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… but he still liked it. Everyone who knew how beloved the originalDeus Exwas also knew thatHuman Revolutionhad a lot to live up to. As a huge fan of the first game, I thoughtDE:HRwas flawed but still really enjoyable. Looks like Warren Spector, lead designer ofDeus Ex, thought so too. “It was one of the few games I finished,” he said to GamesIndustry.biz, “and I know the guys on the team and I know how dedicated they were and how respectful of the original they were; their hearts were in the right place and they did a wonderful job....

We’ll have an all new preview ofDonkey Kong Country Returnslater today, but we couldn’t wait to show you this… it’s Rambi! Nintendo has revealed that one of Donkey and Diddy Kong’s animal friends that made an appearance in2006’s1994’s[Editor’s note: “2006”? Really? Derp.]Super Nintendo titleDonkey Kong Country will make his return in, uh,Donkey Kong Countryreturns. Rambi the Rhinoceros was spotted on the official box art for the game, and has been featured in damn-near every Donkey Kong game since the originalCountry....

Including Doom God Hand. You’ve played it right? Otherwise known as Clover’s (RIP) best game (which is hard to do when you madeViewtiful JoeandOkami), it’s pretty much the quintessential brawler. It had it all — customization, a deep combat system with a scaling difficulty mechanic, amazing characters that should be brought back as soon as possible, and poison chihuahua races. But thisDoommod manages to mix inGod Hand‘s madness by placing the protagonist Gene into the fray — allowing for a more beat-’em-up feel....

For PS4 and Vita Some more regular Destructoid users may have already noticed this by now, but I’m somewhat of a fan of theFateseries and many of the spin-off titles associated with it. Naturally, that also means that I find myself interested in the upcomingMusou-like game,Fate/EXTELLA: The Umbral Starfor the PlayStation 4 and Vita. Marvelous Europe has recently announced thatFate/EXTELLAis heading to Europe and Australia in both physical and digital forms in the winter of 2016....

Dwayne Johnson is in every movie The summer blockbuster season is nigh, and as always that means Flixist is delighted to bring unto you our summer movie preview. This isn’t a comprehensive list of every film coming out, it’s just a list of movies we wanted to write about for one reason or another. Maybe we’re excited for them or maybe we wanted to mock them or maybe we just fell asleep at the keyboard and tiny elves wrote this for us....

Special correspondent, indeed Jack Tretton might not be presenting on one of E3’s largest stages anymore, but that doesn’t mean he can stay away from the show. The former President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America will be lending an analytical eye regarding his thoughts on the press conferences. Not just PlayStation’s presser, mind you —all of them. As reported byKotaku, Tretton will serve as a “special correspondent” to Geoff Keighley on Spike TV’s June 9 coverage of E3....

Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy Countyis the third, and apparently final, entry in the belovedFrog Detectiveseries. A fancy new trailer has been released that’s sporting a scheduled 2021 release date too, so the wait won’t be that long! For this outing, our hero will be teaming up with the wonderfully obtuse Lobster Cop to solve a case involving a county that has no sheriff. Thedescription on steam states“But not all is as it seems here, when a surprisingly simple solution to the case reveals a sinister scheme....

New releases top the charts Before a tsunami comes ashore, water recedes back into the ocean to feed the coming wave. If Japanese consumers are shoreline water, then they are pulling back as all console sales have dropped a significant amount from last week, many having dropped to less than half what they sold last week. The likely cause? Nintendo Switch pre-orders go live on January 21. Not just consoles, but games have also had a significant drop this week....

This past weekend was rough Online games are known for bumpy launches, andGears 5was no exception. Although it mayseemlikeGears 5officially launched last week, it kind of didn’t. Only theUltimate Editionwent live on September 6, with the full game arriving today. The thing is folks were expecting stability during that soft launch, and were met with connection issues that impacted both multiplayer and the campaign. As an apology, developer Coalition is giving folks five days of XP boosts and 600 scrap (which is used to craft items)....

Very odd, never a job Screencheathas fared very well on non-Nintendo systems since it was first released in 2014, but now that it’s on the Switch, it feels truly at home. Four-player competitive gaming really came into its own on consoles with the N64, thanks to the likes ofMario Kart, Smash Bros. andGoldenEye.Screencheatcaries forward the legacy of the latter in a very specific way. All of the players are invisible, so the only way to locate someone to shoot them is to sneak a peek at their screen, using that visual information as context before you aim and fire....

The tech-savvy among you have no doubt engaged in a “Google+ versus Facebook” debate already (G+ wins, by the way), but the fight looks set to get a bit more real — Google+ is getting its own gaming stream, allowing it to challenge Facebook’s one and only lasting advantage. Google+ Games was discovered on Google’shelp page, where reference was made to a previously unannounced “Games stream.” After digging around in G+’s source code, more references to the game section were found, including an official logo....

Also, some thoughts on the base game and the Xbox One port My initial reaction when I first fired upArmello, a digital board game produced by Melbourne-based indie studio League of Geeks, was that of wonder. Despite not being visually intensive from a technical standpoint, the art style, presentation, and character designs were all highly pleasing from an aesthetic one. Up until just a few days ago, I’d never had the chance to playArmellobefore....

Your new resident gamer girl Hi Destructoid, it’s nice to meet you! I’m Ashley, and I’ll be helming a new column focusing on women and games here on the site. I’ve been working as a full-time freelance writer for the past year, and before that, I was studying brains and language in college (I am a baby). In college, I was involved in my beloved student newspaper, the Campus Times, for all four years until I graduated....