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CultureBungie Is Fixing Fashion In Destiny‘s Fourth Year
Destiny 2 is a game about grinding for loot, and one of the biggest motivators is how cool that loot looks. In recent seasons, a lot of these cosmetics have been locked behind the game’s microtransaction shop. Bungie says that will change come September. “In today’s Destiny 2, the balance of the game’s rewards is…
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CultureTonight We Riot Devs Wanted To Make An ‘Unapologetically Leftist’ Game
“Politics” has become a dirty word in gaming, especially when angrily screamed—or, as is usually the case, frantically typed—by a vocal minority of reactionary video game fans. But for more progressive players, games often aren’t political enough. Or, when they do take a position, they push objectionable conservative concepts like capitalism, imperialism, and militarism. Tonight…
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OpinionGameplay Trailers Should Have Gameplay In Them
During today’s Inside Xbox presentation, Ubisoft showed off what they described as “the first look” at gameplay from the recently announced Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla. But for many watching, myself included, it wasn’t really what we expected when I heard the term gameplay. The day before the Xbox event, Ubisoft was quick to point out that…
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CultureDestiny 2 is coming to next-gen consoles, Bungie announced today following Microsoft’s Xbox Series X event. The studio didn’t given any specifics about when, but said more details would be coming in the future. The game’s fourth year and annual expansion get underway this fall.
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CultureEverything Microsoft Showed During Today’s Xbox Series X Event
Microsoft finally showed its next-gen Xbox Series X in action today during a special edition of Inside Xbox featuring a slew of trailers for upcoming games, including Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Dirt 5, and Yakuza: Like a Dragon Over a dozen games were shown during the roughly hour-long event and while many of them were from…
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CultureAll These Studios Are Making Xbox Series X Games
During today’s Inside Xbox broadcast, Microsoft revealed a whole host of studios making games for Xbox Series X. Some of the bigger names featured include Crystal Dynamics, Blizzard, Bandai Namco, Bethesda, Capcom, Epic, From Software, Sega, Square Enix, and WB Games. Sarah Bond, head of Xbox partnerships, said that players can look forward to “hundreds”…
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CultureThis Is What Xbox Series X Graphics Look Like
Here’s what Playism’s Bright Memory: Infinite looks like running on the Xbox Series X, or at least in-game footage representative of Xbox Series X performance. Not too shabby. The first game shown during Microsoft’s Xbox Series X gameplay reveal event was this first-person shooter from developer FYQD-Studio. Note that the official stream version carried a…
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CultureWatch The Xbox Series X Gameplay Reveal Live Right Here
This morning Microsoft is giving us our first look at next-generation gameplay on the Xbox Series X, including Assassin’s Creed Valhalla in action. Let’s watch. It should be an interesting show, full of footage from games looking slightly to significantly better than they would on standard Xbox One hardware. Many of the games coming to…
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CultureHyperX And Ducky Made A Keyboard Baby Together
Taiwanese keyboard maker Ducky and Kingston gaming division HyperX have joined forces to create the HyperX x Ducky One 2 Mini mechanical gaming keyboard, a limited-edition version of one of the most popular mechs on the market. Ducky’s 60 percent One 2 Mini is a ridiculously popular keyboard. Online keyboard shops in the U.S. were…
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