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CultureHow’s It Going?: Shake It Off Edition
Good morning! Welcome back to our daily open thread. This is the most human contact I’ve had in days, so I’m glad you’re here. Friday feels a little weird when I’ve been stuck at home all week. It’s the weekend—time for more…sitting at home? Still, it’ll be nice to have less reasons to look at…
By Riley MacLeod Published March 20, 2020 -
CultureTiny Ergonomic Keyboard Gets It Done With Only 44 Keys
This is the Keyboardio Atreus. It’s an ergonomic mechanical keyboard that’s less than 10-inches wide. It only has 44 keys, but that’s all the keys it needs. It’s a beautiful piece of typing hardware. It might not look like it has enough keys, but the Atreus has all the functionality of a full-size keyboard, just…
By Mike Fahey Published March 20, 2020 -
UncategorizedTrack: Think About Things | Artist: Daði Freyr | Album: Söngvakeppnin 2020
By Mike Fahey Published March 20, 2020 -
CultureThe Origin Story Of A Very Sharp Outfit
Beth Hobbs is an artist at Creative Assembly, where she’s worked on Total Wars like Three Kingdoms and Warhammer What I love about some of this is how it gives us a look at the earliest stages of some of these designs. I appreciate a good desktop wallpaper-type image as much as anyone else, but…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2020 -
CultureThe big March 24 update coming to Ghost Recon Breakpoint won’t just add a free overhaul that lets players ditch the game’s annoying tiered loot system. It will add a paid expansion (first mission is free) that, according to a new trailer, brings Splinter Cell’s Sam Fisher into the mix.
By Stephen Totilo Published March 19, 2020 -
CultureLife, And Seven-Year-Old Jurassic Park Mods, Find A Way
All the way back in 2013,a scrappy young writer by the name of Kirk Hamilton wrote about an ambitious Half-Life mod called Jurassic Life, which wanted to bring some aspects of Jurassic Park—namely the dinosaurs and firing a shotgun at them wildly—to the Source Engine. As you do with ambitious mod projects about 10 minutes…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2020 -
ReviewsPCPanzer Corps 2: The Kotaku Review
The first Panzer Corps, released back in 2011, is one of the all-time great strategy games on the PC. Timeless and with an enormous library of extra content, it’s still a lot of fun even today, so its 2020 sequel has a lot to prove, and a lot to justify. Panzer Corps 2 is your…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsExit The Gungeon Is A Bite-Sized Good Time, If You Can Deal With The Randomness
Constantly changing weapons and tiny, chaotic arenas make Exit The Gungeon a thrilling arcadey follow-up to the excellent roguelike Enter The Gungeon When we entered the Gungeon in 2016, we did so via a top-down dungeon crawler in which exploration played a major role. Now that we’re ready to Exit The Gungeon, our method of…
By Ethan Gach Published March 19, 2020 -
UncategorizedNioh 2 Shocked Me At The Buzzer With A Throwback To The Original
Nioh 2 isone of the most exciting gamesI’ve ever played. A lot of that is thanks to a fantastic combat system where each battle is a tense yet intuitive slash-fest. But Nioh 2 is also a smart prequel that plays around with characters that players might know from Nioh. That playfulness comes to a head…
By Heather Alexandra Published March 19, 2020 - Uncategorized
The Game Developers Conference has announced GDC Summer, currently set for August 4-6 in San Francisco. The scaled-down event will feature “a new series of microtalks and fireside chats, as well as a dedicated space for comprehensive career development sessions.”
By Riley MacLeod Published March 19, 2020 -
CultureGameStop: We Can Stay Open During Lockdowns Because We’re ‘Essential Retail’
The struggling video game retail chain GameStop told all of its stores this afternoon to stay open even in the event of state or city lockdowns to protect against the covid-19 pandemic, emphasizing that it is “essential retail” alongside groceries and pharmacies and should therefore be exempt from enforced closures. “Due to the products we…
By Jason Schreier Published March 19, 2020 -
Tips & GuidesHow To Get Into Playing Video Games
So, you’re practicing social distancing. Great! It’s one of the best ways of slowing the spread of covid-19. The downside is that you might find yourself with more free time at home than you know what to do with. Those of us who play blockbuster video games probably have a huge backlog to tackle. But…
By Ari Notis Published March 19, 2020 -
CultureDivision 2 Players Are Struggling To Find 2 Well-Hidden Enemies [Update 2: They Have All Been Found!]
The recent Warlords of New York expansion added a whole new lower Manhattan map to The Division 2, complete with new missions, enemies, checkpoints and gear. For players willing to search and explore, there are secret hunters, elite enemies, who are hidden in the new city. While most of them have been found so far,…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 19, 2020 -
CultureMicrosoft’s AI Experiments Are Creating Unbeatable Raid Bosses
Raid bosses are the toughest fights in any massively multiplayer online game, but eventually players always find ways to crack them. Now developers are looking at ways to use cloud computing to give raid bosses a way of fighting back. During one of Microsoft’s Game Stack developer livestreams yesterday, software engineer James Trott said that…
By Ethan Gach Published March 19, 2020 -
CultureHow Breath Of The Wild Helped Me Love Food Again
Playing video games is a personal experience. Sometimes it’s surprising just how personal it gets. The first time I booted up Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, I was looking forward to the mind-boggling puzzles and a more fleshed-out version of the Princess Zelda character. I didn’t think that what I’d adore the most…
Ashley Barry-Biancuzzo Published March 19, 2020 -
CultureHow’s It Going?: Music Edition
Good morning! Welcome back to our daily thread, which is hopefully more comforting/less maddening than staring at your Facebook feed. With the bar under my house closed, it’s really quiet in my apartment. I’ve taken to playing some music while I sleep, mostly classical. Why does Spotify have so many classical playlists for babies? Is…
By Riley MacLeod Published March 19, 2020 -
CultureRazer Is Making Surgical Masks To Help Combat Covid-19
Gaming hardware company Razer is getting into the medical supply business, pledging to manufacture and donate up to a million surgical masks to health authorities around the world to help combat the spread of covid-19. In a Twitter thread posted earlier today Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan said the company’s engineers and designers have been working…
By Mike Fahey Published March 19, 2020 -
ReviewsToysThe Perfect Animal Crossing Isabelle Action Figure Returns
Oh. My. Dog. I’d forgotten how wonderful Nendoroid Isabelle is. Originally released alongside Animal Crossing: New Leaf for the 3DS, Good Smile Company’s Isabelle action figure is making a comeback just in time for New Horizons Well, her preorder is just in time for New Horizons. Nendoroid Shizue, to use her fancy Japanese name, is now…
By Mike Fahey Published March 19, 2020
