Spot Dodge: A Live Nintendo Podcast discusses the most underrated or overlooked games Welcome back! It is a new Tuesday, which means tonight there will be a new episode of Spot Dodge: A Live Nintendo Podcast exclusively on Destructoid.Topics: Tonight on Spot Dodge the crew discusses some of the most underrated or overlooked games ever released. One of the games at the top of my list isThe Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess....

Reaper’s kin Blizzard is slowly giving us a glimpse at the new covenant system inWorld of Warcraft: Shadowlands, which lets you pledge your allegiance to a lore-centric group in the new expansion. We’ve already seen the others (like the vampiricVenthyrand thefairy Night Fae), but this week the deadly Necrolords take center stage. With a name that sounds like it was straight out of aDarksidersgame or a middle school Xbox Live account, the dead-centric clan is housed within Maldraxxus, one of the new zones inShadowlands....

Made by the team behind Far Cry 3 Yeah, you read that headline right. Trust me, I was having a hard time wrapping my head around it too, but sure enough, a Japanese-style role-playing game from Ubisoft. Even stranger,Child of Lightis by writer Jeffrey Yohalem and creative director Pat Plourde, two of the main people behindFar Cry 3. Child of Lightis a 2D action JRPG made on the UbiArt Framework engine, the same engine that’s made that last two wonderful-lookingRaymangames....

They (both) don’t want none [Update:SAG-AFTRA has confirmed that the documents seen below are legitimate. Both sides of the negotiation seem positive about the deals they put on the table — Ray Rodriguez, the chief negotiator for SAG-AFTRA, told Destructoid the documents “completely corroborate everything we’ve been saying.” During the press conference where the documents were released, Scott Witlin, the lead negotiator for the video game companies, told us he was “not ashamed” of the most recent deal....

The company plans for a $200 million cost reduction [Update:Ubisoftreleased a follow-up statement, noting that it hopes to share a new release date forSkull & Bones, along with dates for test phases “very soon”. Additionally, a new episode of development series The Deck will be streaming today at 09:00 PT / 12:00 ET / 18:00 BST onUbisoft’s Twitch channel.] Ubisoft is making more big shifts to its future plans. The company announced today that it is cancelling three more unannounced games, pushingSkull and Bonesfurther back, and is planning a cost reduction of more than €200 million over the next two years....

Just a little tease We still don’t know all that much about the newNierproject. Even after speaking with creative leads Taro Yoko and Yosuke Saito at E3 this year, an experience I likened topulling teeth, we were given onlya vague ideaof what exactly the development team at Platinum Games is cooking up. That still largely remains a mystery, but the studio has shared a new piece of concept art for the upcoming action role-playing game, showing “a young boy [staring] out over a dilapidated city....

Destiny 2‘s Aspects are essentially unique ability/kit modifiers that can define a Guardian’s niche within their specific subclass. Introduced with the Stasis Darkness subclass as part of theBeyond LightDLC and subsequently expanded to the game’s Solar, Void, and Arc subclasses as part of the Light 3.0 update, it was a given that the same feature would also be available with Strand abilitiesfeatured in theLightfallDLC. As one would expect, there’s a bunch to choose from, though most of them aren’t available across the board, for all Guardian classes....

Get to know the people that make great videogames Have you heard ofCatlateral Damage? It’s a gamecurrently on Kickstarterthat works as both a prequel toKatamari Damacyand a rascally cat simulator. While it’s already met its funding, there are some attractive stretch goals left (like a PS4 port), so there’s still good reason to get in on it early if you’ve got some scratch to spare. There’s even a free demo of it you can check outright meow....

Completing the Kitakami Pokédex in the first part of thePokémon Scarlet and VioletDLC,The Teal Mask, is worth a lot more than the feeling of accomplishment. Your Pokédex, just like in the base game, gifts you items as you reach some milestones of unique Pokémon captured or evolved. These are the Pokédex completion rewards. Out of the 13 items you can get, nine of them are rare or difficult to find in other ways....

Paint the town red… and green… and pink The Arowana Mall map, popularised in the originalSplatoon, is reopening for business back in the Nintendo Switch’s arena-shooter sequel,Splatoon 2, this evening. Arowana depicts an empty shopping district, ready for redecoration by teams of trigger-happy squid-kids. The news of its return has been met with raised eyebrows by some fans, who tremble and speak in hushed tones of its chokepoints and bottlenecks, perfect for camp-happy snipers and sprinkler setups....

‘Discover the cruel truth’ There are three prospectiveAssassin’s Creed Valhallavillains that no one expected: Grendel, Grendel’s mom, and a big-ass dragon. Assassin’s Creed Valhallawill have a side mission based on the events ofBeowulf. It’s called “The Legend of Beowulf,” and it’s exclusive to the season pass. (Although, it’s seemingly only bonus content, not actually a full-fledged add-on.) This was accidentally posted to the Ubisoft Germany site along with the description “Discover the cruel truth behind the legend....

Title is already in early development stages Casey Hudson, Executive Producer on theMass Effectseries,took to Twitter last nightto ask fans what they would like in the nextMass Effecttitle saying, “We’re in early stages of designing a completely newMass Effectgame. What would you want to see in it?” No surprise here that the next entry issort ofofficially announced. The universe is so enormous that it was always expected to go beyond the initial first three games....

Sony announced anewGod of Warduring E3. I think it’s got some good ideas and came away impressed from an extended demo of the game (hands-off) andinterviewwith director Cory Barlog where we talked about how this newGod of Warrepresents the games industry literally growing up, with how many creators at major studios have entered parenthood and started inserting those themes in their games. Speaking toVentureBeat, Barlog has an additional inspiration for the new direction: a live-actionStar Warsshow you’ve probably never heard of....