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CultureEVE Online‘s Alien Invasion Is Disrupting The Game’s Biggest Trade Route
Logistics and shipping routes aren’t things that typically come to mind when people think of video games, outside of the Trucking Simulator series anyway. But in EVE Online they are a way of life: Ship components, weapons, ammunition, and all other manner of trade goods have to be loaded into massive cargo vessels and painstakingly…
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CultureCall of Duty: Black Ops: Cold War Is The Next Call Of Duty
A teaser trailer released today revealed that the next Call of Duty will be Call of Duty: Black Ops: Cold War. Claiming to be inspired by true events, the teaser trailer features the story of a Soviet spy, codenamed “Perseus,” who was allegedly involved in attempts to sabotage the United States. Check out the trailer:…
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CultureFall Guys Celebrates 1 Million Twitter Followers With A Yellow Team Tornado
The Twitter for bean-flavored battle royale Fall Guys reached one million followers today, prompting the popular account to unleash a video depicting a nightmarish version of the Egg Scramble mini-game in which everyone is yellow team. Or a dream-come-true, depending on where your alliance lies. Me, I always end up on team yellow, so the…
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CultureWriter On Original Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines Has Been Fired From The Sequel
Brian Mitsoda, a lead writer on the original Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, has been laid off from the development team working on Bloodlines 2, Hardsuit Labs and Paradox Interactive announced on the game’s website today. Creative director Ka’ai Cluney is also no longer working on the game as part of larger “organizational changes” to…
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CultureRed Dead Redemption 2 Is Already Leaving Xbox Game Pass
Like the Wild West world it depicted, Red Dead Redemption 2’s time on Xbox Game Pass is coming to a sudden, ignominious end. Despite just joining the service in May, Red Dead Redemption 2 will become unavailable on September 7. Red Dead Redemption 2’s departure follows a similar path as Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V,…
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CultureHow’s It Going? I Can See My House From Here Edition
I spent this morning trying to find the house I live in within a video game. Welcome back to our daily open thread. I’ve been fiddling with Microsoft Flight Simulator for the past couple of days, mainly just poking about until my new flight stick arrives. One goal of mine, which I imagine is the…
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CulturePersona 4 Golden‘s Steam Success Has Sega Aiming For More PC Ports
Sega Sammy did not have a great first quarter financially. Most of the company’s businesses, which include pachinko, arcades and arcade machines, and resorts, suffered due to the covid-19 crisis. The surprise release of Persona 4 Golden on PC, however, was an overwhelming success, which Sega aims to capitalize on with more PC ports and…
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CultureOdds and EndsFantasy Miniatures In Battle-Ready Wheelchairs Please Me Greatly
First the outstanding Sara Thompson creates a set of rules for combat wheelchairs for Dungeons & Dragons 5E. Now Strata Miniatures, makers of small role-playing figures, has created a line of wheeled fantasy heroes ready to roll into battle, with a portion of all sales going towards Ehlers-Danlos Support UK I have to admit, it’s…
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CultureThe Worst Warzone Gun Is Now The Best (But It’s Still Broken)
One of Warzone’s worst guns is now so broken that, thanks to exploits, it’s actually the best gun to use in Call of Duty’s battle royale. The standard version of the FR 5.56 assault rifle is a weak choice for Warzone matches, but players have discovered that the gun is almost unstoppable with the right…
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CultureOdds and EndsConsiderate Fall Guys Player Saves AFK Contestant From Elimination
It’s an inescapable fact that the world is full of assholes, and the same can be said of Fall Guys. But sometimes someone—or in this case, somebean—does something so wonderful that it makes you forget about humanity’s failings for a little while. Just check out this player safely guiding an AFK competitor around Perfect Match…
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CultureE3 Apologizes After Sexist Tweet Gets Ratioed
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was one of those times when the three gremlins in a trenchcoat controlling the E3 Twitter account tweeted something so insulting and ridiculous that all you can do is screenshot it and wait for it to be deleted. At 11:37 a.m. ET…
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CultureOdds and EndsBaldur’s Gate III Delivers The First Actually Good Not-E3 Developer Livestream
Now this is how you do a Summer of Not-E3 video game livestream. I haven’t seen friends or family in any sort of natural or sustained way for months, the unemployment rate is only slightly below where it was during the worst months of the Great Recession, and hundreds are still dying every day of…
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CultureOculus VR Devices Will Soon Require Facebook Accounts
Starting in October, new users of the Oculus virtual reality gaming platform will need to log in with a Facebook account, the company announced today. Current users will need to merge their Oculus accounts with a Facebook account within the next two years to maintain the “full functionality” of their systems after January 1, 2023.…
By Ian Walker
