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CultureWorld of Warcraft‘s Latest Boss Finally Goes Down After Glitchy, 10-Day Race Between Top Guilds [UPDATE]
The “Mythic” difficulty version of World of Warcraft’s latest raid, Ny’alotha, is a doozy. Top guilds began racing to complete the 12-boss hero sandwich of a dungeon on January 28, but it wasn’t until today that one guild, Limit, finally planted its flag at the top of the eyeball mountain that is the raid’s final…
By Nathan Grayson Published February 6, 2020 -
CulturePS4 Emulation Is Taking Its First Baby Steps
As PS3 emulation continues to make strides, and with the PS5 on the horizon, it’s time for PS4 emulation to step into the limelight, as developers try and take the first steps on the road to running God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn on a PC. We’re still a very long way from that…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 6, 2020 -
CultureDDOS Attack Locks Out EVE Online Players For NINE Days
You know, normally when we report on a DDOS attack impacting an online game, it impacts players for a few hours, maybe a day tops. Yet right now there are some EVE Online players who have been unable to play the game for nine days As PC Gamer report, the attack has been ongoing for…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 6, 2020 -
UncategorizedEA Hikes Up PC Game Prices, But Only On Steam
Yesterday, EA raised the prices on a whole bunch of games across a whole bunch of regions on Steam, making some of them cost almost twice as much on Valve’s store as they do on EA’s own Origin marketplace. While the price of EA games on Steam remains unchanged in the US, everywhere from the…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 6, 2020 -
UncategorizedBoJack Horseman Says A Lot Of Deep Stuff About Sobriety, But I Just Liked This One Cat
The final episodes of Netflix’s animated show BoJack Horseman came out last week, ending the story of an alcoholic has-been actor who’s also, inexplicably, a horse. In the final season, BoJack goes to rehab and then tries to square his new sober lifestyle with his past. The part that rang most true to me as…
By Riley MacLeod Published February 6, 2020 -
CultureStreet Fighter V Match Ends In The Most ‘East Coast’ Way Possible
Brooklyn-based Next Level Battle Circuit is one of the most prominent weekly tournament series in the fighting game community and, as such, provides a fantastic opportunity for New York City’s best players to promote themselves and their region every Wednesday. During last night’s event, two competitors personified what’s come to be known as the “east…
By Ian Walker Published February 6, 2020 -
UncategorizedThe unusual 2D action-exploration game Dandara, in which your player can jump—but not walk—through a topsy-turvy world is getting a free expansion that will add new areas as well as additional in-game text, dialogue and music that should freshen up new playthroughs of the game. All that plus a new ending. No specific release date,…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 6, 2020 -
CultureOuter Worlds‘ Switch Port Delayed Due To Coronavirus
Take-Two Interactive announced in its third quarter earnings report today that The Outer Worlds for Switch has been delayed from its March release until sometime after April of this year. Private Division, the Take-Two subsidiary publishing the game, announced on Twitter shortly after that the delay was due to the recent outbreak of the coronavirus.…
By Ethan Gach Published February 6, 2020 -
CultureChart Illustrates The Brutal Odds Behind Hunting The Rarest Temtem
Long shot odds are easy to quantify but hard to grasp. One simple picture puts into perspective just how unlikely you are to find an ultra rare Luma Temtem in the Pokémon-style collectathon game that came out in Early Access on Steam last month. Players have a one in 6,000 chance of finding Luma Temtem,…
By Ethan Gach Published February 6, 2020 -
UncategorizedFinal Fantasy XIV‘s Next Big Patch Will Let You Ride This Adorable Snek
Final Fantasy XIV’s recent expansion “Shadowbringers’ delivered some of the game’s best stories and challenges. But expansions don’t really end right away, and the next patch is stuffed with content and drama. A new trailer and developer livestream outlines giant robot battles, creepy villains, and maybe the most adorable and important mount ever placed in…
By Heather Alexandra Published February 6, 2020 -
CultureAnimal Crossing Switch’s Save Data Restrictions Seem Pretty Restrictive
Based on the drip-feed of information that’s been coming out about it via various sources, the way Animal Crossing: New Horizons will handle save data sounds like a big old mess. Payers can only create one island per Switch, even if they create more user accounts or buy extra copies of the game. Their save…
By Ethan Gach Published February 6, 2020 -
UncategorizedA Raccoon Camped Out On My Back Porch This Week And I Couldn’t Stop It
This past Monday morning, as I walked out my back door to go to an early dentist appointment, I stepped right over a sleeping raccoon. He woke up and growled, a low rumble like an angry dog’s. I was surprised to see him there, but I shouldn’t have been. After all, the raccoon had been…
By Maddy Myers Published February 6, 2020 -
UncategorizedThe Wheelchair Portion Of Wolfenstein: The New Colossus Is Some Bullshit
In the opening level of 2017’s Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, a critically injured B.J. Blazkowicz navigates a captured German U-boat in a rickety wheelchair. Having spent the past year and a half confined to a wheelchair, I have some thoughts on the sequence. For starters, it’s total bullshit. I am by no means a…
By Mike Fahey Published February 6, 2020 -
CultureGranblue Fantasy Versus Teaches You Fighting Game Slang
Granblue Fantasy Versus, the fighting game spin-off of the popular Granblue Fantasy mobile role-playing games, is now available in Japan and nearby regions like Singapore and Hong Kong. In addition to labbing out character matchups and strategies, folks have also found a neat glossary feature in the game’s menus, one that might alleviate some of…
By Ian Walker Published February 6, 2020 - Culture
In a call with investors today, Ubisoft execs reiterated they will release five big-budget (AAA) games by the end of March 2021. That includes the recently delayed Watch Dogs: Legion, Gods & Monsters and Rainbow Six: Quarantine, though one of those has moved to Jan-March 2021. Beyond Good & Evil 2 is not one of…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 6, 2020 -
CultureAsk Dr. NerdLove: My Boyfriend Won’t Get A Job
Hello, all you disturbing pheromone wolves, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column to help you remaster your love life for 4K and help your relationship look and feel the way you remember it when it was new. This week, it’s all about what it takes to make a relationship work……
Harris O'Malley Published February 6, 2020 -
CultureBelow Will Be Less Punishing When It Comes To PS4 This Spring
The brooding roguelike Below is coming to PS4 sometime this spring and when it does it will have a new mode that makes the game much easier to play. This new mode, called Explore, will get rid of a lot of the more punishing things in the game like a thirst meter and traps that…
By Ethan Gach Published February 6, 2020