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CultureThat Anime-Women-As-Battleships Game Comes To PS4 And Steam Next Month
Mobile side-scrolling shooter Azur Lane is a 2D game about historical naval vessels personified as anime characters doing battle in an alternate timeline World War II. Its PS4 and Steam spin-off, Azure Lane: Crosswave, is a 3D action shooter about historical naval vessels personified as anime characters. It launches in North America on February 13. I’m…
By Mike Fahey Published January 22, 2020 -
CultureTencent Plans To Buy Funcom, Like It Needs To Own More Game Companies
The world’s largest gaming company is looking to get even bigger. Already a shareholder in Riot Games, Epic, Supercell, Ubisoft, Paradox and Frontier, Chinese corporation Tencent announces plans to acquire full ownership of Norweigian developer Funcom, makers of Conan Exiles, Age of Conan, Anarchy Online, and The Secret World. Tencent, already the largest shareholder in…
By Mike Fahey Published January 22, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Open Your Eyes | Artist: Alex Metric & Steve Angello feat Ian Brown | Album: Open Your Eyes
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 22, 2020 -
CultureXbox Players Are Digging Out Their Old 360s To Get Around Microsoft’s Gamertag Restrictions
Last year Microsoft shrunk the character limit for Gamertags from 15 down to 12, but recently players discovered that limit doesn’t apply on Xbox 360. In a post shared yesterday on Reddit, user Talers-Username pointed out that when you go to change your Gamertag using the Xbox 360 interface it lets you make on up…
By Ethan Gach Published January 21, 2020 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryI Level Boosted A New World Of Warcraft Character And It Felt Empty
Rather than leveling up a vulpera, which is a new character race introduced in last week’sVisions of N’Zoth update for World of Warcraft, I used a character boost I’d gotten with my preorder of the upcoming Shadowlands expansion. That gave me instant access to a fully-leveled fox critter. So now I’ve got a level 120…
By Mike Fahey Published January 21, 2020 -
CultureCaptain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions Brings Dramatic Anime Soccer To PC And Consoles
Yōichi Takahashi’s Captain Tsubasa manga and anime have been transforming the sport of association football into a cinematic spectacle since 1981. Now we’re finally getting a proper video game adaptation of the series, courtesy of Bandai Namco’s Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions for the PlayStation 4, PC, and Switch. Japan’s had plenty of Captain…
By Mike Fahey Published January 21, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Pretty Old Man | Artist: No Buses | Album: Boys Missed The Bus
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 21, 2020 -
CultureTemtem Is A Pokémon Clone That Looks Pretty Cool
Temtem is an MMO out this week that, in many and very obvious ways, is trying to be the kind of Pokémon game people have wanted for years but have never actually gotten. I mean, just look at this: And this! So, yes, Pokémon. Only you fight with two monsters at once instead of one,…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2020 -
CultureA Droid On A Mission
This week on (the first!) Snapshots, we have a Deathclaw chilling on a roof, a sad turtle, Batman going to heaven, a tiny little droid on a mission and more! I really love the Uncharted 4 screenshot. It doesn’t even look like it’s from Uncharted, instead, it looks like a screen from an indie horror…
By Zack Zwiezen Published January 20, 2020 -
CultureDestiny 2‘s Wild Corridors Of Time Puzzle Ends With Lackluster Reward
Destiny 2 players have spent the last week trying to crack a complex maze and earlier this morning the final pieces fell into place. Unfortunately, the reward waiting for them, an exotic weapon already publicized by Bungie, wasn’t what many had been hoping for. It all began when Bungie dropped a mysterious new quest into…
By Ethan Gach Published January 20, 2020 -
CultureAnother Big Game, Dying Light 2, Has Been Delayed
Dying Light 2 has been delayed until…sometime in the future. Originally planned for a Spring 2020 release the game now has no release date. It is yet another big game that has been delayed in recent weeks. In a letter announcing the delay, Techland CEO Paweł Marchewka explained the game needed more development time and…
By Zack Zwiezen Published January 20, 2020 -
CultureThe Week In Games: Here’s Your Re Mind(er) About Kingdom Hearts III DLC
This week one of the biggest releases is not actually a game, but instead some DLC for a game. The first big DLC is coming out this week for Kingdom Hearts 3. Recently, we showed a friend who has almost zero knowledge of Kingdom Hearts some footage and trailers of Kingdom Hearts III. Her reaction…
By Zack Zwiezen Published January 20, 2020 -
CultureNetflix Just Picked Up 21 Studio Ghibli Movies, But Not In North America Or Japan
The good news is that Netflix just got the rights to stream pretty much every major Studio Ghibli release, from Totoro to Princess Mononoke to Ponyo. The bad news is that, if you’re in North America or Japan, that news doesn’t apply to you. Ghibli’s homeland has its own rights deals, and in North America…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2020