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CultureOdds and EndsNow For Some Beautiful Grand Theft Auto Poetry
Here is a beautiful idea. An idea involving writing down the off-hand stuff people will mutter at a TV screen while playing video games, and turning it into literature. This is Reb Day, who in addition to singing catchy pop tunes also has no idea why she’s being shot at: If you’re on mobile and…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 7, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsDoom Kinda Running On A Pregnancy Test
The other day Foonedecided to hack an improved screen inside a…pregnancy test. And when you do something like that, it’s not a matter of if you can get Doom running on it, but when They were initially happy to just get the pregnancy test working as a screen, able to show videos of games and…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 7, 2020 -
CultureCrusader Kings III’s Loading Screens Are Masterpieces
Paradox’s grand strategy games have always had loading screen art—something you see a lot of over the months/years you play these games—that can best be described as “functional”. Crusader Kings III throws that tradition straight off the parapet with some absolutely gorgeous works of art by industry legend Craig Mullins. When Paradox first announced Mullins’…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsBowser Gets Modded Into The Original Super Smash Bros.
Smash Remix, a very cool fan project that’s constantly adding new fighters and stages to the original N64 game, has just got Bowser up and running. You can see him in action below, not just in the main game but some mini-games as well: Considering he had to be pretty much built from scratch, he…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2020 -
CultureEA Adds, Then Quickly Removes, Ads From UFC 4 After Fans Go Ballistic
At some point over the last week, Electronic Arts took a game already full of ads—it’s a sports game, it comes with the territory!—and added more. Only this wasn’t an in-world kinda deal, it was a literal commercial flashing around in the middle of a fight. You can see an example in the gif above,…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2020 -
CultureModded Team Fortress 2 Bots Are Designed To Hunt Cheaters
Team Fortress 2 has a problem with bots, but not all of its bots are there for cheating. Some have been programmed to hunt down the cheaters. Apparently this has been a thing in the TF2 community for a little while now, but it’s only after this Tweet that the wider world got some insight…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsOh Man, Look At Nike’s “Doraemon” Dunks
Dropping later this month—or maybe even later this week—this upcoming colourway of Nike’s resurgent Dunk line has been dubbed the “Doraemon”. It’s not an official licensed deal between Nike and the blue cat, hence the lack of overt branding, but thenlike Nike’s “Gundam” Air Max 98, it doesn’t need to be when the homage is…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 3, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsNearly Every Super Mario Game Posing For A Family Photo
In case you’ve ever wanted to see it, here is every major game from the Super Mario series (and some spin-offs), all gathered together for a beautiful group shot. So yes, that’s why Super Mario RPG and Super Mario Kart aren’t there, which despite the names aren’t members of the Super Mario platforming family. (It…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 3, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsIron Harvest Has Some Problems
Iron Harvest should, by all accounts, be just the game for me. It’s set in a universe I dig, and has a lot in common with Company of Heroes—a game I’m on record as saying is “the perfect RTS” And yet every time I force myself to sit down and play it, something just feels…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 3, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsVideo Game “Walk Cycles” Are Just The Best
A “walk cycle” is the part of video game animation that covers the most basic, default movement of your character. It’s maybe the thing you see the most in a game alongside a HUD, and as such might also be something you take for granted! Today, let’s not take them for granted. Louis Brooks has…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 2, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsNintendo x Puma Have Some Super Mario Bros. Sneakers Coming
Just in time for the series’ 35th anniversary, Puma is about to release an official Super Mario Bros. shoe. It’s a version of the company’s RS Dreamer silhouette, with a very Mario Bros. colour scheme, a Super Mario logo on the tongue, and a star on the heel. Perfect if you’re 11 years old! Maybe…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 2, 2020 -
Regiments Is A New RTS Set In The 1980s
Regiments is an upcoming RTS set in the 1980s, in a scenario where the Cold War heats up. It’ll probably be of interest to anyone who played World in Conflict or Wargame This is the part where I remind you World in Conflict is so good that it’s got a spot in our Best Strategy…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 1, 2020 -
Huge The Witcher 3 Mod Gives The Game A Visual Overhaul
We’ve been seeing Witcher 3 mods like this on the PC for years now, and I’ve never written about them because they always looked like they either made no difference to the quality of the game’s visuals, or did in a way that made the game look worse. HalkHogan’s Witcher 3 Reworked mod, though, looks…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 1, 2020 -
CultureOh Look, Microsoft Is Accidentally Mentioning A Next-Gen Console They Haven’t Actually Announced, Again
To date, Microsoft has announced a single next-gen console: the Xbox Series X. Thing is, we all basically know that there’s a second console coming, one that is yet to be announced, despite the fact there are more and more products out there that specifically mention it. Products made by Microsoft! That console is the Xbox…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 1, 2020 -
CultureVlambeer Is Closing Down
In 2010, two Dutch students—Rami Ismail and Jan Willem Nijman—founded an independent video game studio. It would start with some fishing, go on to release games like Nuclear Throne and Luftrausers, and now in 2020 is shutting down like a rock band deciding yeah, you know what, enough is enough. So broken is this industry…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 1, 2020 -
CultureA Fresh Take On The Legend Of Zelda
Anu Chouhan is an illustrator and character artist from Canada working in the video game business. While I’ll be posting a whole range of her work below, it’s this Zelda stuff up top that’s got me particularly smitten: it’s a depiction of Nintendo’s series as an ancient Indian Epic, inspired by the Vedic and Mauryan…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 31, 2020 -
CultureRidley Scott On Fortnite’s Apple Trailer: “The Idea Was Terrific, The Message Was ‘Ehh'”
Hollywood legend Ridley Scott might be better known for films like Alien and Gladiator, but he also found time in the mid-80s to make Apple’s famous 1984 commercial. With Epic Games very recently and publicly recreating the ad, only now with an anti-Apple stance, Scott has some thoughts. To recap! Here’s Scott’s original commercial, which…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 31, 2020
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