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UncategorizedYour PC must be this powerful to play Death Stranding. Kojima’s Norman Reedus doing stuff simulator comes to PC on July 14, with modest system requirements as befitting a port of a late-life PlayStation 4 game. You’ll need beefier hardware for 4K but for 1080p previous-generation graphics hardware will do just fine.
By Mike Fahey Published June 11, 2020 -
CultureHow’s It Going?: Summer Edition
It’s Thursday—we can do this! Welcome back to our daily open thread. Yesterday I turned on my air conditioner, which I always try to avoid for as long as possible. While working from home has been nice in a lot of ways, I’m not excited about what it’s going to do to my bills this…
By Riley MacLeod Published June 11, 2020 -
CultureMetal: Hellsinger Is A Rhythm Shooter Where You Slay Demons To A Heavy Metal Beat
In some ways Metal: Hellsinger looks like a traditional first-person shooter. At first I try to play it like one, strafing left to right while lining up my shots and keeping an eye out for health packs. It’s not until I start to play it like Guitar Hero with a shotgun that things begin to…
By Ethan Gach Published June 11, 2020 -
CultureThere’s a new Transformers game coming later this year called Transformers: Battlegrounds Headed to Xbox One, PS4, Switch, and PC on October 23, the developer, Coatsink, is calling it a “tactical warfare” game where you customize your autobot squad and fight battles from “Central City to Cybertron.”
By Ethan Gach Published June 11, 2020 -
CultureBug Causes Some Call Of Duty Players On Xbox To Get Hit With Massive 84 GB Update [Update]
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s latest season arrived last night alongside another giant update download. Thanks to a bug, the download was twice as big for some Xbox One players, forcing them to effectively download an entire game’s worth of data to keep playing. “We’re actively investigating an issue for #ModernWarfare where some players on…
By Ethan Gach Published June 11, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Working for Vacation | Artist: Cibo Matto | Album: Stereo Type A
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 11, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanAnd Now, Realistic Trash For Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Twitter user Noanoa has been doing an amazing job recreating trash bags and cardboard boxes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons Just look at this: And in motion: Noanoa’s work is often dystopian. But sometimes so are the times in which we live. For more, follow Noanoa on Twitter.
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 11, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanHello Kitty And Sanrio Show Their Support Of Black Lives Matter
Sanrio, the company behind Hello Kitty and her friends, has taken to social media to show its support for inclusivity, stating, “Black lives matter. Kindness matter.” On Instagram, the company wrote: We stand for friendship, kindness and inclusivity. Sanrio was built on the foundation of social communication for people to express their heartfelt feelings of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 11, 2020 -
CultureBoard Gaming’s Industry Body Refuses To Say A Word About Black Lives Mattering [Update]
An increasing number of prominent board game industry and community members have pulled out of an upcoming show over The Game Manufacturers Association’s (GAMA) continued silence over Black Lives Matter. UPDATE 6:53am, June 11: GAMA has since released a statement on their Facebook page, cancelled Origins Online and offered to “match, dollar for dollar, any…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2020 -
CultureRiot Games Executive Says George Floyd Was Murdered By Police Because Of His “Criminal Lifestyle” [UPDATE]
Ron Johnson, Global Head of Consumer Products at Riot Games, has shared an image on his personal Facebook account that lists George Floyd’s prior convictions before saying “this type of criminal lifestyle never results in good things happening to you or those around you”. He is now being investigated internally by the company. As Vice…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2020 -
CultureArcade1Up Announces Ms. Pac-Man, Marvel vs. Capcom Cabinets
During today’s IGN Summer of Games event, the folks over at Arcade1Up revealed a handful of new additions to their line of miniature arcade cabinet replicas. These include Ms. Pac-Man, Marvel vs. Capcom, X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Big Buck Hunter, and a virtual pinball machine based on Marvel Comics superheroes. While Ms. Pac-Man is iconic…
By Ian Walker Published June 10, 2020 -
CultureWizards Of The Coast Bans 7 Racist Magic: The Gathering Cards
The company behind Magic: The Gathering is apologizing for racist cards that have been part of the game for decades. Seven cards will be removed from competitive play and from the game’s official card index.. “The events of the past weeks and the ongoing conversation about how we can better support people of color have…
By Ash Parrish Published June 10, 2020 -
CultureRacist Spam Bots Are Running Rampant In Team Fortress 2
If you hop into a Team Fortress 2 match right now, there’s a good chance that you’ll be greeted by some very unwelcome guests: spam bots who overwhelm chat with everything from annoying troll-speak to full-on racism. Bots of various types have been giving players fits since early this year, but they took a turn…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 10, 2020 -
CultureSega’s Alex Kidd Is Making A Comeback Next Year
The classic Sega Master System platformer Alex Kidd in Miracle World is getting a makeover courtesy of Merge Games and Jankenteam. It will be available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC early next year. As you can see in the reveal trailer above, Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX is absolutely beautiful.…
By Ian Walker Published June 10, 2020 -
CultureChivalry 2 Will Allow Crossplay Between PS5, Xbox Series X, And Other Consoles
Multiplayer hack-and-slash Chivalry 2 will be coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X in addition to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and the Epic Games Store, a new trailer revealed during IGN’s Summer of Games event. Furthermore, everyone will be able to play together no matter which platform they choose. Chivalry 2, developed by Torn…
By Ian Walker Published June 10, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsThe Excellent Ys: Memories of Celceta Just Jumped From Vita To PS4
If you want to know why I love Nihon Falcom’s long-running Ys series of fantasy action role-playing games so much, look no further than Ys: Memories of Celceta, which is easier than ever now that a PlayStation 4 port has been released. Though released for the PlayStation Vita in 2012, three years after Ys Seven…
By Mike Fahey Published June 10, 2020 -
CultureKiller Instinct Documentary Reveals Surprising Connection to Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Fighting game community documentarian Esteban Martinez of Hold Back to Block returned this week with a full-length look at the history of Killer Instinct, focusing on its 2013 reboot. Surprisingly, the celebrated competitive fighting games actually has roots in licensed fare like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Green Lantern Double Helix Games was one of…
By Ian Walker Published June 10, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsThe Good And The Bad Of Destiny 2’s Season Of Arrivals
I’m enjoying the little things in Destiny 2’s latest season. A giant bow that looks like you could windsurf on it. An ominous black pyramid hogging the horizon on Io. Another overpowered exotic whose exploding projectiles bathe enemies in a pool of fluorescent liquid. I’m not sure they can redeem the game’s extremely uneven third…
By Ethan Gach Published June 10, 2020
