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Razer Is Making Surgical Masks To Help Combat Covid-19

Gaming hardware company Razer is getting into the medical supply business, pledging to manufacture and donate up to a million surgical masks to health authorities around the world to help combat the spread of covid-19. In a Twitter thread posted earlier today Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan said the company’s engineers and designers have been working…

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Jeremiah Lee is an artist at Cloud Imperium, the studio that’s been working on Star Citizen for almost eight years now. You can see more of Jeremiah’s stuff at his ArtStation page

GameStop Selling Doom A Day Early As A ‘Safety Precaution’

Doom and Animal Crossing were supposed to be out on the same day (Friday), but as a “safety precaution,” GameStop has made the move to sell id’s shooter a day early to avoid crowds. The two games, once thought inseparable, will now release separately as a precautionary measure to adhere to the CDC’s guidelines on…

PlayStation 5 Versus Xbox Series X: The Tech Specs

This week we learned the technical specs for the Xbox Series X and the PlayStation 5. How do the two consoles stack up so far? Despite only knowing what one of the two looks like, they are not so different, X and 5. Before we get into it, keep in mind these are just numbers…

PlayStation 5’s Backward Compatibility Won’t Arrive All At Once

PlayStation 5 will be backward compatible with PlayStation 4 games, but Sony said today to expect it to be a gradual rollout that needs to be tested on a per-game basis. “We recently took a look at the top 100 PS4 titles as ranked by play time, and we’re expecting almost all of them to…

White House Doctor: We Need Millennials To Stay Healthy Because They Know How To Speedrun Video Games

During today’s White House press conference the Trump administration’s Coronavirus Task Force response coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx, called on millenials to take the threat of infection more seriously. Why? Because they are “part of that group that brought us innovation, particularly throughout all of their ability to look around corners and skip through games.” “I…

Physical Copies Of Final Fantasy VII Remake May Be Delayed Due To Pandemic

The current covid-19 pandemic has left many things uncertain. As businesses struggle to adjust to the situation, video game publishers are preparing players for unexpected disruptions to their gaming plans. Square-Enix is now cautioning players that while the Final Fantasy VII Remake will release as planned, physical copies might not reach everyone who ordered them.…

Animal Crossing Taught Me How To Be An Adult

Much of the time, but especially right now, the world doesn’t feel like it makes a whole lot of sense. It’s chaotic, it’s unpredictable, and things always seem to come up that completely derail the best-made plans. I learned that as a kid by playing Animal Crossing, a game that, much like life, doesn’t have…

Satirical Twitch Streamer Kaceytron Suspended For ‘Insensitive’ Coronavirus Joke

While Twitch has not explicitly stated that dark jokes about covid-19 are grounds for an indefinite stay in the site’s purple-barred slammer, it’s now spoken with its actions. Popular satirical streamer Kaceytron has been suspended after making such a joke last week. Kaceytron (real name Kacey Caviness) was on an episode of reality show streamer…

Microsoft Adds More Stuff You Probably Won’t Use To Game Pass Ultimate

Today, Microsoft announced it’s expanding the Game Pass Ultimate subscription to include “perks,” extra goodies like in-game currency and cosmetic packs for certain games available through the service. While it’s a small gesture, it’s part of the company’s ongoing attempt to make subscribers feel like they’re getting their money’s worth. The first set of games…

Here Are The PlayStation 5’s Technical Specs

It might only have 10.28 teraflops to the Xbox Series X’s 12, but the PlayStation 5 is still a pretty powerful machine. Check out the hardware powering Sony’s next-gen console, including its custom AMD Zen 2 CPU and super-fast SSD. As PlayStation 5 lead system architect Mark Cerny does a deep dive into the engineering…

Overwatch‘s Newest Hero Is Echo, A Long-Awaited AI Robot

Seven months after the release of its last new hero, Overwatch is finally getting a new one. Echo, who players of the popular team shooter have been salivating over ever since she made her cinematic debut in the 2018 trailer that introduced Ashe, will be playable “soon.” Today, Blizzard posted a trailer officially introducing Echo.…

How’s It Going?: Books Edition

Good morning! We’re back with our daily open thread for you to share, vent, and celebrate the good you can find going on around you. Last night I texted the other people living in my building to let them know I’m around if they need anything. I’d put it off for a while because it…

There’s An Official MapleStory Gaming Chair And It’s Precious

Everybody deserves a fancy gaming chair. That includes players of a 17-year-old side-scrolling 2D Korean MMO. Nexon America has partnered with gaming chair maker DXRacer to create this adorable $380 pink, purple, and white seating surface based on MapleStory’s Pink Bean. Think all gaming chairs look like they rolled off the same assembly line? The…

Hearthstone Adds First New Class Since Launch: Demon Hunters

After six years of card-battling Mages, Priests, Shamans, Warriors, Rogues, Hunters, Warlocks, and Paladins, Blizzard’s World of Warcraft-inspired trading card game finally gets some new blood. The Demon Hunter arrives on April 7 as part of the Ashes of Outland expansion. The first new class added to Hearthstone since its 2014 launch, the Demon Hunter…

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Benjamin Bardou is an artist and matte painter from France. You can see more of Bardou’s stuff at his personal site and ArtStation page

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Doesn’t Care If Boys Wear Skirts, Whatever, It’s 2020

Despite being pretty good about letting players do what they want, the Animal Crossing series only recently made clothing gender neutral. New Leaf, released on the 3DS in 2012, was the first game to allow players to wear clothes traditionally meant for a different gender, and New Horizons takes that a little further by removing…

The Best Part Of Destiny 2’s New Exotic Quest Is The Mixtape In Zavala’s Office

Today’s Destiny 2 weekly reset marks the return of the Fourth Horseman shotgun from the original Destiny. Instead of grinding for it, though, I’m currently sitting in Zavala’s office getting pumped up on his workout mixtape. The first part of the “In Rides A Pale Horse” quest has you visiting the Vanguard titan’s personal workstation…