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CultureE3Funcom’s April Fools’ Day Conan Game Is Real Now
On April 1 of this year, Funcom released a trailer for Conan Chop Chop, a crudely-animated roguelike that I said was “definitely not real but probably should be.” Now it’s coming to PC and consoles on September 3. Australian developer Mighty Kingdom is turning Conan Chop Chop into a real stick figure game. Up to…
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CultureE3Gears 5‘s New Mode Is A Three-Player Escape Mission From The Heart Of Locust Territory
Shortly after the Xbox briefing at E3 2019, I sat down to play Gears 5’s new “Escape” mode, a three-player co-operative challenge mode. The three playable characters in the mode, who are named Mac, Lahni and Keegan, are Hivebusters. This means they get captured by the enemy Swarm on purpose, then fight their way out…
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CultureE3It Took Over 400,000 Lego Bricks To Build This Car
For both Lego and Forza fans, one of the coolest things on stage during yesterday’s Microsoft E3 2019 press conference was a full-scale Lego brick McLaren Senna, punctuating the announcement of Forza Horizon 4‘s Lego Speed Champions expansion. It’s made of more than 400,000 Lego bricks, along with some real car bits. The body is…
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CultureE3Everything Bethesda Announced At E3 2019
Some intriguing new games are coming from Bethesda’s studios, including new ones from the folks behind The Evil Within and Dishonored. Bethesda’s E3 2019 show featured new games plus lots of updates for Doom, Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Wolfenstein and more. Even Commander Keen is back. Ghostwire: Tokyo is the next game from Shinji Mikami’s studio.…
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CultureE3Doom Eternal Comes Out In November–Here’s A New Look
Bethesda revealed the sequel to the 2016 Doom at last year’s E3. Doom Eternal got more stage time this year, and a release date: November 22, 2019. 2016’s Doom was a revelation. It’s blunt humor, bombastic gunplay, ripping and tearing captured my attention for an entire summer. Doom Eternal, the sequel, takes place on a…
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