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CultureNioh 2’s PC Release Has Some Bad News And Some Good News
The bad news first: Nioh 2 Complete Edition on PC, out last week, is optimised pretty terribly. It has weird bugs like the game’s keyboard and mouse control method being almost unusable, since the on-screen prompts still only appear for a controller. Now for the good news: the game’s getting DLSS/witchcraft support soon, which should…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 8, 2021 -
CultureThe Jedi In The Woods
Adam Fisher is an artist we featured so long ago on Fine Art that the series didn’t even have a name yet Ten years later it does, and Adam has some done some incredible work in the meantime (on everything from Prey to Total Warhammer to Call of Duty), so I figured it was time…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 7, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsNow This Is A Very Nice Xbox
The Xbox Series S looks very nice in white, but I think it looks even nicer in this bright, bold and decidedly floral paint scheme by 14 year-old Dutch artist Pepijn van der Flier Done with spray paint and Posca pens over multiple layers, then finished with a matte varnish, it’s exactly the kind of…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 7, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsGenshin Impact City Recreated As An Enormous Model That Took 1000 Hours To Build
Here’s a piece of fan art of Genshin Impact’s Liyue Harbour, where my use of the term “fan art” seems about as woefully short of capturing the enormousness of the project as is humanly possible. This is more of a fan endeavour, requiring an astounding amount of preparation, design work, printing, painting and assembly (around…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 7, 2021 -
CultureCyclists Are Now Cheating In Video Games As Well As Real Life
Cycling is a sport that is riddled with Lycra-clad cheats. It has been since the very beginning, and remains so to this day. So much so that even while stuck inside and competing in their sport virtually, cyclists are still cheating. As this great Defector story sums up, loads of cyclists have been competing in…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 4, 2021 -
CultureZenimax Co-Founder & CEO Robert Altman Has Died
Robert Altman, who co-founded Bethesda parent company Zenimax and was the company’s chairman and CEO, has died, Bethesda announced today Formerly a lawyer, Altman teamed up with Bethesda founder Christopher Weaver in 1999 to create Zenimax, which in addition to Bethesda’s internal studios also owns Arkane (Dishonored), id Software (Doom), MachineGames (Wolfenstein) and Tango Gameworks…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 4, 2021 -
CultureCosplayDeath Stranding Cosplay Is Very 2021
It’s fitting that in a year where traditional shoots and shows are going to be off the table, one of our first features is a very lonely, very wonderful collection of Death Stranding cosplay. The cosplay here is by Mike Knight, while the photos are by heimeiart
By Luke Plunkett Published February 3, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsPlease Enjoy These Custom Yoshi Sneakers
For this pair of custom sneakers, which he stitched up using his own leather, Kenneth Coledecided on two things. First, he was going to make a pair of Dunks, and second, he was going to make them Yoshi Dunks. In sneaker customisation, this is what’s known as a reconstruction, where you take a shoe Nike…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 3, 2021 -
ReviewsBoard GamesDune: Imperium: The Kotaku Review
Because the movie business is in a state of absolute chaos right now, the Dune reboot, which was supposed to be the big holiday movie of 2020, is now going to be the big holiday movie of 2021 instead. Just don’t tell this accompanying board game, which went ahead and released in December 2020 anyway.…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 3, 2021 -
CultureActivision Accused Of Stealing Call Of Duty Character
The creator of a character called “Cade Janus”, developed as part of a film pitch, is taking Activision, Infinity Ward and Major League Gaming to court, accusing them of going behind his back and stealing the character for use in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare As Torrentfreak reports, Clayton Haugen claims that he created the…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 3, 2021 -
CultureGearbox Has Been Bought
Gearbox Studios, developers of games like Borderlands and also publishers of stuff like the new Homeworld titles, have been bought by Embracer Group, the same Swedish company that owns THQ Nordic and Koch Media. The acquisition makes Gearbox the company’s seventh video game holding, alongside other companies like DECA and Saber Interactive. The purchase includes…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 3, 2021 -
CulturePC Cases Catch Fire, Company Responsible Eventually Apologises
There have been complaints for a few months now that one of PC case company NZXT’s products has been catching fire. This week, the company has finally apologised and removed the case from its store. The issues concerned their H1 case, which is basically a very big, Xbox Series X-like box. As OC3D report, “It…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 2, 2021 -
CultureFallout Mod Returns After Removing Some Pretty Questionable Shit
The Frontier, a huge Fallout: New Vegas mod that was pulled last week after one of its artists was found to have posted “animated pedophillic content” online, is now back The work of that contributor—which reportedly amounted to “the vast majority of pip-boy icons”—has been removed, but so too have some other things that had got…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 2, 2021 -
CultureCyberpunk 2077 Players Warned To Avoid Mods After Security Exploit Found
Cyberpunk 2077 developers CD Projekt Red have had to issue a warning today that anyone deciding to install a mod for the game should “use caution” after a security issue was discovered. The issue is a “vulnerability in external DLL files which can be used to execute code on PCs.” While the company works on…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 2, 2021 -
OpinionAssassin’s Creed Valhalla Gets History Right Where It Matters
If Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is indeed based on historical events like its intro screen says,it is based very loosely. Yet for all its simplification and misrepresentation of the Viking invasions of Britain, there’s one thing the game depicts really well: the idea that England’s history is one of immigration. This hasn’t been a great decade…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 1, 2021 -
CultureCapcom Says Resident Evil Village‘s Very Tall Vampire Lady Is Nearly Ten Feet Tall
So we were off by a bit! Last week Ash did some excellent work trying to work out just how tall the Very Tall Vampire lady in Resident Evil Village was, eventually coming in at 96 inches, or around eight feet tall. Turns out that was too short. Thanks to the outpouring of…feelings for the…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 1, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsUltimate Epic Battle Simulator 2 Will Put “Millions” Of Characters On The Screen
Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator could do some very cool things with thousands of soldiers/ducks/zombies on the battlefield at once. Its upcoming sequel has only one place it can go to push the envelope. Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2, due sometime in the fall for the PC, does all the stuff the original did, like a…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 31, 2021 -
CultureA Four-Year-Old Muslim Boy Was Reported To A Terrorist Watchdog For Talking About Fortnite
The Guardian reportsthat the British government’s Prevent system, a community terrorism watchdog brimming with baked-in racism, once received a tip about a four-year-old boy who was overheard talking about Fortnite, which resulted in police turning up at the family’s home. The boy was reported in 2019, having been overheard after school saying his father had…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 31, 2021 -
CultureEnormous Dark Souls Mod Adds Halo’s Blood Gulch, Completely Changes Multiplayer
Modder InfernoPlus,the same guy who turned Mario into a battle royale game, has done wonders with Dark Souls, releasing an ambitious mod that transforms the game’s multiplayer and turns the map into something decidedly less horrific. Dark Souls: Remastest is “a multiplayer focused mod for Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition that adds a variety…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 31, 2021
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