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CultureFortnite‘s Season 10 Has Been Extended A Week
Fortnite Season 10 has been extended and will end on October 13. You’ll have another week to complete your challenges, but you’ll also have another week of dealing with the chaos this season has brought. Today’s 10.4.1 patch notes read, “We may be almost out of time, but we’re not out just yet—Season X has…
By Riley MacLeod Published October 2, 2019 -
CultureSuper Mario Maker 2 Finally Adds Online Matchmaking With Friends
Super Mario Maker 2 is packed with fun levels and player-made challenges. Enjoying these levels online with people on your friends list wasn’t possible, something that disappointed fans. A new update finally brings online matchmaking, allowing up to four players the ability to join up and tackle courses together. Before today, Super Mario Maker 2’s…
By Heather Alexandra Published October 2, 2019 -
CultureRocket League Is Replacing Loot Boxes With ‘Blueprints’
Because they suck (and also because they’re increasingly becoming illegal in some places, especially Europe), Psyonix decided in August to get rid of Rocket League’s loot boxes. They’re being replaced by something called “Blueprints,” which work….kinda like loot boxes. Currently Rocket League’s loot boxes drop at the end of matches but have to be unlocked…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 1, 2019 -
CultureOfficial Overwatch Cookbook Lets You Recreate Pharah’s Favorite Childhood Snack
From Chelsea Monroe-Cassel, author of cookbooks for World of Warcraft, The Elder Scrolls, Firefly, and A Game of Thrones, comes the first official guide to cooking the delicacies of Overwatch. Who among us hasn’t dreamed of sinking their teeth into Pharah’s Canadian Butter Tarts and washing them down with Mercy’s elderberry liquor toddy, the Valkyrie’s…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryThese Are My Settings For Every Video Game
I started playing a new video game yesterday: Ghost Recon Breakpoint. But It might as well have been any other console game, in terms of how I set up the settings. Brightness? I’m going to make sure that symbol is pretty visible. After all, who knows what “barely visible” even means. It’s all relative. I…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 1, 2019 -
CultureOne Of The Best Third-Party PlayStation 4 Controllers Gets A Sequel
The Scuf Vantage is an incredibly comfortable, highly customizable third-party controller for the PlayStation 4. It’s got four customizable back paddles, extra side buttons, swappable faceplates and analog sticks—it’s basically the PS4’s answer to Microsoft’s Elite Wireless. Well, now Scuf has announced the Vantage 2, which is all that, only better. Tim Rogers and I…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2019 -
CultureCall Of Duty: Mobile Is Live
After being in rigorous beta testing across multiple countries since July, Activision and Tencent’s Call of Duty: Mobile is go for iOS and Android devices everywhere but mainland China, Vietnam, and Belgium. Battle across recognizable maps, fight as iconic heroes like Ghost and Soap, and participate in a battle royale the likes of which you’ve probably…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2019 -
CulturePlayStation Now Price Drops To $10 A Month, Adds New Games
Sony’s streaming game service has been slowly improving since it launched in 2014, transforming from a library of older games with ridiculous pricing into a nice selection of old and new games with questionable pricing. Today Sony cut PlayStation Now’s $20 a month subscription fee in half and added a handful of high-profile games like…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2019 -
CultureTrack: Gesshoku Horizon | Artist: Alexandros | Album: Gesshoku Horizon (single)
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 1, 2019 -
CultureShawn Layden, Head Of PlayStation’s Game Studios, Departs
Sony has announced that Shawn Layden, chairman of SIE Worldwide Studios and a mainstay of PlayStation’s E3 press conferences, will be leaving the company. No reason was given for his departure, and a successor has not been named. Formerly president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America (until Sony’s regions were brought under one roof…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 30, 2019 -
CultureHere’s How Bungie Changed The Beginning Of Destiny 2
One of the more exciting things about Destiny 2’s Shadowkeep expansion is how its release will be accompanied by a free-to-play version of the base Destiny 2 experience. Dubbed Destiny 2: New Light, the new version aims to bring in new players and offer them a generous helping of the Destiny 2 experience, but even…
By Joshua Rivera Published September 30, 2019 -
CultureTwitchI Waited In Line For Two Hours To Have Pizza With Pokimane
The sun is bright. Blinding, almost. It is late afternoon on the last day of TwitchCon, and I have been waiting in line for 40 minutes. I’m not in the convention center, but rather, about half a mile away, outside a San Diego pizza restaurant called Ciro’s. The line wraps around the building. Well over…
By Nathan Grayson Published September 30, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryI Should Have Stolen That Truck In Overland
Survival game Overland is unusually tough. Resources are limited, enemies are plentiful, and even my best runs have gone south quickly. Your car is one of your most important resources, as getting through the game’s levels on foot isn’t viable for long. But when the opportunity arose in one of my recent runs to steal…
By Riley MacLeod Published September 30, 2019 -
CultureTroy Baker Says He Didn’t Voice Rhys In Borderlands 3 Because ‘They Wouldn’t Go Union’ [Updated]
Earlier this year, Borderlands fans were devastated to learn that actor Troy Baker would not be reprising his role as Rhys in Borderlands 3. At the time, publisher Gearbox’s co-founder Randy Pitchford said Baker “turned it down,” but a recent interview with Baker makes things sound more complicated. Baker is a beloved voice actor who’s…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published September 30, 2019 -
CultureThe Week In Games: Beware Of Ghosts
This week Ghost Recon Breakpoint releases, letting players explore a large open-world map as super tactical soldiers. If it is anything like the last game, it also means players will be able to cause all sorts of mayhem using vehicles and explosives. I enjoyed the gameplay of the last Ghost Recon game, Wildlands, but the…
By Zack Zwiezen Published September 30, 2019