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Ezio didn’t dive into hay bales for this

Ubisoft, undaunted, is continuing to mine its catalog of IPs for new NFT/blockchain ventures, announcing this morning that it intends to release a new line of pretendo pictures based upon its hugely successful time-hopping series Assassin’s Creed. This new venture, at the very least, has something of a physical form.

Kit-E-Kat… That’s Livin’*

Annapurna’s sci-fi kitty adventure Stray is seemingly headed to the Xbox platform, at least according to the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB), which has uploaded a listing for a new port the award-winning dystopian tale, currently available on PlayStation and PC platforms.

Combo Number 5

McDonald’s is allegedly food. My tastebuds and my brain have a disagreement on this. My brain says that it both definitely is food, and it’s rad as heck. Meanwhile, my tastebuds say that while the brain thinks it’s being fed beef or chicken, whatever I’m running across them most certainly tastes nothing like those things. Delicious, maybe, like eating a stick of salted butter.

The battle royale’s servers will stay open, though

Vampire: The Masquerade‘s battle royale is winding down. Developer Sharkmob has announced it is ending further development on Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt.

Fully launched from Early Access in April 2022, the studio says  in today’s blog post that Bloodhunt did not reach the “critical mass” of players it needed to sustain development.

The easiest way to rekindle the first flame

Even though the original Dark Souls has proved a huge hit since its 2011 release, it’s still yet to be experienced by many FromSoft fans who only entered the publisher’s dark world via last year’s Elden Ring.

A deserved eulogy to the members of the Cobra Unit

One fair criticism we can throw at Metal Gear Solid 3 is that most of its bosses went from being characters to just obstacles, but one thing we just can’t say is that those obstacles weren’t fun to destroy.

MGS3 features some of the most inventive and fun boss battles in the history of gaming, and it’s high time that we pay our respects to these deadly and dramatic foes.

A week’s worth of legends, myths, and spinning charge attacks

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is out. I’m sure many are reading this article on a Monday morning with tired eyes from a launch weekend full of exploration and adventures in Hyrule.

As part of this big launch, we kicked off another themed Zelda Week here at Destructoid.

What colors are the other fingers?

Kohachi Studio has given us a teaser look at Black Finger Jet, a new run-and-gun title from former prominent Nazca developers. Nazca is the original developer behind Metal Slug, and a number of the attached names were directly involved in the development of some of the early titles in that series.

No real gameplay is shown in the trailer, as the game looks to be very early in development.

Another ally in Microsoft’s ongoing pledge drive

The European Commission has finally returned its verdict and voted in favor of the proposed purchase of Activision Blizzard by publisher Microsoft. The EU Commission has been debating the near $69 billion merger for months, but has ultimately decided not to stand in Microsoft’s way.

There’s another delay but at least it’s short

The upcoming horror game Amnesia The Bunker has bee delayed once again. In a social media video Friday, the game’s creative lead Fredrik Olsson confirmed that the title will now release on June 6. It’s just two weeks, but this comes only days before its initial release time on May 16. Olsson explained the reason why there’s an Amnesia The Bunker delay.