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CultureEA Brings A Bunch More Games To Steam [UPDATE: Titanfall 2 Added]
Electronic Arts released a handful of its games on Steam today. This move, combined with last year’s release of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, marks a significant return for the publisher, which left Valve’s digital games distribution platform for its own Origin launcher in 2013. Some of the EA games available on Steam include Dragon…
By Ian Walker Published June 18, 2020 -
CultureRacist Team Fortress 2 Bots Are Devising New Tactics To Evade Valve’s Crackdown
For months now, Team Fortress 2 has been wilting under a concerted assault from spam bots, many of which overwhelm chat with racist and homophobic messages. Now Valve, which has otherwise largely abandoned the game, has stepped in. But that doesn’t mean the problem has been entirely solved. In a new set of patch notes…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 18, 2020 -
CultureGuinness World Records Reinstates Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong High Scores
Guinness World Records recently announced that, as of June 10, its records management team has unanimously decided to reinstate Billy Mitchell’s previously removed high scores and achievements for Donkey Kong and Pac-Man “In this case, a re-examination of the records in question and the emergence of key eyewitness and expert testimonials led to a reversal…
By Ian Walker Published June 18, 2020 -
CultureCyberpunk 2077 Delayed (Again) Until November 19
CD Projekt Red has announced that fans will have to wait a bit longer to play Cyberpunk 2077. It has been delayed until November 19. It was originally going to release in September. On Twitter today, CD Projekt Red apologized for the delay and explained the situation that led to Cyberpunk 2077’s release date being…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 18, 2020 -
CultureHow’s It Going?: Shouting Edition
This has been a very long week, but it’s nearly over! Welcome back to our daily open thread. New York is set to hit “phase 2” of the city’s reopening soon. I was talking to some friends about what that means for their businesses—one owns a bar, and one works in a retail store—and while…
By Riley MacLeod Published June 18, 2020 -
CultureBlizzard Bans Thousands Of World Of Warcraft Classic Accounts For Botting
Blizzard announced yesterday that it’s pulled the plug on over 74,000 World of Warcraft player accounts involved in cheating. “The majority of these were found to be using gameplay automation tools, typically to farm resources or kill enemies much more efficiently than legitimate players can,” the publisher wrote in an announcement over on the game’s…
By Ethan Gach Published June 18, 2020 -
CultureThe Excellent Game Of Thrones Board Game Is Coming To PC
Game of Thrones, which is maybe one of the best board games of the last decade, has long been a mainstay among my crew for its balance, ruthlessness and hilarity. And it’s now going to try and bring all of that to PC. Publisher Asmodee Digital announced the game today, and in promising news the…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2020 -
CultureOne Week Later, The Bugsnax Song Is Still Looping In My Brain
I’ve had the theme song from Bugsnax stuck in my head since last Thursday’s PlayStation 5 reveal. Its name is never far from my lips and is often the answer I give to completely unrelated questions. My brain’s default resting state has been set to Bugsnax. Is that bad? It doesn’t feel bad. A percentage…
By Mike Fahey Published June 17, 2020 -
CultureHorizon Forbidden West Heading To PS5 In 2021
Horizon Forbidden West will launch on PlayStation 5 in 2021, according to an announcement made today by game director Mathijs de Jonge. “With the additional power of the PlayStation 5, we can make the world even more detailed, more vibrant, and more immersive,” de Jonge said. “With the PS5’s SSD, there will be virtually no…
By Ian Walker Published June 17, 2020 -
CultureThat All-Black Pikachu Probably Wasn’t Hinting At Anything
In addition to the surprise reveal of New Pokémon Snap, this morning’s Pokémon broadcast also included an intriguing cameo from an all-black Pikachu plush, which hung out in the background while company president Tsunekazu Ishihara presented on stream. But don’t get too excited; it seems this was just an opportunity for Ishihara to show off…
By Ian Walker Published June 17, 2020 -
CulturePokémon Sword And Shield’s New DLC Finally Lets Pokémon Follow You Around
Pokémon Sword and Shield’s Isle of Armor DLC adds a big new area to explore and a bunch more Pokémon to discover, but by far one of the coolest things in it is a new feature that lets you hang out with your favorite Pokémon out in the wild. Once you hit a certain point…
By Ethan Gach Published June 17, 2020 -
CultureHow’s It Going?: Morning Edition
Welcome to Wednesday—we’re halfway there!—and welcome back to our daily open thread. I’ve been up since 5am covering the new Fortnite season, because it is my job to get up at such ungodly hours to play video games. I’ve always wanted to be a morning person, but I can never quite pull it off with…
By Riley MacLeod Published June 17, 2020 -
CulturePokémon Gets A New Puzzle Game And A Toothbrushing App
In non-Pokémon Snap news, this morning’s YouTube presentation from The Pokémon Company also revealed free-to-start puzzle game Pokémon Café Mix and Pokémon Smile, a mobile app meant to help children brush their teeth. Launching on June 23 on Switch, iOS, and Android, Pokémon Café Mixis a match puzzle game in which players complete orders in…
By Mike Fahey Published June 17, 2020 -
CultureThey’re Finally Making A New Pokémon Snap
During a special YouTube presentation this morning, The Pokémon Company announced a new version of classic Nintendo 64 game Pokémon Snap in development for Nintendo Switch. Released for the Nintendo 64 in 1999, Pokémon Snap is a photo safari spinoff of the monster-collecting RPG series in which players are tasked with snapping pictures of pocket…
By Mike Fahey Published June 17, 2020 -
CultureFortnite Season 3 Floods The Map, Adds Aquaman
Fortnite’s Season 3 is here, at long last, and things look different. The map is flooded, a giant shark keeps landing on me, and there are more NPCs to fight. As suspected, the battle royale island is now largely covered in water. While the landmarks seem much the same, many of them are now islands.…
By Riley MacLeod Published June 17, 2020 -
CultureHuman Toad Is Freaky And Terrifying
Artist Miguel Vasquez is a genius at taking beloved video game and cartoon characters and turning them into nightmare fuel. His latest? Toad from Super Mario Vasquez uses a 2D image of each character as a reference but then gives them realistic human eyes. He also takes inspiration from movie make-up effects artists like Rick…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 17, 2020
