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It also won like, every other GOTY award Elden Ring, our own Destructoid 2022 Game of the Year, is still cleaning up at various award ceremonies. Just this week it managed to snag another overall GOTY win out of GDC, which announced their full list of winners last night. While God of War Ragnarok ended up taking the “audience award,” Elden Ring beat it out for the top prize. For context, this is the full list of GDC best overall nominees that Elden Ring had to compete with Elden Ring God of War Ragnarok…

Image via Marvel Studios Black Panther was a massive hit for Marvel when it came out in 2018, making many rethink their stances on superhero movies due to its surprisingly strong themes and dissection of colonization, monarchism and revolution. But if you’re completely media illiterate, you may struggle to identify any of this. There’s always been a rich vein of hot takes surrounding Black Panther for whatever reason. Perhaps a bit of people wanting to be contrarian over a critically acclaimed film, and maybe a…

David Hayter has got to have one of the most fascinating careers in entertainment, with the multi-talented actor and filmmaker having voiced Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid video game series, written two X-Men movies, penned The Scorpion King, and executive produced Netflix hit Warrior Nun. He even directed a feature film, but 2014’s Wolves wasn’t up to much. Attempting to put a fresh spin on the werewolf subgenre is a tough task as it is, but the end product proved to be every bit as derivative and uninspired as its…

via Lionsgate Bad action movies are everywhere you look, but even though expectations weren’t particularly high given that the project packed a ton of recognizable talent and was still released almost exclusively on VOD worldwide, 2015’s Survivor somehow managed to prove even worse than anyone could have predicted. Director James McTeigue was a protege of the Wachowskis, and cut his behind-the-camera teeth helming enduring favorite V for Vendetta and the gloriously deranged Ninja Assassin, while Resident Evil…

via Sony The video game adaptation continues to prove hugely inconsistent, even if the respective successes of Uncharted and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has made 2022 a year to remember for the genre. Of course, plenty of console-to-screen translations have long since been forgotten, which was very true of 2013’s Company of Heroes until this weekend. Loosely based on the 2006 real-time strategy game of the same name, the World War II adventure was sent out into the VOD wilderness and left to wither on the vine, but…