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CultureBorderlands Movie Casts Actor Who’s Actually Funny To Play Claptrap, Which Feels Off
Jumanji and Orange County star Jack Black has joined the cast of the Borderlands movie, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Black, who will be playing Borderlands’ perennial robotic sidekick and ostensible comic relief Claptrap, is the latest actor to sign onto the project after Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, and Jamie Lee Curtis. Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin…
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CultureKingdom Hearts Series Coming To PC On March 30, Exclusive To Epic Games Store
A handful of Kingdom Hearts games are coming to PC on March 30, and will be exclusive to the Epic Games Store. During today’s spring showcase, Epic Games announced that Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX, Kingdom Hearts HD II.8 Final Chapter Prologue, Kingdom Hearts III, and Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory will be…
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CultureOdds and EndsLance Reddick Is Now Voice Acting Destiny Memes
Lance Reddick is a famous actor, with major roles in The Wire and John Wick, among other things. He’s also the voice of Destiny’s Commander Zavala, and apparently not above granting fan requests to voice act the memes they send him. That’s what he did yesterday when Destiny player xMechanizex sent him a meme drawn…
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CultureNintendo’s New ‘Switch Concierge’ Service Will Give You Game Recs
Nintendo has launched Nintendo Switch Concierge, a program designed to familiarize those who “recently purchased a Nintendo Switch system” with the console. Switch Concierge gives Switch owners one-on-one video conferences with a Nintendo rep. There are six half-hour sessions to choose from: Nintendo Switch 101, Games (Getting Started), Games (What to Play Next), Security and…
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CultureRatchet & Clank: Rift Apart Comes Out This June
Next-gen exclusive Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart releases on PS5 on June 11, Insomniac Games announced over on the PlayStation Blog today. Announced last June, the action platformer is set to be a showpiece for PlayStation’s new hardware, including levels where players seamlessly hop between multiple worlds, something that wouldn’t have been possible on the…
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CultureA Pokémon And Post Malone Concert Is–Wait, Why Are You Laughing?
Pokémon and Post Malone sounds like the follow-up album to Post Malone’s 2018 Beerbongs & Bentleys, but it is a real thing that is actually happening because 2020 isn’t done fucking with us I guess. The “Circles” rapper is teaming up with The Pokémon Company to put on a concert this month in celebration of…
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CulturePraise Be Unto Zeus, Immortals Fenyx Rising Finally Has Loadouts
Ubisoft released an update for Immortals Fenyx Rising today, resolving known issues, adding key stability improvements, and… blah, blah, blah. Forget about all that! The game is (finally!) getting loadouts! Today’s 1.1.1 patch bakes an equipment loadout feature right into Fenyx Rising’s inventory screen, allowing players to curate up to three loadouts. Following the update,…
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CultureCD Projekt Red Resorting To Kickstarter To Launch New Witcher Board Game
CD Projekt Red, one of the biggest video game developers in Europe, is teaming up with board game makers Go On Board to produce a deck-building game based on The Witcher. It’s called The Witcher: Old World, and it’s going to use the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to do it. According to BoardGameGeek News, the game…
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CultureAbandoned Shooter Six Days In Fallujah Is Being Brought Back Over A Decade Later
Publisher Konami originally pulled the plug on Six Days In Fallujah, Atomic Games’ attempt to tell a realistic story about the war in Iraq based on the experience of US service members, for being too controversial. Now a new publisher and developer are resurrecting it. Production is being led by Victura, founded by former Atomic…
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CultureTwitch Leaks New Street Fighter V Character [Update]
Update (1:06 p.m. ET, 02/11/2021): During today’s winter update steam, Capcom clarified that Eleven will be a bonus character in Street Fighter V rather than the last addition to its final season. We’ve updated the headline to reflect this. The shapeshifting fighter will be given to players who purchase either the Season 5 character pass…
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CultureOdds and EndsLara, You’re Drunk
When Core Design and Eidos Interactive were getting ready to ship Tomb Raider III in 1998, they recruited Lara Croft herself to promote the game. The resulting animation was…something else. It’s hard to overstate just how big a deal Lara Croft was in her heyday. Sure, she’s gotten all gloomy and grimy recently, but you…
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CultureUbisoft Considering Changing Rainbow Six Quarantine‘s Name Amid Covid-19 Pandemic
Ubisoft co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot told investors yesterday that the company is looking into changing the name of Rainbow Six Quarantine due to the negative connotations of the subtitle while the world is still in the middle of the covid-19 pandemic. “We are creating a product that is actually… as it’s named today, it…
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CultureCD Projekt Red Hackers Allegedly Ready To Auction Stolen Source Code
Earlier this week, Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red announced that its cybersecurity had been compromised, resulting in attackers gaining access to various internal files. Now, it appears as if those hackers are ready to cash out with a big-money auction of the data, which allegedly includes source code for some of the Polish studio’s…
By Ian Walker