How to fix broken windows in Project Zomboid

Broken windows are a bummer in the real world, but also inProject Zomboid. For obvious reasons, of course, as they give the undead hordes a handy ingress point into your cozy hideout. Thankfully, the game gives you multiple ways of repairing broken windows, and I’ve explained them down below. Project Zomboidis a fairly arcane and obtuse experience for total newcomers. Its many,manydifferent gameplay mechanics, loops, and features are hardly ever explained, and broken windows don’t really get any time in the limelight of the short tutorial....

August 5, 2025 · 2 min · 363 words · Wanda Solomon

How to save and get Saviour Schnapps in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

InKingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Saviour Schnapps is one of the most important consumables in the whole game. Thankfully, you’re able to craft your own Saviour Schnapps. Here is how to get and use the Saviour Schnapps consumables inKingdom Come: Deliverance 2. What does Saviour Schnapps do? InKingdom Come: Deliverance 2, consuming Saviour Schnapps is how you save the game. While you can “quick save” at any time by going into the menu and choosing to save and exit, this is only meant to serve as an option if you are simply looking to exit the game....

August 5, 2025 · 2 min · 426 words · Samuel Herring

In Xenoblade Chronicles 3, always make sure you’re swapping classes

As soon as you unlock a class, use it Xenoblade Chronicles 3classesare highly customizable, as you may mix and match abilities from other classes into one synergized player-crafted build. That said, you need to unlock the ability to use a class with everyone in your party. Here’s how to make sense of the system. [No major story spoilers will be discussed in this article.] After meeting a new party member, you’ll inherently unlock a new class So this is actually important to understand....

August 5, 2025 · 3 min · 453 words · William Jensen

Introversion shelves Subversion, announces new project

PC Gamers have been eagerly awaiting the next game from Introversion Software, makers ofDEFCOM,Uplink, andDarwinia, for five years now. Titled “Subversion,” the studio’s next project was a heist game, where players controlled a team of specialists in trying to rob a target. Well it looks like we won’t be seeing that game anytime soon, as Introversion hasannounced the postponementofSubversion. However, there is some good news as well; Introversion is submitting a game to the Independent Games Festival for 2012, a wholly new title which we don’t have any info about....

August 5, 2025 · 1 min · 191 words · Karen Rice

Killzone: Shadow Fall is a 50GB download

Thankfully there’s Play as you Download Sony UK’s Fergal Gara sat down with Eurogamer to discuss all things PlayStation 4 where it was revealed that Killzone: Shadow Fall is coming in at nearly 50GB. Specifically Gara was talking about the PlayStation Network and growing demand of downloadable games. “First of all, it is definitely going to grow as a means of consumption. And there are big innovations in the PS4 to make it more attractive and more easy gamer wise to want to download....

August 5, 2025 · 1 min · 199 words · Robert Blackburn

Larian shares an update on Baldur’s Gate 3 Xbox Series S optimization

The Xbox console versions ofBaldur’s Gate 3are on their way. And it looks like the optimizations made for the Xbox Series S version ofBG3may have some benefits for other platforms, too. Larian Studios head Swen Vinckeshared a look at some graphsfor the upcoming port ofBaldur’s Gate 3. Notably, the graphs highlight how the optimizations being made are addressing an overallBaldur’s Gate 3speedbump: memory. “Ensuring memory is well under control and having buffer for peaks was the main thing holding us back I think this will benefit all platforms too,” Vincke writes....

August 5, 2025 · 2 min · 306 words · Natalie Ellis

Link Between Worlds adapted to 2DS, 3D still encouraged

Nice try! According toLegend of Zeldaseries producer Eiji Aonuma, speaking toGameSpot, the team developingA Link Between Worldswas not aware that Nintendo would be releasing the2DSuntil after development started. This posed a problem asA Link Between Worldsused 3D heavily. So, some changes were made to accommodate the 2DS. “It’s not that you can’t play it with 2D, it’s just that it becomes clearer when you have the 3D effect on,” Aonuma explained....

August 5, 2025 · 2 min · 281 words · Scott Reed

Log into GTA Online for free money this week

And then spend it all in an instant Throughout the week, Rockstar is handing out free fun bucks inGrand Theft Auto Online. All you have to do is show up, sign in, and wait for your payout.It’s money for (next to) nothing! The first time you log in, you’ll earn yourself $250,000, followed by another $150,000 for each additional day you sign into the game through Monday, May 14. All told, you can pull in an easy $1 million in GTA Online cash....

August 5, 2025 · 1 min · 163 words · Erin Bird

Magicka 2 is running a ‘sneak peek’ build from now until May 10

You’ll have to pre-order If you pre-orderMagicka 2, starting today until May 10 you’ll have the chance to access the “Sneak Peek” build of the game. In it, you can access the prologue chapter, the first mission of the campaign, and “The Festival,” which functions as a score-attack based challenge map of sorts. If you opt-in, you’ll also get three codes to give to your friends. I’ve never been that big on theMagickaseries in general, but Paradox has built up quite the fanbase since launching it back in 2011....

August 5, 2025 · 1 min · 89 words · Catherine Richardson

Max and I suck at Advanced Warfare, but that never stops us from doing anything

Ladies… Max and I got our hands on a copy ofCall of Duty: Advanced Warfare. We figured we should probably play it because people like to watch men get sweaty in videogames or whatever. Anyway, we recorded this the day after Max’s birthday, so we were both pretty hungover, which served to exacerbate our lack of shooter skill and the incoherence of our jokes. Enjoy.

August 5, 2025 · 1 min · 65 words · Tracy Noble

Microsoft wants to make it possible to buy Xbox 360 games directly on Xbox One

Nice As I’ve said many times, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 backward compatibility feature on Xbox One is pretty awesome. It’s been very smooth so far, with one caveat — you need to purchase Xbox 360 titles online, or on the actual 360 marketplace. Right now, you can’t actually buy legacy content on the Xbox One. Given how well Microsoft’s online storefront works it’s not that big of a deal, but it would be nice to see one day....

August 5, 2025 · 1 min · 134 words · Michael Nelson

Nintendo is going to sell Pokemon Sword and Shield ‘complete editions’ for $90 each

Game + expansion pass As you know by now, first-party Nintendo games rarely go down in value in the first few years of their existence. The same can be said aboutPokemon SwordandShield, which is still rolling with a $60 MSRP. It looks like the upcoming “complete editions” are going to be using that same tactic. In case you missed it, The Pokemon Company announced recently that there was going to be a physical bundle for bothSwordandShieldthat also packed intheir accompanying season pass....

August 5, 2025 · 1 min · 199 words · Pamela Dougherty

Office Chat: Revengeance wins best made-up word

Obviously, we at Destructoid were all forced to watch the2011 Spike Video Game Awardsshow this weekend. Shackled to our computers, driven by cruel taskmasters, we had no option but to witness it. In this casual chat fromour virtual office, I’m joined by Jim Sterling and Jordan Devore as we discuss the potential negative impact of this yearly event. Other topics include our thoughts on whereMetal Gearis going now thatRevengeanceis in the hands of those charming whack jobs over at Platinum Games and we touch briefly on the perils of e-mail communication in this business....

August 5, 2025 · 1 min · 94 words · Veronica Dunn