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CultureBethesda Is Moving Its Forums To Discord, And That Sucks
In a blog post made earlier today, Bethesda—home of everything from Elder Scrolls to Wolfenstein—announced plans to “sunset the forums on Bethesda.net.” Or, in more precise terms, shut them down. “When the forums first started on Bethsoft.com, they were a great place for everyone to discuss amazing games, share stories, and come together with similar…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 19, 2021 -
CultureEven Video Game Sneakers Are Getting Delayed
We’re so used to video game delays that we now come to expect them, doubly so during a global pandemic, but in 2021 even video game sneakers are throwing their release dates out the window. Nike’s new PlayStation 5 sneakers, a PG5 collab, were supposed to drop on May 27 (or May 17 if you…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 18, 2021 -
CultureNew Zelda Amiibo Has A Bullshit Special Power
Amiibo granting special powers in a Nintendo game is nothing new, it’s half the point of the things existing, but normally those powers are fairly tame, or simply shower the player in gifts. This new Skyward Sword HD one, though, is very disappointing, because it bestows an ability that all players should have, all the…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 18, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsPlayer Completes Grand Theft Auto V In Nine Hours Without Taking A Single Hit
Here we have GTAV player UnNameD not only finishing the entire single-player storyline in a blistering nine hours, but somehow doing the entire thing without taking a single punch, stab or stray bullet in the process. Using a mod that would kill him in the event of taking even a sliver of damage—just to make…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 18, 2021 -
CultureNvidia Is Trying To Stop Crypto Miners Buying RTX 3000 Series Cards
Earlier this year, Nvidia announced that their GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards would ship with a “reduced Ethereum hash rate,” making them a lot less useful for crypto miners. They’re now extending that move to the RTX 3080, RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti as well. From late May, all the above models will start…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 18, 2021 -
CultureFIFA 21 Will Feature A Player Tragically Murdered In 2006
At just 15 years of age, talented footballer Kiyan Prince—part of the academy at London club Queens Park Rangers—was murdered outside his school. This week, he is being symbolically re-signed as a player by QPR, and will also be appearing tomorrow (May 18) as a player in FIFA 21 As Reuters reports, Framestore (a special…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 17, 2021 -
CultureTotal RecallLet’s Go Back In Time And Visit A Japanese Arcade In 1992
The early 90s was a magical time for arcade gaming, especially in Japan, so what better way to take a trip back in time than watching this excerpt from a 1992 documentary all about the Game Fantasy arcade in Nerima, Tokyo. Clipped from a longer video about arcade gaming, the excerpt doesn’t have properly translated…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 17, 2021 -
CultureMass Effect Remake Fixes A Character’s Race
For over 13 years, there has been a character in the original Mass Effect who was, well, the wrong race. An oversight the series’ new remasters has finally been able to fix. As Eurogamer points out, since 2007 the minor character Elanos Haliat has looked human, but was also a character who led an attack…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 17, 2021 -
CultureRoblox Is Now Hilariously Pretending It Is Not A ‘Game’
Roblox is a place where you play games, right? It ticks all the boxes, it’s obvious, we all know it is. So why, I wonder, has one of the world’s most popular, uh, entertainment service platforms suddenly stopped using the word “game”? As The Verge reports, last week Roblox scrubbed almost all mentions of the…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 17, 2021 -
CultureeBay Is Banning The Sale Of ‘Adult Video Games’
On June 15, global auction site eBay will be implementing a new “Adult Items Policy,” and it goes a lot harder on mature content than simply outlawing the sale of pornography. The site’s new guidelines take a huge step towards banning (or greatly restricting) the sale of all kinds of sexual content, from art to…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 16, 2021 -
CultureNew Mass Effect Changes Tali’s Face
It wasn’t the biggest of Mass Effect 3’s missteps, so you’d be forgiven for having forgotten all about it, but BioWare’s trilogy did us all dirty when it spent 2.9 games building up the mystery of what Tali the Quarian looked like only to reveal…she looked like stock art of a sexy human lady. The…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 16, 2021 -
CultureSega Remembers It’s Sitting On A Bunch Of ‘Dormant’ Games That Need Reboots
As part of Sega’s latest financial results report, the company had something of a public awakening, realising that after years and sometimes decades spent sitting in the archives, covered in dust, it might be worth bringing back series like Jet Set Radio, Shinobi and Crazy Taxi. As you can see on this presentation slide, spotted…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 13, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsSkyrim Player Tries To Kill Every Single Living Thing In The Game, Will Die Alone And Remorseful
No doubt looking for fresh challenges in a game that’s been out for nearly ten years, jaeinskyrim recently decided to embark on a quest to…kill every single person and creature in the entire game world of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim It’s technically an impossible quest, of course; while many people in the game are…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 13, 2021 -
CultureTarget Stores Will Stop Selling Pokémon Cards After Shortages, Fighting
Thanks to a combination of the pandemic, late-stage capitalism and people being assholes, Target stores across the US are about to halt all physical sales of certain trading cards, with Pokémon on the list. As comicbook report, the restrictions will kick in from May 14, and will only apply to physical stores, with online sales…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2021 -
CultureParadox Director Is Very Sorry For “Low Quality” DLC Releases
Following fan backlash over Europa Universalis IV’s Leviathan DLC, which wound up the worst-rated launch on Steam of all time, the director of the studio responsible has apologised to fans for not just Leviathan’s poor quality, but that of some other recent releases as well. Posting on the company’s forums, Paradox Tinto manager Johan Andersson…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsGrand Theft Auto V Looks Almost Photorealistic Thanks To Machine Learning
While we’ve seenloads of examples of AI making games look better over the last couple of years, I’ve never seen anything like this approach, that’s able to take Grand Theft Auto V and through the power of magic make it look so damn real This is a project by Stephan R. Richter, Hassan Abu AlHaija…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2021 -
CultureTotal RecallLet’s Remember Gran Turismo 5’s Intro, Which Was A Masterpiece
We tend to associate video game intros with lavish, pre-rendered cinematic sequences. Something to help kickstart the story, set the tone. Which is fine, but there’s been a video game intro stuck in my head for over a decade now, and it wasn’t trying to tell me a story. It was trying to teach me…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 11, 2021 -
CultureLife Is Still Strange
Florent Auguy is an artist from France who has worked on stuff like Into the Spider-Verse and Detroit: Become Human We also featured his art waaaaaay back in 2013, but since that was such a long time ago and he’s done so much since (including a bunch of Life is Strange 2 art which you’ll…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 11, 2021
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