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CultureCrusader Kings III’s First Major Expansion Lets Monarchs Hold Court In Style
Royal Court, the first large expansion for Crusader Kings III, was announced today during PDXCON Remixed. No release date was revealed, but Paradox shared details about the new expansion. Get ready to run your royal court and deal with the day-to-day life of being king. The new expansion adds a full royal court, which is…
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CultureWith Overwatch 2 Reducing Team Sizes, Pros Worry About Being Cut
Yesterday, Overwatch game director Aaron Keller announced that Overwatch 2’s PvP mode will field teams of five players, down from six players in the game’s current PvP mode. Now players, staffers, and fans of the Overwatch League are wondering if professional teams will be cutting down their rosters in response. Currently, Overwatch League games are…
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CultureResident Evil Village Used To Have A Lot More Enemies
While you certainly face mini-hordes from time to time, Resident Evil Village isn’t a game that just throws enemies at you willy-nilly. But that wasn’t always the case. Capcom’s latest behind-the-scenes video shows that some early builds apparently included an overwhelming number of foes, which is said to have caused some friction between the core…
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CultureReport: Netflix Looking To Hire Video Game Executive
Netflix, the streaming service responsible for episodic masterworks like Selling Sunset and Too Hot To Handle, is looking to hire veteran gaming industry execs, according to a new report in The Information Citing “people familiar with the situation,” The Information’s report says that, over the past few weeks, Netflix approached various executives with industry experience.…
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CultureWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?
Did you know the weekend was the best possible time to play an absurdist take on the traditional Japanese role-playing game? I just made that up, but it’s probably true. It’s time for Miitopia, a game that originally came out for the 3DS in 2017 at a tie when I was not playing games on…
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CultureHey, They Got Mass Effect In Our No Man’s Sky
For the past week, No Man’s Sky players have been led on a mysterious expedition across the galaxy with no real idea where their journey would lead. Now the “Beachhead” expedition is complete, and it’s led players to a massive Mass Effect Easter egg. There is nothing procedurally generated about the latest addition to enterprising…
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CultureA PS3 Version Of Gears Of War 3 Is Now Available
A build of Gears of War 3 that was developed by Epic as a way to test Unreal Engine 3 on the PlayStation 3 has been released online, letting anyone with a debug PS3 play the Xbox exclusive on Sony’s home console. Twitter user and digital archivist PixelButts celebrated the 10th anniversary of Epic creating…
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CultureRatchet & Clank: Rift Apart Comes With A Huge List Of Accessibility Options
When Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart arrives on PlayStation 5 next month, it’ll do so with an extensive suite of accessibility options, designed to help folks enjoy the game no matter their personal limitations. “Insomniac Games is dedicated to creating games that have a positive and lasting influence on people’s lives,” the studio said on…
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OpinionI Thought Resident Evil Village’s Dollhouse Was A Chill Time, Actually
The internet has been filled with folks sharing their thoughts about the dollhouse section in Resident Evil Village. Many call it scary or even terrifying. But, I didn’t find the location all that scary at all. In fact, I found the whole section rather calming and even fun. After you arrive in the titular village,…
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CultureBlazing Strike Is A New, Old-School 2D Fighter
Because there’s no such thing as too many anime-inspired 2D fighting games, Aksys and RareBreed Makes Games just announced Blazing Strike, an homage to classic pixel-art fighters with modern game mechanics that’ll hopefully make it play as good as it looks. The passion project of solo developer Mark “RareBreed” Chung, Blazing Strike started life as…
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CultureOverwatch 2 Will Only Have Five Players Per Team
Today, during an Overwatch 2 PVP livestream, Aaron Keller, Overwatch’s new game director taking over for Blizzard veteran Jeff Kaplan, announced that teams in Overwatch 2‘s PVP will be reduced from six players to five. “Overwatch has changed over time. We’ve gone from having no hero limits…to having a hero limit. We ended up introducing…
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CultureJedi Outcast Is The Latest Classic To Get Ray Tracing
After teasing the project for months, self-described “ray tracing addict” Zyanide is finally ready to share his work adding the computationally intensive lighting technology to 2002’s Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. And gosh, it’s as impressive as the game’s title is awkward. While ray tracing brings obvious aesthetic benefits to Jedi Outcast’s lightsaber-heavy…
By Ian Walker
