The rumors were true Followinglayoffs and restructuring at IGN, The IGN Pro League 6 has been canceled. The competitive gaming event was originally set to take place in Las Vegas from March 28-31. In an official statement, IGN said: “When we launched IPL two years ago, the eSports landscape was very different with far fewer events than we have now. Now there are more tournaments than ever before competing for people’s time and attention, so we’re no longer in a position to commit the resources required to run another major independent event....

Quiplash is on Kickstarter this week Jackbox Games has been busy. In addition to reviving theYou Don’t Know Jackfranchise for modern consoles, it’s also built an intriguing online infrastructure from the ground up. As an innovative way to solve the “controller problem” for fairly new platforms, Xbox One and PS4 owners can use their mobile devices (or anything that has internet access) to tap in and play with seven other people....

Two bits of news, the first of which is that there’s a demo forGreen Day: Rock Bandavailable now on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace. I looked for it on my console and I couldn’t find it, but you can queue it uponline right here. It features full offline band play (including harmonies) and two songs, “Welcome to Paradise” and “Boulevard of Broken Dreams.” That’s cool and all, but I suppose the bigger news bomb comes when you select “exit” on the game demo....

The latest expansion forThe Sims 4,Enchanted by Nature, has been enchanting its characters a bit unnaturally in the process. And it’s not the first time this has happened. The error is making Sims pregnant, whether or not they participated in a steamy “Woo-Hoo” session, and it’s affecting just about everybody. That’s right, even male and child Sims are being hit with the pregnancy bug. The bug could be written off as silliness if not for the fact that Sims are unable to age while pregnant, which is a bit of an issue if you have a youngster and are looking to age them up through gameplay....

Fingers crossed it can sustain Let it Dieis one of those games I want to see continue doing what it’s doing. Aside from Twitter clips and occasional forum mentions, I haven’t seen all that much conversation surrounding Grasshopper Manufacture’s hack-and-slash survival title. It seems to be resonating, though — it’s garnered one million downloads in North America and Europe since August 06, 2025, according to GungHo. This is a free-to-play release, of course, but given how niche and challenging the action-survival game can be at times, that’s reassuring to hear....

Silly Superlatives [Luca Blight’s game awards for 2016 are just like the ones you might see on TV – except his program is actually funny, and it doesn’t feature a cringe-inducing Ubisoft presentation. For that alone it’s worth a read! Do you agree with Luca? Disagree? Write your own blog and you could see it featured on Destructoid’s main page! – Wes] IT’S YOUR BOY GUZMA…or Luca Blight if you wish....

Crash Bandicoot ready for one more round Insomniac Games’ PS4 releaseSpider-Manremains the number one game in the UK Charts, making it now three weeks running for New York’s favourite web-slinger, who has already broken records as the fastest selling Marvel game of all-time and the fastest-selling PS4 exclusive in 2018, even conquering the mightyGod of War. Despite reports of poor sales, adventurer Lara Croft was at least able to maintain second place for her recent jungle adventure,Shadow of the Tomb Raider....

Gameplay showing abandoned alternate camera set-up shown during panel One of the great joys of attending GDC is going to panels conducted by developers talking about your favorite games. Not only will you learn new and exciting details about the development, but you might even see something that you would not expect. During a postmortem panel forAlien: Isolation, creative lead Alistair Hope talked about the title’s former life as a third-person survival horror game....

Available through a Japanese trading card game Fire Emblem: Awakening‘s success saved it from being thelast in the seriesand Nintendo seems to be trying real hard to capitalize on it. The upcoming 3DS turn-based strategy —Fire Emblem Ifin Japan, where it releases in June — hastwo separate versionsand athird storyline coming as DLC. The next entry will also feature DLC characters, according to a recentlivestreamcovered bySerenes Forest, tied to the release of aFire Emblemtrading card game set to launch in Japan alongside the 3DS game....

Tuning out It’s with a heavy heart that I must tell you that the Wii U’s strange television guide Nintendo TVii isshutting down on August 11, an announcement that is sure to sadden dozens around the globe. The service began on the heels of the Wii U launch, positioning the system’s GamePad as a second screen TV guide that let users browse for content across cable, satellite, and on-demand services....

Super Mario 64, Kirby 64, Majora’s Mask, and N64 hardware N64 avatars are rolling out to Switch Online + Expansion Pack members,according to a tweet from Nintendothis week. Here are the N64 avatars that will be rolling out starting now: As of today, the rotation includes all of the above games in some capacity (though the hardware selection only involves three total images), so grab them while you can. These will be updated on a weekly basis according to the tweet, running through December 6: when the promotion ends....

“[It] was a nonstarter” In case you missed it, former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime just launched his new book, andthere’s a bunch of info coming outin regards to his time at the company.As VGC points out, one interesting tale involves the fabled Game Boy Micro. If you missed it in 2005, the Micro was one of Nintendo’s oddball handheld releases that offered up a tiny Game Boy Advance for $99....

Nintendo of America boss and minestrone marvel Reggie Fils-Aime is confident that a 3D-infused PS3 and slimmer Xbox 360 will be unable to approach his own little white box of waggle. In fact, the confident executive believes the Wii will widen that sales gap even more. The consumer today can get a Wii configuration that has two fantastic pieces of software and a Wii Motion Plus for $199, and the consumer is responding....