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CultureThe Room 4: Old Sins Is Out For PC, And Prettier Than Ever
Long before you kids in your short pants and fashionable haircuts were escaping escape rooms, there was one developer far ahead of that curve. In 2012, Fireproof Games released their first game in their The Room series of puzzle games. Last week they just released The Room 4: Old Sins on PC, and it’s a…
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CultureControl Developers Doubled Their Profits In 2020 Without Making A Game
Remedy Entertainment, they behind Max Payne and 2019’s Control, made more than twice as much money in 2020 as they did the year before. Yet they didn’t release a new game. They just kept releasing an old one instead. If you were to stop me in the street and ask me about how things went…
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CultureOdds and EndsHere’s The PS1 Version Of The Witcher 3 Tub Scene
Sure, in our universe The Witcher 3 was released on PS4, Xbox One, and PC in 2015. But in an alternate universe, it was released in 1996 for the original PlayStation. This PS1 take on the famous Witcher 3 bathtub scene was created by Anders Lundbjörk, a game developer who recently released a video showing…
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CultureOdds and EndsModder Adds Tifa Lockhart To Tekken 7
Tekken 7 already has a large roster of characters, including some odd guest characters. But now, thanks to a talented modder, you can play as Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Created by modder Wolfe, this Tekken 7 PC mod replaces Josie in the game with Tifa and comes with five different outfits inspired by…
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CultureOdds and EndsDance Team Perfectly Recreates Apex Legends Character Intros
Monster Hunter Dancers, a dance group in Japan, has recreated some of the character intros featured in Apex Legends during the selection process before a match. It’s fantastic. As you might expect with a dance group, the video features dancing after the intros. I wish Apex Legends randomly loaded into a dance battle, sounds like…
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CultureMorning CheckpointDrifting PS5 Controllers, Video Game Movies Casting Big Names, 60 FPS Bloodborne, And More
This week on Morning Checkpoint, we rant about PS5 scalpers, check out some new gameplay of Nier: Replicant, play Bloodborne at 60FPS, crush a bunch of people in Hitman 3 and get an update on the GameStop stonks fiasco. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week Everything I knew was a lie. My world is…
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OpinionImpressionsForegone Is So Much More Than A Dead Cells Clone
If you missed Foregone, fix that immediately. Foregone is incredible. Full stop. At first glance, you might think Foregone—which released last year for PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC—is a carbon copy of Dead Cells, Motion Twin’s eternally popular roguelike. For sure, the two share a lot of DNA in terms of art style, animation,…
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CultureThe Division 2 Will Get More Updates, Announce Seemingly Surprised Developers
Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment have confirmed today that The Division 2 will receive more content this year, doubling down on statements made by Ubisoft’s CEO earlier this week during a call with investors. The current season of The Division 2 is named “End of Watch” and wraps up a storyline and character arc that began…
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CultureHalo 3 Is Getting A New Map Over A Decade After Release
Halo 3 received its last official new map all the way back in 2009, as part of the Mythic II Map Pack release. Now, 343 Industries has announced that a new map, first featured in Halo Online, will be added to the next round of Master Chief Collection beta testing. In a blog post released…
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CultureWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for getting together with the family for a nice meal, preferably without being stuffed and posed around the table by a deranged maniac. It’s also for having some little nightmares, as a treat. Little Nightmares II came out this week, and I am slowly working my way through its dark and gloomy…
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CultureDestiny 2‘s Cosmodrome Isn’t Getting Any Bigger
Bungie announced yesterday that Destiny 2’s partial Cosmodrome, which was brought over from the first game last November, won’t be expanding to reach its original size and scope. The studio says its part of a trade-off to focus on making new content. Excluding the Plaguelands area added in Destiny 1‘s Rise of Iron expansion, Destiny…
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CultureOdds and EndsHere’s Dan’s Legendary Taunt In Street Fighter V
Dan Hibiki is back in Street Fighter V, which means we now have a new incarnation of his legendary taunt to appreciate. Let’s take a look. And for comparison, here’s how Dan’s legendary taunt has evolved from game to game. Dan has been Street Fighter’s go-to joke character since his debut in 1995’s Street Fighter…
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CultureBorderlands Movie Casts Actor Who’s Actually Funny To Play Claptrap, Which Feels Off
Jumanji and Orange County star Jack Black has joined the cast of the Borderlands movie, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Black, who will be playing Borderlands’ perennial robotic sidekick and ostensible comic relief Claptrap, is the latest actor to sign onto the project after Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, and Jamie Lee Curtis. Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin…
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CulturePraise Be Unto Zeus, Immortals Fenyx Rising Finally Has Loadouts
Ubisoft released an update for Immortals Fenyx Rising today, resolving known issues, adding key stability improvements, and… blah, blah, blah. Forget about all that! The game is (finally!) getting loadouts! Today’s 1.1.1 patch bakes an equipment loadout feature right into Fenyx Rising’s inventory screen, allowing players to curate up to three loadouts. Following the update,…
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CultureCD Projekt Red Resorting To Kickstarter To Launch New Witcher Board Game
CD Projekt Red, one of the biggest video game developers in Europe, is teaming up with board game makers Go On Board to produce a deck-building game based on The Witcher. It’s called The Witcher: Old World, and it’s going to use the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to do it. According to BoardGameGeek News, the game…
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CultureTwitch Leaks New Street Fighter V Character [Update]
Update (1:06 p.m. ET, 02/11/2021): During today’s winter update steam, Capcom clarified that Eleven will be a bonus character in Street Fighter V rather than the last addition to its final season. We’ve updated the headline to reflect this. The shapeshifting fighter will be given to players who purchase either the Season 5 character pass…
By Ian Walker
