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Sunday, February 4, 2018
News:: Super Bowl TV spot for The Cloverfield Paradox on Netflix
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News:: PREPARE TO FRIENDSHIP: Dtoid's Master Gaming Contact List
[As I've been gazing upon all of your Hunters with envy - I have to wait until the fall to get it for PC - I got to try DBZF last Thursday. I was promptly demolished by a semi-pro player, but it was super fun! I might just have to pick it up to play with all of you. Have you been having fun this week?
The List will continue being updated as long as there is a use and demand for it. -Panda]
Good morning/afteroon/tomorrow, my Friends/Robots/Gardevoir/-Current Dtoid Meme Here-
It has been made aware to me that, just perhaps, you all enjoy video games. It might even be said that you... like to game with others? Now now, don't be that way, I don't mean to lump you into some sort of box. You're all just such lovely folks, it pains me to watch you, struggling in vain to connect with each other, striving to engage in...
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News:: Hubert Vigilla's Top 20 Films of 2017
2017 was a grim, crummy year for the world, but a pretty darn good one for film. So many of the movies I loved in 2017 tended toward strangeness or kindness, often a bit of both. I think we could all use a little bit more of each in our daily lives.
Even though this is a top 20 list, there’s a lot from 2017 I still have to see. I missed A Fantastic Woman and Foxtrot when they played for a week in NYC last year, and I’ve been meaning to get to The Big Sick, The Lost City of Z, Ingird Goes West, Detroit, and Columbus. On the documentary side, I still need to see I Am Not Your Negro, Rat Film, Strong Island, and so much more.
Still, incomplete as all lists are, here are my 20 favorite movies of 2017. Be excellent to each other. Party on, dudes. Be kind and strange. And, gosh, call your mother.
[Ed. Note: We do awards a bit different at Flixist. Most of our writers do not get early screenings or award screeners of movies, which means it isn't easy to see some of the films that only get limited releases in December for many of us. As such we wait a few weeks into January so that we can see everything before we choose our favorites, and then vote in February for the site's awards.]
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News:: The Binge Log: Japanator's Guide to Winter 2018 Anime
Hello, and welcome back to Japanator's eternally-delayed anime coverage. As I promised back in our New Year's resolutions, we're resuming our once-regular seasonal anime coverage, though in a bit of a new form. Welcome to the Binge Log for Winter 2018!
For the uninitiated, this is our new take on what used to be known as Japanator's Anime Preview Guide. The changing landscape of anime distribution and licensing, the changing pace and timing of peoples' encounters with new anime, and the sheer number of shows being pumped out these days has made speculating about a show's quality before it's even aired less and less meaningful. Better instead to gather impressions from a number of people - in this case, the surprisingly numerous anime-watchers on staff here at Japanator and Destructoid - and try to find highlights and impressions from the shows we're actually watching (along with a few we tried, but couldn't stick with). So while not every single offering will show up in this big ol' list, you can be sure that we've seen enough of what's here to have a hot take ready to serve.
So read on to see what we think of the season's offerings so far, and tell us all about what you're watching as well!
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News:: What book should be turned into a video game?
On the single shelf in my closet that houses all the novels, games, and movies that aren’t currently tucked away in storage boxes is a particularly thick, purple book. It’s H.G. Wells: Seven Novels, one of those big, colorful classics released by Barnes and Nobel a few years back that look good sitting sit a bookcase. I bought it during a period where I sorta fell out of love with games and wanted to get big back into reading. Looking at the company’s website as I write this I see about 10 more of these hued hardbacks I want to add to my collection.
I’d never read H.G. Wells before buying that book but I was familiar with his work. I’d seen Guy Pierce’s The Time Machine, single-handedly the worst film I’ve ever had the displeasure of viewing. I’d seen Marlon Brando mumble his way through The Island of Dr. Moreau. During a period where I binged classic films, I watched the still enjoyable The Invisible Man. And, like I’m sure most of you have, I sat through Tom Cruise running and Dakota Fanning screaming for two hours of The War of the Worlds. That’s not a bad movie, but after reading the Wells original, it’s also not a very good adaptation.
My main point of contention is the modern setting. Our current society has so many weapons available at our disposal that an alien invasion never seems as terrifying as it could be. They have lasers, we have nukes. They have a force field, we have Randy Quaid. But in 1899, when the original story is set, an alien invasion that pitted their heat-rays against our Maxim guns really could have meant the end of society. H.G. Wells’ original vision for extra-terrestrials invading our world is far more terrifying than any adaptation of his work so far, and it’s the perfect source material for an action-packed survival horror video game.
You play as the Narrator, who after a quick trip to the Ottershaw observatory, must run and hide to survive the Martian tripods, heat-rays, and black smoke as he travels across England searching for his wife. I’m imagining something along the lines of The Last Of Us without the gunfights and conveniently placed, waist-high crates to hide behind. Of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories but without the pre-scripted chase sequences. This shouldn’t be a game about fighting the aliens as developers have done with the source material in the past but about surviving their initial attack and their ultimate dominance over the human race long enough for the common cold to wipe them all out.
Gaming has a brief but excellent track record of turning great books into great games. The Witcher is one of the biggest gaming properties on the planet and I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream is an all-time classic. But The World of the Worlds has yet to see a faithful adaptation and there is no reason, with our modern technology, we can’t get one. That’s the book I’d most like to see on console or PC, but something tells me the Destructoid editors have their own stories in mind that are ripe for a video game.
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News:: Getting the most out of your PlayStation 3 in 2018
The figures are out, and the PlayStation 4 is already close to catching up with the PlayStation 3 when it comes to lifetimes sales. We're reaching peak PS4 time, with huge releases such as Monster Hunter: World and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus coming to the console in the past few months. To be frank, we're drowning in good current-gen games, so it's probably time to sell old consoles to buy extra games, send slightly battered models off to the scrap heap, or simply leave them untouched, gathering dust, on the shelf.
Hold it right there, though! Now is absolutely not the time to be even thinking of getting rid of your PS3. I would even argue that now is the perfect time to buy a PS3, if you missed out on that era of games. There's still life in the old gal yet, and what's more, it's becoming a very cheap console to collect for. I play my PlayStation 3 probably about 60% of the time I'm gaming, while 30% goes on my PlayStation 4 and a measly 10% goes on low-res adventure and point-and-click games on my battered old laptop. And I can't say I've got bored yet.
So, why should you rush out and get a second-hand PS3? And how do you make the PS3 an exciting, useful console in 2018, when you have a PS4 already sitting in your cabinet? Let me discuss why I think the PS3 still has legs, and what to do to fall back in love with the console.
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News:: Frostpunk unleashes terrifyingly helpful automatons upon populace
It's certainly been a long time since we've heard from the people at 11 bit studios regarding Frostpunk. The last time I delved into their world, I went in with aspirations of destruction - and found myself almost instantly protective of my freezing little citizens. Only reluctantly did I harden my heart and enact policies that would let them survive the terrible cold and rampant starvation, even as I threw their bodies into a big hole in the ground and watered down their soup. Oh, and technically, I lost the demo too. So there was that.
Well, the silence has been broken, both to give us some info about the business side of the game, and to introduce us to the incredibly-helpful-and-not-at-all-threatening Automatons, giant helper robots that you can build to assist your populace.
I'm not sure what it says about a game - or its developers - that something meant to help the player instantly made me suspicious.
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News:: Tekken Mobile launching this month, military bro 'Rodeo' revealed
Namco Bandai have announced a new mobile Tekken title, which brings The King of Iron Fist Tournament to small screens worldwide. This is fighting game franchise's first foray into the phone market since 2013's Tekken Card Tournament.
The imaginatively-titled Tekken Mobile is already available in a selection of territories, including Africa, Eastern Europe and South America. It will expand to the rest of Europe, the UK, Russia and Singapore on February 15, before finally landing in North America, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea on March 1.
The March 1 release also marks the arrival of an all-new player to the franchise. Bo "Rodeo" Montana is an American marine who apparently loves football. USA indeed. Amusingly, a couple of years back, Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada trolled about creating a "Muscle & Skinhead" military/MMA character, just for the American market. I guess he decided to make that jokey comment a reality.
Tekken Mobile launches, across February and March, on iOS and Android.
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