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CultureElite Dangerous CEO Apologizes For Odyssey’s Buggy Launch
Odyssey, a large expansion for space exploration simulator Elite Dangerous, launched last week as a buggy mess. This led to a lot of fan backlash and negative Steam reviews. In response to these issues, developer Frontier Developments’ CEO apologized for the terrible launch. Elite Dangerous: Odyssey launched on May 19 on PC. In the days…
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CultureE3 Fan Registration Opens Up Next Week
Following a year off as a result of the covid-19 pandemic, E3 will return next month as an all-digital event. It’s free—despite what some earlier reports suggested—but you’ll still have to register if you want access to what passes as a show floor at an online event without an actual show floor. Registration will kick…
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CultureThe Week In Games: Biomutant Is Almost Here
Open-world RPG Biomutant is out this week on PS4, Xbox One and PC. Biomutant was first revealed back in 2017. A lot has happened since then, but finally, after some radio silence had folks worried about its fate, Biomutant is almost here. For those looking to play Saint’s Row: The Third again, it’s out on…
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CultureOdds and EndsAssassin’s Creed: Valhalla Player Uses Oil Jar To Make Stacking Stones Puzzle A Bit Easier
Stacking stones to create cairns is an activity any Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla player has run into at some point. Many find these stone stacking puzzles to be frustrating and bullshit. So, here’s a tip: Just bring an oil jar to help make the process easier. Reddit user LN404 was messing around with a stone stacking…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Cicadas
I feel like everywhere I look online I see people talking about cicadas. I even had to help create a Photoshopped image for a cicada-related story earlier this week. So if I have to suffer, so do you all. Your challenge this week: Add cicadas to video games. I hate these things. But after spending…
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CultureOdds and EndsSomeone Recreated The Mandalorian‘s Ship And More In Far Cry 5
Sure, we might not be getting a new season of The Mandalorian for some time, but until then you can play this Far Cry 5 custom map that recreates the city seen in the first episodes of the show located on the planet Nevarro and the Mando’s sweet spaceship, the Razor Crest. This custom level was created…
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CultureSunday Comics: That’s Interesting
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published May 20. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 17. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: New PS5 Controllers, Winners!
Can you really have fun with some controllers covered in new paint? It turns out, that yes, yes you can! Our winning image this week comes from Baodonkagronk who created something wonderful. And, I believe, totally historically accurate. I’m not going to even Google it. I just feel it my bones. I greatly enjoyed the…
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CultureChaos At A Walmart As People Rush To Buy Pokémon Cards
The continued shortage of Pokémon cards, fueled by the pandemic,Twitch streamers, and scalpers, led to a chaotic situation at a Walmart in Pennsylvania. The moment the store opened, folks began to run to the section of the store where trading cards are sold, leading to chaos and one sad sight. In a video captured by…
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CultureOdds and EndsDoom II’s Revenant Is Wearing Pants Made Of Flesh AKA Flants
Whenever I played Doom II, I just assumed the deadly Revenant was just wearing some red pants. Now, according to John Romero himself (in a very serious, not-at-all-joking tweet), we now know those pants are made out of flesh. Or as Romero calls them, flants. Doom II’s Revenant is an annoying bastard who can quickly…
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CultureMetro Exodus On PC Now Supports The PS5 Controller’s Fancy Triggers
Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition received a minor patch yesterday that quietly added support for the DualSense’s fancy adaptive triggers and haptic feedback. The DualSense controller has been supported by Steam and other games since not long after the PS5 launched last year. But this appears to be the first example of a PC game officially…
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CultureMa, Fetch The RTX 3090, Red Dead Redemption 2’s Gone VR
After releasing a virtual reality mod for Grand Theft Auto V last year, developer Luke Ross is back with a similar project for its wild west cousin, Red Dead Redemption 2 “Red Dead Redemption 2 is much more advanced than Grand Theft Auto V from a technical point of view,” Ross explained on his Patreon.…
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CultureOdds and EndsWhat Gaming Was Like The Last Time Cicadas Emerged, 17 Years Ago
You may know them as Brood X, or Brood 10, or the Great Eastern Brood. To most people, they’re periodical cicadas—insatiable insects that emerge from subterranean slumber every 17 years for the sole purpose of fucking each other to smithereens. Over the past week or so, Brood X cicadas have started to crawl out of…
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CultureParadox Finally Announces Grand Strategy Sequel Victoria 3
Now that players have had ample time to explore all the nooks and crannies of 2010’s Victoria II, Paradox Development Studio is ready to officially announce Victoria 3, a grand strategy game coming soon to PC that tasks players with managing their own society in the Victorian Era of the 19th and early 20th centuries.…
By Mike Fahey
