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What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for making apple butter out of my abundance of farm share apples, just in time to get more apples and have to figure out what to do with those. It’s also for playing video games. I went on a rant about how great Euro Truck Simulator 2 is to a Jalopnik colleague…

Slay To The Beat In Rhythm Action Shooter BPM: Bullets Per Minute

Coming to PC this summer and consoles this winter, BPM: Bullets Per Minute is a first-person shooter where everything happens to the beat of an epic rock opera. Shoot to the beat. Dodge to the beat. Jump to the beat. Reload to the beat. Players progress through procedurally-generated levels as a Valkyrie defending Asgard from…

Track: Don’t Stop… (Demo) | Artist: Oasis | Album: N/A

I Studied The Blade

Edward Denton is an artist at WETA, where he’s worked on stuff like The Hobbit, Elysium and Chappie You can see more of Denton’s stuff at his ArtStation page

The Internet Agrees That Elon Musk Is Deus Ex‘s Trillionaire Villain, Not JC Denton

Today, noted embarrassing smoker, bad driver, and worse tweeter who is also somehow a billionaire Elon Musk has decided he’s JC Denton, the hero of 2000’s genre-defining cyberpunk immersive sim Deus Ex. Nobody agrees with him. Musk has spent the past couple days yelling to his 33.4 million Twitter followers about how it’s time to…

Old Build Of Switch Game Released Early, Publisher Calls It A “Happy Surprise”

Action RPG Indivisible, from Skullgirls creators Lab Zero, is great! The version that was reportedly released on the Switch this week, though, has been a very weird story. The game came out on April 28 with absolutely no advance notice whatsoever, to the point where even the game’s developers had no idea: That’s odd, and…

GTA Online Players Are Picking Sides In A Giant Alien War

There is a war raging in Grand Theft Auto Online, but not between drug dealers or criminal kingpins. Instead, players are donning green, purple, or white suits in a war of different colored aliens. It’s weird, even for GTA Online. As with most wars and conflicts, it is impossible to pinpoint a specific moment when…

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Devs Preemptively Shut Down Bullshit Concerns About Female Vikings

Women exist. This is a basic fact of life, but it’s also a frequent source of controversy for more… let’s say reactionary sections of the gaming community. In what appears to be an attempt to head off the usual tiresome complaints, Ubisoft has addressed its decision to allow players to choose between male and female…

Ask Dr. NerdLove: Should I Move To Canada For A Boyfriend I’ve Never Met?

Hello, all you intertube skinbeasts of sexcrime, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only advice column to help you manage your relationship in the new post-apocalyptic land we find ourselves in. And strangely, it doesn’t involve nearly as many BDSM harnesses as I expected. Guess I should’ve kept the receipt. This week, it’s all…

Xbox Series X Gameplay Reveal Set For May 7

Microsoft will finally show gameplay from Xbox Series X games, including our first look at Assassin’s Creed Valhalla in action, on a new episode of Inside Xbox airing May 7. While Microsoft has already shown the console itself, as well as shared deep dives into its specs, this will be the first opportunity to see…

The Makers Of Jackbox Are Launching A Celebrity Livesteam Show For Charity

A new livestreaming series called Celebrity Jackbox: Games & Giving will pit some mildly famous people against one another as they play Jackbox party games to raise money for those affected by the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. “Every episode, a new crew of famous personalities will play a variety of games from Jackbox’s collection of 30…

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Coming To Old And New Gen Consoles, Features Choice Of Male Or Female Protagonist

Now that we’ve spent eight hours watching artist Bosslogic paint a picture of a Viking, it’s time for something more substantial. Here’s the epic cinematic trailer debut for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, along with the first concrete details on the holiday 2020 release. First we have the trailer. Looks like England is going after the carefree,…

Game Pass now has over 10 million subscribers. Xbox boss Phil Spencer announced the stat in a new blog post outlining the downloadable game service’s continued growth. That’s up from 9.5 million monthly users last year. Spencer said subscribers are playing games twice as much since the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic. 

How’s It Going?: Travel Edition

It’s a very rainy Thursday where I am. Welcome back to our daily open thread. Yeterday’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla tease got me thinking about the trip I took to Norway a few years ago. In Oslo, there’s sort of a peninsula with a bunch of museums on it—I had been determined to make it to…

Former Battlefield Devs’ Intriguing Monster Game Put On Indefinite Hold

Announced in 2016 as Project Wight, Darkborn is a game in which players control a monster whose species has been hunted to near-extinction by humans. Today Swedish game studio The Outsiders announced development on Darkborn has been halted indefinitely. Inspired by John Carpenter’s Grendel, a retelling of the old English poem Beowulf from the monster’s…

Track: Nothing Compares 2 U (Live) | Artist: Prince | Album: Ultimate Rave DVD

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Next, Please

Andrey Vasilyev is a concept artist and matte painter from Ukraine. You can see more of Andrey’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Final Fantasy III Designer Wasn’t Particularly Into Moogles, Actually

In honor of Final Fantasy III’s 30th anniversary, Square Enix recently published an extensive interview with Hiromichi Tanaka, who worked as a designer on the 1990 Famicom game. While lighthearted, they do touch on some interesting subjects, including the debut of Moogles, how they created a cool attack effect for the Odin summon, and the…

Serena & Venus Williams Are Playing In A Mario Tennis Tournament

NBA players playing an NBA games, NASCAR drivers racing in NASCAR racing, it’s boring! We don’t want to see folks playing as themselves in lesser versions of the real thing, we want to see some of the world’s finest athletes pick up a controller and play Mario Tennis That’s what this upcoming tournament, a joint…