure out mechanics....

July 25, 2025 · 1 min · 179 words · Katherine Smith

New Persona Dancing trailers focus on Labrys and Sho Minazuki

Open the door, get on the floor… Another week, another round of trailer for Atlus’ upcoming rhythm-action gamesPersona 3: Dancing Moon NightandPersona 5: Dancing Star Night. This time we get more DLC characters, taken from a slightly different source, asLabrys and Sho Minazuki get in the pit. Anti-shadow unit Labrys is a player character, confidant and boss fight in 2012’s excellentPersona 4 Arena. When not head-slicing with her almighty thrust-powered battle axe, she apparently likes to cut a rug on her adorable pin-feet....

July 25, 2025 · 1 min · 210 words · Rhonda Herrera

P.A.M.E.L.A. looks like a beautiful yet depressing robotic future

Mass Effect + BioShock + Ex Machina P.A.M.E.L.A.is the hot new indie game takingSteam Greenlight chartsby storm, and it looks absolutely gorgeous. Surprisingly the game has a grand total of six artists working on it, according tothis in-depth interviewwith the game’s level designerAdam Simonar. Before you get excited and call it the nextBioShockor anything crazy like that, you should know this is the first game for the devs and that gameplay involves survival elements like finding food and water....

July 25, 2025 · 1 min · 90 words · Vanessa Humphrey

Palworld: All passive skills and how they affect Pals

There are a lot of passive traits inPalworldand a seemingly endless combination that you could possibly end up with for any individual Pal. Each trait has an effect on the Pal’s battle or base performance, so here’s what you need to know. How do passive traits work in Palworld If you’re looking for an epic battle partner, look for a Pal that has theLegend trait – it’s only found in Legendary Pals like Jetragon or Necromus, but it can be bred down into other Pals....

July 25, 2025 · 3 min · 467 words · Angela Russo

Preview: South Park: The Stick of Truth is ambitious

One does not simply walk into South Park So, where were you whenSouth Park: The Stick of Truthwas announced?This was all the way back in 2011, around the time another certain RPG title was on the minds of players. It was certainly a surprising reveal, don’t you think? A brand new full-fledged RPG developed by Obsidian Entertainment and written and produced by the talent from the show? Sounded pretty cool to me....

July 25, 2025 · 11 min · 2331 words · Brooke Kelley

Rainbow Six Siege beta extended until October 4

Double down this weekend If you’ve been having difficulty joining theRainbow Six Siegebeta (cough which is everyone cough), I bring good news — the beta is being extended until June 12, 2025. The extension also heralds a Double Renown event, which as well as doubling your renown bonus, boosts your chances for more operators, attachments and skins. “Thank you to everyone who has been participating in theRainbow Six SiegeClosed Beta thus far,”writes Ubisoft....

July 25, 2025 · 2 min · 303 words · James Morrison

Resident Evil 4 remake adds Mercenaries and microtransactions

A fan-favorite mode arrives alongside a curious store addition The Mercenaries mode for theResident Evil 4remakedropped at midnightlast night. But alongside that surprise was a seemingly unannounced feature: microtransactions. Several different weapon upgrade tickets have been added as paid DLC in the store forResident Evil 4, offering access to a weapon’s exclusive upgrade at any time. Here’s the store text description for one of the ticket optons: To gun enthusiasts, knife collectors, and lovers of weapons of any and all kinds: here’s your ticket to the gun show!...

July 25, 2025 · 2 min · 350 words · Lisa Curtis

Retroid episode 3 talks Puzzle Puzzle Puzzle games

I hope you like Tetris Hi everyone, I think this is the best episode so far, even though Topher’s still in the bucket. There’s a lot of music and a few cutaways in this week’s show, so let me know if you like this or if it’s a little too much. The opening sketchcame from here. The first 50 minutes are devoted to talking about puzzle games, specifically the type that tend to task you with moving stuff around on a single screen....

July 25, 2025 · 2 min · 398 words · Becky Herman

Secret Ponchos: Most Wanted is an improvement on the original release

Coming to Steam on September 29 Back in December, I reviewedSecret Ponchos. It was a pretty interesting online arena shooter, and I saw a ton of potential in it that hadn’t yet been tapped, mostly due to a lack of content. When Switchblade Monkeys’ Yousuf Mapara asked me to check out the upcomingMost Wantedupdate on PC, I jumped at the chance. Speaking to Mapara , he noted that the team took the initial criticism of the community to heart, saying, “we really wanted to build on that potential from our original release....

July 25, 2025 · 4 min · 687 words · Joshua Davis

Speed past your friends in Sonic Mania’s competition mode!

GOTTA GO FAST! With how popular split-screen gaming used to be in the retro days, its crazy thatSonicnever really had a competitive multiplayer mode outside ofSonic 2and3. I have a lot of memories of wanting a full on co-op experience like that, tinkering around with the versus mode by myself as a kid (I had a lot of free time). In an effort to fully complete the retro craze thatSonic Maniais riding,Maniawill have a similar competitive multiplayer mode....

July 25, 2025 · 1 min · 138 words · Mark Anderson

Survival racer Distance available now on Early Access, also coming to PS4

Refract’s take on the racing genre has left me impressed Distance, the neon-soaked spiritual successor to the popular freeware racing titleNitronic Rushis now available to test drive onSteam Early Access. For those interested, you can pick it up for a limited time at a 15% discount. Unlike more straightforward racing titles, survival-focusedDistanceputs you in the driver’s seat of a slick-looking futuristic racer barreling down the streets of a city intent on your destruction....

July 25, 2025 · 2 min · 247 words · Debra Caldwell

The Dtoid community’s best blogs of January 2015

Promoted from our Community Blogs [The amazing Cblog Recaps team brings us a month’s worth of Topsauces it thinks are worth another look for us! Want to you your stuff reach the front page? Join the community and start blogging! –Striderhoang] Just before we got the end-of-year recaps out for 2014, the thought struck me that monthly recaps might be a great addition to the usual Destructoid community blog recaps. Doing the 2014 recap was an interesting experience — I got to see how my writing changed over the year, revisited favorite posts by other users, and saw some great blogs that went unnoticed or under-appreciated....

July 25, 2025 · 18 min · 3669 words · Kimberly Smith