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Hello AGAIN, 47… Yesterday saw the release of a short documentary by production company Noclip, looking at the rollercoaster ride developer IO Interactive has been on during the production of the now-legendaryHitmanseries. It seems that, despite the ups and downs, the Danish studio isn’t quite ready to hang up the silverballers just yet. Toward the end of the doc – which you can check out below – we’re told that the team is already hard at work designing the third entry to this currentHitmantrilogy, which saw a soft reboot of sorts with the release ofHitmanin 2016....

Beetlejuice became a pop culture icon from the moment he appeared in his self-titled 1988 movie. Sure, he’s crass, crafty, and a sight for sore eyes, but the afterlife’s leading bio-exorcist is undeniably charming and hilarious. Now he’s finally returning to the movies withBeetlejuice Beetlejuice, along with a host of beloved characters from the previous film. While this is great for his fans, it shouldn’t be the only return he’s making in the 21st century....

Promoted from our Community Blogs! [Dtoid community blogger StriderHoang shares his list of all-time favorite space games! Have a Top 10 list of your own you’d like to see promoted to the front page?Go write something!–Mr Andy Dixon] Space is something that has always interested me. It’s deep, mysterious, inhospitable, and possibly full of awesome space aliens who may or may not be cool/hostile/totally hot. Space is the de facto home of everyone’s favorite genre: science fiction....

‘He wanted bosses that could only be in Luigi’s Mansion’ Shigeru Miyamoto may not have had direct day-to-day involvement in the development ofLuigi’s Mansion 2, but that didn’t stop him from waltzing in and acting like a total boss. During an interview with IGN, Bryce Holliday, the game’s director, explained how Miyamoto figuratively flipped the table. “At one point he threw out all the bosses of the game and made us start over....

Faces of Death A new game by Toronto-based outfitLaundry Bear Gameslaunched on Steam today, where players step into the shoes of a young mortician as she goes about her work, with hopes that experiencing the game and its story may help remove some of the stigma, or fear, of death. A Mortician’s Taleis an isometric, narrative-driven and self-professed “death-positive’ game where players take the role of Charlie, a young woman who has recently started work at the Rose & Daughters funeral home....

It’s the 30th anniversary of theMetroidfranchise! ::crickets:: Hey Nintendo did you hear what I said, it’s the…Nintendo isn’t listening. It didn’t listen to Tom Happ either, creator ofMetroid-tintedAxiom Verge, which just hit Wii U this month. In a Reddit AMA, Happ noted how he would have liked to have a secret code that transformed the main character into Samus, and that even though “some people inside Nintendo” liked the concept, they decided against it....

Also,Mugen Souls Indie studios are getting everything they can out beforeZelda: Tears of the Kingdom, which is not only going to take all of the attention away from everything else on the eShop: it’s also set to attack people’s wallets at $70 a pop. This week is a nice bookend betweenAdvance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot CampandZelda, and people are taking advantage of it. Omega Strikersis the big offering this week, with a worldwide release onbasicallyevery platform today....

Supposedly a ‘departure’ from the usual Outlast experience Outlast 2is going to be a part of thePlayStation Plus offeringsfor November and, right on cue, Red Barrels has begun teasing its next horror game. Today, the developer shared a piece of artwork depicting two dirty arms, one of which has a dog tag with a string of numbers and the initials “MK”–presumably a nod to theMurkoff Corporation–alongside the tagline “Where freedom ends....

Melee? Brawl? 3DS/Wii U? Which is the best name? Pokemon Xcover monster Xernas popped up in a newSuper Smash Bros. screenshot beside a smug Pikachu. Well, Xernas’ crazy rainbow antlers did, anyway. The back of its head, too. Hmm. Why are Pikachu and Xernas standing back to back? Some sort of old west duel about to go down? Nintendo’s Masahiro Sakurai is remaining mute. On the Miiverse, Sakurai wrote, “We have absolutely nothing to announce today regardingPokemon XandPokemon Y....

Or just keep on riding on elephants, that’s cool too Already tired of everythingFar Cry 4has to offer? You’re in luck, because Overrun, the latest batch of content forFar Cry 4, is available today. This is a more multiplayer-focused endeavor, with a brand new PvP mode in which two factions (the Rakshasa and Golden Path) compete to score points across two rounds by controlling zones that are active at a specific time....

Is this an upset? Sekiro: Shadows Die Twiceis an excellent game. Without a doubt, one of the best to release in all of 2019. But going into the Game Awards tonight, I didn’t expect it to walk away with any trophies at all. The categories it was nominated in were super competitive this year, especially the game of the year award. So when Vin Diesel read the winner’s name from the envelope, my jaw dropped....

Promoted from our Community Blogs [Adzuken gave the Destructoid community the chance to create a list of hypothetical robot masters for the nextMega Manentry, and the results are pretty damn fun. I’m especially enamored with Sandwich Man, due to their willingness to shine a light on an often ignored universal truth. – Kevin] Mega Man 11recently hit the market, but, somehow, we’re still waiting on details forMega Man 12. Have you even started on it yet, Capcom?...

There are odd little quest items strewn all aroundElden Ring, and some of them are quite deceptive. They might look like something that you can just use yourself, but then an NPC will go without and you don’t know what the consequences of that might be. If you are looking for the Iris of Grace or have found it already, you should hold on to it. If you haven’t found it yet, this is where to find it....