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UncategorizedIn Japan, Animal Crossing Players Are Making Incredible Custom Outfits
All over the world, the creativity fueled by Animal Crossing continues to impress as players make all sorts of custom clothing. In particular, fans in Japan are crafting some excellent outfits. As with Animal Crossing: New Leaf, players can recreate real threads with the in-game custom design tools. In New Horizons, they can either import…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 25, 2020 -
UncategorizedAnd Now For Some Excellent Anime Make-Up
This is O-ji. She’s a talented make-up artist who works in a variety of styles. Today, let’s take a look at some of her anime-themed work. Such as… Iggy from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. A Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba side by side comparison. Sailor Mercury. Spice Girl from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. One of the Sex…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 25, 2020 -
UncategorizedIn its first three days on sale in Japan, Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold 1,880,626 package copies at retail. This is the biggest debut for any Switch game in Japan to date. During that same week, a whopping 392,576 Switch units (including Switch Lite) were also sold in Japan.
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 25, 2020 -
CultureNintendo Donates 9,500 Facemasks To Local Responders
With a global shortage of protective facemasks endangering those on the front line in the fight against covid-19, Nintendo has looked in its back room and found 9,500 N95 particulate respirator masks, which are being donated to responders near the company’s American operations. In a “thank you” post on the city site for North Bend,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2020 -
CultureNASCAR Drivers Are Racing Each Other Online, And It’s Going To Be On TV
All sports are esports now. After a successful first virtual NASCAR race over the weekend, where a mix of current and former drivers raced each other online and a lot of people watched, Fox and NASCAR have decided that they’re going to broadcast a whole season of it on TV. The first eNASCAR iRacing Pro…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2020 -
CultureIt Sucks Being Player 2 In Animal Crossing
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is all about working together and building a sense of community, but if you’re not the primary player account on the game, it’s a lot harder to participate. New Horizons lets you make one island per Switch, and up to eight players can live on it together. But only one of…
By Ethan Gach Published March 24, 2020 -
The BestsThe Best Solo Board Games
Despite them normally being very much a stay-at-home thing, it’s going to be difficult to play board games over the next few months because they tend to involve getting people over and getting social. Unless, that is, you’re playing one of these very good solo board games. Over the last couple of years the more…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2020 -
CulturePlaying Nothing But Half-Life: Alyx In VR Made Me Hallucinate
Late Saturday night, I removed my Valve Index VR headset. I’d done it. I had finished Half-Life: Alyx. As I blinked, a faint outline clouded my vision; I quickly realized it was the headset’s blue wireframe barrier, which flashes when you move too close to a wall. “That’s weird,” I said. It was about to…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 24, 2020 -
CultureWhy Are There So Many Surveillance Cameras In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
A huge part of the fun in Animal Crossing is hunting down the perfect items to furnish your home. But things have taken an unsettling turn in New Horizons as several players have started to find creepy items in the trees around their islands. When I first started playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons a few…
By Ian Walker Published March 24, 2020 -
UncategorizedBorderlands 3 will receive another level cap increase in this week’s Guns, Love, and Tentacles expansion These four extra levels will give players the chance to try out new abilities or even max out two separate skill trees for their Vault Hunters
By Ian Walker Published March 24, 2020 -
ReviewsControllersBow Before The Beauty Of My Custom-Painted Joy-Cons
In my never-ending quest to make my consoles and controllers look uniquely pretty, I turn to Colorware, the company that’s been painting game hardware for two decades. They do custom color Joy-Cons for $150 and special limited edition designs for $200, which look and feel amazing. There’s nothing wrong with spending $70 on a pair…
By Mike Fahey Published March 24, 2020 -
CultureSony Slowing Game Download Speeds In Europe To Help With ‘Internet Stability’ [Update: Also In the US]
Today, Sony said it’s working with internet providers in Europe to manage PlayStation download traffic now that social distancing has brought more people online than ever. Players might experience slower game downloads during this time. “We believe it is important to do our part to address Internet stability concerns as an unprecedented number of people…
By Ethan Gach Published March 24, 2020 -
CultureControl Is Getting Some Cool New Abilities
Grow my little rock friends, grow! Control is full of fun paranormal powers you can use to manipulate its world. The Foundation downloadable expansion coming to PS4 and PC on March 26 adds a few more. One of them is called Shape and it lets you sprout giant barnacles to create platforms you can hop…
By Ethan Gach Published March 24, 2020 -
ReviewsMultiplatformDoom Eternal: The Kotaku Review
2016’s Doom reimagined the classic shooter into a frantic but modern mold. The bloody escapades of the Doom Slayer were rife with bullets and guts. It was a grimy video game hamburger. Doom Eternal is bigger and bloodier, almost to the point of excess. It’s the same hamburger dipped into a vat of delicious special…
By Heather Alexandra Published March 24, 2020 -
CultureHow’s It Going?: Keep Your Distance Edition
Welcome to Tuesday, and also welcome back to our daily open thread. I thought getting a dog would be a great reason to have a purpose to get outside, but it’s making me realize how hard all this social distancing is on a practical level. I live in New York City, where it can feel…
By Riley MacLeod Published March 24, 2020 -
UncategorizedPlague Inc. Is Adding A Game Mode About Fighting A Global Pandemic
Plague Inc. is a video game in which players create and cultivate a deadly pathogen in order to wipe out as much of the global population as possible. In response to the real-world covid-19 pandemic, developer Ndemic Creations is working on a new game mode where players work toward stopping a deadly global outbreak. Plague…
By Mike Fahey Published March 24, 2020 -
CultureGranblue Fantasy Versus Adds Buff Grandpa Soriz April 7
Every fighting game needs a muscle-bound older gentleman to show those young whippersnappers what’s what. In Granblue Fantasy Versus that old man is Soriz, a former weapon crafter who decided he was the greatest weapon of them all. He also enjoys wearing loincloths. He’s coming to the game on April 7. One part living weapon,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 24, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Patience (Cover) | Artist: Norah Jones | Album: N/A
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 24, 2020
