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CultureOdds and EndsLara, You’re Drunk
When Core Design and Eidos Interactive were getting ready to ship Tomb Raider III in 1998, they recruited Lara Croft herself to promote the game. The resulting animation was…something else. It’s hard to overstate just how big a deal Lara Croft was in her heyday. Sure, she’s gotten all gloomy and grimy recently, but you…
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CultureCD Projekt Red Hackers Allegedly Ready To Auction Stolen Source Code
Earlier this week, Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red announced that its cybersecurity had been compromised, resulting in attackers gaining access to various internal files. Now, it appears as if those hackers are ready to cash out with a big-money auction of the data, which allegedly includes source code for some of the Polish studio’s…
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CultureEpic’s MetaHuman Creator Helps Devs Pump Out Fancy ‘Digital Humans’
Today, Epic Games launched a sneak peek at its newest Unreal Engine creation tool that promises to drastically cut down on the time needed to create realistic-looking digital humans. “Creating one high-quality digital human is difficult and time-consuming,” the announcement post says. “Scaling that effort to create many diverse digital humans of the quality required…
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CultureThe Blizzconline 2021 Schedule Is Available And God, I’m Going To Miss The Overwatch World Cup
Blizzconline 2021, Blizzard Entertainment’s digital answer to their yearly in-person Blizzcon event, posted its schedule today. In addition to offering updates on the development progress for Diablo IV and Overwatch 2, Blizzconline also boasts a number of community events. Viewers can choose from Hearthstone streamer matches, arts and crafts tutorials, and an Overwatch League exhibition…
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CultureBorderlands 3‘s Directors Cut DLC Out March 18, Adds New Raid Boss
Like its own boss fights, Borderlands 3 keeps going. Today, Gearbox revealed details about Director’s Cut, an upcoming DLC for the looter-shooter out March 18. Director’s Cut will add a series of recurring challenges called Vault Cards, concept art, storyboards, and something players have requested for a long time: a raid boss. Like the first…
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CultureTales From The Borderlands Returns To Digital Storefronts On February 17
During today’s Borderlands presentation, the folks at Gearbox revealed that Telltale Games’ excellent Tales from the Borderlands will be returning to digital storefronts next Wednesday, February 17. The first episode of Tales from the Borderlands, a player choice-drive adventure game in the iconic Telltale style, was first released in late 2014, with additional chapters extending…
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CultureRez Website From 2001 Brought Back From The Dead
The English website for Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s legendary rhythm shooter Rez went live in 2001 and shut down in 2003. Thanks to the efforts of Rez preservationist (Rezervationist?) Brian Hargrove, that sweet piece of internet history has been restored, complete with detailed staff bios, tiny screenshots, and Windows Media Player-friendly video clips. A passionate fan of…
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OpinionImpressionsDestiny 2‘s Season Of The Chosen Is Good So Far
Season of the Chosen went live in Destiny 2 today, and with it a whole new set of things to grind for. So far, these things—new armor, guns, and exotic gear—seem pretty cool, with interesting new perks to make them worth chasing. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t already feeling daunted by…
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CultureKotaku Game Diary17 Years Later And I Still Can’t Beat Hannibal In Age Of Empires
Xbox Game Pass has once again proven its worth by allowing me to confront a bully of my past: the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca. Yes, I’m serious. Every night for the last two weeks, when normal people would wind down for bed with a nice hot mug of tea and their favorite background noise show,…
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Tips & GuidesOvercooked 2 Is Free On Switch This Weekend, If You Want To Be Alone On Valentine’s Day
Have any plans cooked up for Valentine’s Day? From tomorrow through February 16, relationship ruining co-op game Overcooked 2 will be playable at no extra cost for anyone with a Nintendo Switch Online membership—“just in time for Valentine’s Day!” Overcooked 2 is a game that involves preparing meals in the pressure-cooker environment of a busy…
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CultureAnother Good Actor Has Somehow Signed Up For The Borderlands Movie
Halloween and Christmas with the Kranks star Jamie Lee Curtis joins Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart as the latest actor to be cast in the upcoming Borderlands movie, Collider reports (h/t Variety). “Working with the iconic Jamie Lee Curtis has been a lifelong dream of mine, and I am so excited for her to bring…
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Tips & GuidesHow To Make Sure You’re Playing The PS5 Version Of A PlayStation Game
Following recent updates for Destiny 2, Control, and the terrific Nioh games, PlayStation 5 owners are in a golden age of cross-gen games. But, if you’re not careful, you could very well end up playing the PlayStation 4 version of a cross-gen game on your PS5. The horror! Microsoft’s newest consoles, the Xbox Series X…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryHey Agent 47, Slow Down On The Stairs, You Could Hurt Someone
I’ve been putting a bunch of time into Hitman 3 since it launched a few weeks ago. It’s very good, if a little too heavy on storytelling, but I can’t help but cringe a little every time I’m asked to follow an NPC up or down a flight of stairs. Hitman 3 anti-hero Agent 47…
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CultureReport: Later This Week, EA Is Going To Decide If Anthem Lives Or Dies
EA still isn’t sure if it’s going to invest in massively overhauling its failed loot shooter Anthem, according to a new report by Bloomberg. Instead, executives from the publisher are set to meet this week to decide whether it will abandon the BioWare game or not. The studio announced last year that approximately 30 people…
By Ethan Gach
