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CultureOdds and EndsFinal Fantasy VII Has Been Upscaled To HD Using AI
If you want to play Final Fantasy VII in HD on your PC you could wait for the remake to get ported, or you could play the original game using this mod that employs artificial intelligence to upscale its visuals. While I’ve written about witchcrafty efforts like this previously—with this game, even!—this latest effort by…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 18, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsA Princess Charm Game Would Be Great, Thanks
During yesterday’s Nintendo Direct presentation, Mario Kart Live developer Velan Studios revealed its next game, Knockout City. But all I really care about is the spunky (and wholly unrelated) little princess that was used to market it. Knockout City publisher EA decided to fill the multiplayer dodgeball game’s reveal trailer with clichéd CG characters that…
By Ian Walker Published February 18, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsYep, Splatoon Is Set After A Climate Apocalypse
Splatoon 3’s reveal yesterday took many folks by surprise, both because there was little indication beforehand that the aquatic shooter would get a third installment and because of the presence of an upside-down Eiffel Tower in the trailer. No, your eyes weren’t deceiving you: Splatoon is set on Earth, thousands of years after the world…
By Ian Walker Published February 18, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsIn Bugsnax, Grumpuses Used To Be Frogs With Thicc Butts
Bugsnax developer Young Horses shared some early design concepts for its what-if-we-ate-the-Pokémon-instead, body-horror game, and they are as out there as you’re probably hoping. Starting on the more mild but technically ambitious front, the developers original experimented with making the Grumpus’ relationships more dynamic and fungible: Procedurally generated relationships between Grumpuses could’ve been interesting! It…
By Ash Parrish Published February 18, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsThank God For Wario
These are trying times we are all living through. If only we could live through them with half the gusto—and fashion sense—of Wario. Look at this screenshot from the upcoming Mario Golf: Super Rush. Look how ready everyone is to play golf. It shows Mario dressed like he votes Republican and lives somewhere featured on…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 17, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsZelda Speedrunner Beats Breath Of The Wild With His Feet
Speedrunner Joedun is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to doing the unthinkable in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Not content to have a top 10 time when it comes to 100 percenting the game, he decided to do it again earlier this month without taking any damage. Now…
By Ethan Gach Published February 17, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsLet’s Compare The Nier Replicant Remaster To The Original
To mark the game’s tenth anniversary, a Nier Replicant remaster was announced for the PS4, Xbox One, and Steam. Let’s see how the game, so far, stacks up against the PlayStation 3 original. While there could be slight differences in the final retail version, the comparison shows that the remaster has undergone a good polish…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 17, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsThe ‘All Your Base Are Belong To Us’ Video Is Now 20 Years Old
The early aughts were a weird time. George H. W. Bush’s loser son somehow became president, god-awful bands like Crazy Town and Staind had songs on the Billboard Hot 100, and we made do with, like, one meme a year. In 2001 that meme was “All Your Base,” a Newgrounds video that ironically celebrated the…
By Ian Walker Published February 16, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsDisc Room Will Forever Take Place 69 Years In The Future
Some of us played Disc Room last year and loved it, but today we learned something new: the fact that it will forever be set in the future, no matter how far into the future you ever decide to play it. Via RPS, one of the game’s creators, Jan Willem Nijman (formerly of Vlambeer) has…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 14, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsLeft 4 Dead Wiki Desecrated To Add Fifth Survivor, Who Is Now Canon, That’s The Rules
In the original Left 4 Dead, there were four survivors: Francis, Bill, Louis and Zoey. Anyone reading through the game’s wiki, however, will think there’s actually a fifth cast member: Purple Francis As some digging from @thinkiamsad and @jiimjaam_ turned up over the weekend, user Lucythorkelson logged on to the wiki on February 12 and…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 14, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsHere’s The PS1 Version Of The Witcher 3 Tub Scene
Sure, in our universe The Witcher 3 was released on PS4, Xbox One, and PC in 2015. But in an alternate universe, it was released in 1996 for the original PlayStation. This PS1 take on the famous Witcher 3 bathtub scene was created by Anders Lundbjörk, a game developer who recently released a video showing…
By Zack Zwiezen Published February 14, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsModder Adds Tifa Lockhart To Tekken 7
Tekken 7 already has a large roster of characters, including some odd guest characters. But now, thanks to a talented modder, you can play as Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Created by modder Wolfe, this Tekken 7 PC mod replaces Josie in the game with Tifa and comes with five different outfits inspired by…
By Zack Zwiezen Published February 14, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsPlease, Just Let Me Be The Dog
There’s a new game out. It lets you play as a dog (or wolf I guess, but whatever). But then, throughout the game, it turns you back into a human against your will. Hey, stop that. Video game. Stop. Let me be the dog, please. Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood isn’t great. It’s a lot…
By Zack Zwiezen Published February 13, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsDance Team Perfectly Recreates Apex Legends Character Intros
Monster Hunter Dancers, a dance group in Japan, has recreated some of the character intros featured in Apex Legends during the selection process before a match. It’s fantastic. As you might expect with a dance group, the video features dancing after the intros. I wish Apex Legends randomly loaded into a dance battle, sounds like…
By Zack Zwiezen Published February 13, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsThose Are Strawberries (Not Hearts) On Arthur’s Boxers In Ghosts ‘N Goblins
Ghosts ‘n Goblins creator Tokuro Fujiwara recently shared a mind-blowing factoid from the development of Capcom’s fiendishly hard platformer: Arthur’s iconic heart-patterned boxers are actually covered in strawberries. Okay, maybe it’s just mind-blowing to me. “There’s one very important detail I need to share with you that people might not know: the pattern on his…
By Ian Walker Published February 12, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsMy Son Inadvertently Designed A Metroid Xbox Series X/S Controller
Overwhelmed by the options available at custom controller shop Mega Modz, I turned to nine-year-old Seamus Fahey for design advice. What at first seemed like a completely arbitrary selection of colors and buttons coalesced into this purple, green, red, and orange homage to Metroid, a series that will never be officially playable on an Xbox.…
By Mike Fahey Published February 12, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsHere’s Dan’s Legendary Taunt In Street Fighter V
Dan Hibiki is back in Street Fighter V, which means we now have a new incarnation of his legendary taunt to appreciate. Let’s take a look. And for comparison, here’s how Dan’s legendary taunt has evolved from game to game. Dan has been Street Fighter’s go-to joke character since his debut in 1995’s Street Fighter…
By Ian Walker Published February 11, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsLance Reddick Is Now Voice Acting Destiny Memes
Lance Reddick is a famous actor, with major roles in The Wire and John Wick, among other things. He’s also the voice of Destiny’s Commander Zavala, and apparently not above granting fan requests to voice act the memes they send him. That’s what he did yesterday when Destiny player xMechanizex sent him a meme drawn…
By Ethan Gach Published February 11, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsLara, You’re Drunk
When Core Design and Eidos Interactive were getting ready to ship Tomb Raider III in 1998, they recruited Lara Croft herself to promote the game. The resulting animation was…something else. It’s hard to overstate just how big a deal Lara Croft was in her heyday. Sure, she’s gotten all gloomy and grimy recently, but you…
By Ian Walker Published February 10, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsHomicidal Hitman 3 Mastermind Crushes Every Single Person In The Grape Press
If you’ve played Hitman 3 and got to the Mendoza stage, you’ll know the grape press. A centrepiece murder machine, it has been designed to help you off one of the level’s main targets in spectacular fashion. In this video, Teallen96 is not offing one person. He is crushing every single person in the level,…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2021