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CultureThe Art Of Marvel’s Avengers
While working with a licensed property like The Avengers means you don’t need to imagine everything from scratch, there’s still a ton of work that went into designing and fleshing out the setting for Crystal Dynamics’ latest game. Below you’ll find a cross-section of work that went into The Avengers’ development, from environment design to character…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 22, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsArt Of Rally Turns Driving Into Meditation
Art of Rally is what happens when you take driving—usually depicted in video games as a very loud and busy thing—and strip it back to its most beautiful basics. An incredibly minimalist effort from Funselektor (of Absolute Drift fame), it’s a full-blown single-player racing game described as “a stylized experience inspired by the golden era…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 22, 2020 -
CultureTotal RecallHalo 3: ODST Is Back, So Let’s Remember One Of The Greatest Video Game Trailers Of All Time
Halo 3: ODST is out on Steam today, a fresh addition to the Master Chief Collection, letting a whole new generation of players take part in one of the defining games of the series’ golden age. But today, I don’t want to look forwards, I want to look back, to the game’s 2009 release. When…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 22, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsLeague Of Legends’ New Board Game Is Pretty Basic
Thelast official League of Legends board game was a pretty lavish affair, a tower defence experiment with nice miniatures and some cool ideas. The second, Tellstones, is…less ambitious. Tellstones: King’s Gambit is a simple game of memorisation and bluff, for 2 or 4 players, that only takes around 10 minutes to play (and sometimes a…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2020 -
CultureNintendo Takes Down XXX Peach Game Years After Release
For almost eight years, an incredibly NSFW game called Peach’s Untold Tales has been available to play. But it’s only this month that Nintendo’s lawyers moved on the game, issuing a DMCA notice against it on Github As TorrentFreak report, the notice says Peach’s Untold Tales infringes on the copyrights of everything from Super Mario…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2020 -
CultureRon Cobb, The Design Genius Behind Aliens And Back To The Future, Has Died
Ron Cobb, the legendary production designer whose ideas helped define movies like Alien, its sequel Aliens, Conan the Barbarian, Back to the Future and The Last Starfighter, has died at the age of 83. As THR reports, Cobb passed away in Sydney (where he has been living for decades) on Monday having suffered from Lewy…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2020 -
Now Super Mario 64 Is Running On A Sega Dreamcast
Super Mario 64 running on a PlayStation 2 was one thing, but there’s something even more unsettling/impressive about seeing it playable on a Sega console. This is the same story as last week: now that Super Mario 64’s source code has been reverse-engineered, it’s possible to compile the game to run natively on different platforms,…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 20, 2020 -
CultureNvidia Sorry That Bots Bought A Ton Of RTX 3080s
It wasn’t just PS5 preorders last week that were a disaster, Nvidia’s release of its new RTX 3080 graphics card was also not great, again thanks to the actions of resellers using bots. With fans being pretty damn upset they missed out, Nvidia has apologised and promised to do better as the new cards continue…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 20, 2020 -
CultureDisintegration Released In June, Closing Servers In November
Disintegration, a shooter released earlier this year by V1 Interactive (headed by Marcus Lehto, one of Halo’s creators) tried some interesting stuff, but ultimately couldn’t find much of a fanbase. And so its multiplayer servers are due to shut down just five months later. “We have made the difficult decision to remove Disintegration’s multiplayer modes…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 17, 2020 -
CulturePS5 Pre-Orders Were A Complete Clusterfuck
Yesterday, right after Sony’s big PS5 event, the company announced that pre-orders for the next-gen PlayStation console would “be available starting as early as tomorrow at select retailers.” And then, they weren’t. That’s pretty clear, right? “As early as tomorrow” suggested that some places would have their pre-orders go live on the morning of September…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 17, 2020 -
CultureThe Ads In The Middle Of Twitch Streams Are So Bad
The news yesterday that Twitch was testing mid-stream ads was bad, but man, actually seeing them in action is even worse. While yesterday we only had mock-ups to get upset about, the ads are now rolling out to certain streamers and on certain streams, so we can see how terrible they are. Our example today…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 16, 2020 -
CultureQuake Soundtrack Features Shenanigans Between Bethesda And Nine Inch Nails
Earlier today, the original Quake soundtrack—composed back in 1996 by Nine Inch Nails—went up for preorder on the band’s site. And accompanying the release was an all-caps note saying “A CERTAIN UNNAMED VIDEO GAME PUBLISHER” stopped the release of some behind-the-scenes essays by former id developers John Carmack and American McGee. The note, as it appeared…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 16, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsGod Damn The PS5 Is Enormous
Earlier this monthit dawned on us just how big the Xbox Series X is. It’s big! Know what else is big? And in most cases even bigger? The PlayStation 5. While we’ve known the PS5 was going to be large based on stuff like renders and estimates based on the size of the disc drive,…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 16, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsSuper Mario 64 Runs On A PS2, Universe Does Not Implode
Last year the source code for Super Mario 64 was reverse-engineered by fans. If you were wondering, “What good is that?”, well it means you can do all sorts of things with the game. Like get it running on a PS2. Yeah, you read that right. This is Nintendo’s all-time classic Super Mario 64, running…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 15, 2020 -
CultureMario’s Super Picross, Diddy’s Kong Quest Coming To Nintendo Switch Online
Nintendo just announced the latest round of games coming to Nintendo Switch Online, and alongside Diddy’s Kong Quest is a nice surprise: Mario’s Super Picross, a game that had previously only been officially released in Japan and then later PAL (Europe + Australasia) territories. There’s also Peace Keepers and the forever-unfortunately-named SCAT, with everything available…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 15, 2020 -
CultureScouting Mission
madao is an artist from China. You can see more of madao’s stuff at their ArtStation page
By Luke Plunkett Published September 15, 2020 -
Tips & GuidesTips For Playing Crusader Kings III
Oh boy. Oh boy. Where to even begin with this. How about…we try something new. Approaching a grand strategy game like this can be a daunting experience. You need to be prepared to take on so much, from an enormous interface to a web of complex systems, right down to a working knowledge of the…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 15, 2020 -
CultureCall Of Duty League Switches To PC, But Players Can’t Use Mouse + Keyboard
Yesterday, the Call of Duty League made the decision to move from playing on the PS4 to the PC. That’s fine and cool, only in moving to the PC, they’re not letting competitors use the single best thing about playing shooters on the platform: using a mouse + keyboard. “Today, the League is announcing it…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 15, 2020
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