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CultureMass Effect DLC Missing From Remaster Due To Corrupted Source Code
On May 14, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition will bring 4K versions of the original Mass Effect trilogy plus most of its downloadable content to PS4, Xbox One, and PC. However, one single-player expansion is notably absent: the first game’s Pinnacle Station. According to an interview with Game Informer, the original source code was corrupted. Pinnacle…
By Ari Notis Published February 3, 2021 -
CultureThere’s A Total War: Warhammer III And It’s Coming Out Later This Year
Strategy game makers Creative Assembly announced Total War: Warhammer 3 today, and it’s coming out sometime in 2021. Here’s the trailer: It shows off the Ice Queen of Kislev doing battle with her magic, and according to the studio’s press release, Total War: Warhammer 3 will mark the first time the Kislev and Cathay races have…
By Ethan Gach Published February 3, 2021 -
CultureGearbox Has Been Bought
Gearbox Studios, developers of games like Borderlands and also publishers of stuff like the new Homeworld titles, have been bought by Embracer Group, the same Swedish company that owns THQ Nordic and Koch Media. The acquisition makes Gearbox the company’s seventh video game holding, alongside other companies like DECA and Saber Interactive. The purchase includes…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 3, 2021 -
OpinionImpressionsDestruction AllStars, A New PS5 Exclusive, Is Fine
You’ve played Destruction AllStars a thousand times. You’ve also never played something like Destruction AllStars. The new multiplayer derby battler from Lucid Games—out today exclusively for PlayStation 5—is both immediately familiar and refreshingly new. After taking it for a spin, my initial feelings for the game are all over the place. Let’s start with the…
By Ari Notis Published February 2, 2021 -
CultureFallout Mod Returns After Removing Some Pretty Questionable Shit
The Frontier, a huge Fallout: New Vegas mod that was pulled last week after one of its artists was found to have posted “animated pedophillic content” online, is now back The work of that contributor—which reportedly amounted to “the vast majority of pip-boy icons”—has been removed, but so too have some other things that had got…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 2, 2021 -
CultureCyberpunk 2077 Players Warned To Avoid Mods After Security Exploit Found
Cyberpunk 2077 developers CD Projekt Red have had to issue a warning today that anyone deciding to install a mod for the game should “use caution” after a security issue was discovered. The issue is a “vulnerability in external DLL files which can be used to execute code on PCs.” While the company works on…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 2, 2021 -
CultureApex Legends Drops Onto Switch On March 9
Titanfall spin-off Apex Legends is set to bring its online battle royale action to the Nintendo Switch on March 9, according to new details released by developer Respawn Entertainment. Apex Legends on Switch was first announced last summer for a fall release before being delayed to 2021. Panic Button, a Texas-based development studio that has…
By Ian Walker Published February 2, 2021 -
CultureMass Effect: Legendary Edition Out May 14
This is big news for all Mass Effect fans but even bigger news for me, personally, as I won’t have to wait long to protect Garrus Vakarian from certain doom. Mass Effect: Legendary Edition is out on May 14 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. For those who’ve been sleeping under a chunk of palladium,…
By Ari Notis Published February 2, 2021 -
CultureDestiny 2 Steps Back Into A War With The Cabal In Season Of The Chosen
Bungie officially revealed season 13 of Destiny 2 today and it adds new strikes, armor sets, and a matchmade activity called Battlegrounds. Season of the Chosen also revisits where Destiny 2 began by bringing in the Cabal’s empress Caiatl as its main villain. This is the first time players have actually gotten to see Caiatl,…
By Ethan Gach Published February 2, 2021 -
CultureFinal Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age Is Finally Headed To Xbox Game Pass
Remember all those Final Fantasy games Microsoft promised back in 2019 were coming to Xbox Game Pass? Another one is finally about to show up. Microsoft announced this morning that Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age is headed to the Netflix-style subscription service on console and PC, on February 11. Long story short, Microsoft announced…
By Ethan Gach Published February 2, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsHow Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s Creators Snuck In Connections To Older Games
An assassin in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla shares a small but fun connection to a templar in Assassin’s Creed III, as confirmed by Ubisoft in a recent interview with Kotaku In Assassin’s Creed Valhalla players will quickly encounter two assassins. One is Basim and the other is his younger apprentice, Hytham. That name might sound familiar…
By Zack Zwiezen Published February 2, 2021 -
OpinionAssassin’s Creed Valhalla Gets History Right Where It Matters
If Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is indeed based on historical events like its intro screen says,it is based very loosely. Yet for all its simplification and misrepresentation of the Viking invasions of Britain, there’s one thing the game depicts really well: the idea that England’s history is one of immigration. This hasn’t been a great decade…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 1, 2021 -
CultureCapcom Says Resident Evil Village‘s Very Tall Vampire Lady Is Nearly Ten Feet Tall
So we were off by a bit! Last week Ash did some excellent work trying to work out just how tall the Very Tall Vampire lady in Resident Evil Village was, eventually coming in at 96 inches, or around eight feet tall. Turns out that was too short. Thanks to the outpouring of…feelings for the…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 1, 2021 -
Tips & GuidesWhere To Find Every Banana In Hitman 3
Hitman 3 is b-a-n-a-n-a-s. IO Interactive’s latest stealth game puts you in the spit-shined oxfords of international assassin Agent 47 and tasks you with eliminating various well-protected targets. But the most effective tool at your disposal isn’t a firearm or vial of poison. No, it’s an ingredient you’d most likely find in smoothies, sandwiches, and…
By Ari Notis Published February 1, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsFinal Fantasy XV Could Have Had A Much Better Villain
There are a lot of things I love about Final Fantasy XV. Its tale of brotherhood is bar none and representative of some of the best “it’s the little things” storytelling I’ve ever experienced in a video game. But there are, of course, elements I don’t like. In particular, the game’s villain. Final Fantasy XV’s…
By Ash Parrish Published February 1, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsUltimate Epic Battle Simulator 2 Will Put “Millions” Of Characters On The Screen
Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator could do some very cool things with thousands of soldiers/ducks/zombies on the battlefield at once. Its upcoming sequel has only one place it can go to push the envelope. Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2, due sometime in the fall for the PC, does all the stuff the original did, like a…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 31, 2021 -
CultureA Four-Year-Old Muslim Boy Was Reported To A Terrorist Watchdog For Talking About Fortnite
The Guardian reportsthat the British government’s Prevent system, a community terrorism watchdog brimming with baked-in racism, once received a tip about a four-year-old boy who was overheard talking about Fortnite, which resulted in police turning up at the family’s home. The boy was reported in 2019, having been overheard after school saying his father had…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 31, 2021 -
CultureEnormous Dark Souls Mod Adds Halo’s Blood Gulch, Completely Changes Multiplayer
Modder InfernoPlus,the same guy who turned Mario into a battle royale game, has done wonders with Dark Souls, releasing an ambitious mod that transforms the game’s multiplayer and turns the map into something decidedly less horrific. Dark Souls: Remastest is “a multiplayer focused mod for Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition that adds a variety…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 31, 2021 -
OpinionImpressionsImmortals Fenyx Rising’s First DLC Is Mostly New Puzzles And Not Much Else
On January 28, Immortals Fenyx Rising’s first DLC, A New God, was released. Set after the events of the main game’s original ending, A New God is an odd expansion and epilogue that fans of Immortals might enjoy, but only if you really need more puzzles. Also spoiler warning: I’m going to be talking about…
By Zack Zwiezen Published January 31, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsHitman 3 Has Some Weird Easter Eggs, Like A Talking Hippo
The Hitman games have always had some weird secrets and Easter eggs. And Hitman 3 continues the tradition, including some truly strange and cool secrets, like a talking hippo, a UFO abduction, and a hidden ending. Also, SPOILER WARNING. I know a lot of folks don’t care about how certain missions end or the overall…
By Zack Zwiezen Published January 30, 2021