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CulturePolice Arrest Members Of “World’s Biggest” Video Game Cheat Company, Seize Luxury Cars
Chinese police have moved against a company billed as the “world’s largest” seller of video game cheats, arresting ten of its members and confiscating over $40 million worth of assets. As the BBC reports, the cheat sellers were operating under the name “Chicken Drumstick”, and sold cheats for everything from Call of Duty to Overwatch,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2021 -
CultureV-Commandos, One Of My Favorite Board Games, Is Getting A Fancy Upgrade
I’ve written multiple times about V-Commandos on the site, a tactical WW2 stealth game made by some Ubisoft guys, that is very good. About the only bummer with the game was that it used fairly basic cardboard tokens instead of plastic miniatures, but hey, they’re now fixing that and then some. V-Commandos Deluxe is the…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 29, 2021 -
CultureSega Lawyers Threaten Wrong Website Over Yakuza Piracy [Update]
There are lawyers somewhere out there working for Sega HQ in Japan who have been tasked with hunting down the people responsible for pirating Yakuza: Like a Dragon. And they are not doing a good job. UPDATE March 30: A Sega representative tells Kotaku “Earlier this week, one of our games was incorrectly flagged on…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 29, 2021 -
CultureNew Magic: The Gathering Card Accused Of Using Stolen Artwork [Updates]
Strixhaven: School of Mages, a new set of Magic: The Gathering cards, is due for release next month, but one of its cards is already generating controversy. It has emerged that the artist responsible for drawing it sure did borrow a lot of stuff from another, uncredited artist. Veteran artist Jason Felix is credited on…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 29, 2021 -
CultureNike Suing Over Lil Nas X’s “Satan” Sneakers
To go along with the release of his new video for Montero—in which he gives Satan a lap dance—Lil Nas X has also teamed up with a customs company for the release of a range of Hell-themed Nike Air Max sneakers. Only problem being that now Nike is suing. The company responsible for the shoes,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 29, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsControl’s Architecture Is More Than Just Saying “Brutalism” Over And Over Again
The defining visual signature of Control isn’t its enemies or weapons but its setting. The Oldest House, which has been lauded for its take on brutalism, is a concrete-heavy architectural style from the latter half of the 20th century. But for a moment, let’s look a little beyond that. OK, maybe a little longer than…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 28, 2021 -
CultureOdds and Ends$900 Resident Evil Statue Is NSFW
PureArts are releasing this 1:1 scale bust of a Resident Evil Licker, which they say is, “One of the most disturbing creatures you can ever imagine encountering.” They are not lying. Due for release at the end of the year, the version PureArts are selling is $900. Please also consider the added cost of explaining this…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 25, 2021 -
CultureYyeessss, We’re Getting More Shadow Tactics
Shadow Tactics is one of the best stealth/tactics games of all time, and with developers Mimimi games having done the just-as-good Desperados 3 last year, they’re returning to Shadow Tactics with a standalone expansion. It’s called Aiko’s Choice, and the trailer for it sucks, since it shows nothing but the logo. But then, it’s Shadow…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 25, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsHappy 10th Birthday, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
Time flies when you’re having fun/redefining expectations and helping inspire an entire generation of video games. We take games like this for granted today, but it’s tough to understate how important Sword & Sworcery was at the time of its release back in 2011, especially for mobile games. It was part of a generation of…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2021 -
CultureIf Sega Won’t Make A New Monkey Ball, These Guys Will
Monkey Ball creator Toshihiro Nagoshi is busy doing Yakuza stuff right now, and in his absence Sega has spent the last decade neglecting the series. Not to worry! Rolled Out is here, looking exactly like Monkey Ball only for the fact that there’s a rodent in there. Let me be clear: this is not a…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsIt Is Once Again Time To Drive A Relaxing Video Game Bus
As I have written on this website, there is a gentle joy to be found in driving a video game bus, and so it is with great excitement that I prepare to settle in for the next week playing a game called The Bus The Bus bills itself as “the next generation of city bus…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2021 -
Culture1000s Of Steam Games Now Let You Play With People Who Don’t Even Have Steam Accounts
An update to Steam released earlier this week has, tucked away in its changelog, a very cool piece of news: if you’re playing a game that supports Remote Play Together, you can now invite anyone to play with you, even if they don’t have a Steam account. This won’t work for all Steam games, only…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 23, 2021 -
CultureCosplayShowcaseIncredible Yakuza: Like A Dragon Cosplay Is Punching Me In The Face
The last time we saw Enyendabbling in Yakuza cosplay, it was as a solitary star of the gangster saga. This time, he’s back, and just like Ichiban in Like a Dragon, he’s brought some friends. This is most of the main crew (sorry Eri!) of Sega’s latest crime/wholesome adventure, with Enyen as Kasuga, Mr. G…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 23, 2021 -
CultureEpic Games Store Is Draining Some Laptop Batteries
My annoyances with Epic’s store are generally limited to Fortnite pop-ups and forgetting I even had games installed there, but then I play games on a big desktop PC. If you’re using a laptop, you might want to keep an eye on the store, and in particular what it’s doing to your battery. Some testing…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 23, 2021 -
CultureReport: Microsoft Wants To Buy Discord For “Over $10 Billion”
Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft is one of several companies “in talks” to purchase chat and community platform Discord, for a price said to be in excess of $10 billion. The report says Microsoft is “in the running”, but that talks are continuing and no deal has yet been made. It’s not clear who those…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsHalf-Life & BioShock Come Together In A Very Strange Mod
Return to Rapture is a “campaign” made for Half-Life: Alyx that takes Valve’s star and drops her into the completely unrelated first-person world of 2007’s BioShock There’s a “plot” to explain this—basically, the Combine have found Rapture—but in essence you’ll be using the same controls and VR stuff you did in Alyx, against the same…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2021 -
OpinionMy New Xbox Elite Controller Has A Long Shortcoming
Having used an Elite controller on my PC almost every single day for years, it finally started showing signs of serious wear and tear, so last week I got an Elite Series 2 controller. I am mostly happy with it, but there’s one bizarre shortcoming with its interchangeable sticks that has me stumped. The original…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2021 -
CultureA Pikmin Game Is Coming To Phones
Nintendo and Niantic, the same pair behind mobile juggernaut Pokemon Go, are going to release a new augmented reality game later this year that’s all about Pikmin It’s going to launch “globally later in 2021″, and doesn’t even have a name at this point. Indeed all we know is that it’ll use Pikmin and augmented…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2021 -
CultureGlobal Chip Shortage, Affecting Everything From PS5s To Graphics Cards, Is Becoming A “Crisis”
While anyone reading this will know it has been hard finding a PS5 lately, loads of other markets are experiencing shortages as well, thanks to a global “crisis” affecting the supply of semiconductor chips to—well—anything that uses them. And that’s a lot of stuff. As The Guardian reports, while the supply of chips should be…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2021
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