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CultureFan-Made Portal Game Adds Third Color, Which Allows Time Travel
Portal 2 was challenging enough when all you had to worry about was space, but now we have to think about time as well? Portal Reloaded is a mod, released just in time for Portal 2’s 10th birthday, that introduces a new set of test chambers and, more importantly, a new portal colour. You’ll still…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 19, 2021 -
CultureRockstar Games Disappeared From Steam, Then Came Back, Even Ones You Couldn’t Buy Anymore
Earlier today all of Rockstar’s games temporarily disappeared from Steam, then quickly came back, likely down to a listing error. That’s fine, whatever, but when the games came back, some of them hadn’t been there in the first place. While obvious Rockstar games like Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption did the thing,…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 19, 2021 -
CultureThe European Super League Is Terrible, But At Least We’re Getting PES Jokes Out Of It
Plans for a European Super League are just about the worst thing to happen to football, maybe ever, but if we’re to get any consolation from these dark and turbulent times, it’s with jokes about Pro Evolution Soccer PES is famous for its emphasis on how football plays, but it’s also famous for lacking the…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 19, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsSuper Mario 64 Plus Adds Very Cool Settings And Ideas To Nintendo’s Classic
Super Mario 64 Plus is a modified version of the PC port of Super Mario 64, which takes the original and adds loads of stuff like 60FPS, bug fixes, a ton of in-game options and, best of all, “The ability to continue the level after getting a star.” Don’t think of it as a completely…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsEven As A Pacifist You Will Still Kill Over 700 People In Grand Theft Auto V
Like they did with Max Payne, Sex Positive Gamer have sat down with Grand Theft Auto V and played it as peacefully as possible, keeping murders to the absolute minimum required to progress the story. And it’s still a lot of murders. 726, to be precise, most of them as part of missions where the…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2021 -
CulturePath Of Exile Let Streamers Bypass Long Server Wait Times
During the launch of its new expansion Ultimatum, Path of Exile’s servers were having some problems over the weekend, leaving players with wait times to get in that sometimes stretched into hours. Unless, that is, you were a streamer paid to broadcast the game, in which case you got straight in. Fans stuck waiting quickly…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2021 -
CultureHomeworld 3, It’s Nice To See You Again
It has been almost two years since Homeworld 3 was announced alongside a slightly suspicious crowdfunding model, and in those two years we’ve barely seen or heard a thing about the game. We still haven’t, really, but at least today we got to see something This short video of a Railgun Frigate blowing a hole…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsPlayStation’s Recycled Boxes Are Very Cool
I am very much developing a thing for more responsible video game packaging, and so this blog by Sony on how they’re cutting down on plastics in their PlayStation boxes was pretty interesting reading. As part of “a commitment to eliminate plastic use in newly designed small product packaging by 2025,” Sony explains how the…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 14, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsLet Us Once Again Marvel At How Good This Flight Sim Looks
The DCS series has a (well-earned) reputation as being serious as hell, but I think that stereotype helps people overlook the fact that it’s also one of the best-looking video games on the planet. I know there are perfectly good reasons for that—like there isn’t much else to model, so the models the game does…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 14, 2021 -
ReviewsBacklogMaybe Your ‘Pile Of Shame’ Is A Problem
Because everything has gone to shit and very few new games are coming out—look at you, you’re all playing Outriders for God’s sake—we’re going to be spending the month looking at backlogs, aka the games we own but haven’t played. And I would like to start that month by saying that anyone using the closely-related…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 14, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsFans Build 3D Sonic Game In Dreams, And It Looks Fantastic
There are two tiers of Dreams experience. I know I’ve played it, and tried to build things, but then I see what other people can do with it and I wonder if we were even playing the same thing. I mean…just look at this. Look at it! This is a fast, bright, colourful, very fast…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 13, 2021 -
CultureNier: Automata’s Broken Steam Version Is Finally Getting An Update
Nier: Automata’s original PC release on Steam was busted in all kinds of ways, so much so that fans had to make their own patches. Now, fours years after it was released—and only a few months after a less-busted version appeared on the Microsoft Store—the developers are finally going to update it. We don’t know…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 13, 2021 -
CultureOh Hey It’s Yet Another Persona 5 Spin-Off
Persona games and spin-offs, name a more iconic duo. Chinese giant Perfect World announced earlier today a new mobile game Code Name: X, which with its soundtrack and art style and pretty much everything else suggested it was a Persona 5 game, without actually coming out and saying it. Which was weird, and led some…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 13, 2021 -
CultureCrusader Kings III Will Soon Let Modders Create Same-Sex Marriages
While Crusader Kings III shipped with the ability for characters to have a same-sex relationship, that could only happen behind the scenes, with concubines and marriage reserved for a man and a woman. After feedback from fans and modders, that’s about to change. As part of a blog post outlining some changes to the way the…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 13, 2021 -
CultureFirst PS5 Update Introduces Loads Of New Stuff
The first major update for the PlayStation 5 console is due to land on Wednesday, April 14, and among the additions and improvements to the console are the ability to keep games on USB storage, new social features, and changes to the PlayStation app. Sony announced the update on the PlayStation Blog, saying that while…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 13, 2021 -
OpinionI’m Finally Happy I Bought An “Old” Graphics Card
Let me tell you about an emotional rollercoaster I’ve been on for the past eight months. It’s a cautionary tale, about the perils of obsessing over PC hardware, but also one of celebration, a triumph against the odds. In 2015, I purchased an all-new, pre-built gaming PC—the first time I’d ever done that—and had such…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 12, 2021 -
CultureBig Bowser Penis Has Been Removed From Patreon
AkkoArcade is a 3D modeller who specialises in adult props for NSFW Source filmmaker clips. Earlier this week one of their creations—a large, veiny dick intended for use with Bowser movies—has had to be removed from Patreon after a takedown notice was issued against it. WARNING: NSFW IMAGERY BELOW As The Daily Dot report, the…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 12, 2021 -
CultureRIP Enzio Sciotti, Badass 80s Movie Poster Artist
Enzo Sciotti is an absolute legend, and anyone who spent time in a video rental place looking at posters and VHS covers—especially in the horror and “shitty action movie” sections—will instantly be able to recognise his work, even if they never knew him by name. Born in 1944 in Italy, and with a career spanning…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 11, 2021 -
CultureOutriders Bug Is Still Costing Players Dozens Of Hours Of Lost Progress
Outriders had a few bugs at launch, like most online games do, but the worst was one that simply wiped player’s inventories, robbing them of hours of progress. A big patch went live over the weekend to fix the game and…that bug is still there, only now it’s costing players a lot more progress since…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 11, 2021
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