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CultureNewsTonight, The Internet Broke
It’s not just you or the sites you visit. A huge part of the internet went down earlier tonight, and everything from entertainment providers to video services to news sites were impacted. It appears (though this hasn’t been 100% confirmed) that an outage at Fastly, the CDN (Content Delivery Network) provider that powers…well, a huge…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 8, 2021 -
Kotaku EastJapanWith Japan Closed To Tourists, Empty Buildings In Akihabara Are Increasing
With Tokyo still under state of emergency orders due to covid-19, and the country closed to tourists, businesses relying on visitors have been hit especially hard by the pandemic. As John Daub from the Only In Japan YouTube channel points out, “Akihabara is one of the places that has changed the most over the last…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2021 -
AnimeLet’s Compare Tough Anime Dudes To Their Live-Action Movie Versions
One of the fascinating things about live-action adaptations is comparing how the actors bring the animated characters to life. So, with the upcoming Tokyo Revengers movie, let’s do just that! What can make live-action anime or manga adaptations so difficult is the ensuing film can look like people playing dress-up instead of embodying the characters…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2021 -
CultureNewsAntoine Griezmann Is Playing Football Manager The Hard Way
Barcelona and France striker Antoine Griezmann is currently getting ready to try to win Euro 2020 with his national side, but on the way to the tournament he’s been showing off his skills in a different game: Football Manager, where he’s been doing very well indeed. Here’s Griezman, laptop out in mid-air, boasting that his…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 8, 2021 -
CultureNewsHuge Fallout 2 Mod Finally Translated From Russian Into English
Olympus 2027, a famous Fallout 2 mod that completely replaces the original game with a new setting and storyline, is now finally available to play for those of us who can’t read a word of Russian. Olympus is centred around…Olympus, an enormous tower in Silicon Valley that becomes a fortified haven for surviving billionaires. It…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsHomeworld 3’s Weird Fan Investor Scheme Has Been Cancelled
It was very exciting to hear back in 2019 that Homeworld 3 was in development. The news was tempered a little at the time, though, by a very strange investment-based crowd-funding scheme that was attached to the project, despite the fact the game was being bankrolled by Gearbox, a major publisher. It wasn’t a traditional…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2021 -
The BestsThe Best Moments In E3 History, RIP Edition
The ESA has officially killed and buried E3, so let’s look back at the show’s brightest moments
Luke Plunkett & Levi Winslow Published June 7, 2021 -
OpinionImpressionsGuilty Gear Strive Is Too Stylish For Its Own Good
I’ve been having a great time with Guilty Gear Strive, out this week on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Steam, but I feel like developer Arc System Works might have gone a little overboard in the aesthetics department this time around. I know how that probably sounds to longtime fans of the fighting game series.…
By Ian Walker Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsTerra Nil Is A City-Builder Where You Rebuild A Shattered Environment
While most city-builders pitch themselves as something idyllic, all blue skies and green grass, the upcoming Terra Nil for the PC goes in a slightly different direction, giving you a world that has suffered environmental collapse then asking you to clean it up a bit. It’s still got green grass, of course, but your job…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureE3E3 Avatar Creator: The Kotaku Review
E3 is here. Registered participants will soon be able to log in to the E3 portal to connect with developers, industry professionals, and fans. Since the event is purely digital, the ESA is encouraging participants to create avatars so exhibitors who may or may not be there and who may or may not respond to…
By Ash Parrish Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureTwitchFacebook’s 100% Subscription Money Deal Turns Twitch Streamers’ Heads
Facebook has made no secret of its desire to lure streamers over from Twitch’s saturated pastures. Its latest salvo in the streaming wars? Full subscription profits for streamers for the next two years. Facebook Gaming partnerships manager Josh Maresca made the announcement today on Twitter “We’re doubling down on creators,” he wrote. “Facebook has waived…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsResident Evil Village Glitch Gives Ethan A Finger Gun
Last week, a Reddit user shared a brief video on the Resident Evil subreddit demonstrating an interesting moment from their Resident Evil Village playthrough. While fighting the factory’s propeller-faced Sturm mini-boss near in the closing hours of the campaign, an apparent glitch caused the magnum to disappear from protagonist Ethan Winters’ hand, leaving him to…
By Ian Walker Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsRainbow Six Quarantine Officially Renamed Extraction
The next Rainbow Six game is no longer named Quarantine, Ubisoft announced today Instead, the upcoming co-op shooter is now called Rainbow Six Extraction. Rainbow Six Quarantine was first revealedduring E3 2019,prior to the covid-19 pandemic. During an earnings call with investors in February 2021, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said that the publisher was considering…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsDays Gone Mod Makes Zombie Hordes Ludicrously Large
It was only a matter of time until Days Gone’s newfound PC audience began to tear out its insides and refashion them into something gnarlier, and now that day has arrived. A new mod ups freaker (aka zombie) horde sizes to the point where they basically blot out your whole screen. Modder Aigmir created the…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsSuper Mario Kart Hacker Restores Long-Lost Level Editor
Last year’s massive Nintendo data breach, dubbed the “Gigaleak,” revealed a trove of Nintendo secrets including human characters in Animal Crossing, alternate versions of the fourth-gen Pokémon games, and an F-Zero character model that bore shocking resemblance to Beavis and Butthead’s Beavis. Nearly a year later, the leak is still bearing fruit. As VGC reports,…
By Ari Notis Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsRick And Morty Might Be Coming To Fortnite
Fortniteis teasing its next crossover and it seems to involve characters from Adult Swim’s popular show, Rick And Morty. In the lead-up to the reveal of the next season of Fortnite, developer Epic Games has been teasing various potential crossovers on Twitter, letting fans piece together the clues as they wait for the new trailer…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 7, 2021
