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CultureNewsTonight, The Internet Broke
It’s not just you or the sites you visit. A huge part of the internet went down earlier tonight, and everything from entertainment providers to video services to news sites were impacted. It appears (though this hasn’t been 100% confirmed) that an outage at Fastly, the CDN (Content Delivery Network) provider that powers…well, a huge…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 8, 2021 -
CultureNewsAntoine Griezmann Is Playing Football Manager The Hard Way
Barcelona and France striker Antoine Griezmann is currently getting ready to try to win Euro 2020 with his national side, but on the way to the tournament he’s been showing off his skills in a different game: Football Manager, where he’s been doing very well indeed. Here’s Griezman, laptop out in mid-air, boasting that his…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 8, 2021 -
CultureNewsHuge Fallout 2 Mod Finally Translated From Russian Into English
Olympus 2027, a famous Fallout 2 mod that completely replaces the original game with a new setting and storyline, is now finally available to play for those of us who can’t read a word of Russian. Olympus is centred around…Olympus, an enormous tower in Silicon Valley that becomes a fortified haven for surviving billionaires. It…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsHomeworld 3’s Weird Fan Investor Scheme Has Been Cancelled
It was very exciting to hear back in 2019 that Homeworld 3 was in development. The news was tempered a little at the time, though, by a very strange investment-based crowd-funding scheme that was attached to the project, despite the fact the game was being bankrolled by Gearbox, a major publisher. It wasn’t a traditional…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsTerra Nil Is A City-Builder Where You Rebuild A Shattered Environment
While most city-builders pitch themselves as something idyllic, all blue skies and green grass, the upcoming Terra Nil for the PC goes in a slightly different direction, giving you a world that has suffered environmental collapse then asking you to clean it up a bit. It’s still got green grass, of course, but your job…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsRainbow Six Quarantine Officially Renamed Extraction
The next Rainbow Six game is no longer named Quarantine, Ubisoft announced today Instead, the upcoming co-op shooter is now called Rainbow Six Extraction. Rainbow Six Quarantine was first revealedduring E3 2019,prior to the covid-19 pandemic. During an earnings call with investors in February 2021, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said that the publisher was considering…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsSuper Mario Kart Hacker Restores Long-Lost Level Editor
Last year’s massive Nintendo data breach, dubbed the “Gigaleak,” revealed a trove of Nintendo secrets including human characters in Animal Crossing, alternate versions of the fourth-gen Pokémon games, and an F-Zero character model that bore shocking resemblance to Beavis and Butthead’s Beavis. Nearly a year later, the leak is still bearing fruit. As VGC reports,…
By Ari Notis Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsRick And Morty Might Be Coming To Fortnite
Fortniteis teasing its next crossover and it seems to involve characters from Adult Swim’s popular show, Rick And Morty. In the lead-up to the reveal of the next season of Fortnite, developer Epic Games has been teasing various potential crossovers on Twitter, letting fans piece together the clues as they wait for the new trailer…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsFFXIV Artists Used Their Free Time To Get Bunny Boys Into The Game
When Final Fantasy XIV introduced female-only Viera and male-only Hrothgar as playable races for its Shadowbringers expansion, fans were not happy. It turns out the game’s graphics team weren’t happy either, so they worked in their free time between patches to get male rabbits and female bestial cats into Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker. In a…
By Mike Fahey Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsThe Week In Games: Final Fantasy Rift
It’s the week before E3, so let’s look forward to some games we can actually play before we all get excited about games we can’t play yet. This week has a lot to look forward to, including Ratchet & Clank, Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, and Guilty Gear Strive. Here are the video games coming…
By Riley MacLeod Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsNvidia’s DLSS Sorcery Is Coming To Linux
DLSS, a technology I do not want to understand because then it will no longer feel like magic, has until now been available only to folks playing Windows games. Thanks to some work from Valve and Nvidia, though, that’s about to change. As The Verge reports, Nvidia announced last week that it is working with…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 6, 2021
