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CultureFallout 76 Players Keep Crashing Servers To Duplicate The Game’s Strongest Armor [Update]
Fallout 76’s Strangler Heart Power Armor is very strong and it’s supposed to be incredibly hard to get, but thanks to the game’s latest duplication exploit, more players than ever are running around in it. While Fallout 76 has been plagued by duplication glitches of one sort or another for most of its existence, the…
By Ethan Gach Published February 19, 2020 -
CultureSony Backs Out Of PAX East Over Coronavirus Concerns
PlayStation is pulling out of PAX East due to “increasing concerns” related to the illness colloquially known as the coronavirus, it said on the PlayStation blog today. Sony’s booth was slated to feature major upcoming games like The Last of Us Part II, Final Fantasy VII Remake, and Doom Eternal. The show, which has drawn…
By Ian Walker Published February 19, 2020 -
CultureBlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle Tournament Moment Is Perfect Chaos
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle is probably the most anime fighting game being played at major competitions apart from Dragon Ball FighterZ, and the latter only beats it out because it’s literally based on an anime series. The latest BlazBlue is a wild game that produces incredible tournament moments on a regular basis. The latest of…
By Ian Walker Published February 19, 2020 -
CultureLatest No Man’s Sky Update Lets Players Grow Living Spaceships
The first free No Man’s Sky update of 2020 is here, giving players an all-new way to explore the universe. The “Living Ship” update gives players the ability to discover, nurture, and eventually fly their own procedurally generated living vessels, navigating the spaceways inside unique sentient creatures. It doesn’t get much more sci-fi than that.…
By Mike Fahey Published February 19, 2020 -
CultureGrand Theft Auto IV Returns To Steam Next Month Without Online Multiplayer
Removed from sale on Steam in January due to an issue with Microsoft’s now-defunct Games for Windows Live service, Grand Theft Auto IV returns to the service on March 19 as Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition. The new version of the game includes the core game and Episodes From Liberty City but no longer…
By Mike Fahey Published February 19, 2020 -
CultureEVE Online Shooter Canceled, EVE Online Shooter Announced
The King is dead. Long live the King! Last week, EVE Online developers CCP said that Project Nova, their long-in-development shooter based on the same universe as their famous space MMO, was being thrown in the bin. “This decision was taken because Project Nova’s gameplay experience as presented at EVE Vegas ’18 would not have…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 18, 2020 -
CultureThe Animal Crossing: New Horizons Info Drought Is Nearly Over
The next Nintendo Direct is scheduled for this coming Thursday, February 20, and will focus exclusively on the upcoming Animal Crossing: New Horizons. That sound you just heard is Animal Crossing fans around the world letting out a collective sigh of relief. Nintendo has been slow on releasing official news about Animal Crossing: New Horizons…
By Ian Walker Published February 18, 2020 -
CultureBesiege Is Now ‘Out’ After 5 Years In Early Access
I’ll be honest, I thought Besiege—the construction/puzzle game that was one of the stars of 2015—was already out. Nope! It’s actually spent the last five years in Early Access, and only now is it out. The release of 1.0 brings the game’s single-player campaign to a close, along with introducing some new fancy new blocks…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 18, 2020 -
CultureWarface Squeezes Crytek’s Demanding CryEngine Into The Switch
The free-to-play and ridiculously named competitive shooter Warface is the first CryEngine game to grace the Nintendo Switch. How’d the developers cram a CryEngine V-powered game onto Nintendo’s modest hardware? By modifying the hell out of it and limiting it to 720p docked and 540p handheld. Developed by My.Games in-house studio Allods Team, the folks…
By Mike Fahey Published February 18, 2020 -
CultureTrack: The Lost Day (Remastered 2004) | Artist: Brian Eno | Album: Ambient 4: On Land
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 18, 2020 -
CultureThe PlayStation Forums Are Closing Down
For the longest time, Sony has run its own official message board, a place where PlayStation owners could get together, hang out, ague pointlessly and, most importantly, troubleshoot. But on February 27, that board will be shutting down. Sony announced the move late last week with a very short, very blunt message: Hello, Beginning 27th…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 17, 2020 -
CulturePersona 5 Royal Is Editing Two Homophobic Scenes
Persona is a series that has sometimes struggled with homosexuality, like Persona 4’s well-meaning-but-ultimately-busted approachto Kanji’s romance. Persona 5, meanwhile, had a couple of scenes involving a “Scruffy Romantic” and “Beefy Trendsetter” on release that were…yeah. Here’s the first of those scenes: Just so you can get a clearer idea of the tone, here’s the…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 17, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Rodeo | Artist: Lil Nas X (ft. Nas) | Album: 7
By Zack Zwiezen Published February 17, 2020 -
CultureThis Is A Controller For A Sega Saturn Game
Weird controllers! I love ‘em! And so does the YouTube channel Stop Skeletons From Fighting. They recently released a video going over some of the dumbest, weirdest and most expensive controllers ever made. A few months back, SSFF uploaded a great video about weird Dreamcast accessories, including a fishing controller you can use for a…
By Zack Zwiezen Published February 17, 2020 -
CultureThe Week In Games: Slide To The Left, Slide To The Right
It’s time to power slide and shoot some robots. Vanquish is being released on PS4 and Xbox One this week, alongside Bayonetta. It is a good day for fans of action games. I’ve been putting off playing Vanquish for too long. I need to just buy it and play it. I’ve gone too long in…
By Zack Zwiezen Published February 17, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Jolene | Artist: Dolly Parton | Album: Jolene
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 17, 2020
