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CultureWitcher 3 Fans Build A New Quest With Perfect Geralt Voice Acting
A Night to Remember is a brand new, fan-made quest for The Witcher 3, set after the events of Blood & Wine, and while I’m keen to check out new writing and new battles, I’m also interested in the AI tech being used here to simulate the trademark sounds of Doug Cockle, Geralt’s voice actor.…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 11, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsA Very Short, Very Wholesome Zelda Song (By The Dude From The Mountain Goats)
Imagine being a kid, sitting down to play some Zelda, and instead of kicking back with the game’s instrumental score getting an improvised soundtrack from your dad. Who is… John Darnielle from The Mountain Goats. My new life goal is to get someone doing this while I play Total War, and by “someone” I mean…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 11, 2021 -
CultureNew Space Game Puts You In Control Of Everyone, Like A God
The Fermi Paradox is “a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game,” that’s coming later this year on PC, where instead of taking control of a single space-faring faction, you’re more of a “gardener”, tending to loads of factions and trying to guide them from the stone age into the depths of space. A bit like Suzerain,…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 8, 2021 -
CultureAfter Decades Of Conflict, We’re Finally Getting Official Macross Releases In The West
Macross is one of the finest and most influential anime of all time, but for over 20 years the international distribution of the series’ later instalments—basically everything made after 1995’s Macross Plus—has been held hostage by a fierce legal struggle between several companies. We wrote an explainer on the whole mess back in 2013 if…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 8, 2021 -
CultureThe Alex Kidd Remake Is Looking Sharp
Alex Kidd is one of my earliest console gaming memories, and I was so obsessed with it I used to bug my parents to rent a Sega Master System for the weekend just so I could play it. So I am keeping a very close eye on the upcoming Alex Kidd in Miracle World remake…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 7, 2021 -
CultureIntel, A ‘White Nationalism’ Slider Ain’t It
Intel gave a presentation at GDC a few weeks back, but I’m guessing nobody actually watched it because it took until this week for anyone to notice this absolutely absurd pitch from the company, which wants to use AI to monitor and censor “hate speech” in your online voice chat, and let users toggle just…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 7, 2021 -
CultureSmuggled Nvidia Cards Found After High-Speed Boat Chase
Only a week after a Chinese bust involving cheat makers and luxury cars, authorities have seized hundreds of smuggled Nvidia cards after a speedboat chase in the waters near Hong Kong International Airport. As Tom’s Hardware have translated, from Chinese outlet TVB News, over the weekend police saw a fishing boat anchored suspiciously close to…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 7, 2021 -
CultureCosplayGalleryFor April 1, Cosplayers Around The World Had A Convention… In Their Pyjamas
There haven’t been any cosplay conventions in over a year, which sucks! But when life gives you lemons, you can make lemonade by having a convention from the comfort of your own home. In your PJs, no less. That was the reasoning behind Pajama Con, aka PJCON2021, an April Fools stunt—complete with website—that pretended to…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 7, 2021 -
CultureHardcore Military Sim ArmA 3 Getting Huge Vietnam Campaign
There aren’t many games that are seriously based on the Vietnam War, mostly because, thanks to the terrain and the politics, it’s an incredibly difficult conflict to simulate. The upcoming S.O.G. Prairie Fire, however, is looking to change that. Built within ArmA 3, using its creation suite by external developers Savage Game Design, S.O.G. Prairie…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2021 -
OpinionImpressionsMansions Of Madness Deserves A Better Video Game
Fantasy Flight’s Mansions of Madness, the standout game from the publisher’s Arkham Horror line-up, is one of my favourite board game experiences of all time, a near-perfect blend of occult investigation and unforgiving combat. Both things that its new video game adaptation is terrible at. Which shouldn’t be too surprising, given this game’s rocky history.…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2021 -
OpinionThere Are Too Many Warhammer Video Games
Back in 2016, Mike wrote a blog called “There Are Far Too Many Warhammer Games”. In 2021, things have only got worse. Here is a list of every Warhammer game—both 40K and fantasy—I could find that has been released or announced since 2014, the same year Mike started counting from: Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon (2014) Warhammer…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2021 -
CultureGlobal PS5, Xbox & GPU Shortage Partially Blamed On $1 Parts
As we talked about last week, the global supply shortage affecting all kinds of products, from consoles to phones to cars, is down to a lack of semiconductors. More specifically, though, one of the biggest culprits is a shortage of tiny parts that cost around $1. As this Bloomberg report points out, a global shortage…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 5, 2021 -
CultureClassic Half-Life 2 Mod Neotokyo Gets A Singleplayer Spinoff
Neotokyois an absolute PC gaming classic, a (somehow) free mod for Half-Life 2 that remains one of the prettiest and coolest multiplayer shooters on the planet. And now, 12 years after its first release, it has a single-player experience for fans to play through. NEOTOKYO° Kshatriya is a little rusty around the edges, but in…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 5, 2021 -
CulturePC RPG Installs Mystery Program, Fans Freak Out
Fans of the RPG Another Eden—out this month on PC—this week discovered that, alongside installing the game itself, copies of the game obtained on Steam were also installing something called ‘wfsdrv’ which seemingly had nothing to do with the game. Initially believed to be some kind of driver, then suggested as something more sinister, fans…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 5, 2021 -
CultureAh Loot River Looks Fantastic
A few seconds into this announcement trailer for Loot River and I’m thinking, OK, it’s a top-down Dark Souls game. Fine, whatever. A few seconds later suddenly there’s Tetris in there too and everything looks a lot more interesting. The combination of slow and methodical combat, puzzle elements as you race across sliding barges/platforms, and…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureMicrosoft Sells Three Bethesdas Worth Of Minecraft Goggles To The U.S. Military
In 2015, Microsoft showed off its fancy new HoloLens augmented reality goggles with a very impressive Minecraft demo. In 2021, the company has just agreed to sell “up to 22 billion” worth of headsets based on that original tech to the U.S. military. As TechCrunch reports, while the military and Microsoft originally agreed to some…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureCosplay6’9″ Cosplaying Olympian Is Now Resident Evil’s Tall Vampire Lady
This is Yekaterina Lisina, a bronze medal-winning Olympian with the Russian basketball team, and now model, with what is surely the most 1:1 cosplay possible of Resident Evil’s Lady Dimitrescu. I mean…just look at this: And this: It took a whole team to get this shoot looking this good, with the dress made by osqurobviously,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2021 -
CultureYouTube Might Be Getting Rid Of The Dislike Count
YouTube just announced that, “in response to creator feedback around well-being and targeted dislike campaigns,” the site is testing some new designs that “don’t show the public dislike count.” While this isn’t a definite site-wide change being made for everyone, it shows YouTube is at least considering the move, and is currently testing “a few…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2021 -
CultureApex Legends Skins Delayed After Company Changes Its Name Mid-Promotion
This week was supposed to see the release of a new set of branded skins for Apex Legends, done in collaboration with streetwear label Chinatown Market, but that company’s decision to rebrand in between the skins’ announcement and release means Respawn currently has them on hold. The skins were originally due for release on March…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2021
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