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CultureOddworld: Soulstorm Coming To The PS5
Oddworld is back! Oddworld: Soulstorm is coming to the PlayStation 5, starring everyone’s favorite Mudokan, Abe. Oddworld: Soulstorm was actually announced back in 2015 as a full remake of the second Abe game, Oddworld: Abe’s Exoddus. We’ve seen gameplay of the remake/re-imagining previously. Its appearance at today’s PS5 reveal is the first we’ve heard of…
By Mike Fahey Published June 11, 2020 -
CultureLittleBigPlanet‘s Sackboy Now Has A PS5 Platformer
PS5 is getting a new LittleBigPlanet spin-off called Sackboy: A Big Adventure. The game is being developed by Sumo Digital and looks like it will feature the Sony mascot hopping around colorful 3D environments in either single-player or with a coop partner. There are changing perspectives and lots of arcadey setpieces. Here’s the trailer: Sony didn’t…
By Ethan Gach Published June 11, 2020 -
CultureReturnal, A New PS5 Game That’s A Horrific Groundhog Day In Space
As part of today’s PlayStation 5 reveal event, Sony showed off a Groundhog Day-esque game about repeatedly dying and reawakening called Returnal In the trailer, a woman talks about how she dies every day, and each time she comes back, the planet she’s stuck on changes and becomes part of her. “My only hope is…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 11, 2020 -
CultureSpider-Man‘s New PS5 Game Stars Miles Morales (Update: It’s An Expansion)
Miles Morales is finally getting his own Spider-Man game, Sony revealed during its PS5 event today. It’s called Spider-Man Miles Morales and is headed to PS5 sometime this holiday season. Developed by Insomniac, the game looks like it will pick up after the events of 2018’s Spider-Man with Morales taking over web-crawling and super-villain fighting…
By Ethan Gach Published June 11, 2020 -
CultureGran Turismo 7 Races To PS5
Sony’s superior racing simulation series is coming to the PlayStation 5 as Gran Turismo 7, and this time around it’s got an extensive campaign mode. Hundreds of races between hundreds of different vehicles with ultra-realistic tuning are all well and good, but a campaign mode? Might be exactly what this arcade racing fan needs to…
By Mike Fahey Published June 11, 2020 -
CultureGrand Theft Auto V Is Coming To PS5
The Sony presentation today began with a brief GTA V trailer. At this rate, GTA V could become the new Skyrim in terms of anticlimactic port announcements, so that’s something to look forward to. The trailer’s YouTube description includes some information about Grand Theft Auto V’s PS5 port, including a “second half of 2021″ release…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 11, 2020 -
CultureWatch The PS5 Reveal Event Right Here
It’s time for Sony to show us what to expect when the PlayStation 5 arrives later this year. Expect games, dates, and possibly prices. And who knows, we might even get a look at the actual hardware this time around. Let’s watch! We’re watching the English version of the stream on YouTube. If you do…
By Mike Fahey Published June 11, 2020 -
CulturePlayers Are Using Destiny 2’s New Grenade Launcher To One-Shot Raid Bosses
Behold Sanctified Mind, the big boss from last year’s Garden of Salvation Raid, instantly melting before the power of Destiny 2‘s new Witherhoard grenade launcher. One of the best ways to find out how a new Destiny 2 gun stacks up against all the others is to test it out on the game’s hardest bosses,…
By Ethan Gach Published June 11, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsAnimal Crossing: The Last Airbender
Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony, until the Fire Nation ruined everything, the jerks. Don’t worry, YouTube’s The Nooksters bring all four elements back together for an outstanding remake of the Avatar: The Last Airbender intro in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Utilizing the amazing costumes put together by…
By Mike Fahey Published June 11, 2020 -
CultureHow’s It Going?: Summer Edition
It’s Thursday—we can do this! Welcome back to our daily open thread. Yesterday I turned on my air conditioner, which I always try to avoid for as long as possible. While working from home has been nice in a lot of ways, I’m not excited about what it’s going to do to my bills this…
By Riley MacLeod Published June 11, 2020 -
CultureMetal: Hellsinger Is A Rhythm Shooter Where You Slay Demons To A Heavy Metal Beat
In some ways Metal: Hellsinger looks like a traditional first-person shooter. At first I try to play it like one, strafing left to right while lining up my shots and keeping an eye out for health packs. It’s not until I start to play it like Guitar Hero with a shotgun that things begin to…
By Ethan Gach Published June 11, 2020 -
CultureThere’s a new Transformers game coming later this year called Transformers: Battlegrounds Headed to Xbox One, PS4, Switch, and PC on October 23, the developer, Coatsink, is calling it a “tactical warfare” game where you customize your autobot squad and fight battles from “Central City to Cybertron.”
By Ethan Gach Published June 11, 2020 -
CultureBug Causes Some Call Of Duty Players On Xbox To Get Hit With Massive 84 GB Update [Update]
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s latest season arrived last night alongside another giant update download. Thanks to a bug, the download was twice as big for some Xbox One players, forcing them to effectively download an entire game’s worth of data to keep playing. “We’re actively investigating an issue for #ModernWarfare where some players on…
By Ethan Gach Published June 11, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Working for Vacation | Artist: Cibo Matto | Album: Stereo Type A
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 11, 2020 -
CultureBoard Gaming’s Industry Body Refuses To Say A Word About Black Lives Mattering [Update]
An increasing number of prominent board game industry and community members have pulled out of an upcoming show over The Game Manufacturers Association’s (GAMA) continued silence over Black Lives Matter. UPDATE 6:53am, June 11: GAMA has since released a statement on their Facebook page, cancelled Origins Online and offered to “match, dollar for dollar, any…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2020
