When THQ Core Games VP Danny Bilson isn’t gushing about the company’s latest in-the-works games,he’s dropping detailson when Relic Entertainment’s next title will be announced. According to him, they’re shooting for an August reveal and the project is suitably in the real-time strategy genre. WithCompany of Heroes Onlinebeing discontinued, it’d make sense for Relic to take a step back to the more traditional approach of releasing a full retail product. Or, maybe those guys are working away at a new IP up there in Vancouver....

Fancypants Niiiiice. That’s what you’d expect to say trying out a premium set of audiophile-quality headphones, especially when they’re priced at $299.00. Razer’s Kraken Forged Edition music and gaming headphones are certainly nice in both form and function. But are they $299 nice? Do they have a look and sound so good that you’d be okay eating ramen for the next month? Razer says that the Kraken Forged are hand-assembled, made out of matte-finished aircraft-grade aluminum....

Holy moly If you played thePokemon Trading Card Gameas a kid, you remember those classic backgrounds. You know, the plains, or the trees? The things that looked like they were straight out ofDigital Blasphemy? Well, they kind of were! Or at least, something like it. Twitter user Fanamel recently put out an incredible video that details their hunt for Pokemon card background art, and the results are astounding. According to them, the art comes from a series called“Datacraft Sozaijiten,”which is allegedly “used in a lot of Japanese media and Nintendo games....

Surely we can do better than this Final Fantasy, one of the most revered and influential JRPG franchises in history, saw its 35th anniversary a few days ago. Square Enix chose to celebrate the occasion with something fans have wanted for years:PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch ports of the first six numbered games. This is, of course, great. Sure, the games are arriving in their just-okayPixel Remasteriterations, but even a just-okay version ofFinal Fantasy IVon Nintendo Switch is a treat....

Koichi Miura, who worked as a landscape artist forTears of the Kingdom, has left Nintendo. In his Tweet, he explains that the company is a haven for geniuses, but hell for an average person. It doesn’t seem like Miura is bitter about leaving, ashis translated Tweetstates that he has no regrets, and he thinks Nintendo is an incredible company. Nevertheless, he wouldn’t recommend it lightly. Though the company is ideal for geniuses, Miura felt as though he wasn’t cut out for the environment....

Super Crate Boxshowed up on Steam for free today. I first saw it at PAX East 2012 with a challenge to get a hundred boxes. It looked easy. My best score was eight. Jim highlighted some of the best and the brightest of the Internet with comments aboutRemember Me, Abel and Casey each previewed a couple of games, and so much more happened on this fine Friday. Destructoid Original:What gamers say about Capcom’s Remember MeFriday Night Fights: CUTEST....

Check out everything Destructoid did today Jim Sterling’s review ofThe Last of Uswent live today, and he chose to give Joel and Ellie’s post-apocalyptic adventure a perfect score. That’s great and all, but in my mind, the man-girl post-apocalyptic combo to beat is Simon and Marcy. Step yo’ game up! Elsewhere today, Patrick Hancock demosRogue Legacy, Joseph Leray interviews the senior producer ofWorld of Darkness, I claim that indies will usher in a new console age, Patrick also gives his impressions of the newDota 2patch,The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsinggets reviewed, and DUCKTALES!...

This is all slightly mad Slightly Mad Studios is a London-based developer of racing games, probably best known forNeed for Speed: ShiftandProject CARS. However, it’s looking to make a name for itself outside of racing in the next couple years — specifically, as a new console manufacturer. Slightly Mad CEO and founderIan Bell created a Twitter account todayto reveal the studio’s plans to enter the console market. Bell says the Slightly Mad console (dubbed The Mad Box) will be “the most powerful console ever built....

EA hasannounced via Twitterthat on July 31st, the remaining PS3/360 games in theBattlefieldseries will be delisted from digital storefronts before having their online services cut November 7th, 2024. The games affected areBattlefield 3,Battlefield 4, andBattlefield: Hardline. There are a couple of things to understand about this announcement. The first is that this isonlyfor the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the games. The PC versions will remain available, as will the PS4/XBone versions ofBattlefield 4andHardline....

Office Drama At last year’s Game Awards, developers Galactic Cafe and Crows Crows Crows announced that superb indie darlingThe Stanley Parablewould receive an expanded re-release at some point in 2019. But as the year draws to a close, it seems we’ll have to wait a little longer for a fresh dose of sci-fi weirdness. An amusing six-minute video has been released announcing thatThe Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxehas been pushed back into 2020....

Future plans for the franchise are under evaluation After stating that it would move forward to create college football gameswithout the NCAA names and marks, Electronic Arts has confirmed today that there won’t be a new game in 2014. “We have been stuck in the middle of a dispute between the NCAA and student-athletes who seek compensation for playing college football,” wrote EA Sports general manager of American football Cam Weber....

They even have the Metroid! Having been to countless conventions and covered all sorts of anime, gaming and movie news for over a decade, I’ve seen some really impressive outfits and cosplay. But in recent years, especially when it comes to theMetroidarena, this is easily one of the most impressive Samus costumes I’ve seen in a while. Created by Wargaming (World of Tanks) developer Brenden McCormack and his wife Laura, this Samus costume doesn’t just look like it came out of a magazine ad for the nextMetroidtitle: it has actual functioning flair....

On your marks, get set, outcry! Rocket League, which should still be calledSoccar, will soon have a crate and key system that allows players to spend money in hopes of getting the cosmetics they want.TheSgtPunishment on Redditfound assets revealing this new system prior to any official announcement. Before you freak out, here are some qualifications straight from one of Psyonix’s employees: Those assets are, indeed, early pieces of an upcoming system we plan on implementing to fund our esports prize pools and events....