Decapitations for the YouTube generation When I was a little boy,Mortal Kombatwas a tough sell around my home. Like most pre-adolescents of the era, I was darkly attracted to the idea of ninjas and movie stars decapitating each other in bouts of gladiatorial combat. After years of family-friendly games,MK‘s edgy aggressiveness seemed like tantalizing forbidden fruit and I ate it up. I played it in the arcades every chance and I couldn’t wait for a home version where I could practice fatalities in the privacy of our den....

Destructoid.com is proud to announce that our PAX Prime panel, Destructoid LIVE, will not only feature discussion from awesome Destructoid editors, all-original Destructoid video content, and fabulous prizes includingDeadly Premonitiongear — it will also feature the world-exclusive reveal of a new game! We don’t want to say too much, but I can assure you that this bit of news will be a total trip. We will have a critically acclaimed third-party Nintendo developer in the house to show off, for the first time, a brand-new game that is most likely going to be awesome....

We are right at the end of another month, which means Microsoft is ready to show off the next lineup of new Games with Gold for May 2019. Xbox One players will be mingling with friends through a collection of party games, then hitting the fairway. Xbox 360 owners will be defending the planet from deadly space bugs and getting into all sorts of comic mischief. As always, Games with Gold is offering four new titles to members that they will be able to play for free, two for each console....

Microsoft is preparing to deliver a new round ofXbox Game Passreleases for the month of July. Today the company revealed the latest games that will be available on the Game Pass subscription service for both Xbox One and PC. Four games in total are being added toXbox Game Passthis month, three of them running on console and two running on PC. But the good news comes with some bad in July, as Microsoft has also confirmed a large group of games leaving the service – including some very good games....

Warning: SPOILERS for 1923 Season 2’s Finale - “A Dream and a Memory” There are two different ways to interpret Spencer Dutton’s (Brandon Sklenar) ending in1923’s finale, and either perspective has a massive impact on Kevin Costner’sYellowstoneshow. Spencer finally made it to Montana at theend of1923season 2, fending off Banner Creighton’s (Jerome Flynn) men at the train station in Livingston and the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch. Spencer was a crucial element in helping his aunt and uncle, Cara (Helen Mirren) and Jacob Dutton (Harrison Ford), win the war against Donald Whitfield (Timothy Dalton), with Spencer killing Whitfield in1923’s finale....

Jake McLaughlin from the popular ABC seriesWill Trentopened up about Detective Michael Ormewood’s brain tumor storyline and how he felt playing that out on TV. During the finale ofWill Trentseason 3,Ormewood is diagnosed with a brain tumor and immediately faints, resulting in a seizure, following the shocking news. The season ends with this news, leaving it on a cliffhanger for season 4. While it is unclear whether or not Ormewood will be okay next season, he will be returning forWill Trentseason 4....

The animation team behindInvincibleis still perfecting how to bring the superhero show to life — and I’m getting more and more impressed with each new season. Debuting in 2021,Invinciblebecame one of the boldest takes on the genre to come to TV. The show is based on the comic of the same name that Robert Kirkman created alongside Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley. As it’s only grown more ambitious andvisually inventive on the creative side, the animation process has likewise become more refined....

Galactusis one of the most formidable villains of Marvel, devouring entire planets just to keep himself alive. He can’t screen which planets he should devour himself, so he has heralds who do the job for him, usually against their will or with their psyche severely suppressed. Given that the herald’s job tends not to be the greatest morally or even the safest, Galactus has had a revolving door of heralds....

The following article contains spoilers for 9-1-1 season 8, episode 15, “Lab Rats.“9-1-1is one of the most intense shows on TV that focuses on the challenges that first responders, including firefighters and police officers, go through every day to save lives in Los Angeles. However, the ABC show takes a dramatic turn when one of its protagonists,Robert Wade “Bobby” Nash diesafter being contaminated by a deadly virus in9-1-1season 8, episode 15, “Lab Rats....

Prime Video features manyfantasyTV shows that are over, as well as others that are still airing. This means that viewers can’t watch the entire story unfold. While it’s exciting when a new season of a fantasy show is coming, it can be agony waiting for the next installment to arrive.It’s comforting to start a series and know that every episode is at your fingertips. Among thebest fantasy shows on Prime Video, some are original series produced by the streaming service, while others are older projects that are currently housed on Prime....

Starfield’s Shattered Space expansion is set for a release window of Fall 2024. The massive scale of the title in terms of its exploration perfectly compliments post-launch expansions such as this, with there being an immense amount of narrative leeway to expand the game’s lore. The Shattered Space expansion forStarfieldrecently got some attention at the Xbox Games Showcase, with its time at the presentation confirming the major involved factions and locations of the DLC....

Following an expletive-laced introduction atThe Game Awards 2017, writer, director, and Hazelight Studios founder, Josef Fares, officially unveiled a fresh trailer for the forthcoming action-adventure title,A Way Out, with the footage laying out how the cooperative multiplayer experience will play. Along with the new trailer, it was also announced that fans will have a unique opportunity to play with friends who don’t even own the game, with co-op being free....

The beginning of 2019 has been marked by a number of changes at Activision Blizzard, with the company’s CFO, Spencer Neumann, leaving to join Netflix and Blizzard CFO Amrita Ahuja taking a new position at Square Inc. Today saw yet another shakeup when it was announced that the company isrelinquishing the publishing rightsto Bungie’sDestiny, and this has seemingly led to a significant drop in the value of Activision Blizzard’s stock....