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CultureWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for trying to make my own seitan, a meat alternative I’ve enjoyed eating and think I’ll enjoy making, but there’s a lot of room for disaster there. The weekend is also for playing video games. There’s a concert in Fortnite’s new Party Royale mode tonight at 9pm Eastern. I’ll admit I don’t…
By Riley MacLeod Published May 8, 2020 -
CultureIndivisible‘s New DLC Puts Players’ Skills To The Test
Lab Zero Games’ delightful action RPG Indivisible has plenty of demanding platforming and combat, but a little more never hurts. The new Razmi’s Challenges DLC gives players 40 jumping, sliding, flying, and fighting tasks to complete, along with a heaping helping of everyone’s favorite curmudgeonly shaman. Available now for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4…
By Mike Fahey Published May 8, 2020 -
CultureDetroit Lions Use Animal Crossing To Reveal 2020 Schedule, Throw Shade
Shouting out to New Horizons for “holding it down while we wait for football season,” the Detroit Lions revealed its 2020 schedule with an Animal Crossing video full of adorable swipes at its rival teams. We’ve got a bear being buried for Chicago, peaches being eaten for Atlanta, and a Green Bay fan brutally beaten…
By Mike Fahey Published May 8, 2020 -
CultureTrack: False Prophet | Artist: Bob Dylan | Album: Rough and Rowdy Ways
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 8, 2020 -
UncategorizedTokyo Disneyland and Tokyo Disney Sea will continue to remain closed. The resort’s website states, “The reopening of the Parks was to be decided in mid-May; however, based on the extension of the state of emergency declaration, hereafter, the decision on the reopening date will be made and announced once the requests from Government and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 8, 2020 -
UncategorizedChinese Anime Fans Send 10,000 Face Masks To Japanese City
The anime Love Live! Sunshine!! is set in the Japanese seaside city of Numazu. Recently, Numazu’s mayor Shuichi Yorishige showed boxes of face masks that Chinese anime fans had sent. The city has become a destination for anime fans, who want to tour the location that was recreated in the Love Live! Sunshine!! anime. According…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 8, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanThe New Animal Crossing Guide Book Draws A Crowd In Japan
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a smash hit in Japan. Some players aren’t content to discover what’s in the game on their own; they really want tips. A book’s worth of them, and they’ll willing to wait in line to get them There are three main New Horizons guidebooks on sale in Japan: one from…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 8, 2020 -
CultureThe 2020 Tokyo Game Show Has Been Cancelled
The Tokyo Game Show, one of the biggest video game events on the planet—last year’s drew over 260,000 people—has been cancelled for 2020 amidst the covid-19 pandemic, and will now be replaced with an online showcase. A statement released by the show’s organisers sent to Kotaku reads: Due to the outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19)…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 7, 2020 -
CultureA Cute Lil’ Akira Prequel Sounds Weirdly Tempting
Nilberto Tawata is a 3D artist from Brazil, and this is his lil’ Kaneda, who as a kid was learning all the important skills he would go on to need as a…bigger kid. I love how, since the whole model is including iconic Kaneda imagery like his bike (and stickers), jacket and hair, the brake…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 7, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsRadio Commander, A Strategy Game Where You Just Talk On A Radio And Get Very Upset
The entire point of strategy games, and a lot of the appeal, is that you’re given direct control over entire units or even armies, even if historically you’d have only a fraction of that influence. Radio Commander realises that, and it’s a fascinating game because of it. It puts you in the position of an…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 7, 2020 -
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…
By Ethan Gach Published May 7, 2020 - Uncategorized
The A.V. Club Extra terror, hold the gore: 8 truly scary PG-13 horror movies | Deadspin These Teams Will Be In The Hunt For The Lombardi Trophy, If We Have A Season | The Onion 7 Most Unbelievable Autocorrect WINS | Lifehacker How to Cook a ‘Murder Hornet’ | The Takeout How to make instant…
By G/O Media Published May 7, 2020 -
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…
By Ian Walker Published May 7, 2020 -
CultureVideo Games Are Full Of Weird Birds
Outside my current place of residence, there is a nest full of freshly hatched baby birds. They’re shapeless little blobs, embryonic amalgams of beaks and fluff. They do not look like birds. They are, in that sense, perhaps the closest living relatives of the polygonal mutant birds that appear in video game backgrounds, as highlighted…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 7, 2020 -
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…
By Zack Zwiezen Published May 7, 2020 -
CultureValorant Players Say Anti-Cheat Is Making Their PCs Overheat
There’s anti-cheat software, and then there’s the program Valorant’s got under its hood. When the game’s closed beta first launched, the clandestine anti-cheat was always running in the background. Now players can disable it when they’re not playing Riot’s 60 percent more wizard-y version of Counter-Strike, but it’s started to cause other issues. That is…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 7, 2020 -
OpinionGames Criticism Is A Kindness
Writing about games invites accusations of taking things too seriously. Criticism, it sometimes seems, is a dirty word. I don’t think that’s true. I think that whether you are praising something or condemning it, criticism is an act of love. I suspect that the word “criticism,” when read in isolation, evokes a negative connotation in…
By Heather Alexandra Published May 7, 2020 -
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.
By Ethan Gach Published May 7, 2020 -
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…
By Ethan Gach Published May 7, 2020
