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Capture a funny moment in DOOM Eternal? Create something incredible in Animal Crossing: New Horizons? Have a terrifying freak out in Half-Life: Alyx? We wanna see it. Shoot us an email with your great gaming moment to [email protected] and we might feature it on the show. Stay safe!
By Chris Person Published March 25, 2020 -
CultureEmployees At GameStop Competitor Say Their Company Isn’t Protecting Them From Covid-19 Either
Last week, Kotaku reported several times on GameStop’s ass-dragging procedure for operating during the coronavirus outbreak. But GameStop isn’t the only physical game store whose employees are feeling forced to choose between their jobs and their safety. Employees of the regional chain Game X Change are also unhappy with how their employer is handling the situation, several…
By Ian Walker Published March 25, 2020 -
CultureWhy You Can’t Use A Crowbar In Half-Life: Alyx
In truth, the Half-Life series has always had two main characters: Gordon Freeman and his crowbar. The nondescript piece of curved metal is one of the best-known pieces of iconography in all of gaming. And yet, in Half-Life: Alyx, you cannot use a crowbar as a weapon or puzzle-solving tool. Not even once. Valve did…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 25, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsI’m So Happy There’s A Wheelchair In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
There is a wheelchair in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It’s nothing fancy. It doesn’t roll. The power wheelchair I use in real-life would crush it like a monster truck. But it is there, in the game, and it makes me very happy. I’ve been paralyzed from the chest down for two years. Half of my…
By Mike Fahey Published March 25, 2020 -
Tips & GuidesHow To Send Doom Eternal’s Frustrating Marauders Straight Back To Hell
Last week, Doom Eternal entered the mortal plane for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. As you can imagine, id Software’s first-person shooter is a riotous, heavy-metal blast. The game offers the same frenetic fun as 2016’s Doom, but adds a bunch of new features—like a sweet grappling hook—to the core gameplay loop. It also introduces…
By Ari Notis Published March 25, 2020 -
UncategorizedHow’s It Going?: Nailed It Edition
Happy…Wednesday? Time is losing all meaning. Welcome back to our daily open thread. Last night I decided to bake some lemon bars, which I’ve never made before. They were, let’s say, unsuccessful: they look appalling, with bits of the crust stuck in the custard and a weird skin on top from baking them too long.…
By Riley MacLeod Published March 25, 2020 -
CultureThere’s A New Final Fantasy Tactics Game Out Today, Sort Of
War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, Square Enix’s new tactics RPG, is now available on iOS and Android. It combines the beloved turn-based battles of Final Fantasy Tactics with a whole bunch of free-to-play, collectible character RPG nonsense. Though positioned as an offshoot of Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, the mobile RPG where players…
By Mike Fahey Published March 25, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Boogie Chillun | Artist: John Lee Hooker | Album: Whiskey & Wimmen
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 25, 2020 -
UncategorizedIn Japan, Animal Crossing Players Are Making Incredible Custom Outfits
All over the world, the creativity fueled by Animal Crossing continues to impress as players make all sorts of custom clothing. In particular, fans in Japan are crafting some excellent outfits. As with Animal Crossing: New Leaf, players can recreate real threads with the in-game custom design tools. In New Horizons, they can either import…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 25, 2020 -
UncategorizedAnd Now For Some Excellent Anime Make-Up
This is O-ji. She’s a talented make-up artist who works in a variety of styles. Today, let’s take a look at some of her anime-themed work. Such as… Iggy from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. A Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba side by side comparison. Sailor Mercury. Spice Girl from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. One of the Sex…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 25, 2020 -
UncategorizedIn its first three days on sale in Japan, Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold 1,880,626 package copies at retail. This is the biggest debut for any Switch game in Japan to date. During that same week, a whopping 392,576 Switch units (including Switch Lite) were also sold in Japan.
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 25, 2020 -
CultureNintendo Donates 9,500 Facemasks To Local Responders
With a global shortage of protective facemasks endangering those on the front line in the fight against covid-19, Nintendo has looked in its back room and found 9,500 N95 particulate respirator masks, which are being donated to responders near the company’s American operations. In a “thank you” post on the city site for North Bend,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2020 -
CultureNASCAR Drivers Are Racing Each Other Online, And It’s Going To Be On TV
All sports are esports now. After a successful first virtual NASCAR race over the weekend, where a mix of current and former drivers raced each other online and a lot of people watched, Fox and NASCAR have decided that they’re going to broadcast a whole season of it on TV. The first eNASCAR iRacing Pro…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2020 -
CultureIt Sucks Being Player 2 In Animal Crossing
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is all about working together and building a sense of community, but if you’re not the primary player account on the game, it’s a lot harder to participate. New Horizons lets you make one island per Switch, and up to eight players can live on it together. But only one of…
By Ethan Gach Published March 24, 2020 -
The BestsThe Best Solo Board Games
Despite them normally being very much a stay-at-home thing, it’s going to be difficult to play board games over the next few months because they tend to involve getting people over and getting social. Unless, that is, you’re playing one of these very good solo board games. Over the last couple of years the more…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2020 -
CulturePlaying Nothing But Half-Life: Alyx In VR Made Me Hallucinate
Late Saturday night, I removed my Valve Index VR headset. I’d done it. I had finished Half-Life: Alyx. As I blinked, a faint outline clouded my vision; I quickly realized it was the headset’s blue wireframe barrier, which flashes when you move too close to a wall. “That’s weird,” I said. It was about to…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 24, 2020 -
CultureWhy Are There So Many Surveillance Cameras In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
A huge part of the fun in Animal Crossing is hunting down the perfect items to furnish your home. But things have taken an unsettling turn in New Horizons as several players have started to find creepy items in the trees around their islands. When I first started playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons a few…
By Ian Walker Published March 24, 2020 -
UncategorizedBorderlands 3 will receive another level cap increase in this week’s Guns, Love, and Tentacles expansion These four extra levels will give players the chance to try out new abilities or even max out two separate skill trees for their Vault Hunters
By Ian Walker Published March 24, 2020