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CultureReport: Microsoft Bringing Xbox Game Pass To iOS In 2021
A few months back it seemed pretty unlikely that Microsoft would be able to bring its Xbox Game Pass (via xCloud streaming) to iOS devices, but a report today says that games boss Phil Spencer is telling employees it’ll be ready next year, and it’ll likely be using a browser to get around Apple’s restrictions.…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 8, 2020 -
CultureCosplayShowcaseBloody Hell Here’s Some Bloodborne Cosplay
Photographer Nikolay Zharov put this incredible shoot together featuring the work of three cosplayers: Tina Morbid (Good Hunter), Shion (Father Gascoigne) and Zep Hindle (Old Hunter Henryk). The costumes are amazing! Ditto the props! But I also deeply love the action figure-style pedestal shots, it’s a great way to give us a look at a…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 8, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsGhost Of Tsushima Will Now Let You Pet The Beautiful Dogs
We’ve already told you all of the big things coming in Ghost of Tsushima’s 1.1 update coming next week, but we haven’t told you the most important thing: you’ll now be able to pet the dogs. While playing in the new New Game+ mode, if you equip the Charm of Canine Recruitment, you’ll be able…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 8, 2020 -
OpinionStar Wars: Squadrons Is Exactly What I Needed
In 2013, Electronic Arts signed a deal granting them the exclusive rights to develop and publish Star Wars video games. For most of that time, sitting on the most lucrative licensing on the planet, they managed to release…three games, and cancelled at least three more That’s a terrible return! After years of neglect from a…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 8, 2020 -
CultureChess Tournament Winner Banned, Says Opponent “Was Doing Pipi In Their Pampers”
Like a lot of other sports this year, chess has been having good times online,. Except that is for the very end of the Chess.com Pro Chess League Championships last week, when the winning team was disqualified for “unspecified fair play regulations.” As this feature on Defector reports (go subscribe!), Armenian chess grandmaster Tigran L.…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 7, 2020 -
CulturePostcards From The Future
Amin Faramarzian is a freelance artist based in Turkey who has worked for companies like Lego, Hasbro and Pepsi. We actually featured Amin’s art back in 2014, but man, there’s so much good stuff to check out in 2020 that we’re circling back around and taking a look at pieces he’s done since. You can…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 6, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsRainy Season Is Incredibly Chill
It’s the time of year for a lot of big, loud and explosive games, so if at any time you’re feeling in need of a palate cleanser, you could always check out Rainy Season A very small, very quick game by Inasa Fujio, it puts you in the role of a Japanese boy whose plans…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 6, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsWe’ve Finally Got A Great Game Of Thrones Game
After a number of bombs and false starts, and a glorious mod that doesn’t count because it’s a mod, there’s finally a very good, official Game of Thrones video game. And all the developers had to do was port a board game to the PC. As we’ve written here loads of times, the Game of…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 6, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsDLSS On 240p Video Games Is Some Witchcraft
Nvidia’s DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) tech is one of the most impressive advances in recent video game history, able to take images that look fine and, through a process involving magic, make them look better. Even if you’re playing at some of the lowest settings imaginable. While most of you will be using it…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 6, 2020 -
CultureCosplayGalleryOur Favorite Cosplay From New York Comic Con, 2013-2019
It’s early October, which means it should be time for the New York Comic Con! Sadly, it is early October in The Year Of Bad Times, so there isn’t one in 2020. To help fill the void, both in terms of content for this cosplay website but also in our hearts, here’s a look back…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2020 -
CultureCosplayMake Your Own Life-Sized Animal Crossing Tools, If You’re Feeling Crafty
If you’ve got some time coming up, and materials/money to spare, one of the countless ways you could spend all that would be to build your own life-size replica Animal Crossing tools. Because those butterflies aren’t going to catch themselves. The wonderful Bill and Britt from Punished Props have put this video together showing how…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2020 -
CultureRTX 3070 Delayed, And Don’t Expect To Find A RTX 3080 Or 3090 Any Time Soon
If you’ve been trying to get your hands on one of Nvidia’s new RTX 3080 or 3090 cards,and aren’t willing to pay exorbitant resale prices, you may want to resign yourself to waiting until 2021. As Tom’s Hardware reports, in a Q&A call earlier today Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that the company is expecting…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsYou Can Install And Run Crysis From An RTX 3090’s VRAM
The new RTX 3090 graphics card has 24GB of virtual memory, which is a lot. Enough to be able to install Crysis 3 on it, and then run it, all off the card. Software engineer Strife used a program called GpuRamDrive to create a partition on the 3090, carving out 15GB to install the game,…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2020 -
CultureFans Get Warhawk’s Servers Back Online
2007 PS3 game Warhawk, one of the real pioneers of modern multiplayer console gaming, sadly lost its PlayStation Network support a couple of years ago. Well, it lost its official support; thanks to the hard work of some fans, it’s now back online. The team behind PSONE (PlayStation Online Emulated) have got servers for the…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 1, 2020
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