Falls afoul of a drunken Orc There is a new episode of Conan O’Brien’s Clueless Gamer series, where the chat-show host, comedian and formerSimpsonswriter tackles an upcoming title for a little bit of PR, to somewhat amusing effect. The new episode has Conan try his hand atMiddle-earth: Shadow of War, alongside actor/comedian Kumail Nanjiani, who also features in the open-world sequel. Conan gets into a few battles, with varied success, which is kind of reflective of the comedy in these skits....

‘I could’ve been at a barbecue!’ THQ Nordic continues its meaty marketing campaign for upcoming remakeDestroy All Humans!Having already celebrated July 4by laying waste to Washington,yer boy Crypto is now relocating his rampage to top-secret government base “Area 42.” The new trailer, which you can check out below, sees the pint-sized prick arrive at the desert-based installation, using his cloaking abilities to access America’s most-guarded facility, before letting rip with his arsenal of interstellar weaponry....

Rescheduled for June 25 CD Projekt Red has announced that its plannedCyberpunk 2077event is being pushed back amid protests against racial injustice to make room for more important voices to be heard. The event, which was scheduled for June 11, is now set for June 25. This follows Sony, who yesterdaydelayed its PlayStation 5: The Future of Gaming eventoriginally scheduled for this week. In a statement on Twitter, the development team laid its thoughts out for all to see:...

Also, zombies At any waking moment someone could uncover someSuper Mario Odysseycostumes. It’s just a given. Nintendo seemingly packs in so much unused data into all of theirOdysseyupdates that folks have an easy time locating them, and now YouTuber Mizumi has found some more. Mizumi went through the latest update and identified the following costumes: zombie, Santa, 8-bit Mario cap, conductor, and racer. Perhaps the most disturbing is the zombie, which features an axe in Mario’s head, but there’s also classy costumes on display (like the noble conductor) or festive ones (like Santa)....

The fourth page inDead by Daylight‘s Tome 18: Revision was unlocked this week, allowing players to complete the final set of challenges and see the last journals and cutscenes of story hidden within it, and they can’t get enough of one individual’s lore. One of the scenes this Tome holds is the backstory of a young Caleb Quinn, also known as The Deathslinger. It shows his days in Hellshire Prison as a young man, where he revealed his penchant for skewering people before being given more tools to refine his methods....

Developer Behaviour Interactive completely reworked how theTwisted Masquerade Eventworks inDead by Daylightfor 2024. It has new mechanics to master that can give you an advantage as both the Killer and Survivor in every Trial, but only if you know how to work them. 2024’s version of the Twisted Masquerade inDead by Daylighthas Invitations, though not as you know them, and Tryks, which completely change the game in a Trial. Each is designed to give you an advantage....

Here’s the story so far Electronic Arts and Visceral Games have announced that a demo forDead Space 3will be dropping on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network on June 04, 2025, giving us a couple short weeks before the horror game’s full release on February 5. Those who want to nab it a week earlier can do so byregistering their Origin IDfor an early-access code redeemable for the Xbox 360 demo. And speaking of Origin, there’s been no mention of a possible PC demo, so don’t hold your breath for that....

The waiting is the hardest part In the continuous wake of the James Gunn exit from the MCU, Disney has confirmed that production forGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3has been pushed back to February of 2021. As the search for a new director–and potentially a new writer–trudges forward, Disney has made it clear they’re not going to rush into anything too serious too soon. It’s a solid relationship model, for what it’s worth....

24-hour deal is in motion Rebellion is letting Steam users download its World War II shooterSniper Elite V2for freeand yes, you get to keep it “forever.” The 24-hour promotion is good until tomorrow at 10:00am Pacific. Sniper Elite V2is that game in which you can shoot people and watch an x-ray replay of bones shattering, hearts popping, and eyes exploding. In fact, I just learnedvia YouTube tutorialhow to land a nut shot on Hitler — because that’s a thing you’re allowed to do....

Still just ‘early 2018’ Dynasty Warriors 9, which Koei Tecmo is touting as the first real open worldWarriorsgame, will be arriving in “early 2018” based on Sony’s recent TGS press conference. We don’t really have much else to go on other than that it’s a thing, it has a grappling hook, 83 characters are in, and that it’s going to be released on PC, PS4, and Xbox One, but there you go....

We do this all the time. Destructoid’s editors come together and talk about the strange occurrences that we’ve experienced throughout our work week. With events like E3, we’re usually so busy doing our own separate things that we don’t see each other much, so this is a good way to catch up and find out what everyone did. This year it wasn’t as much abouthorror storiesas it was totally messed up things that we saw or experienced....

Requiem: Bloodymareis Gravity’s recently launched (and oddly named) free-to-play MMORPG. Rather than trying to appeal to every MMO enthusiast under the sun,Requiemis instead marketed as a more mature alternative: stocked full of violence and horror elements. I recently gave the game a spin to see just how spooky and violent it really is. I also wanted to find one of those bloodied horses the title makes reference to, but was never was able to track one down....

There is so much to unpack in FNAF:Secret of the Mimic, but the series has to start from somewhere. We’ve finally moved away from William Afton (although he does make a cameo in the form of W.A) to take a close look at the story of the Mimic. Here is our explainer of FNAF:Secret of the Mimic‘s full story. Table of contents FNAF: Secret of the Mimic plot, summarized The year is 1979....