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Low Poly Animals Are The Best

There you are, playing a game, and without thinking about it you run by a bird off in the distance. However, the odds are very high that the bird you ran by was nothing more than a few simply textured polygons pretending to be a bird. And yet it worked. Back in October a new…

By Zack Zwiezen Published December 12, 2020

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Cyberpunk 2077 Characters Won’t Stop Following Some Players Around

Cyberpunk 2077 is having a buggy launch, from the hilarious to the disappointing. Some players are reporting a bug that’s either funny or creepy, depending how you look at it: story NPCs who won’t stop following them around. (Some mild story spoilers for Cyberpunk 2077 ahead.) You meet Maelstrom gang member Dum Dum in an…

By Riley MacLeod Published December 11, 2020

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The Persona And Mario Musical Performances From The Game Awards Kicked Ass

Buried amidst the ads and announcements from The Game Awards earlier this evening were two very cool musical moments. First up, near the beginning of the show was Lyn & the Persona Music Band playing the version of Last Surprise found in the spinoff Persona 5 Scramble: And later on, the London Philharmonic Orchestra set…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 11, 2020

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Jesus Christ, Nintendo, Sephiroth Is Going To Get Someone Killed

Sephiroth has been in Smash for like 34 seconds, and already, he has nearly got both Mario and Princess Zelda killed. This is wildly irresponsible! Considering we’re only a year removed from Smash killing Luigi (Rest In Peace), you would think Nintendo would have been more selective with their roster selections going forwards. But nope,…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 10, 2020

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Shitty Dragon Age Voice Actor Has Me Considering Deleting My Fanfiction Library

Last week, two prominent BioWare employees, Casey Hudson and Mark Darrah, announced their departure from the studio. Following this, Mark Darrah, now the former executive producer of the Dragon Age series, was attacked on Twitter by Greg Ellis, the voice actor for Cullen Rutherford in Dragon Age: Inquisition. Ellis took to his personal YouTube channel…

By Ash Parrish Published December 10, 2020

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Cyberpunk 2077 Doesn’t Let You Change Your Appearance Once You’ve Started

This is hilarious to me. Cyberpunk 2077 is a game set in a cyberpunk future that begins with an incredibly robust character creation suite, letting you modify everything from your cybernetic implant appearance to facial scars to the size of your dick. Almost every single person in the game is a mechanically modified human being.…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 10, 2020

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Four New Short Stories Let Us Speculate About Dragon Age 4’s Plot

This year’s Dragon Age Day was a mess. Two of BioWare’s beloved executives quit, a voice actor for one of Dragon Age’s beloved characters personally attacked one of those executives on Twitter, and then went on an exceedingly unhinged rant on YouTube while performing as that character. The mess unfortunately overshadowed the only good news…

By Ash Parrish Published December 10, 2020

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You Can Turn Down Alcohol In Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 gives players a lot of choices, from how you approach missions to how you deal with interpersonal situations. This freedom extends to character-creator options you’ll never even think about again, like choosing your character’s teeth or genitals. But one bit of choice I wasn’t expecting, and which I can’t remember seeing in a…

By Riley MacLeod Published December 10, 2020

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People’s Dicks Are Clipping Through Their Pants

Cyberpunk 2077 is out and it has some bugs, one of which includes players’ characters’ dicks popping out of their pants. Cyberpunk has two penis types, with a size slider for each. Apparently some of the dicks players have selected don’t play nice with their character’s clothing choices on the equipment screen, clipping out past…

By Ethan Gach Published December 10, 2020

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Making Battle For Middle Earth Sounded Terrible

If you think the conditions developers are working under now are bad, imagine what they were like 16 years ago. Actually, don’t imagine it, you could just read this account of what it was like making the classic Battle For Middle Earth instead. EA’s RTS is one of the best licensed games of the last…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 8, 2020

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It’s Super Easy To Make Kanye West In Demon’s Souls

Unlike the original Demon’s Souls, the PlayStation 5 remake includes a fairly robust character creation system. While I was mostly content to make a generic, purple-skinned lady for my first playthrough, folks have been able to craft some interesting characters. Someone also figured out how to make a decent Kanye West, if you want to…

By Ian Walker Published December 8, 2020

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NBA Team Releases Incredible Video Game Tribute For Basically No Good Reason

The schedule for the upcoming NBA season was released the other day, and feeling like they had to do something to mark the occasion, the Utah Jazz went and made this video game montage highlighting some of the better matchups. Street Fighter, Outrun, Mario, Pokemon, there’s loads to get through. The Joe Ingles likeness in…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 6, 2020

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I’ll Never Get Tired Of Sending Enemies Flying In Immortals

Immortal Fenyx Rising, Ubisoft’s cartoonish take on an open-world game, has fine combat. It’s not amazing, being lifted straight from Assassin’s Creed Odyessy, but it works and it feels nice. However, killing enemies in Immortals is amazing because they don’t just collapse and die, but instead shoot off into the sky, like Team Rocket or…

By Zack Zwiezen Published December 6, 2020

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This SNL Skit Is All About Begging Santa For A PS5

Right now, many people are desperately trying to buy a PS5. It’s been a real shitshow. In fact, it has gotten so bad that even Saturday Night Live has jumped in with a skit all about one man, Stu, begging Santa to get him a PS5. Stu is a clear parody of Eminem’s “Stan,” including…

By Zack Zwiezen Published December 6, 2020

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Turns Out Sully’s Plane From Uncharted Can Be Found In A Last Of Us Multiplayer Map

Rodney Reece, a former Naughty Dog developer, revealed on Twitter recently that Sully’s plane from Uncharted can be found in The Last of Us. And based on how folks are reacting to it, this seems to be something nobody noticed before. Probably because they were too busy surviving. The plane can be found in the…

By Zack Zwiezen Published December 5, 2020

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New To Dragon Age? Start With The Third Game, Inquisition

In honor of the Dragon Age games arriving on Xbox Game Pass and in celebration of today’s Dragon Age Day—and as some much-needed self-care, because the news surrounding this hallowed Day has been nothing if not depressing—I’m here to offer a tip to any Dragon Age newcomers eager to explore the world of Thedas for…

By Ash Parrish Published December 4, 2020

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The Monster Hunter Movie Was Inspired By A Metal Gear Solid Collab

When the first trailer for the live-action Monster Hunter movie debut, some fans might have been surprised by the soldiers and military hardware. For director Paul W.S. Anderson, this was not out of left field. It was, he said, organic. During a recent Sony Pictures chat, filmmaker Paul W.S. Anderson was asked why Milla Jovovich’s…

By Brian Ashcraft Published December 4, 2020

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How Miles Morales Connects To Harlem In The New Spider-Man Game

In Insomniac’s 2018 Spider-Man game, Peter Parker’s relationship with New York City involved the occasional selfie with a citizen and a lot of palling around with the NYPD. The new Miles Morales game does something different. It foregrounds Miles Morales’ relationship to Harlem and the community he’s a part of there. Spider-Man: Miles Morales consulting…

By Ethan Gach Published December 2, 2020

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Kinda-Famous Metal Gear Ad Removed From Building After Seven Years

In 2013, a huge piece of street art was commissioned in Leeds, England for the launch of Metal Gear Rising. For some reason it has stayed up for seven years, becoming something of a local legend, until last week it was finally covered over by a different ad that has nothing to do with Raiden.…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 1, 2020

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Why Do Demon’s Souls Players Keep Falling Off This Ledge?

There are a lot of ways to die in the Demon’s Souls remake. Believe me, the transition to PlayStation 5 has not made this game any more forgiving. But I can’t help but wonder what’s up with this one ledge in the Tower of Latria from which players can’t stop tumbling. I first happened upon…

By Ian Walker Published November 25, 2020