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Currency Screw-Up Leaves Australians Unable To Buy Some Steam Games
Steam made the move from US currency to the local dollarydoo in Australia today, and all publishers had to do to ensure a smooth transition was tick a box saying they now supported the Australian dollar. Loads of them, including Microsoft and Konami, forgot. As Kotaku Australia have catalogued, plenty of big games on Steam…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 20, 2018 -
Amazon Japan Is Selling A Box With 63 Amiibo In It
And to think, it used to be hard to get your hands on some of these With the release of Smash Ultimate coming up, Amazon Japan has decided to round up every Amiibo available for characters in the game and put them all in the one box. Then throw in a poster as well The…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 20, 2018 -
Guy Is Role-Playing As Preston Garvey In Fallout 76
Things have been a little grim for Fallout 76 since (and even before) launch, so some fans are trying to make their own fun with the game. Like RpTheHotrod, who is running around the wastelands of West Virginia pretending to be Fallout 4’s Preston Garvey, defender of Settlements. It’s achieved by combining “several audio clips…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 20, 2018 -
New Card Game Keyforge’s Decks Contain “Unfortunate” Words
Keyforge is a big new card game where every $40 starter set contains randomised cards, meaning no two players will have the same experience. Publishers Fantasy Flight say this results in “104 septillion possible deck combinations”, which might explain why some of the first batch contained some words they maybe shouldn’t have. See, the reason…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 20, 2018 -
One EVE Online Player Is Dominating Its New PvP Mode
EVE Online’s new “Abyssal Deadspace” areas let players engage in true one-on-one combat for big rewards. Just pray you don’t run into BoRn2ReIgN. Abyssal Deadspace pockets, introduced in the latest EVE expansion Onslaught, are a new way for players to engage in high-stakes combat. At the end of the hazard-filled Abyssal Deadspace pockets, new stargates…
By Lee Yancy Published November 20, 2018 -
Hearthstone‘s Most Entertaining Card Turns Every Game Into Chaos
Hearthstone games rarely go according to plan. Sometimes you draw the wrong cards and have to make the most of the situation. Sometimes your opponent discards your most important combo piece and you have to find a new way to win the game. Once you play the game enough, you start to get familiar with…
By Joshua Calixto Published November 20, 2018 -
Punk Shows Off By Winning Street Fighter V Tournament With His Opponent’s Character
Red Bull Conquest wrapped up its team-based fighting game competition in Washington, D.C., this past weekend, bringing Street Fighter V, Tekken 7, and Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 competitors together to decide which American city is the strongest. Victor “Punk” Woodley, who famously placed second at Evo 2017, ending up winning the Street Fighter V…
By Ian Walker Published November 20, 2018 -
Ubisoft announced in a blog post today that it will be “reverting all aesthetic changes” to Rainbow 6 Siege’s Year 3, Season 4 update. The company previously planned to remove references to sex, gambling, and violence from the game in preparation for its “expansion into Asian territories.” We’ve updated our original story accordingly.
By Riley MacLeod Published November 20, 2018 -
Gathering Storm Expansion Brings Climate Change To Civilization VI February 14
After spending the past day or so teasing fans witha stream that eventually resolved into a countdown clock, Sid Meier appeared on the Civilization YouTube channel to announce Civilization VI: Gathering Storm, a second expansion coming to PC on February 14, adding forces of nature to the popular strategy game. The Gathering Storm expansion adds…
By Mike Fahey Published November 20, 2018 -
Dota 2‘s massive 7.20 update recently went live, completely changing the game yet again. The map has been reworked with new paths, there’s a dedicated item spot for Town Portal Scrolls, and a ton of heroes have had abilities reworked or changed altogether. Meanwhile, the Dota 2 card game Artifact releases next week.
By Ethan Gach Published November 20, 2018 -
Enter The Gungeon’s planned paid expansion has been canceled. The developers at Dodge Roll announced the news on Reddit, explaining that they’d been working on the game for five years now and needed to move on. Instead, it’ll get a smaller, free final update adding new items, features, and bug fixes.
By Ethan Gach Published November 20, 2018 -
How To Find Fallout 76‘s Mothman
Fallout 76‘s post-apocalyptic West Virginia is a mean place with few friends. Instead of getting your face chewed off by snallyghasters, why not spend time with the adorable Mothman? I’ll show you how in this video. The Mothman can be randomly found throughout the game world, but the chance of an encounter is low. Instead,…
By Heather Alexandra Published November 20, 2018 -
14 Years Later, Half-Life’s Remake Is Almost Finished
I reviewed Half-Life remake Black Mesa—which began development in 2004—six years ago. It was great, but it was also missing something: the game’s final act, set on the alien world of Xen. That’ll be out next year, and if you’re wondering why it’s taken so long, it’s because the section has been almost completely remade.…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 19, 2018 -
A Sexy Cyberpunk Dating Sim About (And By) Trans Folk
I have played too many games that treat trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming characters as sexual objects. These games portray the lives and identities of marginalized, real-world people as little more than titillation for the (assumed cisgender) player. Hardcoded is not that game. It is a story about dating trans people, written by trans people.…
By Kate Gray Published November 19, 2018 -
The New Spyro Doesn’t Have Subtitles In Its Cutscenes, Which Is Crazy
While it has them during gameplay, the new Spyro Reignited Trilogy doesn’t have subtitles during its cutscenes. So anyone who is hearing impaired, or just likes to play with the sound down/off and wants to enjoy the game’s story, is shit out of luck. This is very much not normal, which is why what might…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 19, 2018 -
A Bioware Animator Has Made An Awesome Short Film
EA’s Dante’s Inferno, released back in 2010, is a game you probably haven’t thought about in almost a decade. But animator Tal Peleg is out here doing superfan work, bringing the series back with a professionally made short film. Peleg—currently at Bioware, formerly of Naughty Dog, and creator of the Joel x Banderas gif—has been…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 19, 2018 -
Fallout 76 Players Are Looking For Secrets Off The Game’s Beaten Path
There’s a place in the Western part of Fallout 76’s Appalachia where the cargo drones like to gather. If you stand outside the Mothman Museum you can see them just overhead, hovering in the sky overtop an unreachable portion of the map. Sometimes it’s just a handful; other times it can be over a dozen,…
By Ethan Gach Published November 19, 2018