You may recall that, last week, a number of high-profile publishersquietly backed awayfrom the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) currently under consideration in the US House of Representatives. It was quickly pointed out that industry lobbying group The Entertainment Software Association remained in support. This means that, as a collective, all of the ESA’s member companies — including those who had removed themselves as official supporters — still get the taint of supporting the bill....

Dude loves life While you’d be hard pressed to find someone who works at Nintendo and says they hate their job on camera, Charles Martinet, the voice of Mario (and many more like Luigi) seems to genuinely love his job. He kind of has to if he’s been doing it for 26 years, and this short interview from Great Big Story encapsulates why he loves it so much. Again, it’s brief, but you get a quick look at Martinet’s theater and performance career before he starting working for Nintendo, as well as a fun little tidbit about his audition process....

King-Kong’s-Ding-a-Ling Well hello all you fine fellows. Welcome to another edition of Comments of the Week. By now all the Thanksgiving leftovers should be gone and cleaned out and all the spoils from Black Friday/Cyber Monday have been enjoyed. Now the wait for the real holidays begins and whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Krampus, or any other holiday – or even none at all – we can all get together and agree that a month of Christmas Music on the radio is insufferable....

Holmes “I can’t take belief!?!” We knewBayonetta 2was coming for the Wii U, but Holmes was mega excited to get his hands on the game at E3. Nintendo’s Gil Ruta aided Holmes with his “stripping, kicking and purple whipping” as Bayonetta took on a host of enemies, all the while standing on top of a speeding fighter jet! It seems Platinum haven’t mislaid the sense of style, humour and sheer over-the-top action that madeBayonettaa stand-out in the previous generation of consoles....

“We still like to think of it as it works perfectly as a DLC piece” Studio MDHR has been busy. Like, busy for the last five years or so, busy.Cupheadcame out in September of 2017! From the original PC and Xbox One platforms it expanded to Switch in 2019, and PS4 in 2020. But it definitelyfeelslike it came out recently, namely due to the airtight gameplay and evergreen aesthetic. If what we’ve seen oftheDelicious Last CourseDLCis representative of what’s to come, odds are it’ll be relevant for even longer....

Almost everything is a surprisingly good addition to Doom It’s always enjoyable to take a look at the modding scene to see what people are adding toDoom.There’s thatAliensproject. And there’sthe one that added loot boxesto the originalDoom. Or there’s the guy who lovesDoomso much thathe put the oldDoomin the newDoom. This particular modder, MyNameIs, has spent time implementingOverwatchweapons into hisDoomWADToward the Hell. There are videos on hisYouTube channelof stuff like Hanzo’s bow and Pharah’s rocket launcher....

Every single journey is more exciting when you have some music to accompany you on it. Similarly, someone playing the Banjo inDead Railscan really lighten the mood, even in the most dire moments. However, becoming a great Banjo player isn’t that easy. So, to help you master this instrument quickly and learn your very first tune, we prepared the following guide onhow to play the Banjo and the Linga Guli Guli meme tune on it inDead Rails....

Sigh Silicon Knights founder Denis Dyack has returned with a new studio, Quantum Entanglement Entertainment. The company was founded with the belief television shows, films, and games are converging and soon will no longer be seen as independent. Dyack asserts QE2 is the natural evolution for what he believes to be the future of entertainment. Among thestudio’s projectsare an unannounced intellectual property andShadow of the Eternals, theEternal Darknesssuccessor Dyack attempted to crowdfound (twice) to no avail under the banner of his last venture, Precursor Games....

Destiny 2‘sSeason 23 is essentially done and dusted, but one of the game’s most important updates is now on the horizon. As this year’s Guardian Games rage on,hoverboards and all, some are more excited about the upcoming Into The Light release, whose leaked gear banks heavily on nostalgia. The information we’re about to share comes straight from Bungie’sDestiny 2API, as per the ever-popularToday in Destiny website. Notably, Today in Destiny is a powerful third-party utility that helps Guardians keep up with the game via their Internet browsers....

Those Full Sail classes ain’t cheap! Steam developer Digital Homicide Studios made headlines last week when it announced it was suing caustic YouTube personality, former Destructoid reviews editor, and owner of the world’s largest collection of t-shirts you get from winning eating contests Jim Sterling formore than 10 million dollars. The indie developer says the lawsuit is a last-ditch effort to fight back against constant online harassment and a great way to raise the funds necessary for all those game development courses they need to make games that won’t be endlessly ridiculed....

DTOID News is filmed in front of an actual camera Well, we got a new camera and I accidentally switched it onto “Sears Portrait Studio” mode, so sorry if I look a little bit like I’m in a porno from the late eighties. (What else is new.) Today, we’ve got somemoredetails on Nintendo’spost-Wii U plans,Murdered: Soul Suspectis coming to PS4 and Xbox One,Disney Infinityhas Marvel and Star Wars plans, but they also just laid off a few hundred employees, which sucks....

Although I was not scheduled to tryTransformers: Fall of Cybertron, this fan of High Moon Studios’ previous offering couldn’t resist grabbing some hands-on time with the game at E3, finally test driving Grimlock and seeing if he was done justice. I do believe he was. Unlike the rest of the roster, Grimlock has no real ranged attacks, preferring to smash opponents with his sword or grab enemies and hurl them into others....

A free mystery game will be unwrapped on Dec. 16, and a new leak is pointing to Ryo Hazuki Epic has posted its usual weekly freebies — in today’s case, it’s the trimmed-downGodfall Challenger Editionand the old reliablePrison Architect— but there’s alsoa festive teaserfor a “mystery game” dropping on December 16. The gift-wrapped imagery jogged my memory and reminded me that, oh yeah, the Epic Games Store usually hosts a big holiday giveaway....