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CultureOdds and EndsIKEA Recreates New Catalogue In Animal Crossing
IKEA’s new 2021 catalogue is out, and while it’s fine if IKEA catalogues are your thing, others might be more interested in the smaller, cuter Animal Crossing version instead. The company’s Taiwan division released the homage a few days back (which means these are Taiwanese dollars, before you look at the prices and die), and…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 23, 2020 -
CultureArt Of Rally, A Minimal Driving Game, Looks Fantastic
I covered Art of Rally back in early 2019when it was supposed to be out in late 2019. That obviously didn’t happen, but a delayed game can always be a better game, and Art of Rally sure is looking nicer than the last time we saw it. It’s now due…sometime later this year on PC
By Luke Plunkett Published August 20, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsA DSLR Lens On A Game Boy Continues To Rule
I knowI’ve written about this before, but I just love it so much, and this video is so good that I’m going to do it again. Reader Sam was messing around with the same 3D-printed DSLR mod that I wrote about in 2018, but instead of using it to massively zoom in on stuff like…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 20, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsFlight Simulator Pilots Make 16-Hour Flight From LA To Dubai In Real Time
One of the big draws with Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator is that it recreates the entire planet to scale. What that means is, if you want, you can fly from one airport to another in real-time. And few airports are further away in a single trip than LAX and Dubai International Airport. It takes around…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 20, 2020 -
CultureOh Great Ganon’s Back
January Sun is an artist at Bardel, an animation studio that’s worked on everything from Magic The Gathering to Viva Pinata to Space Jam Oh, and just so you know, in one of the Zelda pics below that’s older Link meeting younger Link after some time travel shenanigans, not Link and his son/dad! You can…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 19, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsSupreme Is Releasing A Mortal Kombat Arcade Cabinet
I have seen Supreme collab on some real dumb shit in my time, from cookies to literal bricks, but this upcoming Mortal Kombat arcade cabinet is something else. The label showed off its Fall/Winter 2020 collection earlier this week, and among stuff like this: Was this: Yup. It’s a Mortal Kombat arcade cabinet, including the…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 19, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsFlight Simulator Creates Terrifying Citadel In Melbourne, Turns Buckingham Palace Into Apartments
Between using actual satellite data and some fancy algorithm work, Flight Simulator has done a pretty good job recreating the entire planet. But there are some areas where the whole thing just falls over, with terrifying/hilarious results. Example 1: Buckingham Palace. It’s one of the most identifiable landmarks on the planet, but as theBBC (via…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 19, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsLord Of The Rings: Battle For Middle Earth Is Being Remade By Fans, And It Looks Fantastic
Back in 2018, we first got word that a group of Lord of the Rings fans were remaking the cult classic Battle for Middle Earth in Unreal Engine 4. If you were expecting that to be the last you heard of the project, sorry, two years later there’s now a very comprehensive gameplay update, and…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 18, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsThe New Total War Is Not A Complete Mess
Total War is a series whose games can swing wildly between “all-time classics” and “oh no”. So a few years back, developers Creative Assembly had a very good idea: in between major releases, they’d work on smaller, more experimental games, where they could test new ideas and features before rolling them out into the bigger,…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 18, 2020 -
Tips & GuidesIf Microsoft Flight Simulator Looks Frozen After You Start It, Relax
I cleared my afternoon today to play the new Microsoft Flight Simulator on PC, and was surprised to find the game was only a 500mb install. I should have known better. The 500mb install was just the client, and upon starting up the game I was greeted with an accessibility menu screen. After clicking through…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 18, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsSome Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater Mysteries, Solved
The older Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games had some weird hidden stuff tucked away, which over the years have inspired countless urban myths and tall tales. Now Ralph D’Amato has tried to set the record straight on some of them D’Amato, who worked on the series from its inception, all the way through to 2007,…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 17, 2020 -
CultureThe Reigns Team Are Making An Animal Farm Game
Nerial, the team behind the excellent Reigns, are now working on a game based on George Orwell’s Animal Farm It’ll be a “narrative” game, where you can, “Throw out exploitative farmers. Found a new Republic. Guide its leaders. All animals are equal. You decide which animals are most equal of all.” The game is being…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 17, 2020 -
CultureSummer Games Done Quick 2020 Has Begun – Here’s What’s Up And How To Watch
While the in-person portion of this year’s Summer Games Done Quick has had to be called off thanks to you-know-what, there are still a ton of games being played real fast online, all week long. WHAT IS SUMMER GAMES DONE QUICK? It’s the summertime counterpart to Awesome Games Done Quick, and will run from Sunday…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 16, 2020 -
CultureFactorio Reaches 1.0 After Eight Years Of Development
The devilishly expansive Factorio, a game about building a factory that just gets bigger and more automated the longer you decide to play the game, was one of the first real success stories to come out of Steam’s Early Access program. Which it is now, eight years later, no longer a part of. The game…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 16, 2020 -
CultureHow Much Data Fortnite, Minecraft, League of Legends, Destiny & More Use Every Hour
If you’re gaming on a capped internet plan—where you have a monthly download limit—you might be interested to know just how much data your favourite games cu be chewing through, from the lean (League of Legends) to the obscene (Destiny 2). Via Kotaku Australia, telecommunications site WhistleOut have measured the approximate hourly download figures (exact…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 16, 2020 -
OpinionEverything About This Sucks
I woke up this morning to the news that Epic Games, a plucky corporate underdog worth $17 billion, was trying to enlist the world’s help in taking on Apple’s “anti-competitive” practices. And my skin wanted to crawl right off my body. In case you’re just joining us, earlier today Apple booted Fortnite from the App…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 13, 2020 -
CultureThe Art Of Ghost Of Tsushima
Ghost of Tsushima isn’t just a pretty game, it’s a game that went above and beyond trying to be as faithful to a foreign culture as the developers could manage. And few were as important to that brief as the art team. They did an amazing job, earning praise not just from critics, but from…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2020
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