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The PlayStation 4 Finally Gets Fallout 4 Mods, Many Of Which Even Work
Fallout 4 update 1.8 went live yesterday, bringing with it the long-awaited ability for PlayStation 4 players to use mods. Nearly 200 game tweaks are now live for the PS4, and many of them actually work. It’s a process, really. As with any brand-new functionality, there are bound to be some snags. For example, Neeher’s…
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Gifts For Lego Lovers Who Have All The Lego
The Lego lovers in your life probably aren’t wanting for little plastic bricks. While adding to the pile is a quick and easy method for marking them off your gift list, why not show off your own creativity by thinking outside of the blocks? Here is a selection of Lego gifts selected to inspire builders…
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Elusive Portal Character’s Been Hiding In Lego Dimensions For Over A Year
Doug “Rat Man” Rattmann is one of the most important characters in Portal, though he didn’t appear in either game. The message-scrawling scientist made his video game debut in Lego Dimensions’ Portal level pack, though he’s so well hidden it took more than a year to find him. Portal Spoilers Follow Doug is the guy…
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CultureToy Time Plays With Pokémon Sun And Moon‘s Z-Ring
In what seems like an obvious effort to stay competitive with Level 5’s monster collecting sensation Yo-Kai Watch, Pokémon Sun And Moon get their own interactive wrist toy in the form of Tomy’s Z-Ring bracelet. Let’s see how it works. Originally published 11/15/16 The Z-Ring bracelet mimics the one your character receives in the early…
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Nintendo Releases Swapdoodle, Like Swapnote But With More Stuff To Buy
Released today in North America and Europe, Swapdoodle is Nintendo’s latest take on 3DS note swapping, allowing players to share scribbled messages and purchase various add-ons to make them better at it. Though Nintendo doesn’t specifically say so in today’s eShop press release, Swapdoodle sounds like a successor to the Swapnote sharing app, sharing a…
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Overwatch Voice Actor Meetup Gets Animated
Seeing real actors speaking as your favorite characters can be a little jarring, even when they’re as attractive as Overwatch’s voice cast. YouTuber Greatdictator took the sound from Jonny “Lucio” Cruz’s awesome Blizzcon video and replaced the actors with their digital counterparts. Now we have a video (via Polygon) I can watch without staring in…
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Battleborn Fans’ Revival Event Helped, But Not Much
Battleborn Day, the fan-led event aimed at drumming up more players for Gearbox’s troubled hero shooter, managed to drastically increase the number of players in the game over the November 12 weekend, but the numbers were still low and the spike didn’t last. The spike in concurrent users during the special event, during which veteran…
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New Google Experiment Tries To Guess What Your Crappy Drawings Are
The idea behind Google Experiments’ Quick, Draw! is to teach a neural network to recognize everyday objects based on the rushed scribbles of flawed humans. If it can figure out what I’m drawing, it can do anything. Quick, Draw! players are tasked with sketching out six different objects per game using mouse to touchscreen. The…
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Katamari Damacy Statues Are The Start Of Something Big
There’s nothing like a fresh katamari. First 4 Figures is kicking off a new line of Katamari Damacy statues the same way most Katamari Damacy games begin. Just a prince, his ball and endless growth potential. Remember when Katamari Damacy was something new and wonderful, filled with strange music and quirky goodness? Before they turned…
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Hatsune Miku’s Biggest Rhythm Game Comes West In January
With more than 200 songs and over 300 costumes to collect, Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone is so big Sega had to split it into two rhythm games, and both are coming to North America and European PS4 on January 10. It’s the largest collection of music from Japan’s virtual Diva to grace consoles,…
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The Freedom To Do Stupid Things Is The Best Part Of Ubisoft’s Steep
At any given point in Ubisoft’s upcoming extreme winter sports extravaganza you can stop what you’re doing, teleport to a hot air balloon and launch yourself from it wearing a naught more than a half-assed flying squirrel costume. The first beta weekend for Ubisoft’s free-roaming extreme sports game Steep has come to a close, leaving…
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Artists Explore NES History Through Animated GIFs
More than 40 artists from around the world come together for Back to Bits, a curated art project exploring video game history via a series of gorgeous animated GIFs. You’ll probably want to save them all. In the first installment of the ongoing series, artists capture the essence of NES classics from the ‘80s and…
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Ten Years Ago Sonic The Hedgehog Was At Its Worst
On November 14, 2006 Sega celebrated the 15th anniversary of Sonic the Hedgehog with a 3D adventure marred by unfinished ideas, a convoluted storyline, sloppy mechanics and horrendous loading times. And they sealed it with a kiss. Sonic the Hedgehog’s official title was revealed at E3 2005 by series creator Yuji Naka, the last remaining…
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ReviewsRazer Ornata Mecha-Membrane Keyboard Review: Why Not Both?
Some prefer the reassuring clickety-clack of a noisy mechanical keyboard. Others crave the quiet spring of membrane keys. Razer’s Ornata keyboard combines the two into something called Mecha-Membrane, and it really is the best of both worlds. From the top-down view it looks like any black and green Razer keyboard, but it’s definitely a different…
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Culture
Pixel Gaming Lamps Sure Brighten Up The Place
Mario, Vault Boy and Mega Man have teamed up to kick off Pixel Pals, a new line of pixel art figures from peripheral maker PDP. They are obscenely collectible. Just look at the first three, all lined up with their 2xAAA battery powered lamps going. Iconic characters from three of gaming’s greatest franchises, with the…
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Battleborn Players Rally To Save The Game On Battleborn Day, November 12
Tired of seeing a perfectly good game plagued with low server populations, the Battleborn Reddit has organized a special day to help new players get into the game, and the devs are backing them up with special bonuses throughout the weekend. Battleborn is a great competitive/co-op shooter that got a bad rap. The marketing was…
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Bandai’s New TMNT Figures Are The Heroes In A Halfshell We Deserve
Even with only half of the brothers available so far, it’s clear that Bandai’s S.H. Figuarts versions of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are the best action figures based off the classic animation yet. The secret’s in the soft shell. It may seem puzzling that an action figure company would release only two of the…
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Dungeons & Dragons Earns A Spot In The National Toy Hall Of Fame
Dungeons & Dragons, Satan’s game, joins Fisher-Price’s Little People and the swing as the 2016 inductees to the National Toy Hall of Fame at the Strong Museum of Play. While other children were outside playing cowboys and we’re cowboys too just evil cowboys, I was inside with my friends playing Dungeons & Dragons, which is…
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