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CultureWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for doing things in video games you would never do in real life. Like shooting people, crashing cars, or playing golf. I am a video game golfer. I like the idea of using a stick to hit a ball into a hole very far away. It’s all the other stuff involved in…
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CultureCrysis Remastered Comes Out In September, For Real This Time, Probably
After lots of leaks, confusion, and backtracking, Crysis Remastered finally has a new release date and it’s coming to PS4, Xbox One, and PC on September 18. The remaster, which is only of the first game in the series and doesn’t include any multiplayer, will have a number of graphical updates like ray-traced reflections and…
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CultureHere’s Everything Destiny 2 Is Losing Later This Year
Bungie went into more detail about what precisely will be disappearing from Destiny 2 later this year, when the studio begins vaulting content for the the first time in game’s history and…it’s a lot. The base game’s main campaign will all but disappear and most of its existing free-to-play content along with it. The Destiny…
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CultureFall Guys Was Almost Called Stumble Chums
Game development, like any creative endeavor, is an iterative exercise in brainstorming and fine-tuning. A recent Twitter thread by Mediatonic creative director Jeff Tanton gave everyone a brief glimpse into that process as it pertained to Fall Guys, which apparently had several possible titles before the studio settled on its final name. Fall Guys got…
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CultureHow Deathloop, Gran Turismo 7, Spider-Man: Miles Morales Will Use PS5 Controller’s Fancy Features
At first glance, the PlayStation 5 DualSense controller doesn’t look like a huge level-up over its predecessor, the DualShock 4. The shape is similar, the layout is near-identical, and the iconic button quadfecta (Square, Triangle, Circle, X) sure hasn’t gone anywhere. But there are a few subtle improvements. One Sony has trumpeted in recent months…
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CultureCapcom Hands Down Odd Punishment For Street Fighter V Player’s Outburst
A poor experience with Street Fighter V’s online multiplayer during a recent Capcom Cup qualifier sent one top player on a childish tirade against both the organizers and the player who beat him. Capcom announced today that he will have to start the next tournament in the losers bracket. Victor “Punk” Woodley is one of…
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CultureOdds and EndsStephen King Baffled By Tekken Jargon
I love horror novelist Stephen King. I love fighting games. But it seems those two flavors don’t go together all that well. It all started last night when a random Tekken player, as they are wont to do, hopped on Twitter to demand changes from the developers. I won’t bore you with the competitive implications…
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CultureOdds and EndsSpiritfarer Pokes Fun At Animal Crossing’s Jerk Raccoon, Tom Nook
Spiritfarer and Animal Crossing: New Horizons have a lot of shared DNA. Both feature anthropomorphic animals with distinct personalities. Both give you a space of your own that you can shape to your whims. Both demand a meticulous level of resource management. And both, more surprisingly, star a morally defunct raccoon salesman who worships at…
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CultureLatest Fall Guys Update Prevents Consecutive Team Games
Fall Guys is great, but if there’s one thing on which most players can agree, it’s that the team-based mini-games don’t quite live up to the fun of the solo competitions. The game’s latest patch relieves that a bit by making back-to-back group activities a thing of the past. Thanks to an update released this…
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CultureHow’s It Going? RIP Summer Edition
It’s cold where I am, at least too cold to take a swim. Which is good because our pool’s been empty since a tropical storm flooded the yard (and our basement) earlier this month. Do we clean it out and fill it back up? Take it down and admit this summer blew? I should probably…
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CultureOdds and EndsCreepypasta Spins The Strange And Unsettling Circumstances Around Cancelled Tomb Raider Game
As I was doomscrolling (heh) Twitter early this morning (a deeply unhealthy part of my morning ritual) I came across a thread written by Xalavier Nelson Jr., former PC Magazine writer and Narrative Designer on ‘90s internet simulation Hypnospace Outlaw. Nelson’s thread hooked me from the very beginning, promising a never-before-heard story about a video…
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CultureSony Says PS5 Is Definitely Still Launching This Year
We still don’t know how much the PS5 will cost nor its exact release date, but in a new interview Sony executive Eric Lempel said the ongoing global pandemic hasn’t changed the company’s plans to launch the console later this year. “We will launch this year—that will happen—and from my end we will absolutely make…
By Ethan Gach
