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CultureDestiny 2 Players Are Looking For A Giant Spaceship By Staring Directly Into The Sun
As the current season of Destiny 2 draws to a close, players are desperately searching for signs of a giant spaceship that’s supposed to be on a collision course with Earth. After today’s weekly reset, they finally found one by staring directly into the sun. One of the first reports came in from the game’s…
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CultureSilent Hill Returns As Dead By Daylight Expansion
The next major Dead by Daylight expansion will feature content based on the iconic Silent Hill franchise. Starting in June, players of the asymmetric, competitive horror game will be able to control the series’ ostensible mascot Pyramid Head (otherwise referred to as “The Executioner”) and Silent Hill 3 protagonist Cheryl Mason (also known as Heather…
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CultureBlizzCon 2020 Has Been Cancelled
Blizzard, the studio behind World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Diablo just announced via blog post that they are cancelling BlizzCon 2020. Even as states are slowly reopening with social distancing guidelines in place, Blizzard expressed concerns that it’s just too much to consider trying to throw their massive convention this year. “We’ve had many discussions about…
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CultureSkullgirls Honors Two High-Level Queer Players In Latest Update
Although Skullgirls patches these days often focus on improvements to online play and tiny graphical bugs, the 2012 fighting game received an update over the long weekend that pays homage to a pair of high-level players. Before they dominated Mortal Kombat and Dragon Ball FighterZ, Dominique “SonicFox” McLean was the world’s greatest Skullgirls player. Now,…
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CultureClassic Anno Strategy Games Are Getting Future-Proofed With 64-Bit Updates
The Anno city-building strategy series began over two decades ago with Anno 1602: Creation of a New World. That and other games from the series’ early history are getting touched up as part of the new Anno History Collection, coming to PC on June 25. The collection will be $40 and include the first four…
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CultureFallout 76 Intestine Shortage Delays Big Masked-Parade Event [Update]
Fallout 76’s much anticipated Fasnacht Parade went live yesterday, but not for long. It was quickly taken offline after players discovered a bug that made it too hard to complete the event’s requirements. It’s the latest piece of Fallout 76 content to be derailed by a slew of recent technical problems. The Fasnacht Parade, based…
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CultureNo Man’s Sky Coming To Xbox Game Pass And Windows PC In June
The procedurally-generated universe of Hello Games’ sci-fi epic is getting a massive influx of new explorers next month, as No Man’s Sky joins the Xbox Game Pass subscription service and scores a new Windows PC version. In the nearly four years since its August 2016 release, No Man’s Sky’s has evolved from a relatively bare-bones…
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CultureDota 2‘s New Summer Battle Pass Adds Female Anti-Mage, Guilds, And More
Valve unveiled Dota 2‘s long-awaited summer battle pass today and it’s full of stuff to get even lapsed players like me excited about playing again The International Battle Pass is Valve’s main mechanism for funding the prize pool for its big annual Dota 2 tournament and building up excitement around it. While the event has…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryA Bet Over Animal Crossing: New Horizons Screwed Me Out Of $30
Over the past few months, I haven’t been shy about my feelings for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. I’ve called it “seriously stressful,” an “exercise in patience,” and a “shoddy Xerox of life’s daily headaches.” I’ve publicly insulted Tom Nook and Jolly Redd. I compared a recent event to socks. Well, last week Animal Crossing: New…
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CultureCall of Duty: WWII Is One Of June’s PlayStation Plus Games
If you’ve had a hankering to play the Call of Duty from three years ago, PlayStation Plus has you covered next month. Although technically one of June’s PS Plus games, Call of Duty: WWII will actually be available to download starting May 26. Maybe it’s a day-after-Memorial-Day thing? Of course, good luck finding space for…
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CultureModder Makes Resident Evil 3‘s Nemesis Even Scarier
Sometimes things are more than they appear. In this Resident Evil 3 mod that’s not the case. It replaces Nemesis with Shrek. That’s it. That’s the entire mod. We saw a ton of mods transforming Resident Evil 2’s Mister X into the likes of Thomas the Tank Engine and others when it came out last…
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CultureHow’s It Going?: Memorial Day Edition
It’s Memorial Day, the unofficial start of the summer. But this year who even knows what that means. Welcome back to our daily open thread. Maybe you saw this video going around of a Memorial Day weekend pool party at the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. You’d never know the covid-19 pandemic was still…
By Ethan Gach
