At this rate I’ll need to start paying my share of rent and utilities at Metrograph Welcome back yet again toThe 300, a weekly feature chronicling my attempt to see 300 movies on the big screen in 2018. I’ll be watching new releases, classics, and hidden gems to explore the wide world of cinema. Hopefully you’ll find something to enjoy here as well. As always, there are three rules for The 300: Looked over some of my numbers and apparently I sure loveMetrograph....

Goodnight, travel well Battle royale has another casualty. Apropos for a genre centered around eliminating all competitors. Developer Xaviantannounced todaythat it’s shutting down the servers forThe Cullingon May 15. The offline portion will remain available to play, but the online player-versus-player battle royale will not. That’s the main draw.The Cullingis effectively dead. Although, truth be told,The Cullingalready was kind of dead. At the time of writing, it can’t be found onSteam’s list of top 100 games by player count; that means it’s under 3,800 players, which isn’t promising considering that battle royales require a healthy stream of concurrent players to fill lobbies....

Without a doubt, plenty of gamers were disappointed to find out thatThe Last of Us: Part 2didn’t plan on a showcase for The Game Awards 2018, especially due to the fact that it has been quite some time since the action-adventure title has been put on display. With this being the case, it looks as if Sony Interactive Entertainment and Naughty Dog have now decided to offer a small token of appreciation to its fans for staying so patient during the course of the game’s production by providing a freeTLOU2theme for PS4....

Warning: This article contains spoilers forThe Last of Usseason 2, episode 1, andThe Last of Us Part II. The Last of Us’ season 2 premiere introduces a terrifying “smarter” variant of the infected known as stalkers. The first season ofThe Last of Usalready introduced plenty of frightening infected types, like runners, who are pretty much just regular zombies; clickers, who have been infected for so long that they’ve grown a crusty suit of armor around themselves; and bloaters, who are the Cordyceps equivalent of the Incredible Hulk....

TheMCUdid its most powerful character so dirty it is actually hard to believe, and no: it is not theSentry. Both the Marvel Universe and the MCU are full of extremely powerful beings who operate scales humanity cannot perceive.The Sentry, who made his MCU debut inThunderbolts*, is far from Marvel’s most powerful character, and as it turns out, the MCU bungled them in a major way. In 2021’sThor: Love and Thunder, Eternity was introduced to the MCU....

Between 2018 and 2024,Yellowstonewas one of the biggest and most successful serial dramas on television. But that wasn’t the original plan for the show sold to its lead star, Kevin Costner. In fact, it was originally pitched as a limited series with a narrower scope for the story of the Dutton family. Costner, who ended up frontingYellowstone’s cast for almost all of its five-seasonrun, initially believed he was signing on for a one-year TV project....

Tim Allen is reuniting with threeHome Improvementco-stars inShifting Gearsfor a nostalgic new season. NBC’swell-reviewedShifting Gearsstars Allen as Matt, a tough auto shop owner whose life changes when his daughter and grandkids move in. The show is a mix of family comedy, generational clashes, and car shop chaos, making it amust-watch forHome Improvementfans. Allen became a household name throughHome Improvement, where he starred as Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor, a TV host and accident-prone handyman....

The delinquent cast ofTokyo Revengersis often finding themselves in the middle of a sticky situation while the supporting cast usuallysits out on safely the sidelines. Hinata Tachibana is a supporting character and doesn’t get a whole ton of time on screen, but she still plays a very important role in the series. RELATED:Tokyo Revengers: Every Main Character’s Age, Height, And Birthday Hinata isn’t just a simple character made to be protagonist Takemichi’s love interest, she’s much more than that....

One of my favorite aspects of the PC versions ofResident Evilis how mod-friendly they are. In particular,Resident Evil 4 (2023), has 2,133 mods available viaNexus Modsat the time of this writing. While it’s fun to do things like replace character models,turn De Lago into Kyogre, and make yourself invincible, I’ve found a series of mods when, whose power combined, turnsResident Evil 4into aMariotitle. How one modder made Resident Evil 4 better A modder going by the handle ofSupremeLeader777has single-handily crafted the bulk of this batch of mods and is responsible for another Destructoid favorite, theHarbor Seal Ada Wong....

Wordlehas yet another challenging puzzle for players to attempt to solve today. to play, many will need the rules of play, somestrategy for winningWordle, and maybe even the full spoiler for today’s five-letter word. How To Play Wordle To start playing, word puzzle fans will need to head to either the New York Times Games website or the New York Times Crossword app. These are the only two places players will find the original version ofWordle; there are loads ofWordlecopycats and clonesout there, but they will have different answers than what is listed here....

Yup, it’s an X game X Rebirthcame out on Friday, and it is facing the usual bugs that games from Egosoft suffer from at launch. On theSteam forums, they have listed the known issues, and some plans on fixing them. Essentially what has happened is that the game wasn’t optimized for high-end PCs, so everyone with a decent gaming rig is suffering from terrible frame rates. I started playing it on Friday, and I’ll have a full review up soon....

Mark Hamill has clarified his recent comments about retiring fromStar Wars, insisting he is excited for the franchise’s future. Mark Hamill’s last appearance in the series came inThe Book of Boba Fett,though with de-aging technology fitting him into theNew Republic part ofStar Wars’timeline. Where theStar Warsmoviesare concerned, Hamill’s last appearance was in 2019’sStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, in which his Force Ghost passed on the legacy of the Skywalker name to Daisy Ridley’s Rey....

Mister Terrific Edi Gathegi addresses the differences between hisSupermanand hisX-Menroles. As a member of theDCU’s Justice Gang and the only one of them who helps Superman and Lois Lane out of his own volition,Edi Gathegi’s Mister Terrificis one of the most important characters in James Gunn’sSuperman. Mister Terrific’s brilliant intellect is key to Man of Steel’s victory over Lex Luthor. In an interview withTHR,Edi Gathegi explains that his Mister Terrific role inSupermandiffers greatly fromX-Men: First Class' Darwin....