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I Admire The Perseverance Of A Man Who Swims Across The Entire Map In Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag

Black Flag’s world was designed to be traversed on a ship, but hey, if someone is going to devote hours of their day to swimming across the thing, then I’m going to tip my tricorn to them. How Big is the Map? spent nearly five hours swimming to get from one corner of Ubisoft’s Caribbean…

Red Dead Online Is A Wild West Theme Park

Red Dead Online’s beta kicked off today, for players who own Red Dead Redemption 2’s Ultimate Edition. It’s an incredibly familiar experience, taking the first game’s online component and adding a healthy dose of story, survival, and shenanigans. It’s a bit barebones at the moment, but the foundation is strong. My first day in Red…

Homeworld Studio Gets Their Ass To Mars

To celebrate the successful landing of the InSight spacecraft on the red planet, Blackbird Interactive (the Deserts of Kharak guys) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have released to the public a version of their Project Eagle Mars base software. I wrote about it back in 2017; while not a game, it’s still a very game-looking…

The Next Fallout 76 Patch Will Bring Some Much-Needed Fixes

Fallout 76 is getting another big patch on December 4 that will begin trying to fix some of the game’s bigger problems, Bethesda said today on Reddit. In addition, the company said it plans to be more communicative in the future about what the Fallout 76 team is working on and when new updates for…

Cammy Is Finally Getting Pants In Street Fighter V

Shout it from the rooftops: Cammy White will be trading in her traditional battle gear for an outfit with pants, thanks to Street Fighter V’s upcoming cross-promotion with Resident Evil. In paying homage to frequent Resident Evil protagonist Jill Valentine, the Killer Bee is set to have an outfit with ample bottom coverage for one…

Indie Dev Releases Game After Documenting Its Development Every Week For Three Years

“I’m actually hoping to finish it in the next few months, so probably around April, May… and then I will hopefully be able to release it in the summer, around June or July,” said Karl Wimble in a video about his game, Equilinox, on February 19, 2016. The game came out on November 23, 2018,…

Let’s ride! Me and Tim are hopping into Red Dead Online right now on Twitch! Come join chat to talk about horse crimes and sarsaparilla.

No Man’s Sky‘s Latest Update Celebrates The Community

When No Man’s Sky drops a big update, I tend to wander around the world wondering what’s changed. Was the grass always this lush? Is the water the same color? Have the bushes always been purple? Visions, the surprise update dropped on Thanksgiving, has many of those kinds of subtle changes. But my favorite part…

Here’s a first look at some of the new stuff we’ll see in Destiny 2‘s new update, Black Armory, which starts on Tuesday. You’ll need the paid Annual Pass to get access to the new activities and raid lair, although anyone who owns Forsaken will be able to find the new seasonal weapons.

One of the best Lego games, The Lego Movie Videogame, is getting a sequel tied to the second Lego movie, hopefully rendering its entire game world in Lego bricks like the first one did. More details here. It is slated for Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC for February 26, with a physical Switch release…

Rilakkuma, the very relaxed bear, stars in a new stop-motion series on Netflix. It’s called Rilakkuma and Kaoru and debuts next April.

Retro Japanese PC Games, Yours For Only $13,000

Indie game bullet-hell series Touhou Project debuted in 1996. Creator Zun developed the first and next four games for the NEC PC-9801 personal computer. These original PC-98 releases are currently on sale in Tokyo’s Akihabara. For a mere 1.5 million yen ($13,207) plus tax The first five Touhou Project games are Highly Responsive to Prayers,…

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Neon Genesis Evangelion Is Coming To Netflix

Netflix just announced that the original Neon Genesis Evangelion series, along with two films, will be coming to the streaming service next year. All 26 episodes of the 1995 anime will be made available, as will the films The End of Evangelion & Evangelion: Death (True)2 They’ll be available in Spring 2019.

Fallout 76’s Bobby Pins Are 60x Heavier Than Actual Bobby Pins

You used to be able to carry around as many lock-picking bobby pins as you wanted in Fallout 4, but Bethesda’s newest game has assigned a weight to them. And they are way too heavy. LukyJoeKokomo did the math (via PcGamesN), and worked out that if a packet of 100 bobby pins on Amazon weighed…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Really Blew Its Ending

Or should I say, endings. This post does not contain major spoilers. Assassin’s Creed tried something unique this year with its story, splitting its best moments across a main campaign, some substantial smaller ones and a bunch of hidden sidequests. Which is a fun and different way of different way of doing things, but it…

A Game Where You Bet On Whether Historical Figures And Indie Game Heroes Will Fall In Love

If you’ve ever wondered whether or not Abraham Lincoln and Napoleon Bonaparte would hit it off on a date, the answer is yes. According to AI dating game BadCupid, Lincoln is a charmer whether he’s chatting up reanimated French emperors, Roman goddesses, or Necrodancers. Sherlock Holmes, though? He’s a much pricklier sort. BadCupid is a…

Red Dead Redemption 2, One Month Later

Red Dead Redemption 2 has been out for one month, which is about as long as it takes for Arthur Morgan to stumble from Valentine to Saint Denis. The blockbuster western was defined by controversy before launch, but critical and fan response has been strong. The journey’s been short but the road’s had some occasional…

Of Course Lady Gaga Loves Bayonetta

It makes so much sense that Lady Gaga is obsessed with Bayonetta Stefani Germanotta, a pop musician and now movie star who performs under the name Lady Gaga, never seems to do what people expect of her. Her unusual fashion choices are par for the course now, but when she first debuted in 2008 with…

Last weekend’s ArcRevo Japan attached heart monitors to players during tournament play, providing a glimpse at just how stressful competition can be. The average heart rate at the event sat around levels normally associated with moderate exercise, and they would spike during particularly intense moments. Ian Walker loves fighting games and writing about them. You…