Lifting Legends Simulator codes (October 2024)

Updated: June 16, 2025 Added new codes! No one likes leg day, especially not me. I haven’t done it since the day I was born, but withLiftingLegends Simulatorcodes, I haven’t skipped them once. It’s like steroids, but without the potential kidney failures, I highly recommend it. Lifting Legends Simulatorcodes will give you Potions and Gems, which you can use to boost your glutes and core strength.If you want more Roblox goodies for a similar game, check out our list ofGym Leaguecodes....

August 2, 2025 · 2 min · 335 words · Jessica Matthews

Lightning Returns pre-orders at Amazon get Yuna DLC

Yuna’s clothing and staff The Spira’s Summoner DLC you’ll nab for free with your Amazon pre-order ofLighting Returns: Final Fantasy XIIIwill be a treat for fans ofFinal Fantasy X. You’ll be able to dress Lightning up in Yuna’s summoner dress, equip her staff, and even do herFinal Fantasy Xvictory pose. Again, this is free with anAmazon pre-order ofLightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. The DLC will be available for purchase later this year....

August 2, 2025 · 1 min · 85 words · Nicholas Gonzales

Love/Hate: The JRPG

[Editor’s Note: We’re not just a (rad) news site — we also publish opinions/editorials from our community & employees like this one, though be aware it may not jive with the opinions of Destructoid as a whole, or how our moms raised us. Want to post your own article in response? Publish it now on ourcommunity blogs.] Ever since I first picked up a controller, I’ve had this love/hate relationships with JRPG’s....

August 2, 2025 · 5 min · 853 words · Angela Lewis DVM

Massive Xenoblade Chronicles 2 patch fixes bugs introduced with the New Game Plus patch

Version 1.3.1 While a lot of you are skipping out onXenoblade Chronicles 2or have already finished it, Monolith Soft has been doing a low key excellent job of updating the game. They added countless quality of life changes into the mix as well as massive additions like a New Game Plus mode, and with massive patches come glitches. The studio has been swift to patch those as well, as version 1....

August 2, 2025 · 1 min · 132 words · David Robinson

Metal Slug Anthology coming to PS4

Joins PS2-on-PS4 collection on July 5 TheMetal Slug Anthologywill be the next title to join the growing library of PlayStation 2 Classics available on PlayStation 4, according to the latest episode of thePlayStation Blogcast. The collection will be available digitally in North America on Tuesday, July 5. SNK originally released the anthology, which includes the first six entries in the run-and-gun action game series (plusMetal Slug X), for PlayStation 2, Nintendo Wii, and PlayStation Portable in 2007....

August 2, 2025 · 1 min · 112 words · Phillip Rodriguez

More than 100 Southwest Airlines flyers will get a Wii U

No fair! I have a few flights to take over the holidays, but none of the airlines I’m using will have Mario handing me a free Wii U. No fair. My Wii U’s disc drive isn’t working. As you can see in the above image, Mario has a holiday surprise for more than 100 Southwest Airlines customers. He’s at Dallas Love Field this morning to greet flyers with what looks like a nice holiday gift: a Wii U....

August 2, 2025 · 1 min · 113 words · Brian Sanchez

My favorite Pokémon in Sword and Shield is a dirty, smelly, metal cat. What’s yours?

Don’t judge my child. My child wants to grow a beard. I’m on the precipice of finishing the Galarian Gym Challenge inPokémon Shield, after catching a wide array of Pokémon and scoring copious amounts of EXP Candy from Max Raid Battles I’ve grinded in theWild Area. Even though there are plenty of olderPokémon on my team really carrying their weight like Katsu the Bewear, Bobert the Crustle, and Kevin Durant, I’ve taken a real shine to the new GalarianPokémon....

August 2, 2025 · 3 min · 476 words · Joseph Howard

Namco Bandai succeeding on 3DS

Despite Nintendo panicking about the3DS adoption rateand fears of third party abandonment, one company can claim to be doing quite well on the faltering handheld. Namco Bandai has enjoyed considerable success on the 3DS, with solid sales and pleasant profit. The publisher revealed that overall revenue has risen 108% and that net profit has reached ¥3.25 billion. 3DS was a big part of those accomplishments, withOne Piece Unlimited Cruise SPselling 170,000 units,Tales of the Abyssselling 150,000 units andRidge Racer 3Dshifting 90,000 units....

August 2, 2025 · 1 min · 135 words · John Pierce

NieR: Automata screens are hot as hell

PS4 exclusive from Platinum Games While I have at least heard the lauded soundtrack, Ialso have not playedNier, the cult classic RPG that Square Enix is bafflingly bringing back with Platinum Games at the helm. Weinterviewedthem after the PS4-exclusive iNieR: AutomataE3 reveal last year to learn a bit about how that happened (and why that man was asmiling moon). Anyways, just a few more snapshots from the game, embedded below, which is less substantial than the gameplay video (embedded above) we got a while back....

August 2, 2025 · 1 min · 145 words · Kenneth Sims

Of course Pokemon Shuffle Mobile’s leaderboards are hacked

Because why wouldn’t they be? There are already alot of reasons whyPokémon Shuffle Mobileis inferiorto the previously released 3DS version, like theincrease in item prices, the removal of Jewel rewards for beating Mega evolutions, and the addition of two-heart events for Kyogre and Groudon. Here’s another to add to the list. Last week the first competitive event kicked off. It includes a chance to win Charizardite, necessary to Mega evolve Charizard, but only for those scoring in the top 250,000....

August 2, 2025 · 2 min · 326 words · Ebony Nichols

Pokemon Snap 64 is coming to Switch Online next week

June 24 Pokemon Snap64 will make its debut on Nintendo Switch on June 24,Nintendo has announced. It’ll jointhe newer 2021 iterationon the same platform. Originally released in 1999 on the Nintendo 64, the picture-taking simulator became an instant cult classic. In a sense, it’s the perfect game to come to a subscription service, as the concept is kind of out there, to the point where a lot of folks would never go out of their way to seek it out, but if a lot of those same people gave it a shot, they’d really enjoy it....

August 2, 2025 · 2 min · 226 words · Anthony Matthews

Preview: Reinventing the MMO with The Secret World

The MMO space has been steadily filling up since people realized just how much money Blizzard is actually making. Many have tried to break into that space, but most have failed. Funcom has a pretty consistent history of bringing solid titles to market — nothing necessarily groundbreaking, but they work. WhenThe Secret Worldwas announced, though, people got legitimately excited. Here, we had an MMO taking place not in space or some generic fantasy land but in the modern day, with a story running parallel to our own world....

August 2, 2025 · 3 min · 620 words · James Davis

Rad Show: Japan World Cup 2

What the hell am I playing? Rad Show is basically like a night light at Stevie Wonder’s house. Tonight’s show is going to be pretty stupid. I mean on the level of making Ernest P. Worrell proud of the stupidity that the show will contain. Tonight we’re going to play a game that you all love, we’ve visited the third in the series, and now we’re going to step back and giveJapan World Cup 2a whirl....

August 2, 2025 · 2 min · 231 words · Tammie Payne