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The next chapter in Spider-Man’s The City That Never Sleeps DLC, called Turf Wars, is out November 20. While it adds new story missions based around the crime boss Hammerhead, the DLC also brings new challenges, trophies, and Spidey suits, including the Spider-Armor MK, Iron Spider, and Spider-Clan Suits.
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Esports
Valve Condemns Dota 2 Pros Making Racist Remarks But Calls On Teams To Regulate Themselves
Following a series of offensive remarks made by professional Dota 2 players recently, the game’s creator Valve has published a blog post condemning the behavior. In keeping with the company’s traditional approach of remaining mostly hands-off, however, it leaves the responsibility for sanctioning players strictly with teams, and didn’t offer any clear guidelines about how…
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The New Smash Trailer Is Better With Pop Music
Over the weekend, Nintendo released a new commercial for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate without any background music. The internet proceeded to work its magic and there are now hundreds of different versions of the video floating around set to songs ranging from Prince’s 1991 to the Dragon Ball Z intro music. They all somehow work…
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Esports
The Best Team In Rocket League Is On The Hunt For Another World Championship
Team Dignitas won Rocket League’s season five championship earlier this year. It was not easy, though, requiring a long run through the lower bracket that culminated in a back-to-back best-of-seven series against NRG Esports. Despite a nail-biter in the final match after NRG tied things up 3-3 with what some have called the best goal…
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OpinionImpressions
Warframe’s New Expansion Features Class Warfare
Fortuna was released yesterday on PC, and is expected to arrive on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in the near future. It’s too early to know whether Fortunat rights some of the wrongs made by last year’s expansion, Plains of Eidolon, when it first released, including it felt too isolated from the rest of the…
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Culture
Bethesda Says It Plans To Fix Fallout 76’s Item Storage Problem
Fallout 76 players are running out of room in their inventories, and the game’s not even out yet. Fortunately, Bethesda is promising a fix. Finding and crafting the best equipment is a major part of Fallout 76. The game’s world is full of junk you can pick up, useful for creating everything from guns and…
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New PS4 Pro Models Seem Much Quieter
While the PlayStation 4 Pro has been out in the wild for two years now, it’s recently undergone some slight hardware refinements that change how loud it is. According to a recent analysis by Digital Foundry, the noise reduction in the latest iteration of the console, currently only available as part of a Red Dead…
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YouTube is now available on the Nintendo Switch, bringing the console’s total app count up to two. The only other app currently available on the platform is Hulu (which, thanks to Hulu’s live TV, I actually use a lot). This also means you can officially watch the next Nintendo Direct on Switch.
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Players Have Discovered Payday 2‘s Secret Ending
Payday 2 came out in 2013, but players are only just now uncovering what appears to be its secret ending after weeks of piecing together esoteric clues in the culmination of a challenge that began even before the game was officially released and was finally able to be completed thanks to a new update to…
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Culture
Nintendo Says It Will Remove Racist Native American Animation From Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
In pre-release marketing materials for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, set to release on December 7, the character Mr. Game & Watch uses racist Native American imagery during one of his attacks. Nintendo now says it plans to remove that imagery from the game and has apologized to fans, saying the caricature doesn’t represent the company’s…
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Some Switch Players Are Looking Outside Nintendo For Matchmaking
Nintendo Switch Online went live over a month ago. While the paid service is required for people to play games like Mario Tennis Aces online together, it still doesn’t include any way for players to easily meet and connect with one another. As a result, fans have tried to fill that void with their own…
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CultureKotaku Game Diary
I Don’t Want Fortnite’s Cube Monsters To Go
For the last couple weeks, cube monsters have been rampaging through Fortnite matches (don’t call them zombies or you’ll hurt Epic Games’ feelings). But on Sunday, they, along with their namesake, disappeared from the game. It was beautiful, but I was sad. Cube monsters have been my favorite thing to happen to the game since…
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Parent Wants Just Dance To Stop Asking Their Kid To Subscribe
In response to a complaint about Just Dance 2019’s Kids mode on the Switch mixing in songs that require a monthly subscription with the free ones, a spokesperson for Ubisoft said the publisher is currently working on solving the issue. Just Dance 2019 came out a couple weeks ago, and as with other recent entries…
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Warhawk and other PS3 games have had their server shutdowns delayed until January 31, 2019. The games were originally due to go offline late last month, even though in Warhawk’s case, owners did not receive the promised 90 days notice. Sony did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the extension.
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There Are Already Mods For Fallout 76 On PC, But They Might Not Last
While Fallout 76 isn’t officially out until next week, there’s already a small but growing modding community for the game congregating on Nexus Mods, a fan-run network of mods for PC games. The game is supposed to have full mod support sometime after it launches, but as usual, PC players aren’t waiting. Following the game’s…
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Esports
Eight Nations Face-Off In This Weekend’s Overwatch World Cup
In Overwatch, as in soccer, there’s annual league play and international World Cups. This weekend belongs to the second. Before OWL’s second season gets underway, teams from around the world will represent their nations at BlizzCon in the Overwatch World Cup. It’s one of the game’s most entertaining events for all the same reasons people…
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You Can Now Get Destiny 2 Free On PC
From today until November 18, Destiny 2 will be free for people on PC to download through Blizzard’s Battle.net client, the company announced today at BlizzCon. The giveaway is to mark the game’s one year anniversary of first coming to PC. Obviously, this offer only applies to people who haven’t already purchased the game on…
By Ethan Gach