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Facebook Pulls VR Shooter Demo From Conservative Conference After Backlash
Facebook announced the removal of the Bullet Train demo from its virtual reality experience booth at CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) after public outcry in light of the recent mass shooting at a school in Parkland, Florida. Developed by Epic Games to help show off the Oculus headset’s VR capabilities back in 2015, Bullet Train…
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CultureThe Two Friends Dominating Borderlands 2 Coop Speedrunning
A chance meeting and subsequent trip to Awesome Games Done Quick 2015 resulted in two college students forming a speedrunning duo that’s still setting world records. Speedrunners Amyrlinn and Shockwve know Borderlands 2 intimately. It would be a cliche to say they know Gearbox’s shooter better than the backs of their own hands, but they…
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UncategorizedLittle Nightmares’ last DLC, The Residence, is now out. It adds some new traps and enemies and puts you up against a boss called The Lady. Though the Inside-like horror puzzler didn’t set the world on fire, I quite liked it and it’s been nice to see Tarsier Studios continue building out its story and…
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UncategorizedYou Can Now Watch The Brief Movie Version Of Papers, Please
The brief film adaption of Lucas Pope’s Papers, Please is now out on YouTube and Steam to watch for free, in case you were hoping for something solemn and tragic to meditate on today. It runs just short of 10 minutes not including the credits and does a good job of capturing the feel and…
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The Weekend In Esports: Battlegrounds Goes To Poland
The biggest names in esports are in Poland this weekend for, among other things, the biggest PUBG tournament yet held. The game originally debuted with an invitational at IEM Oakland last year and has now moved on to having a world championship tournament at this year’s Katowice event. Dota 2, CS:GO, and StarCraft II will…
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UncategorizedWe Played Moss For PSVR
Moss is a PlayStation VR game that takes you on a journey through a whimsical fairytale world in which you control Quill, an adorable mouse. She’s equipped with a sword and shield, but she needs the player, who acts as a hooded guide called a “reader,” to help her unravel the mysteries of a mysterious…
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This Game Is Called Fuck Everything, Which Pretty Much Says It All
Usually, dating games offer some kind of soft introduction: you’re a high school kid, or a sexy divorced dad, or a bird-caterpillar hybrid looking for love. In browser game Fuck Everything, you are thrown, in media res, into a bar populated by a strange cast of characters, with your only instruction being the title of…
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Payday 2 On Switch Will Be Rough Without Voice Chat [UPDATE]
Payday 2 arrives on the Switch next week, nearly five years after its initial release on PC. A lot of questions have already been raised about how it will be missing a large chunk of the additional content that has come out since 2013, but a bigger head-scratcher remains the lack of proper voice chat.…
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