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Real-Life Crappy Military Gear Inspired The Division 2’s Weird Item Descriptions Found On Starting Gear
In the most recent State of The Game stream, it was revealed why the starting gear in The Division 2 has strange text descriptions. It turns out these bits of text were written by a veteran of the Swedish military and are inspired by his experiences in the army. Every week, Ubisoft does a stream…
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Man Spends 24 Hours Inside Minecraft VR
A YouTuber decided to experience another world and to do this, he loaded up Minecraft in VR on his PC and spent 24 hours inside the game. He then shared the results of his experiment in a recently released short documentary, revealing what happens to the brain and body during and after that much VR.…
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Valve Is Finally Replacing Its Ugly Dota 2 Statue With A Better One
Back in 2017, some of the most dedicated Dota 2 players spent hundreds of dollars on microtransactions to win a special collectible statue. The versions that Valve shipped out were so ugly, and so poorly received, that Valve said it would make replacements. Yesterday, it said that it was finally ready to ship them out.…
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Well, That About Wraps It Up For 3DS
Nintendo’s not willing to call the 3DS “dead” yet, but the company’s latest briefing has made the whole thing feel like Weekend At Bernie’s One year ago today, Nintendo held a briefing for investors at which it said it would “continue the 3DS business” and that it was “preparing new software for release in 2019…
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PlayStation Now Has Gotten A Lot Better
PlayStation Now used to be a pricey way to stream the PlayStation’s back catalogue of games, which was only useful for people with good internet and no bandwidth caps. Last September the company added an option to download certain games directly, allowing users to play them offline. PlayStation Now is now a lot more like…
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15 Years Later, The Sims 2 Still Has Its Diehard Fans
Although The Sims 2 came out nearly 15 years ago, it still has a dedicated fanbase that insist that it’s the best game in the series. These diehards say that Sims 2 is more alive than its antecedents, and that as long as it continues to run on their computers, they’ll continue to play it.…
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Players Are Creating Amazing Things With Overwatch’s New Workshop Tools
Earlier this week, Blizzard added a Workshop to Overwatch that makes it possible to modify in-game scripts to create all sorts of new custom modes. Players have wasted no time in doing some really cool stuff with it. When Blizzard announced the Overwatch Workshop on Wednesday, it led with the example of a level inspired…
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I’m streaming the just-released Sega Ages Virtua Racing on my Nintendo Switch over on our Twitch channel, because it’s Friday, it’s been a long week, and I wish it was possible for a real human to be as excited about anything as the announcer in Virtua Racing is about the player getting a “TIME BONUS!!!!!”
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K-Pop Pick Of The Day: Wee Woo
When I first introduced Pristin last year, I couldn’t hide my enthusiasm for their surely long and productive future careers. After all, their first couple of releases did great, right? It wasn’t like Pledis Entertainment would repeat the same mistakes they made with After School, right? What could possibly go wrong? Well, here we are,…
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Mortal Kombat 11‘s Microtransactions, Explained
Mortal Kombat 11 is getting slammed over its supposed equipment grind and the perceived greed of its microtransactions; user-submitted reviews on Steam and Metacritic have been poor. In these reviews, as well as in comments and on social media, fans have complained about the slow pace of earning rewards through gameplay and the randomness of…
By Mike Fahey
