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CulturePeople Love To Pee Outside Conan O’Brien’s House In Death Stranding
Hideo Kojima never met a celebrity he didn’t want to include in Death Stranding. As such, his latest game contains all sorts of celebrity cameos. Talk show host Conan O’Brien makes one such appearance, as a prepper slash cosplayer. For reasons that are not entirely clear, players have covered his house in pee. If you…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 8, 2020 -
UncategorizedThe Battlefront II Popes
Ah, it’s nice to see a Battlefront mod look beyond the Star Wars universe and incorporate spiritual representatives from other faiths. Like *checks notes* the Catholic Church. This mod, by xD0IT, turns Kylo Ren (and what looks like Luke’s face) into a young Pope John Paul II, who in our world was a devout man…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 8, 2020 -
CultureTwitchTwitch Streamers Raise Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars To Fight Australian Bushfires
Australia is on fire. Thousands of homes have been destroyed, countless people have been displaced, and 24 people have died. More than 15.6 million acres of land have burned. All this, and Australian summer is only just beginning. With the government failing to act against the blisteringly obvious effects of climate change, some streamers are…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 8, 2020 -
CultureAnnual Steam Release Numbers Used To Climb Every Year, But In 2019, They Held Steady
I’m fairly certain that I haven’t played 8,400 games in my entire life, but that’s the number of new releases that rolled up their sleeves and threw down for Steam users’ time and money last year. That is, obviously, a lot. But it’s not that much more than the number of games released on Steam…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 8, 2020 - Uncategorized
Highlight Reel returns to tomorrow for the first episode of 2020. As always, send your great gaming moments to [email protected] and we might feature them on the show. I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone has been up to over the winter break.
By Chris Person Published January 8, 2020 -
CultureFallout 76 Camp Tortures Players With Math
If you thought Fallout 76 couldn’t get any more nihilistic, there’s now a campsite that burns players alive if they don’t solve math problems fast enough. It’s the latest creation from Fallout 76 player Korindabar, one of the game’s most notorious builders. Korindabar is responsible for a number of “trap” campsites that lure in unsuspecting…
By Ethan Gach Published January 8, 2020 -
CultureThe Sexiness Of Control
When I guide Jesse Faden through the Federal Bureau of Control, I summon a slab of concrete the size of a small desk, hovering it effortlessly over my right shoulder as I shoot, dodge, fly. I feel the crackle of the energy she can unleash on every object around her. The weighty rock yields to…
By Gita Jackson Published January 8, 2020 -
UncategorizedWargroove’s free Double Trouble DLC is coming to Switch, Xbox One, and PC on February 6, with the PS4 version to follow later. In addition to a new coop story campaign and units, the update will also add competitive quick play maps and more mission editor tools.
By Ethan Gach Published January 8, 2020 -
UncategorizedStart Your Day To The Soothing Sounds Of These Astounding Final Fantasy XIV Bards
It’s not uncommon to hear bards play a tune or two in Final Fantasy XIV. Sometimes that’s a light twiddling song on a flute, sometimes that means playing “Megalovania” in the middle of a crowded bar. Last night, I ran into a fantastic impromptu concert. The real world’s a disaster right now. Lighten the load…
By Heather Alexandra Published January 8, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Let Me Go | Artist: YONLAPA | Album: Let Me Go (single)
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 8, 2020 -
Kotaku EastA New Final Fantasy XV MMORPG For Mobile Is Coming
Square Enix is teaming up with South Korean developer JSC Games and Chinese game maker GAEA Mobile to develop a Final Fantasy XV massively multiplayer online role-playing game for mobile. Tentatively titled, well, Final Fantasy 15 Mobile, the game has been in the works for a few years. It’s being developed with Unreal Engine 4…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 8, 2020 -
Kotaku EastWhen Japanese Mascots Get Stuck
Not all Japanese mascots get stuck, mind you, but many of them do. Previously, Kotaku reported that one train character kept getting stuck in doorways and ticket wickets, but as Dick King-Smith HQnoted on Twitter, that rotund mascot is not alone. There are many giant characters in Japan and they keep getting wedged in what…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 8, 2020 -
CultureGames Artist Releasing His Own Comic About Space Robots
Ben Mauro is one of the best artists working in entertainment today, and we’ve featured his work on Fine Art a bunch of times. We’re doing it again tonight because he’s releasing a graphic novel called HUXLEY, about “two scavengers who find an ancient robot and get swept up on an adventure that could change…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2020 -
UncategorizedFantasy Flight’s Video Game Studio Is Closing
In 2017 Fantasy Flight, a juggernaut in the board game world thanks to stuff like Game of Thrones and Star Wars, opened a video game studio. Barely two years later, Fantasy Flight Interactive is closing its doors. The idea had been for the studio to work in two directions: adapt existing Fantasy Flight games into…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2020 -
CultureModern Warfare Players Glitching Under The Floors Are Becoming A Major Problem
Players of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s large-scale “Ground War” mode have discovered several ways to get underneath the floors or inside the walls of the game’s maps, letting them kill other players with impunity before raining down nukes. Before this influx of cheaters, the 32-versus-32 Battlefield-style mode was once a great place to level…
By S.E. Doster Published January 7, 2020 -
CultureTotal RecallPour One Out For A Lucasarts Millennium Falcon Simulator
Just in case you haven’t suffered enough anguish over the years/decades at the demise of quality LucasArts Star Wars games, let’s look back at a pitch for a game that sounded too good to be true, and so was promptly never made. Before we go any further, let’s be very clear: This was an idea,…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2020
