New $50 Roku Express 4K Bundle Includes a Voice Remote Pro

Roku sells some of thebest streaming devicesaround (andnow TVs too), but the budget devices ship with a simplified remote without features like a built-in headphone jack. That’s now changing, as Roku is introducing an Amazon-exclusive bundle with the Roku Express 4K and Voice Remote Pro, giving you the company’s cheapest 4K streaming box with its best and most feature-packed remote. Roku has announced the Roku Express 4K with Voice Remote Pro, its newest bundle that brings the excellent Roku Express 4K, which will allow for 4K streaming with a very easily pocketable device, and pairs it with the Voice Remote Pro out of the box....

June 1, 2025 · 2 min · 350 words · Alexandra Walker

New Pokemon Squishmallow Leaked Online

Summary New information gleamed from online leaks revealed that a newPokemon-themed Squishmallow will likely be available to purchase soon, with the next plush featuring a widely-beloved Dragon-type Pokemon that has been a favorite among fans since the very first generation ofPokemontitles. ManyPokemon-themed Squishmallows have been extremely popular among fans of the franchise over the past few years, with two new products becoming available back in November. Pokemonfans seeking to collect these adorable Pokemon plushies should already begin making space for new additions, though, as new products appear to be inbound just months after the release of the previous ones....

June 1, 2025 · 3 min · 469 words · Michael Cain

New South Park: The Fractured But Whole Trailer

With the latest iteration of theSouth ParkRPG game series from Ubisoft being stricken by similar delays to the first entry, players were eagerly expecting news on the title at E3 2017. Ubisoft came through, dropping a new trailer for the game and upholding its updated release date: October 17th, 2017. The trailer can be seen in its entirety below, and details the broken alliance inSouth Park: The Fractured But Wholebetween the two teams of superheroes of South Park....

June 1, 2025 · 2 min · 378 words · Lauren Galvan

Ni no Kuni dev endeavors for games to transcend film

A deeper look at Studio Ghibli’s involvement with Ni No Kuni It appears that Level-5 has some pretty lofty aspirations withNi no Kuni. In this follow-up to the title’sinitial developer diary, Animation Director Yoshiuki Momose discusses the collaborative effort behind the project. Words are quite unnecessary to convey how gorgeous this title looks. And if creating a living, breathing world with Studio Ghibli wasn’t ambitious enough, it might interest you to hear that the team behindDragon Quest VIIIand theProfessor Laytonseries has some deeper designs in mind for both their company and the industry at large....

June 1, 2025 · 1 min · 173 words · Marcus Nunez

No Man's Sky Visions Update Revealed

DespiteNo Man’s Sky’s rocky start, Hello Games has since worked to provide its fans with regular and worthwhile updates. Fulfilling empty promises made for the game’s launch,No Man’s Sky NEXTwas the update that changed everything for its players by finally introducing its expected multiplayer features and much more. Now, after numerous redemptive updates, Hello Games is continuing to provide new content asNo Man’s SkyVisionsis set to release tomorrow. When Sean Murray and Hello Games did not deliver the content they promised forNo Man’s Sky’s launch, they received extreme backlash and made it their first priority to redeem themselves....

June 1, 2025 · 2 min · 335 words · Catherine Williamson

Non-Newsround #3: Polishing turds with reckless abandon

Good people of the Imperial City, welcome to the arena! It’s Jim Sterling, your debonaire prince, here once again with another dirty wad of non-news. If you haven’t been with us forpreviousinstallments, the format is very simple; I spend the week gathering news stories and following tips that just aren’t noteworthy enough to make their own Destructoid posts, gather them all together and unload them with a thick, creamy sauce in one almighty post of pointless tripe....

June 1, 2025 · 6 min · 1246 words · Christopher Mitchell

Pokemon Sun and Moon demo showcases the older 3DS model limitations

Just like Monster Hunter and Smash It’s getting to the point where the old 3DS models are almost no longer welcome. While there still are only several exclusives for the “New” edition that sports enhanced hardware, a lot of others run slower on older models, or have some limitations. People are discovering this with thePokemon SunandMoondemo that just hit yesterday, as folks with original 3DS units have been reporting that they cannot use online functionsoutsideof the game itself, like Miiverse, and the internet browser, without soft rebooting the demo first....

June 1, 2025 · 1 min · 138 words · Denise Williams

Popular Fortnite Streamer Hits 100K Kills

Throughout 2018, some ofFortnite’s best players continually one-upped each other, raising and re-raising therecords for killsin a single match of battle royale. Amidst this heated competition, certain other players had their sights set on different elimination goals, and a particularly ambitious one was finally reached on Sunday. [HTML1] “I know 100k elims might not mean anything to some,” HighDistortion wrote on Twitter following his accomplishment. “To me though this is an accumulation of everything I’ve grinded for between my 1st kill all the way 100k....

June 1, 2025 · 2 min · 319 words · Hunter Barrett Jr.

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart Seems Even Better After PS5 Release

With the launch of the PlayStation 5, many have lamented the lack of “next-generation” exclusive experiences outside of Bluepoint’s remake ofDemon’s Souls. While Insomniac Games’Spider-Man: Miles Moralesis a true spectacle to behold on the new console,its PlayStation 4 version is no slouch either. Thankfully, Insomniac Games is releasing a PlayStation 5 exclusive experience withRatchet and Clank: Rift Apart, some time in the first half of 2021. Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apartis the eighth main entry in theRatchet and Clankseries, acting as a direct continuation of 2013’sRatchet and Clank: Into the Nexus....

June 1, 2025 · 4 min · 797 words · Jared White

Resident Alien Season 4, Episode 2 Review: I Laughed Out Loud Throughout, But I Wish The Episode Packed More Punch

This post contains spoilers for Resident Alien Season 4, Episode 2Resident Alienseason 4, episode 2 sees Harry reconnect with his peers while undergoing a terrible crisis, leading to hilarious results. Alan Tudyk stars as Harry in this laugh-out-loud comedy show about an alien whose sole purpose on Earth was to destroy the planet. However, in season 4, the threats are more often external. After months of imprisonment in a Gray alien prison, Harry returns to Earth and his dear friends....

June 1, 2025 · 4 min · 711 words · Amber Mason

Scarlett Johansson Gives Disney The Perfect Pirates Of The Caribbean 6 Replacement

Scarlett Johansson is working on a new movie with Disney, and it will be the perfect replacement forPirates of the Caribbean 6. ThePirates of the Caribbeanfranchise is one of Disney’s biggest, and despite the series' consistent box office successes, there still hasn’t been a new film released since 2017’sPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Pirates of the Caribbean 6has been in development for a while now, and there are still very few details regarding the upcoming film....

June 1, 2025 · 4 min · 849 words · Madison Dominguez

Sentry's Creator Reveals the Original Codename of Thunderbolts*'s Villain

Soon to enter the MCU inThunderbolts*, the Golden Guardian of Good known as theSentryis Marvel’s most powerful - and most troubled - hero. The hero’s backstory involves being removed from human memory multiple times, which makes it somewhat ironic that the hero was originally conceived with a totally different codename. Releasing May 1,Thunderbolts*stars Lewis Pullman as ‘Bob’ - the civilian identity of the Sentry andhis dark reflection the Void. In a recent interview withPopverse, Sentry co-creator Rick Veitch bemoans his treatment by Marvel, branding the publisher"the House of Stolen Ideas"for allegedly erasing his credit for the character, conceived with Paul Jenkins and introduced inSentry #1by Jenkins and artist Jae Lee....

June 1, 2025 · 3 min · 488 words · Amy Kelly

Skull and Bones Not Coming to Nintendo Switch

We already know thatUbisoft has plans to support the Nintendo Switch— before the console even launched, the studio promised that it would field a “wide variety” of games for the system. However, there’s now word that the upcomingSkull and Boneslikely won’t make its way to the platform. It seems that the sticking point might be a question of graphical fidelity, as the game’s creative director Justin Farren indicated that the Switch might not be able to produce the visuals the team are putting together forSkull and Bones....

June 1, 2025 · 2 min · 318 words · Tiffany Austin