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UncategorizedCall Of Duty’s New Seasonal DLC Approach Needs Some Work
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s first “season” of content has been a solid offering of maps and modes, but it was held back by lackluster rewards and bugs. The season began on December 3, and with a brief extension, the season is now scheduled to conclude on February 11. Season One brought some positive changes…
By S.E. Doster Published January 29, 2020 -
CultureMonster Hunter Is A Perfect Crossover Game For Dragalia Lost
Mobile role-playing games love their crossovers, and Nintendo’s Dragalia Lost is no exception. It’sfiddled about with Fire Emblemand messed around with Mega Man. Today the free-to-play action RPG launches its most appropriate crossover yet. The Dragalia Lost x Monster Hunter event combines a game about collecting dragons with a game about hunting them. The Mega…
By Mike Fahey Published January 29, 2020 -
UncategorizedKentucky Route Zero‘s ‘Multiplayer’ Isn’t What You’d Expect, But It Fits
Surreal point-and-click adventure game Kentucky Route Zerois out on consoles now. While PC games tend to shy away from local multiplayer, Kentucky Route Zero features some multiplayer instructions that are new to the console version. Spoilers: it’s still a single-player game in the traditional sense, but its multiplayer option reminded me of all the ways…
By Riley MacLeod Published January 29, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsByleth Is Refreshingly Simple In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Byleth is here. Are you happy? Upset? I don’t care, let’s talk about how they play. Super Smash Bros. has always had a close relationship with the tactical Fire Emblem franchise, making Byleth the latest in a long line of sword-wielding fighters to join the Nintendo crossover. But a sword is just a small part…
By Ian Walker Published January 29, 2020 -
UncategorizedBioshock: The Collection And The Sims 4 Are February’s PS Plus Games
February’s PlayStation Plus games are a good bunch, with Bioshock: The Collection containing all three Bioshock games and their single-player DLC. There’s also, in a twist, a third game for PS VR. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PS Plus subscription. February’s PS Plus games are: Bioshock: The Collection…
By Riley MacLeod Published January 29, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsWarcraft 3: Reforged Isn’t Much Of An Upgrade
The remastered version of Blizzard’s real-time strategy classic Warcraft 3 launched yesterday, and while I’m nowhere near as disappointed by the lack of enhancements and upgrades as the folks over at the official forums, Warcraft 3: Reforged certainly hasn’t impressed me. Warcraft 3: Reforged was meant to be a much more ambitious remake of Warcraft…
By Mike Fahey Published January 29, 2020 -
CultureMod Adds Mario 64 Dungeon To Ocarina Of Time
N64 modder Kaze Emanuar is back with another mashup, this time taking the Hazy Maze Cave level from Super Mario 64 and recreating it in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time as a completely new dungeon. Spotted by GamingReinvented (via NintendoLife), it has giant rolling boulders, spike traps, and fish hanging out in little…
By Ethan Gach Published January 29, 2020 -
CultureCuphead Fan Makes Awesome Stop-Motion Tribute
A fan spent four months working on this Cuphead stop-motion animated short and it’s fantastic. Running just over a minute and a half, the video shows Cuphead and Mugman making a mess of things in the Devil’s Casino after placing some bad bets. Creator Davy Productions said they fell in love with the bullet hell…
By Ethan Gach Published January 29, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsPillars Of Eternity II Is Okay On Consoles If You Don’t Mind Long Load Times
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is the latest classic-style role-playing game to make its way from PC to console. The console port of the 2018 game comes with a lot of compromises, but some negatives are offset by the turn-based combat mode that was added to the PC version last year. Out yesterday on PS4…
By Ethan Gach Published January 29, 2020 -
UncategorizedThe Star Wars: Battlefront II update adding BB-8 due out tomorrow has been delayed by a week DICE’s Ben Walke confirmed on Twitter that a “critical issue” was found last minute requiring more time to fix. When the update arrives it’ll also bring with it a new Capital Supremacy map.
By Ethan Gach Published January 29, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Broken Boy (Audio) ft. Iggy Pop | Artist: Cage The Elephant | Album: Social Cues
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 29, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanMan Visits Japan Because of The Yakuza Games, Gets On Japanese TV
SuzuKube of French-language game site OtakuGame.Fr traveled all the way from Martinique with something very specific in mind: He wanted to experience the world of the Yakuza games firsthand. As pointed on HachimaKikou (via SoraNews), SuzuKube was interviewed after arriving in Japan for a TV show called You wa Nani Shi ni Nippon e? (Why…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 29, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanReal-Life (And Totally Unofficial) Mario Kart Ordered To Pay Nintendo Over $450,000
In Japan, Nintendo has won an intellectual property infringement court case against go-kart operator Mari Mobility (the company formally named Maricar). Mari Mobility was found guilty of infringing on Nintendo’s intellectual property. The go-karting company’s original name resembles Mario Kart, and it also has offered Nintendo-themed costumes for customers to wear. “Unrelated to Nintendo,” was…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 29, 2020 -
CultureTotal RecallDeadstock 1986 Super Mario Bros. Slippers Are A Modern Masterpiece
Imagine, it’s 1986, you’re a grown-ass adult living in Japan and after a hard day’s salaryman/womanning you get home to your apartment, kick your shoes off at the door and slip on these beautiful babies. Now take that thought and throw it in the trash, because these slippers are so beautiful they deserved the treatment…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 28, 2020 -
UncategorizedHenry Cavill Breaks Down The Witcher’s Best Fight Scene
Because DVD commentary doesn’t exist in 2020, these videos Netflix are releasing to YouTube are (for now at least) about as close as we’re going to get to seeing the cast and crew talk about how The Witcher was actually made. First up is Cavill’s chat about how he (and some stunt performers) filmed the…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 28, 2020 -
CultureUnreal Engine Is Going To The Super Bowl
It’s not just the 49ers and Chiefs who will be turning out next week in Miami for Super Bowl LIV. The Unreal Engine, of all things, is also going to be there, powering a bunch of the graphics that will be shown during Fox Sports’ broadcast. While we’re all familiar with Unreal for its use…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 28, 2020 -
CultureDestiny 2 Taken Offline After Players Lose Currency, Materials [Update]
Bungie has taken Destiny 2 offline entirely (at time of posting it remains unplayable) after an issue emerged with a hotfix released earlier today where players began losing their “Glimmer, Bright Dust, Infusion Materials, and/or other types of game currencies”. The studio released a short statement this morning, saying the game had been taken offline…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 28, 2020