Turn out the lights A remake ofResident Evil 4has been going around the rumor mill fora little while now. And according to a new report, it’ll be taking a little bit of a different tone. Fanbytehas some new details on the reported remake, and how it will make some changes to the GameCube-era classicResident Evil 4. According to their sources, Capcom wants to adjust the tone of the game, making it spookier....

Since it launched earlier this year, Namco Bandai’sShiftyLookhas aimed to keep old and forgotten Namco properties alive via free webcomics.Klonoamay not be all that forgotten in certain circles, but I doubt anyone would complain about its getting comic treatment. Announced during SDCC,Klonoa: Dream Traveller of Noctis Solwill launch in August and is being penned byJim Zub, UDON project manager and author of ShiftyLook’sSky KidandWonder Momo. However, the big news is that the art is being handled byHitoshi Ariga, my favorite mangaka ever!...

Television’s second favorite orange cat deserves a shot The Legend of Zeldais one of Nintendo’s strongest franchises, a series that has remained successful and engaging while doing very little to change itself. However, the games have, over the years, become somewhat predictable in terms of format. The age-old story of Link facing off against Ganondorf is iconic, but is it time for a change? One popular idea is having Heathcliff, the comic strip cat created by George Gatefly in 1973, replace Link as the series’ protagonist....

Try to picture the scene for me. It’s a busy evening sometime around 2010. TheHarry Pottermovie series is wrapping up,Mad MenandHomelandtopped the TCV charts, and games like the originalRed Dead RedemptionandSkyrimmade gamer hearts beat just a little bit faster. It was around this time that a Danish, a British, and a Hungarian teenager walked into a bar. Or, rather, a Skype call. International friendships do be like that. We were still very much on theCivilization 4train at the time, taking that fabled “just one more turn” over and over again, and then there were just the two of us left by midnight, as our Danish buddy had to take his leave....

One shot. One splat. This weekend, like clockwork, a new heavy weapon hits Nintendo’s shooterSplatoon 2, bringing alongside it a small selection of fixes to make your squid kid warfare run that little bit smoother. The weapon coming to blow your face off is the Custom Range Blaster. This incredibly powerful but ammo-consuming device can one-shot a hapless opponent from a reasonable distance. It is held by back by a cumbersome reload time and a slow rate of fire, so be sure to make every pull of the trigger count....

Now thattheseotherfoolshave all had their say and we know for afactthat the game is great, it’s time to blow past all the bullshit and just blurt out what we’ve all been thinking:Salvador is by far the best character inBorderlands 2! It just sucks for all you guys that I got dibs on him. Now, most of you are probably nodding your heads in agreement and also cutting on yourselves fornot calling dibs sooner, but for the two of you in the audience who have yet to see the light, allow me to elaborate as to why I’m claiming ownership of this blue-haired beast of a man....

Ten year anniversary of Siren series Remember the horror gameSiren? It saw mixed reviews, but I thought the game wasbadass. I was thrilled to see thisDestructoid Community Blog from Revuhlooshunon how great the game was. This game is still one of the best examples ever of how successful fu*king with the player’s mind can be. If you’ve somehow missed it, please go check it out! Siren is getting a manga adaptation to commemorate the series’ tenth anniversary....

Due to low sales Welp, another indie developer is out of the games business as of last week. Tale of Tales, a Belgian game company who has been operating since 2002, has gone under. It’s mostly known for creating fairy tale-based video games, but as of late it has been working onSunset, a tale featuring an African-American housekeeper. Only 4,000 copies ofSunsethave been sold as of its release, which includes a 50% off sale and Kickstarter copies — yikes....

Shooty, shooty, pow, pow Happy Tuesday! Short post today, getting all my holiday stuff done before Christmas. From myself and the entire Destructoid community team, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy Festivus for the rest of us. So what is TF2sday? Every Tuesday, a ton of folks from all across Destructoid hop on to the community server to play, talk, and shoot each other. It’s usually a pretty crazy good time, and almost always involves various melee only matches between a handful of classes....

But not ‘free-to-play’ The whole “free-to-play” concept has really thrown me for a loop whenever a game goes temporarily free. I mean it is free to play, but not “free-to-play,” dig? The hyphens used to let you know a game wasn’t swimming in microtransactions, before premium games started to abuse microtransactions. Anyway,The Division 2, a premium gamethat’s currently on sale for $3for four more days at the time of publication, is free to play this weekend....

Today on the Destructoid Show, I forget how to read off a teleprompter, because I’ve been shouting into a stick mic with no script all week at E3. Tara’s on vacation, so we’ve got Anthony Carboni filling in for her. The news today includesSkyrim’sDLCDawnguardentering beta, the announcement of “arrow to the knee” avatar props,Pikmin 3‘s lack of online multiplayer,Star Wars 1313,Tomb Raider‘srape stuff, and of course, Jim’s review ofLollipop Chainsaw....

Star Wars: The Old Republicis launching in another 38 countries, starting today. From Afghanistan to Yemen, people can purchase the Standard Edition or the Digital Deluxe Edition from Origin. BioWare has provided alist of participating retailers, for those of you who like physical media. The game has certainly improved quite a bit since launch, so at least these new players will be coming to the game at a more content heavy time....

These deals are worth a look if you’re into TimeSplitters, F.E.A.R. 2, Skate 3, Max Payne, and other oldies but goodies on Xbox and 360 While it’s bittersweet that the Xbox backward compatibility programhas run its course, the team really delivered in terms of game selection and modern touches to make some of our old favorites look and play well today. I know we’ve all got enough stuff in our backlogs as it is, but if you’re in the mood for some original Xbox and Xbox 360 deals,there’s over 130 titlesinXbox’s Back Compat Sale....