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CultureOdds and EndsEight Years Later, Players Find A Hidden Weapon In Guild Wars
Players in Guild Wars found an eight-year-old Easter egg this week after a former developer on the game offered some hints and teases to help move people in the right direction. Earlier this month, Vlambeer developer Jan Willem Nijman asked others to share Easter eggs and secrets hidden in their games on Twitter. Hundreds of…
By Zack Zwiezen Published April 15, 2021 -
CultureF1 2021 Launches July 16 With An EA Sports-Style Story Mode
EA’s purchase of racing game maker Codemasters means EA Sports has an F1 racing game for the first time since 2003. F1 2021, available July 16 for Xboxes, PlayStations, and PCs, expands career mode to include a two-player option and introduces Braking Point, a narrative-driven story mode that’s sure to make driving very fast, very…
By Mike Fahey Published April 15, 2021 -
CultureSkate City Rolls Onto PC And Consoles May 6
Skate City, the artful street skating game from Alto’s Odyssey creators Snowman and Norweigian developer Agens, finally makes the leap from Apple Arcade to PC and console next month, bringing its chill lo-fi beats and dreamy rides to PlayStations, Xboxens, Switch, and PC on May 6. If I did not need to cover Apple Arcade…
By Mike Fahey Published April 15, 2021 -
CultureThe Nintendo Download: That SaGa Frontier Life
Last week we restarted our weekly Nintendo Download feature, highlighting 31 games released for the Switch over the course of seven days. This week only sees 30 new games joining the lineup, including SaGa Frontier Remastered, FEZ, Pocoyo Party, and a bunch of crap you’ve never heard of. For the sake of keeping a running…
By Mike Fahey Published April 15, 2021 -
CultureBrie Larson’s Fortnite Loadout Is A Thing You Can Buy Now
Captain Marvel plays Fortnite and now, for the price of 2,000 V-Bucks, you can have her stuff. Brie Larson’s Locker Bundle brings a beautiful new redeco of the Bushranger skin in the purple and green of Larson’s Fortnite squad, the Bush Babies. As celebrity skins go, Larson picked a nice one. Look how happy that…
By Mike Fahey Published April 15, 2021 -
AnimeAt 79 Years Old, Gundam Creator Yoshiyuki Tomino Is Still Competitive
Yoshiyuki Tomino is an anime legend. At the age of 79, you might think he’s checked out, retired, and is taking it easy. You’d be wrong. As reported on 2ch, in a recent interview on Japanese TV, Tomino talked about what keeps him going. He mentioned how giant robot shows are aimed at kids, but…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 15, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsPlayStation’s Recycled Boxes Are Very Cool
I am very much developing a thing for more responsible video game packaging, and so this blog by Sony on how they’re cutting down on plastics in their PlayStation boxes was pretty interesting reading. As part of “a commitment to eliminate plastic use in newly designed small product packaging by 2025,” Sony explains how the…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 14, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsLet Us Once Again Marvel At How Good This Flight Sim Looks
The DCS series has a (well-earned) reputation as being serious as hell, but I think that stereotype helps people overlook the fact that it’s also one of the best-looking video games on the planet. I know there are perfectly good reasons for that—like there isn’t much else to model, so the models the game does…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 14, 2021 -
ReviewsBacklogMaybe Your ‘Pile Of Shame’ Is A Problem
Because everything has gone to shit and very few new games are coming out—look at you, you’re all playing Outriders for God’s sake—we’re going to be spending the month looking at backlogs, aka the games we own but haven’t played. And I would like to start that month by saying that anyone using the closely-related…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 14, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsHere’s What Would Happen In A Dragon Age 2 ‘Snyder Cut’
Yesterday on Twitter, former BioWare employee and Dragon Age 2 lead writer David Gaider explained what he’d do with the opportunity to give Dragon Age 2 it’s own “Snyder Cut.” The tweet thread covered a wishlist of changes to the game, including vastly altering the sequence of events and the ability to make different critical…
By Ash Parrish Published April 14, 2021 -
CultureMinecraft Caves & Cliffs Split In Two, Partially Delayed
Citing the ambitious nature of the gameworld-changing update along with the current state of the real world, Mojang today announced it’s splitting Minecraft’s Caves & Cliffs update into two parts. Part one will be out this summer as planned, with the second half coming during the holiday season. One of the most requested updates in…
By Mike Fahey Published April 14, 2021 -
CultureTwitchLudwig’s Never-Ending Twitch Stream Has Ended
On March 14, Ludwig Ahgren started a stream with no set end date. Last night, an entire month later, it finally ended. For the better part of 31 days, Ahgren played games, worked out, watched movies, and even slept on stream. At night, his moderators took over, podcasting and collaborating with viewers to share videos…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 14, 2021 -
CultureCapcom Says Covid-19 Made Company Vulnerable To Ransomware Attack
Capcom has officially closed the investigation into the ransomware attack against its servers from late last year, concluding that the ongoing covid-19 pandemic—what else—had a hand in the security breach. Here’s Capcom’s explanation of the events that led to the hack: According to the IT specialists, unauthorized access to the Company’s internal network was acquired…
By Ian Walker Published April 14, 2021 -
CultureEverything Announced During Today’s Nintendo Indie World
Another Nintendo Indie World presentation, another batch of cool little games coming to the Switch between today and months from now. From Fez, The Longing and There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension out later today to next year’s GetsuFumaDen: Undying World, here’s the indies Nintendo showed off today. First off, let’s talk Fez, a game…
By Mike Fahey Published April 14, 2021 -
CultureHelp, Returnal Looks Terrifying
Today, Sony released a trailer and a collection of artworkfor Returnal, an upcoming PS5-exclusive bullet hell game from the makers of Resogun. The game looks neat. It also looks positively terrifying. Exhibit A: If that looks like a waterlogged version of a clicker from The Last of Us, you’re not far off. Housemarque, the studio…
By Ari Notis Published April 14, 2021 -
CultureOverwatch League Live Games Are Back, But Only In China
Overwatch League Homestands are back, kinda. Today, the Overwatch League announced Homestands—live match events—will be returning during the 2021 season, but only in China. “Due to improved health and safety conditions in China, we are excited to announce the planned return of live events to three cities during the 2021 season,” the announcement read. Live…
By Ash Parrish Published April 14, 2021 -
OpinionImpressionsKnight Squad 2 Knows How To Party
Party games balance on a tightrope. If they’re too rooted in chance, everyone will be at each other’s throats within a round. (See: Mario Party.) If they’re too basic, they’re boring, and if they’re too complex, well, there’s no fun for a party. Every so often, a game comes along and nails the balance, like…
By Ari Notis Published April 14, 2021 -
OpinionImpressionsFinal Fantasy XIV Runs Like A Dream On The PS5
If I weren’t holding a DualSense controller while playing the PlayStation 5 beta of Final Fantasy XIV I would think it was running on my gaming PC. As much as I love my massively multiplayer online role-playing games, I hate playing them on game consoles. They always look muddy and the frame rates are always…
By Mike Fahey Published April 14, 2021 -
CultureCyberpunk 2077 Still Trying To Fix Cops With Latest Patch
A hotfix is out for Cyberpunk 2077 on PC, consoles, and Stadia. Following on the heels of the game’s 1.2 patch, hotfix 1.21 addresses quest bugs, some UI issues, and the game’s police spawning. Today’s patch notes include that developer CD Projekt Red has, “fixed an issue where, after the player commits a crime on…
By Riley MacLeod Published April 14, 2021
