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PGA Tour 2K21 is in the works. Today Take-Two revealed a teaser for the officially licensed game, developed by HB Studios, makers of The Golf Club 2019. More news is coming May 14. Until then, hooray for golf video games. 

Mortal Kombat 11′s Story Mode Kontinues On May 26, With RoboCop

Great news for fans of Mortal Kombat 11‘s single-player narrative this morning, as Netherrealm Studios revealed Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath, an all-new $40 expansion the continues the game’s story and adds new fighters, including returning favorites Fujin and Sheeva and a certain half-man, half-machine, all cop. As Liu Kang prepares to reshape history as his…

Animal Crossing Would Be So Much Better With This Fan-Crafted Quality-Of-Life Update

Wouldn’t Animal Crossing: New Horizons be so much better with the ability to craft multiple items at once, skip repeated dialogue, or open up to visitors from anywhere on your island? YouTuber Nick Ha has put together a trailer for the ultimate Animal Crossing quality-of-life update. If only it were real. Working with a trio…

Track: Here’s Where The Story Ends | Artist: The Sundays | Album: Reading, Writing and Arithmetic 

Big Brain Detective

Aleksander Rostov is art director at ZA/UM, the developers of Disco Elysium You can see more of Aleksander’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Stop Saying “Weed” When You’re Talking About Animal Crossing On Facebook

Facebook is owned by humans but run by machines, and those machines are unable to differentiate between a “weed”, a thing that grows in the ground in Nintendo’s Animal Crossing (and, I guess, in real life), and the other “weed”. As Polygon report, numerous private Facebook groups have begun warning users to avoid using the…

Wind Waker’s Ending Was Incredibly Badass

My kids have started playing Wind Waker recently—for the record, my favourite game of all time—and it’s been a joy seeing them encounter everything for the first time. Gasping at Aryll’s abduction, laughing at the Killer Bees, screaming “this stealth level is the worst I hate it”. I wonder, though, what they’ll make of the…

Please, Cate Blanchett, Do Not Star In The Borderlands Movie

Variety are reporting today that Cate Blanchett “is in talks to star as Lilith in Lionsgate’s ‘Borderlands,’ an adaptation of the popular video game”. This is sad and terrible news. If you missed the announcement back in February, Eli Roth is directing an adaptation of Gearbox’s shooters, and between his involvement and the series’ trademark…

Two Publishers Trade A Bunch Of IPs (Including Red Faction) Like They Were Baseball Cards

THQ Nordic and Koch Media did something today that I don’t think I’ve ever seen before: they picked up a bunch of intellectual properties they own—including Second Sight and Risen—and just traded them. Like they were athletes, or collectable cards, or Pokemon. It’s important to note before we start thinking this is too weird that…

Fallout 76 Players Donate To Wasteland Doctor Whose Real-Life Home Caught Fire

Brent “CJ Martin” Fairchild role-plays in Fallout 76 as a doctor offering aid to other players. After his real-life home caught on fire over the weekend, players have been raising money for his family to try to return the favor. As first reported by Polygon, a GoFundMe page was set up by Fallout 76 podcaster…

Sekiro Multiplayer Mod Lets Friends Die Horribly, Together

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is a solitary experience by design. The combat is at its best when facing a foe one-on-one, trading blows and parries while trying to throw each other off balance. But if you thought it was missing something by forgoing the asynchronous multiplayer of From Software siblings like Dark Souls and Bloodborne,…

Valorant Players Don’t Like That Valorant’s Top Rank Is Called ‘Valorant’

Despite the fact that it’s still in closed beta, there are many Valorant players. There are not, however, many Valorant players who are also Valorants, aka Valorant Valorant players. You can probably see why some players already find the game’s naming scheme for its top rank confusing. Less than a week ago, Valorant added its…

Halo 2: Anniversary will be on PC starting May 12. It’s the latest game in the series to get ported as 343 Industries transitions the entire Master Chief Collection to PC. It’s also not-so-secretly one of the best Halo games.

Perhaps you, like me, missed pixelated-action adventure game Arrest of a stone Buddha when it came to PC earlier this year. If so you’re in luck. The latest game from the maker of the fantastic beat ‘em up Friends of Ringo Ishikawa is coming to Switch on May 21.

How’s It Going?: Weird Habits Edition

It’s Tuesday! Good job, everyone. Welcome back to our daily open thread. I’ve recently gotten into the habit of falling asleep on my couch watching Bob’s Burgers episodes for the millionth time. This used to be just an occasional weekend quirk, but lately it’s morphed into a nightly thing. The noise keeps me from lying…

After Nearly Two Decades, Microprose Is Making Strategy And Simulation Games Again

Founded in 1982 by game industry legends Sid Meier and Bill Stealey, developer and publisher Microprose released some of the greatest military simulation and strategy games ever made. After nearly two decades defunct, the Microprose name returns, with a trio of new strategy and simulation games in the works. The Australia-based company that currently owns…

Microsoft Will Show Xbox Series X First-Party Games In July, Still Promising Halo For Launch

Microsoft says it plans to show updates on its first-party games some time in July and is still planning on launching Xbox Series X and Halo Infinite later this year. The company shed more light on its plans for the rest of 2020 in a blog post today, including announcing a series of “monthly moments”…

Track: Sunday Morning | Artist: The Velvet Underground & Nico | Album: The Velvet Underground & Nico

Relax, Sir, I’m A Doctor

Sarunas Macijauskas is a concept artist and illustrator from Lithuania. You can see more of Sarunas’ stuff at his ArtStation page

Doom Eternal’s Soundtrack Has Been A Trainwreck

A video game soundtrack release is normally a pretty straightforward thing, but Doom Eternal’s 59-track OST has found itself mired in controversy as the game’s composer and publisher Bethesda are at odds over the quality and composition of much of the score. The story begins last month, when the album was released (after some delays)…