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New Fortnite Skin Is Full Of References To Game’s Past Maps

Eco is a new Fortnite skin in the item shop today. It looks like the Earth, maybe for Earth Day. But it’s also full of easter eggs to the old battle royale island. Epic tweeted that the skin was inspired by Fortnite creator NolloBandz. It sells for 1500 Vbucks, and the set also contains a…

By Riley MacLeod Published April 22, 2021

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8-Bit Theater Avoids Final Fantasy Copyrights With 20th Anniversary Script Book

From 2001 to 2009, writer Brian Clevinger of Atomic Robo fame produced a hilarious webcomic called 8-Bit Theater, which follows the misadventures of a dysfunctional adventuring party. Unfortunately, that adventuring party is comprised of Final Fantasy game sprites, so Clevinger can’t reprint them without getting sued to hell by Square Enix. That is unless he…

By Mike Fahey Published April 21, 2021

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Handy Sticker Lets You Meme Devil May Cry’s Dante Into Any Game

Ahead of Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster’s release on PlayStation 4 and Switch next month, publisher Sega has provided the internet with a beautifully high-resolution version of the “Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series” sticker from the PlayStation 2 original’s box art in North America. The graphic has inexplicably been used…

By Ian Walker Published April 20, 2021

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Apparently, Some Steam Users Have More Than 25,000 Games

And you thought your backlog was bad. According to the patch notes of a recent Steam Beta Client update, some Steam users—or, more specifically, Steam libraries—may own north of 25,000 games. Woah. The update, pushed live yesterday, is fairly slim and includes this patch note: “Fix a possible crash for users with around 25,000 or…

By Ari Notis Published April 20, 2021

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Super Mario Bros. 2 Japan + Super Mario Bros. 2 USA = My Dream Game

Programmer and digital artist Sammu recently put out a nifty video showcasing her work combining the two different versions of Super Mario Bros. 2 into a mega-game featuring the mechanics of one and the levels of the other. As a fan of both, I desperately want to play it. The original 1986 Super Mario Bros.…

By Ian Walker Published April 19, 2021

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You Don’t Want Resident Evil Village‘s Tall Vampire Lady To Step On Your Face

You really don’t! Clocking in at 2.9m (or 9’6″) tall, Lady Dimitrescu is probably the absolute last individual you’d want stepping on you. Previously, we saw how the character compared to real humans—she towered over them. In a sponsored clip, YouTuber Kyle Hill did the math to figure out what would happen if she actually…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 19, 2021

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Super Mario 64 Plus Adds Very Cool Settings And Ideas To Nintendo’s Classic

Super Mario 64 Plus is a modified version of the PC port of Super Mario 64, which takes the original and adds loads of stuff like 60FPS, bug fixes, a ton of in-game options and, best of all, “The ability to continue the level after getting a star.” Don’t think of it as a completely…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2021

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Even As A Pacifist You Will Still Kill Over 700 People In Grand Theft Auto V

Like they did with Max Payne, Sex Positive Gamer have sat down with Grand Theft Auto V and played it as peacefully as possible, keeping murders to the absolute minimum required to progress the story. And it’s still a lot of murders. 726, to be precise, most of them as part of missions where the…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2021

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Sorry, But The Chug Jug Song

I’m in charge of the website this weekend, which means I get to spread my suffering to you under the guise of Content. I’m sorry. Surely you are aware of “Chug Jug with You,” a Fortnite-themed parody of Estelle and Kanye West’s “American Boy.” If somehow you are not, or you just wanna hear the…

By Riley MacLeod Published April 18, 2021

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No-VR Mod Brings Half Life: Alyx To Players Who Can’t Afford Headsets

By all accounts, Half Life: Alyx is a phenomenal game. But because it’s VR-only, large swathes of gamers simply cannot play it.

By Ash Parrish Published April 16, 2021

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First Good Look At The CGI Resident Evil Netflix Series

Towards the end of the Resident Evil showcase, Capcom finally released a full-on trailer for the upcoming Netflix show Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness Have a look below: A teaser trailer for the series first debuted back in September of last year, and this is not to be confused with the live-action show Netflix show also…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 16, 2021

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Eight Years Later, Players Find A Hidden Weapon In Guild Wars

Players in Guild Wars found an eight-year-old Easter egg this week after a former developer on the game offered some hints and teases to help move people in the right direction. Earlier this month, Vlambeer developer Jan Willem Nijman asked others to share Easter eggs and secrets hidden in their games on Twitter. Hundreds of…

By Zack Zwiezen Published April 15, 2021

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PlayStation’s Recycled Boxes Are Very Cool

I am very much developing a thing for more responsible video game packaging, and so this blog by Sony on how they’re cutting down on plastics in their PlayStation boxes was pretty interesting reading. As part of “a commitment to eliminate plastic use in newly designed small product packaging by 2025,” Sony explains how the…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 14, 2021

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Let Us Once Again Marvel At How Good This Flight Sim Looks

The DCS series has a (well-earned) reputation as being serious as hell, but I think that stereotype helps people overlook the fact that it’s also one of the best-looking video games on the planet. I know there are perfectly good reasons for that—like there isn’t much else to model, so the models the game does…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 14, 2021

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Here’s What Would Happen In A Dragon Age 2 ‘Snyder Cut’

Yesterday on Twitter, former BioWare employee and Dragon Age 2 lead writer David Gaider explained what he’d do with the opportunity to give Dragon Age 2 it’s own “Snyder Cut.” The tweet thread covered a wishlist of changes to the game, including vastly altering the sequence of events and the ability to make different critical…

By Ash Parrish Published April 14, 2021

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Fans Build 3D Sonic Game In Dreams, And It Looks Fantastic

There are two tiers of Dreams experience. I know I’ve played it, and tried to build things, but then I see what other people can do with it and I wonder if we were even playing the same thing. I mean…just look at this. Look at it! This is a fast, bright, colourful, very fast…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 13, 2021

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Garrus Vakarian, I Am Free For Dinner On Thursday

The Mass Effect Legendary Edition is a month away. Today, BioWare put out a new video and developer blog detailing the process that went into graphically updating the Mass Effect trilogy. Weeding through all the technical information, I have come away with an important conclusion: Somehow, some way, BioWare has made Garrus Vakarian hotter. Through…

By Ash Parrish Published April 13, 2021

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Sega, You Might Want To Choose A Different Font

Sega recently announced a new Ultimate Quest for Phantasy Star Online 2 known as “Anal Battle: Space-time Interstice.” Starting tomorrow, players with an Ark above level 90 will be able to face off against the Primordial Darkness in a solo mission with some great rewar… …o-oh, wow, okay. Hey folks, I’ve just learned the Ultimate…

By Ian Walker Published April 13, 2021

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Even Outriders Has Flat-Earthers

Outriders is set on an exoplanet roughly a dozen light years away from Earth, so it’s no surprise the game features some anomalies, like electromagnetic hurricanes and tank-sized, fire-spitting arachnids. But perhaps the strangest entity in People Can Fly’s loot-shooter is also a familiar one: human beings who believe the planet is flat. Giovanni “Hailstorm”…

By Ari Notis Published April 13, 2021

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It Didn’t Take Kingdom Hearts PC Mods Long To Go Off The Rails

Kingdom Hearts III has been out on PC for less than two weeks. Anyway, here’s Thomas the Tank Engine If you’ve played a Kingdom Hearts game before, you can probably already guess what Thomas’ nightmare visage takes the place of: Yep, the tram in Twilight Town. “I wanted to bring in a bit of that…

By Nathan Grayson Published April 13, 2021