I Was Already Pumped For The Odyssey, But This Early Insight Into Christopher Nolan's Production Has Managed To Raise My Expectations

An early insight intoThe Odysseyhas me even more excited about the upcoming Christopher Nolan movie. There has been a great deal of interest in the epic poem written by Homer after it was announced that Nolan would be directing and writing an adaptation of the classic piece of literature. While his films have always been excellent,The Odysseyis made even more exciting as it comes in the aftermath ofOppenheimer, which is arguably thebest movie of Christopher Nolan’s career....

May 25, 2025 · 7 min · 1389 words · Matthew Myers

Misery loves company: Twitch Plays Zelda is now live

Play at your own risk While it may be a good idea forNintendo to let people buy their games through Steam, it may be an even better idea for them to start running their own Twitch streams allowing for communal play on their classic games.Twitch Plays Pokemonhas risen to be one of thebiggest Live Streams on the internet, and inspired its own bizarre lore and reams of fan art. It looks as though the trend will continue withTwitch Plays Zelda, which is currently available for your viewing and playing pleasure(?...

May 25, 2025 · 1 min · 206 words · Daniel Ford

Nintendo Download: Pikmin 3

Also, Cloudberry Kingdom and Kirby’s Dream Land 2 After a relatively meh offering last week, Nintendo is bouncing back a bit with a decent showing for this week’s Nintendo Download. For starters,Cloudberry Kingdomis hitting the Wii U eShop, withHarvest Moonhitting the Virtual Console, andPikmin 3dropping on Sunday, August 4th. Hulu Plus is also having a promotion where new customers can get two free months. On the 3DS side, the eShop is gettingBike Rider DX,Family Kart 3D, andMy Farm 3D....

May 25, 2025 · 1 min · 145 words · James Martinez

Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu

Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against the creators of Yuzu, an open-source Switch emulator. As first reported byGame File’s Stephen Totilo, thefull legal document is available online, and it features a plethora of accusations against Yuzu and its creators. As the lawsuit alleges, Yuzu allows players to play pirated games. The Switch maker has invested a lot to prevent piracy via multiple means, and at least two or three technological measures are always implemented to protect its games, including “encryption that scrambles the audiovisual content in the game file to make it unusable without the use of proprietary use of cryptographic keys....

May 25, 2025 · 2 min · 302 words · Evelyn Wallace

Nominees for Destructoid’s Best Vita Game of 2016

Yes, this portable exists I will never forget heading to GameStop to pick up my day one Vita with that beautiful OLED screen. There was no one else there, no doubt scared off by the high price tag of the proprietary memory cards. It was a stupid mistake and that hubris cost Sony dearly, as nearly every developer outside of Atlus and several others killed their support for it. No, there weren’t a whole lot of games for the floundering system in 2016, but those thatdidsee the light of day were pretty amazing indeed....

May 25, 2025 · 1 min · 150 words · Andrew Jacobs

Once Human The Way of Winter update: All new deviations, explained

The Way of Winter update inOnce Humanhas been released and features a bunch of exciting new stuff. In this update, several new Deviations have been added to the game. In case you don’t know, Deviations are special creatures that can be captured by players. This article will tell you everything you need to know about the new Deviations added in the Way of Winter update inOnce Human. All new Deviations in Once Human Way of the Winter update Before we dive in, you should know that there are three types of Deviations: Territory, Crafting, and Combat....

May 25, 2025 · 1 min · 105 words · Charles Perez

PlayStation 4 has now shipped 100 million units, and is the fastest console to do so

Gonna get another sale from me soon The Sony PlayStation 4 console, even this late in its lifespan, is continuing to pull in the punters, with recent numbers showing that the black box has shipped 100 million units to date as of May 20, 2025. Some 3.2 million more consoles were shipped within the first quarter of this fiscal year, according toSony’s recent financial reports,which is not too shabby for a six year old console, especially when a new generation is clearly poking its head over the horizon....

May 25, 2025 · 1 min · 184 words · Angie Colon

Pokemon GO Trade Distance Temporarily Increased

Trading Pokemon with friends has always been a staple of the franchise andwhen the feature arrived inPokemon GOaround two years ago it was a welcome enhancement. So far players who want to trade Pokemon have had to have their phones very close to each other, but now Niantic is testing out a new feature to see how some longer distance trades might work. The distance trading test launched on Thursday and offers players the chance to trade with Friends who are up to 12km away....

May 25, 2025 · 3 min · 443 words · Gina Chan

Quake Champions will be playable through Steam

No need to go through the Bethesda.net launcher Bethesda and id are fielding user-submitted questions forQuake Champions. Since folks have a good sense for the free-to-play shooter from its ongoing beta, theQ&Ais surprisingly informative. For instance: “There are several modes we love very much so, but currently adding more modes isn’t an immediate priority.” Rather, the developers’ “immediate focus is on improving the performance, network code, and stability of the game and implementing our latest gameplay balances....

May 25, 2025 · 1 min · 201 words · Anthony Rodriguez

The Walking Dead Season 8 Recap: ‘The Damned’

Definitely referring to the ratings … ‘The Damned,” episode 2 ofThe Walking Deadseason 8 plays in 4 parts across 3 scenes. We continue just where we left off last week with Rick and his merry band of men splitting up post-assault on the The Sanctuary. There’s Group 1,aka team They’re Gr-r-reat!, lead by Carol and Ezekiel—they’re still trying to track down the Savior who got the drop on them with a grenade at the end of the season premiere....

May 25, 2025 · 5 min · 895 words · Christopher Butler

A Brief History of Hiding Dicks in Cartoons

in the beginning this workweek , an episode of Netflix ’s children cartoon Maya the Bee was pulled after a hidden genus Phallus was get wind by an angry parent . Now , the studio behind the cartoon looks to bepursuing chargesagainst the member - drawing creative person . But in trueness , sneaking dicks and other gender prank into cartoons is weirdly long - standing animation tradition . As long as there have been children ’s , well , anything , there have been adults sneaking in thing that should go over the heads of the target area interview , whether it ’s “ Finger Prints ” from Animaniacs or that fourth dimension on Cow & Chicken when a clump of biker women showed up and startedmunching the carpet ....

May 24, 2025 · 4 min · 758 words · Paul Perkins

After All The Debate, Superman’s New Box Office Record Proves One Big Thing For The DCU

Superman’s current box office record provides an answer to one long-held debate about whether theDC Universemovie could pull off a vital task.The DC Universe timelinehas begun to unfold with the likes ofSupermanandCreature Commandos- thoughSupermanis naturally the more focal of the two, particularly because of how crucial its box office results are for the franchise. Supermanis one of the DCU’s first and thus most integral tests, since a particularly poor or good box office result for the film sets the tone for the rest of what’s to come, and could mean big changes for the franchise’s plans....

May 24, 2025 · 4 min · 838 words · David Mcconnell

Atelier Ryza 2 Introduces Cross-Save Support

TheAtelierfranchise is an RPG series that has existed longer than most players are aware of, with its first title releasing on the original PlayStation in 1997. Starting withAtelier Irisin 2005, theAtelierseries made its way outside of Japan with each subsequent release following. Of the manyAteliergames, theRyzastory was one of the most popular, introducing many new RPG fans to the series as a whole. The premise forAtelierrevolves around alchemy, with each protagonist of their respective games introducing themselves to alchemy in some way....

May 24, 2025 · 2 min · 322 words · Hayley Lucas