Rumor: Wii budget line gets Super Mario Galaxy and more

It looks like the Nintendo Select line of budget Wii titles will grow soon. When the program launched we gotMario Super Sluggers, Wii Sports , The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and Animal Crossing: City Folk.Now it looks like we’re getting four more. Kotakusays that retail sources have revealed the next four titles:Super Paper Mario, Mario Strikers Charged, Punch-Out!!andSuper Mario Galaxy. All are rumored to be hitting stores in August. As usual, Nintendo refuses to comment on rumors....

June 7, 2025 · 1 min · 114 words · Christopher Butler

Sakurai: Ridley as a playable Smash Bros. fighter ‘wouldn’t be Ridley any longer’

Director didn’t want to go through ‘hocus-pocus’ to make it work Super Smash Bros.fans are all aboutRidley, and I get it. TheMetroidcharacterwouldbe cool to play as, but it’s just not happening. Not this time.Speaking to IGN, director Masahiro Sakurai laid out why: “…if we made Ridley as a fighter, it wouldn’t be Ridley any longer. It’d have to be shrunk down, or its wings reduced in size, or be unable to fly around freely....

June 7, 2025 · 1 min · 210 words · Seth Thompson

Shadow of the Colossus wanders free on PS Plus this week

And a plethora of Activision games are on sale! Shadow of the Colossusis coming to PlayStation Plus this week. Members of Sony’s subscription service will have the opportunity to download the high-definition remaster of Team Ico’s PlayStation 2 masterpiece for free starting tomorrow. Other treats include a heap of discounted Activision games, highlighted by several classicSpyroandCrash Bandicoottitles for $2.99 apiece andTony Hawk: Pro Skater HDfor just $7.99.

June 7, 2025 · 1 min · 67 words · Jason Howard

Shame we never got The Thing as a point-and-click adventure

This mockup is quite the what-if I enjoy a good video game mockup every now and then, and this one is too rich of an idea not to share. Just imagine: John Carpenter’sThe Thingas a LucasArts-style point-and-click adventure game. Here’s the final version of my LucasArts style#TheThing#adventuregamemockup. This was a lot of fun to work on.#pixelart#gamedev.pic.twitter.com/XuehQNZH2w — Paul Conway (@DoomCube)May 23, 2025 Computer Artworks exploredThe Thingas a third-person shooterback in 2002, so we’re very much overdue another adaptation....

June 7, 2025 · 1 min · 124 words · Alexander Reid

Should publishers try to profit from user-created videos?

We answer The Question Last week, it came to light that Nintendo has started making content claims for popular videos on YouTube which feature their products, including “Let’s Play” and other forms of walkthrough content, taking the ad revenue which would have normally gone to the uploader. As the first major sign of corporate intervention in the rapidly expanding form of entertainment which (in all but a few circumstances) necessitates the use of another’s intellectual property, one has to wonder: Should they even be trying to profit from the content their customers create?...

June 7, 2025 · 1 min · 93 words · Kenneth Curry

SNES Classic will continue to ship as NES Classic returns to stores in 2018

Mamma Mia! True to its word, Nintendo is working to provide supply of these two highly sought-after classic consoles. While SNES Classic shipments were scheduled to end by the end of 2017, now they will continue well into 2018 due to “incredible demand.” More SNES Classics will launch on September 29 than all NES Classic shipments combined last year. Speaking of the NES Classic, Nintendo is bringing more to stores in Summer 2018....

June 7, 2025 · 1 min · 162 words · Ashley Huynh

Some old Hollywood producer men excited to win over teens with Space Invaders movie

Possibly still coked up from the 80’s Yes, Warner Bros.acquired the rightstoSpace Invadersand has a trio of names to produce a film based on it. This, despite the fact that some bad Adam Sandler-Kevin James joint calledPixelsis meant to come out next year and with clearSpace Invadersinspirations. Let us remember, though,three years agowhen aSpance Invadersfilm was allegedly going to happen courtesy of theTransformersandGI Joeproducer. It did not, obviously. Anyway, I assume some old Hollywoodmen were thinking back to their first heart attack as they sat in a hospital bed watchingRunawaywith Tom Selleck and Gene Simmons (KISS) and thought, “Hmmm, maybe we should make a movie from video-games....

June 7, 2025 · 1 min · 118 words · Matthew Maxwell

Sony clarifies which PS4 accessories will and will not work on PS5

‘The DualShock 4…will work with supported PS4 games’ Here we go ladies and gentlemen: the next generation! Ready? Wait, we don’t have pricing and even date info yet? Not even a month-based window? Okay fine, here’s some info on how accessories will work. As detailed today on the PlayStation Blog, Sony is ready to talk about what hardware will transfer to the PlayStation 5. Let’s start withwhat will work from PS4-to-PS5: Specialty peripherals, such as officially licensed racing wheels, arcade sticks, and flight stick, the Platinum and Gold wireless headsets, the PlayStation camera, PS Move and PS Aim Controllers (wow I’m surprised they acknowledged it exists!...

June 7, 2025 · 2 min · 264 words · Ian Williams

Supernatural adventure Oxenfree hits Nintendo Switch next week

Something evil’s lurking in the dark Nintendo Switch is the next platform in line to receiveOxenfree, Night School’s supernatural thriller, and with an October 6 launch locked down, it’ll be here before we know it. “They heard you calling. Now they’re here.” OXENFREE comes to Nintendo Switch on October 6th!pic.twitter.com/CGWqkOSV7P — Night School Studio (@nightschoolers)July 04, 2025 This trailer instills curiosity without giving too much away, which is key for a story-centric game like this....

June 7, 2025 · 1 min · 87 words · Michelle Brown

The Forza Motorsport 5 Car Pass is kind of gross

‘Forza Motorsport and add-on content have become virtually synonymous’ It’s usually not particularly surprising when a major release announces that it’s sashaying to market with a season pass in tow. I mean, we live in a time where the game you bought isn’t the game you get, as former EA CEO John Riccitiello infamously said. However, theForza Motorsportteam chose a pretty terrible tone to revealForza 5‘s. TheFMseries is no stranger to downloadable content, as apost on the game’s websiteproudly declares....

June 7, 2025 · 1 min · 198 words · Rebecca Smith

The Weekend Hotness: Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

Here’s once to absent friends, and twice to absent enemies. This weekend on Destructoid someone let Tony and Jonathan post a bunch of crazy stuff, which is all awesome and you should check out the off-beat section below. We’ve also got reviews of the newGears of War,Ridiculous Fishing, andVampire Crystals, moreSimCitymadness, a big patch forSkyrim, and all kinds of other fun stuff. Destructoid Originals:Destructoid turns sevenSup Holmes splices and dices with Edmund from Team Meat...

June 7, 2025 · 2 min · 280 words · Sheila Brooks

The winner of Destructoid Game of the Year 2011

Winning the award for Destructoid Game of the Year is probably more important than winning the Nobel Prize. And I am not being overdramaticat all. Think about it. Who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry last year? Can’t think of the name, can you? But when someone asks who won the Destructoid Game of the Year in 2010, the answer is simple:Super Mario Galaxy 2. You see? Winning the big prize on Destructoid is a much quicker route to instant Internet fame than the Nobel Prize will ever be....

June 7, 2025 · 3 min · 594 words · Joshua Valentine

This five-year-old found a major Xbox One password flaw

l33t hax0r See that adorable little kid? That’s five-year-old Kristoffer Von Hassel, and he discovered a major Xbox One password flaw. Kristoffer’s parents noticed that the young kid was playing games he wasn’t supposed to be on his father’s account. When asked how he did it, Kristoffer showed the process which simply involved him typing in space keys at the password verification screen, hitting enter, and then getting into his dad’s account....

June 7, 2025 · 1 min · 118 words · Michael Lane