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CultureLucasArts Classic Zombies Ate My Neighbors Returns To Consoles And PC Next Month
Because the dead never rest, Lucasfilm Games and developer Dotemu have teamed up to bring enhanced versions of 1993 16-bit classic Zombies Ate My Neighbors and its less-beloved sequel to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC on June 29. These new versions of Zombies Ate My Neighbors and 1995 follow-up Ghoul Patrol take the…
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CultureThe Mandalorian Scores Its Own Stern Pinball Machines
When you’re really good you get your own pinball machine. Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian is really, really good, so it gets three. This morning, after some light social media teasing, Stern Pinball announced a trio of pinball machines based on the adventures of Mando and Grogu, the artist previously known as Baby Yoda.…
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CultureAlto Developer Snowman Spawns New Studio Dedicated To Creative Kids Play
From Snowman, the creative minds behind super-chill games like Alto’s Adventure and Skate City, comes Pok Pok, a new studio dedicated to super-chill creative play-based learning for kids—open-ended play that inspires children to imagine and think. Sounds like a nifty goal. Pok Pok began with a pair of Snowman artists, Mathijs and Esther, building a…
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CultureOdds and EndsNintendo’s New Waluigi Art Is Mysterious, Erotic
Over the weekend, Nintendo dropped a new video dedicated to unboxing the upcoming blue-purple Switch colorway. The upload mostly got attention, however, due to its inclusion of a never-before-seen Waluigi render that the internet…well, just look at it. I’m sure you can guess what kind of reaction the above image got without me spelling it…
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CultureLone Developer Stands Up To Grand Theft Auto DMCA Claim, Wins
Earlier this year fans reversed engineered the source code to Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. They released it to the web, but Grand Theft Auto copyright holder Take-Two pulled it offline via a DMCA claim. But one fan stood up to the publisher and has now succeeded in getting the…
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CultureWorld Of Warships Adds Very Bored King Kong And Godzilla
In World of Warships and its console counterpart, World of Warship: Legends, players compete in fairly realistic naval battles featuring historically accurate battleships and weapons. So it’s a bit odd that Godzilla and King Kong have been added to the game as part of a new event. Even weirder, they look bored by it all.…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryLet’s Discuss Returnal’s Bonkers Mid-Game Twist
Returnal, the PS5-exclusive action game about losing all of your hard-earned progress, features one of the most bonkers moments I’ve ever experienced in a video game. I don’t mean the ending (though, yes, that too is bonkers); it’s all to do with a series of events that go down at the midway point. For the…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryMove Over Tall Lady, Donna Beneviento Is The Real Star Of Resident Evil Village
Resident Evil Village launched last Friday, giving folks plenty of time to play (and probably beat) it over the weekend. Capcom didn’t let me talk about it in my review, but I think it’s time to finally gush about the excellence of the House Beneviento segment. It should go without saying, but everything that follows…
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CultureOdds and EndsSkate 3’s Sickest Trick Is A Rube Goldberg Machine
“Do a kickflip!” Yeah, yeah, yeah. How about this: “Create an elaborate Rube Golberg machine and then use it to do the sickest trick maybe ever!” Reddit user Skate3Tommy would probably be, like, “Okay.” In a video posted to the Xbox One subreddit today, Skate3Tommy showcased “the culmination of 13 years of play and dedication”…
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CultureThe Week In Games: Mass Effect Is Back
Mass Effect Legendary Edition is out this week on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. I’m still playing Resident Evil Village, so I won’t be playing Mass Effect’s big remastered collection anytime soon. But I expect many people are going to be reminded that a lot of Mass Effect 1 is uh.. clunky. That game had…
By Zack Zwiezen
