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CultureOdds and EndsPlease, For The Love Of God, Let Masahiro Sakurai Rest
So…Steve in Smash Bros. Ultimate, huh? Great. I have no dog in this Smash Bros. fight—while I don’t hate that Steve was announced, I was personally hoping for Overwatch hero Tracer, especially after this cryptic tweet from the Overwatch League a few days ago. Whatever your thoughts are on Steve, what I truly hope is…
By Ash Parrish Published October 1, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsCrusader Kings III Rulers Come From The Nightmare Realm
Welcome to Terrifying Characters, a mod for Crusader Kings III that turns the otherwise fairly human-ish rulers of the game into limb-addled nightmare creatures. Creator robertmx writes, “It was my first attempt at creating a mod for a Paradox game.. and uh I learnt I should never touch 3D models,” which I think is unfair, because…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 29, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsWhat Your Favorite Hades Weapon Says About You
In Hades, each Infernal Arm you use to escape from Hell has its own unique abilities. The different weapons—combined with the various perks and god-given boons you can choose and the artifacts you can equip—ensure no two escape attempts are quite the same. Like the gods, I do not play favorites when it comes to…
By Ash Parrish Published September 29, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsThat’s Not Right…
Flight Simulator pilots discovered a trippy glitch over the weekend that causes the earth to open up and warp space-time like a black hole. The glitch is located in Brazil, around the coordinates 6°02’19.9″S 36°27’17.1″W. Things look normal at first as players pull off the rugged, country airstrip, but immediately ahead is a vortex of…
By Ethan Gach Published September 29, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsHear Me Out: Pandorum Is The Dark Souls Of Movies
It was while rewatching 2009 space horror flick Pandorum over the weekend that I realized it’s essentially a Souls movie in disguise, released just a month before Demon’s Souls arrived in the United States. No, wait, don’t go! I can explain! In my mind, there are three key elements to a Dark Souls story: a…
By Ian Walker Published September 28, 2020 -
CultureOdds and Ends$977 Designer Shoe Looks Like A Mario Kart Item
This shoe by Walter Van Beirendonck (teaming up with Japan’s Fools-Inc) is a new take on his existing, $815 “Cloud” sneaker. It is surely designed not to be worn on your feet, but to be thrown from a moving vehicle. Via Hypebeast, it’s stupid as hell, but in the best possible way. Outlandish fashion design…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsAll Doom Demons, Ranked
Doom Eternal is coming to Xbox Game Pass on October 1 and that got me thinking about Doom. I like Doom a lot. I’ve written about it many times before onKotaku and it seems like it’s about time I sit down and rank all the demons who have appeared in Doom games throughout the years.…
By Zack Zwiezen Published September 27, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsWrestler Kirby Wrecks Shit In Kirby Fighters 2
I mean goddamn.
By Ian Walker Published September 25, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsNintendo’s 35th Anniversary Mario Pin Set Spawns Another Pre-Order Hell
Have you heard? It’s the 35-year anniversary of Super Mario Bros. Nintendo commemorated the occasion with, among other things, a special limited-edition Mario pin set. A lot of people wanted it. Unfortunately a lot of them also didn’t get it. The pin set was announced back at the beginning of September, but didn’t finally go…
By Ethan Gach Published September 25, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsMortal Kombat 11 Datamine Uncovers New Voices From 1995 Movie Actors
It’s hard to hide anything in your game when thousands of players can search through it with a fine-toothed comb. The folks at NetherRealm Studios found this out recently when one fan uncovered a variety of unused Mortal Kombat 11 audio files that sound as if they were recorded by the stars of the 1995…
By Ian Walker Published September 24, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsTurn Your Xbox Controller Into A Flight Stick
Hey, Flight Simulator is out, and Squadrons is on the way. What better time to be playing games that require expensive dedicated peripherals! Only the economy sucks and you’ll never use those flight sticks for anything else, so maybe try this cool mod that’ll do kinda the same thing, only for your Xbox controller. Designed…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsAdidas Is Making Cyberpunk 2077 Sneakers
Normally sneaker collabs like to pay homage to things that have already established themselves as cultural forces, but when it comes to directly helping advertise an upcoming blockbuster video game, Adidas figures it can bring that timeline forward a little. While yet to be officially unveiled by Adidas, collector solebyjc—who often gets sample pairs early…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsDestiny 2 Honors Deceased Developer With Moving Piece Of In-Game Lore
When players log onto Destiny 2 this week they’ll be asked to go investigate some lost Golden Age tech on Mars as part of a special tribute to Matt Helsom, an artist at Vicarious Visions who passed away last year. Touching down on Mars there’s no objective marker for where to begin the Signal Intercepted…
By Ethan Gach Published September 23, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsBlack Athena: How Hades Gets Its Gods Right
I love Hades. It’s a great roguelike, has a cleverly-crafted story, and is stuffed with beautiful art and design. But what I like most about it is its commitment to diversity among its characters. Hades’ pantheon of Greek gods is diverse. Athena is a dark-skinned Black woman. Dionysus is south Asian. Hermes is east Asian.…
By Ash Parrish Published September 22, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsRandom Generator Spits Out Hilarious Guilty Gear-Style Round Openings
Fighting games, especially those made by Japanese developer Arc System Works, are known for having some pretty wild start-of-round messages. Someone named ArcaneMonkey took all those lines—as well as some choice memes and other non-sequiturs—and inserted them into an online generator, which randomly spits out some really funny stuff. Here are a few of my…
By Ian Walker Published September 21, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsNFL Dudes Play Fall Guys On Giant Stadium Screen
I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often.
By Ian Walker Published September 18, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsFinal Fantasy XVI’s Trailer Looks Like A Mix Of IX And XII (And That’s Great!)
One of the biggest surprises of the Sony PS5 event on Wednesday was the reveal of a new main-line Final Fantasy game, the 16th in the series (more like the 36th if you count all the sequels and spinoffs and Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus). Fans of the series are excited, and some…
By Ash Parrish Published September 18, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsHideo Kojima, Please Work With Junji Ito
Horror mangaka Junji Ito is apparently down to work with video game auteur Hideo Kojima if the opportunity presents itself. Those sounds you’re hearing are me furiously typing my demands that Kojima call Ito as soon as possible. During a recent Polygon interview, Ito was asked about his involvement with Silent Hills, the late Konami-era…
By Ian Walker Published September 17, 2020
