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CultureMicrosoft Sells Three Bethesdas Worth Of Minecraft Goggles To The U.S. Military
In 2015, Microsoft showed off its fancy new HoloLens augmented reality goggles with a very impressive Minecraft demo. In 2021, the company has just agreed to sell “up to 22 billion” worth of headsets based on that original tech to the U.S. military. As TechCrunch reports, while the military and Microsoft originally agreed to some…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureTwitchDifferent Millionaire Fights Refrigerator
Sometimes, you just decide that you’ve gotta fix something, and you’re not going to rest until you’ve won a battle of wits and wills against a piece of plastic. Most of the time, though, you don’t have 80,000 people watching you do it. Today, Twitch star Ludwig Ahgren, trapped in the purgatorial “final” hour of…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureWind Waker Speedrunners Finally Found A Way To Skip Cutscenes
The latest trick in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker speedrunning has the potential to do away with the game’s previously unskippable cutscenes entirely. Much to the chagrin of speedrunners, Wind Waker has a few super-long cutscenes. Not Kojima long, mind, but long enough to be annoying if you’re repeatedly playing the game from…
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CultureAnalogue Pocket Shipments Pushed Back To October
Analogue just announced its Analogue Pocket handheld console will miss its original May 2021 shipment date and will slip to October instead. “The current global state of affairs continues to create supply chain challenges outside of our control,” Analogue said in an official statement. “There have been sudden and severe electrical component shortages as well…
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CultureHalo Infinite Delayed To 2022 [UPDATED: We Got Got]
Hey, everyone, I am a dumbass. Halo Infinite has not, to Kotaku’s knowledge, been cancelled. We fell for a fake tweet from an in hindsight obviously fake account. (Follower count: 53.) On the eve of April Fool’s. Yes, I realize how this looks. I regret the error. Kotaku regrets the error. Halo Infinite is planned for…
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CultureCall Of Duty Warzone Gets Surprise Changes, Modern Warfare Gets New Maps
Call of Duty’s Season Two Reloaded update was released for Warzone today. In a weird turn of events, 2019’s Modern Warfare received the better part of the update, leaving many players upset. Players knew most of what was coming to Cold War this week and beyond from the Season Two Reloaded roadmap. On the Warzone…
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CultureAssassin’s Creed Valhalla Players Still Have No Clue What Those Odin Runes Mean
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is practically as old as its subject matter at this point, but even the most devoted players haven’t dusted off all its secrets. Nowhere is this more evident than the so-called “Odin runes,” an arcane set of symbols strewn around digital 9th-century England. They no doubt house an underlying meaning. And yet,…
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CultureThe Elder Scrolls Online Gets Its Next-Gen Glow Up June 8
The Elder Scrolls Online is a good-looking game, but playing it on console locked at 30 frames per second hurts my heart. Healing is coming, however, with the June 8 release of The Elder Scrolls Online – Console Enhanced, an upgraded version for Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 that includes, among many visual improvements,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureTwitchMillionaire Forgets To Pay Electric Bill
Today, the top streamer on Twitch was forced to quit mid-stream because, he says, he forgot to pay his power bill. He is a millionaire. You hate to see it. These days, Félix “xQc” Lengyel is notably more mature than the guy who got booted from an Overwatch League team in 2018 after a string…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureStar Wars: Republic Commando Gets The Collector’s Edition It Deserves
The best Star Wars game that doesn’t involve the player swinging a lightsaber is getting an April 6 release on PlayStation 4 and Switch, but those looking for a physical version of Republic Commando will need to wait until April 16, when the four-week pre-order window opens for Limited Run’s physical version, including a $90…
By Mike Fahey Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureXbox Cloud Gaming Adds A Bunch Of Older Xbox Games
Starting today, you’ll be able to play more than a dozen Xbox and Xbox 360 games via cloud streaming, Microsoft announced in a blog post. As with other game streaming, the perk is only available to members of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Cloud streaming first became available last September with an initial launch slate of…
By Ari Notis Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureHere’s April 2021’s PlayStation Plus Lineup
April’s PlayStation Plus games are here, and they aren’t bad! As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus membership. April’s PS Plus games are: PS5 Oddworld: Soulstorm PS4 Days Gone Zombie Army 4: Dead War All games are available April 6 to May 3.
By Riley MacLeod Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureFortnite Looks Better On Switch Now
Fortnite got a “performance and resolution boost” on Switch yesterday, developer Epic announced. The game should now look and run better, and the file size is smaller too. Epic wrote, “The update provides significantly improved resolution both in handheld and docked modes, resulting in images that are less blurry.” Epic’s news post touts “a 38% increase…
By Riley MacLeod Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureToday Is Your Last Chance To Buy Super Mario 3D All-Stars, For No Damn Reason
It’s either one of the most elaborate April Fool’s brand-o-jokes of all time, or today marks the last day Nintendo will be selling Super Mario All-Stars, either in physical form or via the Switch’s electronic shop. From April 1, they still maintain it’s to be taken behind Miyamoto’s barn and shot. As the company made…
By John Walker Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureThe Latest Big No Man’s Sky Update Adds Seasonal Expeditions
Wandering aimlessly through procedurally-generated space is fun, but some pilots want a more guided experience. Today’s “Expeditions” update for No Man’s Sky adds a new seasonal game mode that has players starting off on the same planet for pre-plotted adventures across the universe. Expedition mode is a season-long pre-planned journey through the stars. Players begin…
By Mike Fahey Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureMorning MusicI Love When Mainstream Acts Make Music For Video Games
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today, I bring you a treat: a bunch of games! All featuring killer tracks from mainstream musicians. Say what you will about Mirror’s Edge Catalyst (actually, please don’t, that game does not deserve the negativity), but…
By Ari Notis Published March 31, 2021 -
AnimeLegal Action Being Taken To Prevent Attack on Titan Manga Upload Leaks And Spoilers
After eleven and a half years, the Attack on Titan manga is drawing to a close. There are already steps being taken to prevent illegal uploads. “Regarding illegal upload and pre-release leakage of Attack on Titan,” wrote the manga’s editor on Twitter, “we’ve begun to take legal actions against several accounts and individuals. We’ll take…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureCosplay6’9″ Cosplaying Olympian Is Now Resident Evil’s Tall Vampire Lady
This is Yekaterina Lisina, a bronze medal-winning Olympian with the Russian basketball team, and now model, with what is surely the most 1:1 cosplay possible of Resident Evil’s Lady Dimitrescu. I mean…just look at this: And this: It took a whole team to get this shoot looking this good, with the dress made by osqurobviously,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2021 -
CultureYouTube Might Be Getting Rid Of The Dislike Count
YouTube just announced that, “in response to creator feedback around well-being and targeted dislike campaigns,” the site is testing some new designs that “don’t show the public dislike count.” While this isn’t a definite site-wide change being made for everyone, it shows YouTube is at least considering the move, and is currently testing “a few…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2021
