Starfield The Duel quest guide: All choices and consequences

While themain questline ofStarfield’s Shattered SpaceDLCwill take up most of your time, there are plenty of side quests for you to check out and give a go at. They’re not too tough to find, provided you’re looking for them. One such quest isdifficult to misssince you’ll almost certainly pass by where it is while completing the main questline. Here’s a full guide on The Duel quest inStarfield, including all choices and consequences....

July 23, 2025 · 3 min · 636 words · Michael Jordan

Team Fortress 2sdays: Come be sad that you weren’t at PAX

Every Tuesday a bunch of us Dtoiders get together and hop online to play some Team Fortress 2 on theofficial Destructoid server! You should join us! PAX East happened this past weekend, and I wasn’t lucky enough to be there. Everyone who attended said they had a great time. Naturally, this both makes me jealous and breaks my heart. But my loss is your gain! This week we can all get together and cry on each other’s shoulders (read: shoot each other in the ass) all night long with a host of new maps....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 156 words · Thomas Ramirez

The Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 update has completely changed the way I see every island

It’s a whole new world BothAnimal Crossing: New HorizonsVer. 2.0 and theHappy Home ParadiseDLC are live now. There’s a veritable smorgasbord of new content to get through, from designing homes for other villagers to sprucing up my own. But one of my favorite updates isn’t necessarily part of the content itself, but a new way of seeingAnimal Crossingthrough the new Pro Camera. The Pro Camera upgrade, which you may pick up at the Nook Miles machine in the Town Center, adds a few new options to your phone’s Camera app....

July 23, 2025 · 3 min · 539 words · Kevin Conley

The circle is now complete: the Star Wars lightsaber stylus collection

Officially licensed by Lucasarts and Nintendo, the Star Wars lightsaber stylus is an excellent way to represent your love of all things from that galaxy far far away. They come in two sizes and color sets, one small three pack with a red, green and blue sabers which retail for $8 and a larger two pack of green and red which retail for $17. The latter set actually lights up, which ought to amp up your nerd factor big time....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 154 words · Veronica Gillespie

The DTOID Show: THQ Bankruptcy, SimCity DRM & The War Z

Hey guys, in spite of this being the second-to-last Destructoid Show of 2012, there’s still news. And it’s all crappy news. Gross! Okay, so there was this big crapstorm overThe War Z,and as a result, it’sno longer available on Steam.THQ hasfiled for chapter 11 bankruptcy, which is crappy, but we all sort of saw it coming.SimCity, in addition to having always-on DRM, also seems to have cloud-only saving. So like, no offline saves....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 80 words · Rebecca Hoffman

The Metal Gear Legacy Collection isn’t on 360 due to MGS4

It would take seven DVDs to put Metal Gear Solid 4 on the 360 TheMetal Gear Solid: Legacy Collectionis all set for a 2013 release later this yearon two Blu-Ray discs— for the PlayStation 3 that is. When asked why there wouldn’t be a 360 version on his radio show, series creator Hideo Kojima shed some light on the subject, stating, “I’m sorry to say an Xbox 360 version isn’t being released, because an Xbox 360 version ofMGS4hasn’t gone on sale....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 246 words · Holly Simpson PhD

The Super Mario RPG remake will let you swap back to the OG soundtrack

After the Japanese Nintendo Direct, Nintendoupdated the webpagefor theSuper Mario RPGremake. A few new details were revealed, including the fact that you may swap the soundtrack between the remastered and Super Nintendo versions. There are few game soundtracks that are as indelibly etched on the caverns of my ears as the one forSuper Mario RPG. It’s a bizarre and unique mix that sounds nothing like Koji Kondo’s more iconic tunes from previousMariogames....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 233 words · Susan Ellis

This Skyrim mod turns the Forsworn into ass-kicking ninjas

According to scientific theories, such as those inPopular Mechanics, it’s estimated that the last particle in the known universe will decay after 10²⁰⁰ years (a long time, basically). However, I reckon people will still be moddingSkyrim. You just can’t stop the unbridled tenacity of gamers. Here’s one more for all you hip cats to add to yourTES5loadout. Remember when ninjas were all the rage in pop culture? Well, Nexus Mods userQ10isarobotis bringing them toSkyrim....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 260 words · Jamie Luna

Ubisoft seems to have put Steep’s Switch port on ice

BAIL! Last August, Ubisoft had promised that its open-world snow sporting gameSteepwas still skiing on over to the Nintendo Switch. In the last year, we haven’t heard much about any optimization or even been given a vague release date. That may be for a good reason, as it seems Ubisoft has pulled the plug onSteep’sSwitch port. As discoveredby Nintendo Life, a user on Twitter had questioned Ubisoft about progress on the Switch port, to which Ubisoft announced it had “made the decision to stop development on the Nintendo Switch platform”....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 205 words · Christy Jones

Warzone Season 4 patch notes: Increased player count, Tac-Sprint Boots, KAR-98K

Raven Software listened to community feedback and made a perk permanent, and showed some love to Urzikstan after ignoring the large-scale map for two consecutive seasonal updates. Ahead of the upcoming Season 4 update on May 29,fear started seeping infor a segment of theWarzoneplayer base that Ranked Play would not be added to Urzikstan. Those worries turned out to be justified, as the devs ignored traditional battle royale and brought Ranked Resurgence back for a third straight season....

July 23, 2025 · 4 min · 655 words · Andrea Vasquez

We have a suspicion that this is not Dead Rising 2 footage

I don’t know. Something just feels off here about these two videos. I mean, I want to believe they’re real.Dead Risingwas too great of a game not to have a sequel. And these look legit, right? I mean, they’re a step up graphically, aren’t they? Okay, we’ll just throw caution to the wind and believe in this wholeheartedly. Confirmed: hot drill-to-face action inDead Rising 2: Dead Reckoning, according to the second video after the jump....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 121 words · Jennifer Kelly

Weekend deals: $17 Dishonored 2 and Mafia III plus cheap used console games

Deals to smile about For those still equipped with a functioning wallet after Steam’s Summer Sale, you may now plunder the savings once again with GMG’s giant, 1,600 title strong PC games Summer Sale. It comes complete with 12-hour flash sales that PC gamers may be used to seeing in the past, plus added bonus of a free game and discount code with every purchase of a flash sale deal....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 261 words · Sherri Turner

What is Bungie Aerospace?

Trademarks! They usually tell us absolutely nothing and give us just a random name for something that may never see the light of day. In the case of Bungie’slatest trademarkthe former is true, the latter probably not. Bungie has trademarked Bungie Aerospace, and while the trademark filing tells us absolutely nothing, this seems to be something big from the company. It’s unclear if Aerospace is a game or something else as the trademark pretty much says it applies to almost every aspect of gaming ever....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 194 words · Michael Hernandez