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CultureOh No, Is The Bear Behind Me?
This week on Snapshots, big explosions in Ghost Recon, angry Star Wars people, a lonely little hat in Red Dead Redemption II, colorful fireworks in Mad Max and one really scary bear. That Days Gone photo makes me want to go back and explore that world more and maybe also eventually beat that game. I…
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OpinionImpressionsWrath Is A Retro Shooter Done Right
The first gun you pick up in a shooter is very important. It tells you a lot about the game. In Wrath: Aeon of Ruin, the first gun you get is a chunky and powerful revolver that can also shoot three bullets at the same time, turning it into a mini-shotgun. So yeah, Wrath is…
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CulturePokemonGrumpig Controls Other Pokemon By Shaking Its Ass
Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Grumpig! Grumpig Details Type: Psychic Average Height: 2′ 11″ Average Weight: 157.6 lbs. First Added In Generation III Remember…
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UncategorizedEVE Online Player Bids $40,000 In Charity Auction For Rare Ship [Update]
“Internet spaceships are serious business,” is a phrase that is often tossed around in EVE Online player circles. It’s jokingly used to justify the emotional involvement, dedicated time, and financial resources spent playing a game about pixelated starships and virtual empires. Sometimes though, the saying moves beyond being a joke and takes on a more…
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CultureGorgeous Tactical RPG Duelyst Is Shutting Down Next Month
Duelyst’s servers will go offline on February 27 the game’s developers announced yesterday on Steam, bringing the ingenious tactical RPG card game hybrid’s nearly four year run to an end. “Saying goodbye to any game is never easy, and it’s always hardest when you love the game as much as we all love Duelyst,” the…
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CultureMorning CheckpointThe Deadliest Deer In The World
Hello! This week we use old Xbox consoles to get around a new Xbox Live rule, see what Untitled Goose Game would look like in LEGO form, watch robots fight each other and meet the most badass deer in the world. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week HONK He was like super racist and…
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UncategorizedImages for the previously planned and then cancelled Last of Us animated short have surfaced online briefly over at the Oddfellow animation agency website. The movie was supposed to summarize the events of the first game using a series of different art styles similar to the structure of the Animatrix
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CultureWhich Fallout 76 Faction Is Cooler, The Crashed Space Station Or The Log Cabin?
Fallout 76’s upcoming Wastelanders expansion will add two new faction settlements: settlers and raiders. One of these looks like a Lincoln Log fort while the other is made out of a crashed space station. Can you guess which one players are already gravitating towards? Yesterday, Bethesda shared some screenshots of the two new locations and…
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CultureBungie Says Massive Destiny 2 Puzzle Was Inspired By Cult Horror Film Cube
In its weekly blog post, Bungie described what went into making Destiny 2’s recent Corridors of Time puzzle, including drawing inspiration from a 1997 Canadian cult horror film about people trapped in a giant labyrinth full of death traps, Cube “The puzzle seemed to fit well with the idea of the Corridors of Time, with…
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UncategorizedDisco Elysium‘s New Hardcore Mode Sounds Like A Bad Time
“You will fail more,” reads the first bullet point in the official announcement of Hardcore mode (and widescreen support!) for magically delicious PC RPG Disco Elysium. I did not think that possible, yet here we are. Every dice roll is harder to hit. Prices for healing pharmaceuticals are inflated, while money is more scarce. Smoking…
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CultureLil Yachty, Ty Dolla $ign, Wiz Khalifa’s Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Song Is Kind Of Great
Remember when the first Sonic the Hedgehog movie trailer came out and it was set to “Gangsta’s Paradise” for some stupid reason? The official movie theme, “Speed Me Up” from Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign, Lil Yachty, and Sueco the Child, fits so much better, and its video is pretty cool, too. I am something…
By Mike Fahey
