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Podtoid hits the Destructoid frontpage every Thursday! It is the Thanksgiving episode of Podtoid, and what a show to be grateful for! Join the gang as they hostVal Kilmer’s Thanksgiving Family Showdown, laugh until you weep at Batman’s smelliest videogame adventure, and question the quandary of butt-smelling etiquette. As if that’s not enough, we chat about how Miiverse is being taken over by Willem Dafoe, how fans love to see Jonathan Holmes in peril, and why Conrad’s microphone might kill him....

Media Go? More like Media Stop for Mac users. Some of you might have nabbed a PSPgo today. Some of you might be Mac owners. There’s a potential problem for people in both camps, as Sony’s media and game management software,Media Go, is PC-only. Back in the day of UMDs, the need for content management software was less important, as you could grab a game off the shelf and pop it in....

Hatsuho is rightfully mortified It’s been alooooong journey, but we’re finally bearing down on the western release of PS4 mecha-themed anime adventure,Sakura Wars. Sega has released details of the reboot’s various release editions, alongside a new trailer looking at the relationships the player can form with the RPG’s doe-eyed cast of characters. Like many JRPG releases, spending time and engaging in conversation with your battle buddies will forge deeper bonds with them, which can lead to friendships and possibly even romance....

I hope it brings him joy If there’s news that Sakurai is working on something, no matter the context, I’m going to perk up. He’s earned that right. Shared by Famitsuafterhis win for “most valuable creator” for the Famitsu Dengeki awards, Sakurai is being coy about his next project. In fact, he’s setting people’s expectations right now by noting that it may not even have anything to do with gaming. As translated by GoNintendo, he had the following to say about his future:...

A lot of you had a lot to say about theResident Evil 6demo that came withDragon’s Dogma, and game producers Hiroyuki Kobayashi and Yoshiaki Hirabayashi have heard you loud and clear. We met with both of them yesterday to chat about the game and check out new content, and I was surprised to see there that the latest build on display already shows changes that seem to answer fan concerns. It’s clear that they’ve been hard at work, taking that feedback and using it to change the game for the better....

You’ll find it slightly behind Hyrule Castle It’s time for more shrines inZelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and thankfully this one is a piece of cake, despite its harrowing location. Depending on how you engage with the game’s narrative, the Serutabomac Shrine might be one of the last shrines you find. Either way, here’s how to get to it, and how to solve it! How to find the Serutabomac Shrine – is there a shrine at the floating Castle Hyrule?...

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Today, a very tragic event has happened. SEGA has confirmed that Sonic fans will have one less thing to bitch about whenSonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2is released. The game’s physics will be based upon the Genesis originals, which severely cuts the opportunity to screaming comparison videos. “I wanted to verify people could play the game and it not feel unnatural,” Sonic Team’s Takashi Iizuka toldEurogamer. “It should feel right. Rather than thinking of it as us trying to say, ‘okay, this is the way it should be,’ we looked at feedback where people were saying, ‘this feels unnatural....

Sony takes “Metacritic’s #1 publisher of the year” award 2022 was a really strange year for gaming.We had quite a few big releases, but some of them were only released in 2022 because they were delayed (in several cases, repeatedly). Some projects were even delayedoutof 2022. That’s what makes this newest annual ranking list from Metacritic so interesting. Going solely off of critical rankings (with a formula detailed below), Metacritic managed to muster up a full “top 45” list based on 2022 releases: and Sony took the top spot....

Where approximately 60 million have gone before Well, let’s file this one under “Things I absolutely didn’t see coming,” shall we? When the folks at Cryptic began teasing a “big announcement” related toStar Trek Online, I figured it would be more news related to last week’s big announcement of anew expansion pack for the game, the Original Series-themedAgents of Yesterday. Except they were going bigger. Like, console-port-announcement-bigger. So yeah,Star Trek Onlinewill debut on PS4 and Xbox One this Fall....

Steam is celebrating Halloween the same way it celebrates, well, any special occasion: with lots of sales. Some of the titles aren’t even appropriate for the theme, but I’m not about to complain. This is the part where I would postthe full list, but bullet points aren’t working correctly, and I’m kind of OCD about those things. Instead, I’ll kindly point you in the direction ofAmnesia: The Dark Descent, which is now $13....

There almost isn’t enough praise in the world Sunday saw another amazing week of speedrunning come to an end, as the curtain fell onSummer Games Done Quick 2019.For seven days, players from all over the world descended on the DoubleTree Hilton Bloomington-Minneapolis Hotel in Minnesota to burn their way through a catalogue of amazing video games andLast Action Hero, while viewers generously offered up donations for a worthy cause. When the closing credits rolled on the last game of the week – beloved SNES RPGChrono Trigger– everybody watching at home and in attendance was gobsmacked by an incredible final total of $3,004,039,smashing last year’s totalby almost a million dollars....

100% Less Twisted You think Hamster has already hit all of the shmups released in the late ’80s/early ’90s? Well, think again, buster, as the retro lovin’ publisher has added Taito’s eye-searing shooterMetal Blackto its mammoth Arcade Archives range, with the forgotten shmup now available to purchase on PS4 and Nintendo Switch. Released to the arcade market in 1991, during Taito’s “Loud & Vulgar” phase, (see also:Under Fire, Special Criminal Investigation),Metal Blackis a horizontally scrolling sci-fi shmup set against the backdrop of a damaged Earth, having fallen victim to a devastating meteor shower....