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CultureFallout 76 Player Completes New Raid, Earns Useless Drill
Almost anyone who’s ever raided in a game before has a horror story about that time they worked really hard only to be rewarded with a piece of junk. At least one super unlucky Fallout 76 player recently joined their ranks. “We beat the final boss, opened up the loot chest at the end,” wrote…
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OpinionImpressionsThe Sims 4‘s New Fashion Photography Pack Is Shockingly Good
I would never ordinarily recommend one of The Sims 4’s stuff packs. There usually isn’t much to them. But you know what? The Sims 4‘s Moschino stuff pack is good. There are three tiers of Sims 4 downloadable content. Expansion packs radically alter the game, adding multiple new mechanics and items. Game packs make smaller…
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EsportsDota 2 Team Sent Packing From World Championship After Tragic Misclick
Painful counterfactuals stalk even the best athletes. On Monday, Manchester United star Paul Pogba missed an easy penalty, dooming his team to a 1-1 draw against a lesser opponent. Last night, a Dota 2 player tried to ban a particular hero from the match, but ended up selecting him instead. It’s impossible to reduce any…
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OpinionImpressionsNo Man’s Sky‘s Beyond Update Reveals The Game’s Real Potential
No Man’s Sky’s latest update, Beyond, makes the game both more complex and easier to play. What’s incredible about Beyond isn’t all the new features, like the new hub for multiplayer which has been looking quite lively after a few key performance patches. It’s that all of the old things have been reorganized to more…
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UncategorizedThere’s a long lost member of the Ginyu Force and her name is Bonyu. Designed by series creator Akira Toriyama, she’ll be introduced in the upcoming role-playing game Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Bandai Namco announced today. Her backstory will apparently get explored in one of the game’s side-quests.
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UncategorizedI Watched Korn Play A Concert In An MMORPG And It Was Surprisingly Great
Adventure Quest 3D is an MMORPG that I didn’t know about until last week when I found out that that the 90s metal band Korn was going to perform a digital concert in the game. Naturally, I downloaded the game, created an account, raced through the tutorial, and got ready to headbang to some beatboxing.…
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OpinionImpressionsVermintide 2‘s ‘Winds Of Magic’ Expansion Adds More Grind But Not Much Else
Developer Fatshark has called “Winds of Magic” Vermintide 2’s first expansion, but while it offers a completely new mode and progression system, it currently just seems like another DLC. On top of that, it feels unmoored from the strong lore and ambient apocalyptic mood that guided previous additions to the game. “Winds of Magic” opens…
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UncategorizedHave you ever wanted to skid off-road in a tractor trailer, potentially rolling down snowbanks or smashing into trees and watching your load go tumbling out into a winter wonderland? Well SnowRunner has you covered. An upcoming game in the MudRunner series, it’s set to come to release next year.
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryThis Game Is Great, But I Can’t Stop Playing Its Unimportant Solitaire App
Eliza is a fascinating game about tech start-up culture and mental health. It also contains a devilish Solitaire game that I can’t stop thinking about. Eliza is a visual novel about a woman named Evelyn who works as a proxy for an app called Eliza, which is a machine-learning based therapy service. Her job is…
By Gita Jackson
