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UncategorizedLoads Of Awesome Old PC Games Will Keep Your Damn Kids Busy
ExoDOS, a project we profiled last year to catalogue and preserve every MS-DOS game ever released, is doing something special in these new and trying times: rounding up all their collected educational games and distributing them with notes and tips for parents. This is some essential shit! My wife and I (mostly my wife, since…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 2, 2020 -
UncategorizedProfessional Fashion Photographer Now Taking Snaps In Animal Crossing
Under normal circumstances, Jessica Kobeissi is a professional photographer who spends her time shooting agency models in glamorous settings. But these are not normal circumstances, and so for the next little while, Jessica is taking photos in Animal Crossing instead. In this video posted to her YouTube channel, Jessica shows how Animal Crossing’s photo mode,…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 2, 2020 -
CultureInstead Of Closing, Video Game Retailer Provides Employees With Bullshit Coronavirus ‘Safety’ Tips
Instead of providing stores with adequate sanitation supplies (or simply closing them outright) in response to the covid-19 pandemic, Game X Change corporate felt it best to send employees what amounted to a chain email full of bogus prevention tactics. Their advice includes gargling vinegar, drinking lots of water (to “neutralize” the virus in the…
By Ian Walker Published April 2, 2020 -
CultureTwitchWith Tours Canceled, Venues Closing, And Futures Uncertain, Musicians Flock To Twitch
Popular musician Marc Rebillet’s March 17 Twitch stream—the first in his “Quarantine Livestream Tour”—began just like his other shows: Wearing a silken robe, he improvised a series of songs based on topic suggestions from his audience. People asked for songs about the apocalypse and toilet paper. About an hour and a half in, he announced…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 2, 2020 -
CultureJohn Wick Hex And Some Other Indie Games Are Headed To PS4
The boogie man himself is finally headed to PS4 along with a small but diverse collection of other indie games over the next several days and months. Earlier today, Sony published a series of surprise posts over on the European PlayStation blog, revealing news about five games headed to the PlayStation 4. It’s an odd…
By Ethan Gach Published April 2, 2020 -
UncategorizedApex Legends‘ Bloodhound Event Adds Permanent Duos Next Week
Starting next week, Apex Legends is getting a permanent Duos mode, alongside a temporary event featuring Bloodhound. Announced today, Apex Legends’ Old Ways Lore Event will run from April 7-21. According to the description, prowlers—alien beasts perhaps most memorable for scaring the crap out of me in Titanfall 2—will be loose and guarding high-tier loot.…
By Riley MacLeod Published April 2, 2020 -
CultureThe Last of Us II Delayed Indefinitely
The much-anticipated post-apocalyptic adventure game The Last of Us II will be delayed indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic, publisher Sony said today. The game, which had been previously scheduled for May 29, is nearly done and ready to go, a Naughty Dog developer told Kotaku this afternoon. This was a decision made for logistical…
By Jason Schreier Published April 2, 2020 -
UncategorizedEVE Online‘s Next Few Months Will Be Filled With Aliens And ‘Surprises’
Today was supposed to mark the opening day of Fanfest, EVE Online’s annual player gathering in Reykjavik, Iceland. Unfortunately, the event was cancelled due to coronavirus. Fanfest is normally a time for fellowship between EVE players, a chance to interface with the development team, and of course when major upcoming EVE Online features are announced.…
By Lee Yancy Published April 2, 2020 -
CultureHow’s It Going?: Podcasts Edition
It’s Thursday! Welcome back to our daily open thread. I’m not a big podcast person, but last night I listened to the “Heated” podcast, which was about what we could learn about dealing with climate change from the crisis surrounding covid-19. That doesn’t sound like a very cheerful subject, but it was nice to hear…
By Riley MacLeod Published April 2, 2020 -
CultureGwent‘s New Battle Pass Lets You Play Dress-Up With Geralt
Gwent now has a 100-level battle pass players in need of a goal can work on grinding through. Unlike just any battle pass though, CD Projekt Red says it wants Gwent’s to tell a story each season. “At the start of each week, a new chapter of Journey’s story will be unveiled,” the company writes…
By Ethan Gach Published April 2, 2020 -
CultureSea Of Thieves Now Has A Steam Page [Update: Microsoft Says It’s Coming There ‘Soon’]
Micorsoft’s multiplayer pirate life simulator, Sea of Thieves, looks like it’s finally heading to Valve’s platform after getting its own store page complete with the words “coming soon.” The listing was spotted earlier this morning complete with system requirements, descriptive tags, and the option to wishlist the game. Unfortunately there’s no release date yet or…
By Ethan Gach Published April 2, 2020 -
UncategorizedA bunch of Java-based phone games from the early 2000s are finally headed to the Switch, at least in Japan. Japanese mobile game company G-Mode announcedG-Mode Archives earlier today which will be porting a handful of games over the next few months including the awesome looking JRPG Flyhight Cloudia
By Ethan Gach Published April 2, 2020 -
CultureSony Donates $10 Million To Covid-19 Response Fund
Sony announced today it’s donating $10 million to the World Health Organization’s Solidarity Response Fund aimed at fighting the ongoing Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic as part of the company’s new $100 million relief effort. “Through this fund, Sony will provide support in three areas: assistance for those individuals engaged in frontline medical and first responder efforts…
By Ethan Gach Published April 2, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Eien no Fuzaishoumei | Artist: Tokyo Jihen | Album: Eien no Fuzaishoumei (single)
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 2, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanJapan Plans To Distribute 2 Masks Per Family, Inspiring These Meme Images
Yesterday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced the government’s plan to provide face masks to 50 million households in Japan, targeting those in areas where the novel coronavirus is spreading. Each household will get two washable masks. Online, people are reacting this as they always do: with memes. Stocks of disposable masks have been running…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 2, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanNearly 11 Years Later, Modern Warfare 2‘s Japanese Localization Is Finally Fixed
When Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 first came out in Japan back in December 2009, players were not happy with the subtitles in the game’s most infamous scene. As Kotaku reported at the time, in the “No Russian” sequence, the Japanese language voice track did not say the equivalent of “Remember, no Russian” (as…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 2, 2020 -
CultureCosplayGalleryWelcome To BreadCon, Where Everyone Is An Anime Character Who Is Late For School
For a few years now on April 1, cosplayers from around the world have joined in on a common joke and posted some pics. This year’s effort, though, took on some added significance, as without any major cosplay cons taking place in the foreseeable future, this “con” was as close to a show as anyone…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 2, 2020
