Alien Make-Out Simulator demands your passion

Hardcore lip locking technique required What do AAA videogame developers do in their off time? If you’reDawn Riversof Harmonix, you make more videogames. Specifically, you makea videogame for the Oculus Riftwhere you kiss a multi-mouthed alien until it either enters a world of romantic bliss or rejects you outright for your lacking mouth skills. Obviously. The current build of the game isavailable for free right nowover on itch. Being the backseat developer that I am, I couldn’t help but suggest to Dawn that they add multiple aliens, aHow Stella Got Her Grove Back-inspired story about reclaiming your sense of romantic empowerment, and cold sores....

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · 116 words · Michael Wood

All Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 actors

TheCall of Duty Modern Warfare 3actors list is quite impressive. It includes cast members fromLoki, Color Out of Space,andShadow and Bone,just to name a few noteworthy TV series and movies. Hopefully, their talents aren’t put to waste in the military shooter. Here are all of theCall of Duty Modern Warfare 3actors we currently know. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3actors list Right now, we know of five ast members who voice roles inCall of Duty Modern Warfare 3....

August 1, 2025 · 2 min · 228 words · Lindsey Frazier

All Unique Weapons in Avowed and How to Find it

There are plenty of weapons to get inAvowed, and the Unique ones can be obtained via different method from your exploration. Weapons are of different types, and you’ll have to choose them based on your class and abilities. Unique weapons refer to the rarer ones you’re able to come across inAvowed, and finding some of them can be pretty difficult. All Unique weapon locations in Avowed As you continue on your adventures in Avowed, you may also findUnique armorsto obtain for your character....

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · 105 words · Devon May

Amazon Prime Day freebies includes Mass Effect Legendary Edition and more games

Prime members get a ticket to fight the Reapers Amazon’s Prime Day is coming up, where it offers a bunch of deals specifically for its subscribing members. On the games side of things, that includes a few freebies. And this year the lineup is pretty good, as Prime members can get a copy ofMass Effect Legendary Editionand someStar Warsgames for the low, low price of free. Inan Amazon blog, the company reveals some of the games arriving as freebies for Prime Day....

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · 196 words · Tracy Martin

Bandai Namco warns players to stop playing the Tekken 8 cracked test

Tekken 8was originally announced in 2022, and a Closed Network Test was recently released on multiple platforms in July. To the dismay of the developers, some gamers have since cracked the CNT to play it in unintended ways. Bandai Namco is warning players against playingTekken 8‘s cracked CNT, and those caught could face consequences. Be patient or risk a ban Players with the cracked CNT can not only play the game offline, but continue to play it beyond the test period....

August 1, 2025 · 2 min · 255 words · Janet Jones

Battleborn deserves to be game of the year

Podtoid 360 It’s the last episode of 2016, so of course we looked back on the year and talked about our favorite games. The three-man Podtoid crew has some differing opinions, but we eventually came to the consensus thatBattlebornis our game of the year. Yes, the commercially stunted game that Destructoid awarded a solidsix out of ten in its review. Why doesBattleborndeserve to be game of the year? You’ll have to listen to the podcast to hear one man’s terrible explanation of it....

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · 160 words · Andrew Bennett

Bloodstained runs better on Switch with update 1.04

Slowly but surely Bloodstained: Ritual of the Nightis aging like a fine wine. The latest update for the Nintendo Switch version, update 1.04, isn’t as substantialas the last one, but it brings noticeable improvements. Here are the patch notes, courtesy of publisher 505 Games: And with that, I’m one step closer to double-dipping. Those crashes sounded irritating. The development team says it plans to roll out even more “overall performance improvements for Switch,” but considers update 1....

August 1, 2025 · 2 min · 239 words · Shawna Parsons

Brighter Shores Woodcutter profession guide: How to get a hatchet and hand saw

InBrighter Shores, after making your way through Hopeport and venturing into the woodsy region of Hopeforest, you’ll immediately notice a ton of trees around. Fortunately, this means you’ll learn about skills like woodcutting and carpentry, but you’ll need the right tools first. Table of contents How to get a hatchet and hand saw in Brighter Shores Before you start your woodcutting profession journey, you’ll need to stop by Morauce’s Point Implements in Timberwell Green....

August 1, 2025 · 2 min · 349 words · Rhonda Carlson

Carnival Games: all the fun of a carnival sans the constant fear of dying

I know there must have been a time in my life when I enjoyed going to the carnival. Don’t get me wrong, I would still kill a man for some funnel cake, but nowadays, when I think of a carnival, all I imagine are scary clowns and rusty, tetanus-ridden Tilt-a-Whirls run by toothless carnies. What happened to all the fun I used to remember? Well,Take-Two(in association with its publishing label Global Star Software) hopes to bring back everything that was nifty about the good ol’ bowler hat wearin’ state fair days withCarnival Games, a Wii-exclusive coming to Nintendo’s system this summer....

August 1, 2025 · 2 min · 223 words · Benjamin Brown

Cave Story’s Switch port will contain an exclusive co-op mode

Coming this summer to a Switch near you The perennial classicCave Storywill be making its way to Switch with an exclusive feature: co-op multiplayer. Announced by Nicalis on Twitter, it looks like the added benefit to getting yet another version of the indie hit is having the chance to play through the whole thing with a friend on the go. Share the Cave Story+ adventure with a friend on#NintendoSwitch06.20.17 (local co-op coming late summer as a free update)pic....

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · 153 words · Leslie Strickland

Check out this LittleBigPlanet Street Fighter level

We can’t post videos of all of the user-createdLittleBigPlanetlevels, but when a good one like this shows up, we have to feature it.A Street Fighter fan pulled out all the stops to make this level inLBP. The stage opens to a cartoonish Blanka and Zhangief having a nice little boy nap together. The highlight is Ken and Ryu dueling. It seems that the fight is controlled by jumping on the switches at the bottom of the screen....

August 1, 2025 · 2 min · 294 words · Jerry Williams

Contest: We’ve got 10 Steam copies of Bus Simulator 18 with your name all over them

Fare play There’s a simulator for everything these days. It started with managing cities, theme parks, and ant colonies; it moved on to simulating digital avatars and the communities in which they lived, worked, and played; and now, the ultimate in simulation is in our midst: You can simulate being a bus driver. The nice folks over at stillalive studios are promoting the success ofBus Simulator 18by giving away ten Steam copies to the rabid bus fans of the Destructoid community....

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · 187 words · Jesus Williams

Crytek shows off its VR dinosaur game Robinson at Paris Games Week

Don’t get squashed There was but a whisper ofRobinson: The Journeyback in June, and now developer Crytek has shown off a bit more of it during the virtual reality portion of Sony’s Paris Games Week press conference. The trailer features not only the boy protagonist we’ve seen before, but a Wheatley-esque floating ball eye thing directing him safely through the dinosaur stampede. Strangely, the duo is moving against it, toward whatever the animals are running from....

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · 80 words · Brian Newton