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CultureOdds and EndsThe World’s First ‘Skateboating’ Game Looks Rad
Skateboarding is cool and all, but it’s been around for a long time. I’ve played plenty of skating games. I need something new. Something like Wave Break, a skateBOATing game that combines ‘80s era visuals, boat grinding, and animals into one rad-looking package. Wave Break is currently being developed by Funktroniclabs. Based on a trailer…
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CultureOdds and EndsResident Evil Village Vs. Resident Evil 4: The Best Merchant
In one corner, a large, helpful man who sells weapons and cooks meals. In the other corner, a mysterious figure who has a lot of good things on sale today, stranger. He also might be infected? It’s time to figure out who’s better: The Duke from Resident Evil Village or The Merchant from RE4. The…
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CultureOdds and EndsIt’s 10 Years Since You First Didn’t Plan To Buy A Wii U
Cast your minds back, nostalgia fans, to those halcyon early summer days of June 2011. It was E3, back when people met together in buildings and when people still cared about E3, that Nintendo revealed the follow-up to their astonishingly popular Wii console. Yes, as Reggie Fils-Aimé took the stage, that was the very first…
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CultureOdds and EndsEvo 2002 Trailer Is Definitely From 2002
Over the weekend, someone uploaded an ancient trailer used to promote 2002’s Evolution Championship Series fighting game tournament, and boy is it something else. As the first year the tournament series—which was previously known as Battle by the Bay—used the Evo name, you can tell they went all out in producing this video. It’s got…
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CultureOdds and Ends$35,000 Could Win You This BTS Chicken McNugget Shaped Like An Among Us Crewmate
Today, in a weird confluence of internet mega-fandoms: There is a chicken nugget from the McDonald’s BTS meal shaped like an Among Us crewmate up for bid on Ebay for more than $34,000 whole-ass American dollars. That’s it. That’s all I got in the face of this overwhelming evidence that the human race are simultaneously…
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CultureOdds and EndsMass Effect 3 Easter Egg Revealed After Nine Years
Nine years since the release of Mass Effect 3 and just a couple of weeks after the release of its shiny new Mass Effect Legendary Edition remaster, a long-hidden Easter egg has been revealed. On May 18th, Richard Boisvert, who appears to be a former BioWare developer, posted on r/masseffect about an Easter egg he…
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CultureOdds and Ends15 Years Ago This Month, Valve Announced Half-Life 2: Episode 3
It seems like just yesterday when Valve announced a trilogy of expansions for their super-popular PC game, 2004’s Half-Life 2. But it’s actually been 15 years since Episode 3 was announced. And while Valve has since released a new Half-Life game, it wasn’t the one the developer announced back in 2006. Thanks to the internet…
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CultureOdds and EndsRed Dead Online Players Found A Glitchy Water Wheel That Sends Them Flying
There might not be any jetbikes in Red Dead Online, but that hasn’t stopped some players from figuring out a new way to go soaring into the sky. All you need to do is stand on a specific water wheel and wait. Soon, you’ll be flying like a bird. This odd Red Dead Online bug…
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CultureOdds and EndsHere’s Someone Playing Minecraft Using A Bop It
Bop it! Pull it! Flick it! Mine it! Bop It is a toy that (sigh) kids from the 90s will remember. I played way too much of it. I brought it to school even, which was fine because my teachers and classmates also wanted to play with it. Now Seth Altobelli has taken this toy…
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CultureOdds and EndsThe Sonic Diamond Necklaces Are Cool, Actually
Soon, rappers, jewelry enthusiasts, or nerds with money to burn can buy their own Sonic-themed diamond necklace. Tucked into today’s Sonic news stream was a gem (heh) of an announcement—a collaboration between Sega and jewelry maker King Ice to create four gold chains featuring the diamond-encrusted heads of beloved Sonic characters. Naturally, the internet has…
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CultureOdds and EndsGastly Lollipops Look Too Cute To Eat
I recently stumbled upon a wonderful YouTuber named Manna-Tanuki who creates incredible-looking sweets. Their latest video highlights some adorable Gastly lollipops that look more like Pokémon decorations than food. If you want a more in-depth look at how these lollipops are made, check out this video from late last year in which Manna details the…
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CultureOdds and EndsLet’s Check In On Star Citizen, Shall We
Star Citizen is currently free-to-play as the game enjoys its annual Invictus Launch Week celebration. I figured now would be as good a time as ever to take a peek at the ambitious space sim and see how things are going. Cloud Imperium Games has raised more than $365 million via crowdfunding since starting Star…
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CultureOdds and EndsNintendo Patent Looks Like A Giant Shitpost
On June 5, 1997, Nintendo filed a patent titled “Video game system and method with enhanced three-dimensional character and background control due to environmental conditions.” I can’t even begin to parse what the heck that means on a technical level, but what I do know is that the document’s contents are ripe for absurd internet…
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CultureOdds and EndsSkyrim Is As Old As Morrowind Was When Skyrim Came Out
Wanna feel old? I sure don’t but I do now anyway, all thanks to one astute yet extremely mean tweet that popped into my timeline and instilled in me a sudden urge to burn my savings on a premium Botox job: As amateur video game historian Chris Chapman pointed out, Skyrim is officially as old…
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CultureOdds and EndsOld Overwatch Bug Let Ashe’s Robot Vote On How Well You Played
In Overwatch, B.O.B., Ashe’s robot companion and ultimate ability, doesn’t do much beyond shoot where Ashe tells him to. But yesterday, an AMA revealed that the Big Omnic Butler initially had a lot of thoughts on how players performed in Overwatch matches. In celebration of Overwatch’s fifth anniversary, Blizzard held an AMA, or Ask Me…
By Ash Parrish
