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CultureTwitch Leaks New Street Fighter V Character [Update]
Update (1:06 p.m. ET, 02/11/2021): During today’s winter update steam, Capcom clarified that Eleven will be a bonus character in Street Fighter V rather than the last addition to its final season. We’ve updated the headline to reflect this. The shapeshifting fighter will be given to players who purchase either the Season 5 character pass…
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CultureOdds and EndsLara, You’re Drunk
When Core Design and Eidos Interactive were getting ready to ship Tomb Raider III in 1998, they recruited Lara Croft herself to promote the game. The resulting animation was…something else. It’s hard to overstate just how big a deal Lara Croft was in her heyday. Sure, she’s gotten all gloomy and grimy recently, but you…
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CultureUbisoft Considering Changing Rainbow Six Quarantine‘s Name Amid Covid-19 Pandemic
Ubisoft co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot told investors yesterday that the company is looking into changing the name of Rainbow Six Quarantine due to the negative connotations of the subtitle while the world is still in the middle of the covid-19 pandemic. “We are creating a product that is actually… as it’s named today, it…
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CultureCD Projekt Red Hackers Allegedly Ready To Auction Stolen Source Code
Earlier this week, Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red announced that its cybersecurity had been compromised, resulting in attackers gaining access to various internal files. Now, it appears as if those hackers are ready to cash out with a big-money auction of the data, which allegedly includes source code for some of the Polish studio’s…
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CultureTales From The Borderlands Returns To Digital Storefronts On February 17
During today’s Borderlands presentation, the folks at Gearbox revealed that Telltale Games’ excellent Tales from the Borderlands will be returning to digital storefronts next Wednesday, February 17. The first episode of Tales from the Borderlands, a player choice-drive adventure game in the iconic Telltale style, was first released in late 2014, with additional chapters extending…
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ReviewsSwitchSuper Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury: The Kotaku Review
Super Mario 3D World would be incredible if I didn’t already know who Mario was and what he was all about. In his 2013 review of the Wii U original, Kotaku writer Luke Plunkett described Super Mario 3D World as a “greatest hits collection, bringing together all the best things Mario has already done in…
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CultureBloodborne Modder Releases Long-Awaited 60 FPS Hack
Bloodborne can now be played with smooth 60 frames-per-second visuals thanks to the long-anticipated release of an unofficial patch. You will need a modded PlayStation 4 to try it out, however, preferably a PS4 Pro. The patch’s creator, Lance McDonald, is something of a video game archaeologist, with cool stuff on his resume like discovering…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryI Hope This Final Fantasy XIV NPC Finally Got To Take A Dump
One meets a variety of NPCs while playing Final Fantasy XIV. Some can be pretty annoying—looking at you, Thancred—while others are instantly memorable. A poor Ishgardian sentry who desperately needs to find a bathroom while her country is being invaded by dragons falls into the latter category. At the beginning of Final Fantasy XIV’s patch…
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CulturePokémon World Championships Skip 2021 Over Covid-19 Concerns
After canceling in-person competition in 2020 due to the rise of the covid-19 pandemic, The Pokémon Company announced it will skip official tournaments through 2021 as well. “The safety and well-being of our competitors, organizers, employees, local communities, and partners [continue] to be our top priority and is the primary consideration with every decision we…
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CultureAnother Good Actor Has Somehow Signed Up For The Borderlands Movie
Halloween and Christmas with the Kranks star Jamie Lee Curtis joins Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart as the latest actor to be cast in the upcoming Borderlands movie, Collider reports (h/t Variety). “Working with the iconic Jamie Lee Curtis has been a lifelong dream of mine, and I am so excited for her to bring…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryHey Agent 47, Slow Down On The Stairs, You Could Hurt Someone
I’ve been putting a bunch of time into Hitman 3 since it launched a few weeks ago. It’s very good, if a little too heavy on storytelling, but I can’t help but cringe a little every time I’m asked to follow an NPC up or down a flight of stairs. Hitman 3 anti-hero Agent 47…
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CultureDisco Elysium Update Includes ‘Political Vision Quests’ That Permanently Change The UI
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, a “director’s cut” of the original game from 2019, will introduce the “political vision quest,” giving players a chance to further cement the protagonist’s ideological leanings. The Final Cut will come to PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, PC, and Stadia next month, completing developer ZA/UM’s vision for the dialogue-heavy role-playing game.…
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CultureFinal Fantasy XIV‘s Next Expansion Drops This Fall With A New Healing Class
During tonight’s Final Fantasy XIV showcase, Square Enix announced its next expansion, Endwalker, for release this fall. As usual, the update includes a bunch of stuff, the most noteworthy being the enigmatic Sage, the first new healing-focused job since the Astrologian was added to the MMORPG in 2015’s Heavensward expansion. Final Fantasy XIV players will…
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CultureOdds and EndsSuper Mario World Soundtrack Remaster Spoils Original’s Lo-fi Brilliance
A group of Super Mario World fans are currently remastering the SNES platformer’s soundtrack (h/t Chris Kohler) with high-quality versions of the original samples. But if you’re hoping for some grand, orchestral versions of tracks you’ve loved for decades, these really aren’t that. It started with a fan combing through files from the so-called “Gigaleak,”…
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CulturePrince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time Remake Delayed Indefinitely
Ubisoft’s upcoming Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake has had its release date pushed back again, now for the foreseeable future, according to the company’s latest update on the game’s progress. “[W]e have made the decision to shift the release for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake to a later date,”…
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CultureA Hat Generates Big Controversy In Latest Sky: Children Of Light Update
The latest update to thatgamecompany’s Sky: Children of Light introduced a new hat that has stirred up controversy among the game’s Chinese and Korean fans, with both sides claiming cultural significance related to the cosmetic item and refusing to give an inch on social media. While accessories aren’t labeled in-game, the Sky community largely assumed…
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CultureOdds and EndsSomeone Actually Hit Every Target In Super Smash Bros. Melee’s Credits
As a game that’s been played both casually and competitively for almost two decades, Super Smash Bros. Melee is pretty much figured out at this point. But one thing has always eluded diehard fans, at least in terms of recorded footage: a perfect run of the credits sequence. That changed two days ago. It started…
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CultureGuy Goes On Super Nintendo World’s Rides, Films Them
Universal Studios’ Super Nintendo World was supposed to open in Japan this week before being indefinitely delayed due to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. That said, folks who recently had a chance to visit the park during a special preview day are apparently still allowed to share footage from their experience, giving us some nice first-person…
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CultureOdds and EndsRemedy, Please, No
Control developer Remedy Entertainment, caught up in the Lady Dimitrescu hype, has done something terrible. It made the Former, which is already horrifying, even more distressing by giving the monster a full set of teeth. And it’s smiling Listen, I know we’re all having fun with the tall Resident Evil lady. I even wrote something about…
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CultureCanceled Xbox 360 GoldenEye Remaster Is In The Wild
A playable version of that beautiful Xbox 360 GoldenEye 007 remaster we reported over the weekend is quickly spreading online after Ars Technica spilled the beans last night. I’ve played it and, unsurprisingly, it’s really great. The files come from a near-final beta build of an Xbox Live Arcade release that was eventually canceled sometime…
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