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System Shock Gets Its First Fan-Made Campaign Mod, 24 Years Later
A remake of the 1994 game System Shock by Night Dive Studios is due out sometime in the next few years, but fans who donât want to wait can revisit the space horror game now in System Shock: ReWired, the first ever total campaign mod for the classic game. Fan made over the course of…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryI’m Glad I Started Playing The Witcher 1 Last
The Witcher came out on PC in 2007. That feels like a lifetime ago. The series is now easily one of my favorites, but a decade ago I, like a lot of people, had no idea it even existed. Thatâs created a weird dynamic as I play The Witcher 1 for the first time knowing…
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Twitch Prime includes Pillars of Eternity and 20 other games this month. All you have to do is make sure your Twitch and Amazon Prime accounts are linked and you can start downloading the games as they arrive, including Battle Chef Brigade, Observer, Tacoma, Tyranny, and a bunch of others
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The Next Evolution In Gamer Food Is Here
Funko, the toy company behind the adorable/creepy/vacant-eyed parody dolls of beloved cultural icons ranging from Spider-Man to David Cross that time he covered himself in blue paint for in episode of Arrested Development, announced in a new blog post today it will soon be selling cereal as well. Itâll be called FunkOs and each box…
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Modder Tries To Make PS4 Controller More Accessible With One-Handed Variant
The reveal of Microsoftâs Adaptive Controller in May furthered conversation around video games and accessibility. The controller inspired DIY modders to invent their own peripherals aimed at gamers with different mobility needs. This 3D printed, one-handed PS4 controller is one of those projects. Constructed by a YouTuber who goes by Doppel, the prototype in the…
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Mario Tennis Acesâ 1.1.1 Update went live today, tweaking the difficulty of some of the matches in Adventure Mode and adding player ratings for the online mode starting July 1. In addition, a new trailer for the game revealed that Diddy Kong, Koopa Paratroopa, and Birdo will be added this fall.
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Riot Accidentally Sends A âFewâ League of Legends Players Other Peopleâs Personal Info
Some League of Legends players received sensitive private information that belonged to other people earlier this week due to errors by Riot, makers of the internationally acclaimed multiplayer game. Instead of getting access to their own requested account info, several received phone numbers, email addresses, and detailed player histories of other people. A Riot representative…
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Dark Souls 3 Data Miner Thinks A Massive PVP Mode Was Cut
Some secrets buried in an alpha build of Dark Souls 3 reveal that some sort of Battle Royale-style player-vs-player event may have at one time been planned for the game. As Souls data miner Lance McDonald shows in a recent YouTube video, a few special items that never made it into the final version hint…
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Warner Bros. says development studio Behaviour Interactive has assured it that the allegations in Bethesdaâs recent lawsuit are untrue, according to a statement made earlier today. Behaviour worked on Fallout Shelter for Bethesda and a Westworld mobile game for Warner Bros., which Bethesda claims to be a rip-off that used code from the former
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Microsoft is working with Showtime on a Halo TV show set to go into production next year The project, which has been bouncing around in one form or another since 2013, is finally moving ahead with Steven Spielberg still attached along with Rise of the Planet of the Apes director Rupert Wyatt.
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Switch Is A Port Machine, And I Love It
Iâve been playing a ton of old games on my Switch. If you own one, you probably have too. Now, sure, that is in part because the Switch doesnât have that many exclusive games. But itâs also because Switch is a fantastic way to catch up on older ones. Today itâs getting Limbo and Inside,…
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Tempest 4000 heads to PS4 and Xbox One on July 17. The modern reboot of the original Atari game by creator Jeff Minterâs Llamasoft studio is supposed to stay true to the arcade classic while adding 4K graphics, new modes, and leaderboards so we can be reminded how terrible our personal scores are.
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The $500 million verdict Zenimax won against Facebook over the Oculus Rift was cut in half yesterday by a U.S. District Court, Bloomberg reports. The parent company of Bethesda had sued the social media company claiming its VR headset was developed using intellectual property stolen by former employee John Carmack.
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Capcom Ditches Guns Nâ Roses Boss Names For Mega Man X Collection
In a new trailer intended to show off Mega Man X Legacy Collection 1 and 2âs challenge mode where players can choose to fight two Maverick bosses at the same time, Capcom inadvertently revealed something even more important: the bosses in Mega Man X5 will no longer be named after the members of Guns Nâ…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryMy First Hours With The Crew 2Â Were Mostly Forgettable
Last night in The Crew 2 I drove from New Orleans to Manhattan in about 20 minutes. Behind the wheel of the free, workmanlike 2016 Mazda MX-5 the gamegave me to start, I zig-zagged between other cars because one, I was going 150 miles an hour and they were not; and two, narrowly avoiding collisions…
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Ubisoft has finally fixed the deadzone issue in Far Cry 3 Classic Edition just in time for its standalone release today It was my only major complaint when playing the port last month, with a lack of analog stick sensitivity making precise aiming extremely difficult. Thatâs no longer the case.
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The Makers Of Dying Light Are Trying Something Very New For The Sequel: Politics
Dying Light 2 takes parkour zombie slaying to a new city, and thereâs a reason for that. Where the first game, released in 2015, was about dealing with a viral outbreak in real time, the second will deal with the aftermath years later. Infested creatures are just another environmental fixture of society post-collapse in Dying…
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The Fight Between Switch Hackers And Nintendo Is Ramping Up [UPDATE]
People love their Switches. Some people love them so much they want to break them open and make them do things theyâre not supposed to. That means Nintendo has to respond. The back-and-forth between Nintendo and hackers reached fever pitch this week. First, some background: In April, Switch hackers found a way to jailbreak Switch…
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Watch The Second Day Of The 2018 Summer Games Done Quick Speedrunning Marathon
Summer Games Done Quick returns for its eighth year with speedrunning performances across a number of classics, starting with Banjoe-Tooie. SGDQ is one of my personal favorite ways to kick-off the season and is always a great distraction from the summer heat and quiet release schedule. Based out of the DoubleTree Hilton in Minneapolis, Minnesota,…
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EsportsDota 2 Team Disqualified After Allegedly Testing Positive For Macros
When Juan âAtuunâ Ochoa was accused of cheating at Dota 2, he was playing one of its most complicated heroes, a grotesque-looking gnome who can clone himself, trying to help his team win the South American qualifiers for the 2018 International. Ochoaâs actions resulted in his team being disqualified, its dreams of attending Augustâs $14.7…
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