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CultureCosplayGalleryOur Favorite Photos From Cosplay’s All-Star Weekend
It’s kinda fitting that the NBA’s All-Star Weekend was held in Chicago this year, because a couple weeks later it was also the setting for C2E2, one of the biggest cons of the year and a show that’s kinda become its own unofficial All-Star Weekend for cosplay. Taking place Feb 28-Mar 1, C2E2 hosted the…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2020 -
CultureFIFA Team Can Be Trained By Putting A Chip In Your Shoe
A new collaboration between Adidas, EA and Google has resulted in a rather quaint old video game idea being resurrected for the 2020s: the concept of using a small piece of electronics to track your real-world exercise and have it reflected in a game. Only instead of it being for the Nintendo DS, it’s for…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2020 -
CulturePlay Super Bernie World, Bop MAGA Goombas
The game’s title kinda sums it up, really. Super Bernie World is a free, rad platformer where you “Run and jump your way across 11 states and the District of Columbia as Bernie and free the USA from the clutches of four Republicans in their castle lairs”. Super Mario World, basically, only with MAGA hat…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2020 -
CultureTwitchThousands Of Twitch Scam Channels Are Still Trying To Steal From Viewers
Back in December, I reported on an issue that’s been plaguing Twitch for quite some time: scammers who pretend to be popular streamers and lure people in with the promise of fake giveaways. As of now, Twitch has yet to comprehensively solve the problem. Instead, it’s played whack-a-mole with thousands of fake accounts. The playbook…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 9, 2020 -
CultureWhat’s Going On With GeForce Now
Ever since it officially launched last month, game publishers have been abandoning Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming platform in droves. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, meanwhile, has defended the service, arguing it’s the most developer-friendly option out there right now. “Epic is wholeheartedly supporting NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW service with Fortnite and with Epic Games Store titles…
By Ethan Gach Published March 9, 2020 -
OpinionIn Defense Of Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy XIII is ten years old today, which means that 2019 is officially running out of ways to remind us of our mortality. It was a controversial entry in the Final Fantasy series, shifting the series’ usual approach to combat and ditching old traditions to tell a techno-thriller story starring deeply flawed heroes. To…
By Heather Alexandra Published March 9, 2020 -
CultureSonicFox Wins Mortal Kombat 11 Championship, Shouts Out Bernie Sanders
Dominique “SonicFox” McLean is one of the greatest fighting game players of all time. The young non-binary competitor added to this legacy with a win at the Mortal Kombat 11 championship this weekend. It wasn’t quite as easy as some of their previous wins, but SonicFox used every opportunity to let the world know that…
By Ian Walker Published March 9, 2020 -
CultureFree Call Of Duty Battle Royale Launches Tomorrow
Activision announced today that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will get a free-to-play battle royale add-on called Warzone featuring 150-player matches, two modes, and cross-play PS4, Xbox One, and PC. To clarify, you don’t have to own a copy of Modern Warfare in order to play Warzone. Details of the mode have been leaking out…
By Ethan Gach Published March 9, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsThe Longing, Which Can Take Over A Year To Finish, Encourages You To Embrace Waiting
At the beginning of the PC game The Longing, your character, a skinny gollum called a Shade, is ordered to wake their giant stone king in 400 days. The game starts with the king going to sleep, after which point a real-time counter starts. The Shade then has to somehow pass 400 real-time days in…
By Riley MacLeod Published March 9, 2020 -
CultureThe Week In Games: Ori Gives A Hoot
Ori And The Will Of The Wisps drops this week for PC and Xbox One. If you have Game Pass you will be able to play this game the moment it launches. The sequel to 2015’s much loved Ori And The Blind Forest, this new game features owls. That is why I put “hoot” in…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 9, 2020 -
CulturePlayers Finally Figure Out Two-Year-Old Destiny 2 Puzzle Clue
Destiny 2‘s Rasputin Chamber Puzzle alternate reality game (ARG) was discovered back in 2018, and one part of it stumped players so much they had to brute force the solution, solving the puzzle in just a few days but without fully understanding all the pieces. That is, until last week. The puzzle was introduced in…
By Ethan Gach Published March 9, 2020 -
CultureSpawn Has A Lot Of Weapons In Mortal Kombat 11
NetherRealm Studios gave us our first real look at Mortal Kombat 11‘s sixth DLC character during last night’s tournament and one thing’s clear: everything Spawn does will hurt you. The trailer shows Spawn shredding through Mortal Kombat mainstays with an arsenal of guns, swords, and axes. And of course his cape isn’t just there to…
By Ethan Gach Published March 9, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Lemon Candy | Artist: Chara | Album: Madrigal
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2020 -
UncategorizedFather Makes Death Stranding-Style Pod For His Baby
Shanghai cosplayer and cosplay prop builder The_Bai_Ying says he created a special pod to take his baby to the hospital because, according to him, the city’s air quality is bad. But don’t assume he is actually carting his child around in it. The_Bai_Ying says he created a way to filter the air to protect his…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanWatch A Life-Sized Gundam’s Skeleton Legs Move
You have probably seen one of Japan’s life-sized Gundams, whether in person or in photos. But have you seen the skeleton legs of a one-to-one scale movable Gundam? I have not! Currently, the 59-foot-tall Gundam is being constructed, with the frame being put together in Ibaraki Prefecture. To ensure the giant mecha can move, it…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2020 -
UncategorizedPikachu-themed medicinal soap and a “no-touch” automatic dispenser have recently gone on sale in Japan. The soap is blue soda lemon-scented and is made by antibacterial soap brand Muse. Hopefully, the soap and dispenser will help kids (and adults) in Japan keep their hands clean.
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2020
