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CultureWe Are Sorry To Report That Pickle Rick Is Now In Rainbow Six Siege
Ubisoft released a Rick and Morty-themed cosmetic DLC for Rainbox Six Siege today, allowing players to dress up as Pickle Rick for $20. In other news, I’m done with the world and I’m leaving Earth for like, I don’t know, Pluto. Ubisoft announced this new cosmetic pack yesterday, but it’s out today alongside a trailer…
By Zack Zwiezen Published April 15, 2021 -
CultureDestiny 2’s Guardian Games Return With A Tennis Ball Ghost
After debuting last year, Destiny 2’s limited-time Guardian Games event is returning on April 20, alongside a super neat tennis ball Ghost. In the Destiny universe, the Guardian Games are meant to celebrate a ceasefire between the Vanguard and antagonist Cabal Empress Caiatl, allowing guardians to blow off some steam when they aren’t blowing off…
By Ian Walker Published April 15, 2021 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryOde To The Bard Who Saved My FF14 Dungeon Run
My journey through Heavensward has slowed down considerably. I have other games to play and review. And generally, the steam that powered this expansion leading up to The Vault encounter has petered out significantly. That’s not to say Heavensward’s sluggish back-end pacing wasn’t punctuated with a few bright spots. After losing Haurchefant, I didn’t think…
By Ash Parrish Published April 15, 2021 -
CultureWasteland 3‘s First Story Expansion Is The Battle Of Steeltown
Coming June 3 to consoles and PCs, The Battle of Steeltown takes Wasteland 3 players to the towering factory complex that creates the weapons, vehicles, robots, and armor that keeps the Patriarch in power. Apparently, it’s got problems, and it’s up to you to solve them. Workers are striking, bandits are raiding, and the rangers…
By Mike Fahey Published April 15, 2021 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryRIP To Outriders‘ Weird Cowboy NPC, A Real One
I’m not sure I’ve ever encountered a character creator as aggressively bland as the one in Outriders. All the faces are minor variations on Beefy Woodsman. Hair colors range from black to dull brown. Every decal is an unobtrusive scar, except for a lone chrome eyebrow implant that may as well be a shiny pimple.…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 15, 2021 -
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…
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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
