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Even Outriders Has Flat-Earthers

Outriders is set on an exoplanet roughly a dozen light years away from Earth, so it’s no surprise the game features some anomalies, like electromagnetic hurricanes and tank-sized, fire-spitting arachnids. But perhaps the strangest entity in People Can Fly’s loot-shooter is also a familiar one: human beings who believe the planet is flat. Giovanni “Hailstorm”…

It Didn’t Take Kingdom Hearts PC Mods Long To Go Off The Rails

Kingdom Hearts III has been out on PC for less than two weeks. Anyway, here’s Thomas the Tank Engine If you’ve played a Kingdom Hearts game before, you can probably already guess what Thomas’ nightmare visage takes the place of: Yep, the tram in Twilight Town. “I wanted to bring in a bit of that…

Nintendo Unveils New Blue Switch Lite, Which May Also Be Purple

After a year and a half of noncommittal colors like grey, turquoise, bad mayonnaise yellow, and coral, Nintendo gives us a Switch Lite that’s confident enough to call itself blue, even though it’s sort of purplish, depending on your eyes and/or display settings. The new blue Switch Lite, due out May 21, is blue in…

Black Is Magic: How Magic: The Gathering Is Transforming One Teacher’s Game Club

On the wall in Mike Lawton’s classroom rests a cardboard cut-out of a Black man. It’s not Martin Luther King Jr. or any other famous Black figure from history—it’s a mage—dark skinned and powerful-looking as a spell shoots from his fingertips. It’s Teferi, one of Magic: The Gathering’s most powerful main characters known as Planeswalkers,…

Fortnite Says Ahoy To Horizon‘s Aloy

Aloy, the protagonist of robot-dinosaur-busting game Horizon Zero Dawn and its upcoming sequel, Horizon Forbidden West, is the latest crossover character to join Fortnite. She’ll be playable starting April 15. Aloy’s addition is part of Fortnite’s “Primal” season, which added crafting, wildlife, and a new biome to the game. It also saw the death of…

Crusader Kings III Will Soon Let Modders Create Same-Sex Marriages

While Crusader Kings III shipped with the ability for characters to have a same-sex relationship, that could only happen behind the scenes, with concubines and marriage reserved for a man and a woman. After feedback from fans and modders, that’s about to change. As part of a blog post outlining some changes to the way the…

First PS5 Update Introduces Loads Of New Stuff

The first major update for the PlayStation 5 console is due to land on Wednesday, April 14, and among the additions and improvements to the console are the ability to keep games on USB storage, new social features, and changes to the PlayStation app. Sony announced the update on the PlayStation Blog, saying that while…

Anime Sure Makes Dandruff Exciting

This is, perhaps, the most exciting dandruff ad made in the history of the entire world. It’s pretty goofy but real good. As pointed out by Robotopia on Twitter, Head & Shoulders has kicked off an anime-themed campaign in Japan with a flakey super-spy named “Ando.” Geddit?? The relationship between the spy and the inspector…

Big Bowser Penis Has Been Removed From Patreon

AkkoArcade is a 3D modeller who specialises in adult props for NSFW Source filmmaker clips. Earlier this week one of their creations—a large, veiny dick intended for use with Bowser movies—has had to be removed from Patreon after a takedown notice was issued against it. WARNING: NSFW IMAGERY BELOW As The Daily Dot report, the…

Same. Exact. Energy.

The time had finally come for me to check out id Software’s unapologetic 2011 Mad Max ripoff Rage, and true to its reputation, I spent the first couple hours just trying to get it to run smoothly like a game built on a normal engine. Megatextures, am I right? But I succeeded, and promptly ran…

Outriders Should Have A Horde Mode (And Other Thoughts)

If nothing else, Outriders is a polarizing game. Sure, People Can Fly’s loot-shooter has been plagued by some serious launch-window turbulence, but the issues are merely unpleasant set dressing for a fundamentally terrific game. Two of us on staff—weekend editor Zack Zweizen and staff writer Ari Notis—can attest, as we’ve both been playing more or…

Outriders Can’t Catch A Break

It’s been a long week-and-a-half for the loot-shooter Outriders, a game rocked by eleven days of missing functionality, server issues, and player uproar. The latest wave of problems started Friday afternoon when developer People Can Fly pushed out a patch for PC and PlayStation consoles, with an Xbox version to follow at a later, unspecified…

Tomorrow’s PS5 Beta Is A Great Reason To Get Into Final Fantasy XIV

Intrigued by how much players love Final Fantasy XIV but unsure how to get started? The game’s open beta for the PlayStation 5 starts tomorrow, promising sharper graphics, faster frame rates, and shorter loading times than the PlayStation 4 version. All that plus a generous free trial makes this week a good time to get…

The Week In Games: Shadow Man Remastered

A remastered port of the cult classic N64/PS1 action-adventure game Shadow Man drops later this week on PC. I only have vague memories of Shadow Man so I’m curious to check it out via this newly remastered edition. But beyond that, there isn’t much else coming out this week. We are in the middle of…

RIP Enzio Sciotti, Badass 80s Movie Poster Artist

Enzo Sciotti is an absolute legend, and anyone who spent time in a video rental place looking at posters and VHS covers—especially in the horror and “shitty action movie” sections—will instantly be able to recognise his work, even if they never knew him by name. Born in 1944 in Italy, and with a career spanning…

Outriders Bug Is Still Costing Players Dozens Of Hours Of Lost Progress

Outriders had a few bugs at launch, like most online games do, but the worst was one that simply wiped player’s inventories, robbing them of hours of progress. A big patch went live over the weekend to fix the game and…that bug is still there, only now it’s costing players a lot more progress since…

Witcher 3 Fans Build A New Quest With Perfect Geralt Voice Acting

A Night to Remember is a brand new, fan-made quest for The Witcher 3, set after the events of Blood & Wine, and while I’m keen to check out new writing and new battles, I’m also interested in the AI tech being used here to simulate the trademark sounds of Doug Cockle, Geralt’s voice actor.…

A Very Short, Very Wholesome Zelda Song (By The Dude From The Mountain Goats)

Imagine being a kid, sitting down to play some Zelda, and instead of kicking back with the game’s instrumental score getting an improvised soundtrack from your dad. Who is… John Darnielle from The Mountain Goats. My new life goal is to get someone doing this while I play Total War, and by “someone” I mean…

Track: Something About Us| Artist: Daft Punk| Album: Discovery 

‘Shop Contest: More Donald Ducks!

One Donald Duck ain’t enough for my colleague Ian Walker. So let’s give him more Donalds! Your challenge this week: Give me more Donalds! I’m not sure why Ian didn’t just ask us to give him more Donald Ducks. That’s right in our wheelhouse. But when I read his blog about a cool mod and…