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UncategorizedJourney and Assassin’s Creed Syndicate composer Austin Wintory shared a really cool story about auditioning to write the music for Star Trek: Discovery. He didn’t get the gig, but he wrote a lot of great music along the way. It’s an interesting look behind the scenes at what it’s like to try to land a…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 20, 2018 -
CultureWhat We Loved About Black Panther
Black Panther came out last Thursday and it completely blew my mind. I’m joined by Patricia Hernandez and Mike Fahey to talk about the wonder of Wakanda, colonialism, and especially Erik Killmonger. Gita Jackson: Over the weekend, the long awaited Black Panther movie dropped. I was trying not to let the hype take me over,…
Gita Jackson & Patricia Hernandez & Mike Fahey Published February 20, 2018 -
UncategorizedThe Switch Version Of Rime Is Much Better Now
Beautiful adventure game Rime wasn’t quite as beautiful when it was released on the Nintendo Switch back in November, suffering from severe frame rate drops, bad pop-in, faded colors and poor lower resolution textures. Yesterday’s 1.02 updatedoesn’t fix everything, but the game looks and plays so much better now. Rather than play the earlier Xbox…
By Mike Fahey Published February 20, 2018 -
UncategorizedSkin-Gambling Streamer Sues Twitch For Banning Him Two Years Ago
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive skin gambling streamer James “Phantoml0rd” Varga has filed a lawsuit against streaming platform Twitch for banning him two years ago, saying Twitch breached its contract by improperly suspending him. Varga had amassed over a million followers on Twitch before the goliath streaming company kicked him off in July, 2016. He was one…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published February 20, 2018 - Uncategorized
A Look Back At Parasite Eve‘s Great Dialogue
I love weird games, ones full of FMV cutscenes, mix-and-matched RPG battle systems, and nonsensical science fiction plots. Parasite Eve has given me all of those things, along with something I didn’t expect: great dialog. Parasite Eve follows NYPD officer Aya Brea, the sole survivor of a mass murder spree during an opera at Carnegie…
By Heather Alexandra Published February 20, 2018 -
UncategorizedSuperhot Headlines March’s Xbox Live Games With Gold Lineup
Superhot is a strange game that’s both hectic and tactical. If you missed it the first time around, it’s one of the games in March’s Xbox Live Game with Gold lineup. As always, these games are only “free” with an Xbox Live Gold subscription. March’s Games with Gold lineup is: Xbox One Trials of the…
By Riley MacLeod Published February 20, 2018 - Uncategorized
People Are Already Making Silly Mods For Final Fantasy XII On PC
If you have ever wanted to play all of Final Fantasy XII as Reks, the character who dies in the opening tutorial, you’re now in luck, thanks to the power of PC modding. “Play as Reks fully” is just one of many substantial PC mods that has popped up over the past couple of weeks,…
By Jason Schreier Published February 20, 2018 - Uncategorized
Doom Gets Motion Controls On Switch
One of the biggest highlights of the Wii era was playing shooters like Resident Evil 4 by waggling your remote at the screen. Now you can recapture that feeling with Doom on Switch, which received a patch last night that adds motion controls. The portable version of id Software’s slick shooter just received update 1.1.1,…
By Jason Schreier Published February 20, 2018 - Uncategorized
After 210 Hours On Kingdom Hearts‘ Destiny Islands, Man Reaches Level 100
AaroneousGaming is a trooper. For the past month, he’s been grinding through Destiny Islands in Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + II.5 Remix. And yesterday, he reached Level 100. That’s right, Level 100 in Sora’s home islands. You know, the extended tutorial where you’re supposed to get the hang of Kingdom Hearts and not where you’re…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 20, 2018 - Uncategorized
Manga Characters Get Lots of Valentine’s Day Chocolate
This Valentine’s Day, manga publisher Shueisha got lots and lots of chocolate. Make that, characters in The Prince of Tennis were sent loads. According to creator Takeshi Konomi, the manga’s editors got ten times more chocolate this Valentine’s Day than imagined. The Prince of Tennis fans love showing their affection and appreciation! Konomi kindly thanked…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 20, 2018 - Uncategorized
Compile Heart (Record of Agarest War and Hyperdimension Neptunia) has a mysterious countdown site that is counting down to…something. The site currently reads “2 in Akihabara” and the countdown is supposed to end on February 22. Dun, dun, dun.
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 20, 2018 - Culture
Let’s Go
Farzad Varahramyan is a veteran artist who has worked on games like Oddworld and Darkwatch, and on movies like Jumanji, After Earth and Aliens vs Predator You can see more of Farzad’s work at his personal site To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 19, 2018 - Uncategorized
Look At This Monster Hunter Statue
Kinetiquettes will soon be releasing a few Monster Hunter pieces, including this huge statue featuring Zinogre getting stabbed at by both a male and female hunter. Both the hunters will be available as their own individual statues, but if you buy the whole set you get a Palico thrown in as well. Preorder information will…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 19, 2018 - Uncategorized
Studio Accused Of Installing Malware On Customers’ PCs
FlightSimLabs, a studio that specialises in custom add-ons for other company’s flight sims, has been found to be secretly installing a program onto user’s computers designed to check whether they’re playing a pirated copy of their software. The code—basically a Chrome password dumping tool— was discovered by Reddit user crankyrecursion on February 18, and as…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 19, 2018 - Uncategorized
Developer Warhorse Studios published an explanation clarifying the patching process for Kingdom Come: Deliverance across all three platforms today. The Xbox One version is currently one update behind both PC and PS4, with a hotfix to resolve issues with the R2 button on PS4 currently going through certification.
By Ethan Gach Published February 19, 2018 - Uncategorized
Excellent snowy battle royale game The Darwin Project will have another PC open beta from February 23-26. If the patch notes are anything to go by, there’ll be a lot of changes from the last time. I’m excited to make new friends and lose spectacularly.
By Riley MacLeod Published February 19, 2018
