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Mass Effect Legendary Edition Has A Calibration Menu

Posted: 14 May 2021 10:09 AM PDT

Mass Effect Legendary Edition released today, and if you're a long-time fan of the series, you'll find a nice Easter egg before you even start your first campaign.

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Google Says Everything At Stadia Is Fine, As The Water Reaches Their Noses

Posted: 14 May 2021 08:50 AM PDT

The last 12 months or so have been rough times for Google Stadia. Lawsuits, its main first-party development studio shutting down with little warning, issues with indie devs and key folks leaving the company. But according to Google, a company famous for shutting down services, everything is fine. They added a search…

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F*ck, Marry, Kill: Mass Effect Party Member Edition

Posted: 14 May 2021 08:30 AM PDT

It certainly says something about the video game industry that the most anticipated release of the year so far is a remaster of a sci-fi RPG trilogy from a decade ago. Mass Effect has some memorable characters—and a lot of less memorable ones, a fact that many people have fittingly forgotten. On this week's party…

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What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Posted: 14 May 2021 07:30 AM PDT

This weekend is for playing Mass Effect Legendary Edition. That's it. Nothing else may be done or played this weekend. There will be no celebratory vaccine brunches or prolonged afternoon naps. Just an endless parade of dead-eyed Shepards approving messages.

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Resident Evil Village, As Told By Steam Reviews

Posted: 14 May 2021 07:00 AM PDT

There's a lot going on in Resident Evil Village: Big lady. Severed hand. Resident Evil 4 parallels. There are other things that happen too, but if you're a Steam reviewer, those three are very much the main ones.

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Katy Perry And Pikachu Traveling Through Time Singing Songs, As They Do

Posted: 14 May 2021 06:10 AM PDT

Remember way back in January, when I wrote "Katy Perry Teams With Pokémon For Some Sort Of 25th Anniversary Music Thing?" We now have that thing. Check out the video for Perry's new single "Electric," in which the singer and her Pikachu travel back in time to interfere with their unevolved forms.

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‘Console Games Were Not The Future’: Disney After Epic Mickey

Posted: 14 May 2021 06:07 AM PDT

The following is excerpted from Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry, a new book from Blood, Sweat, and Pixels author and former Kotaku press sneak fuck Jason Schreier about studio shutdowns and what happens next.

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93-Year-Old YouTuber Loves Racing Games

Posted: 14 May 2021 04:05 AM PDT

This grandpa loves cars. During the 1960s he was a taxi driver in Tokyo, and drove dump trucks from the 1970s through the 1990s. He's driven loads of classic Japanese domestic models like the Mazda Savanna RX7. The man loves cars. And now, at the age of 93, he's playing racing games.

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Fans Polled Over Which Anime Or Manga Should Be Live-Action And Most Replied "None"

Posted: 14 May 2021 03:30 AM PDT

Yikes! A Japanese poll asked one thousand men and women, ranging in ages from teens to 60s, to name which anime or manga they'd like made live-action, courtesy of Hollywood. The reply that took the number one slot should surprise no one, really.

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The PS2, GameCube, And Game Boy Advance Are All Officially Retro Now, It Seems

Posted: 14 May 2021 03:00 AM PDT

Maybe you already thought they were! To be honest, I'm not sure if I did, but that doesn't really matter. Retro game master Shinya Arino thinks so!

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Another Beautiful Day In The Galactic Empire

Posted: 13 May 2021 06:55 PM PDT

Thom Tenery is an artist who has worked on Star Wars projects like Force Awakens, Rogue One and Solo.

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Sega Remembers It's Sitting On A Bunch Of 'Dormant' Games That Need Reboots

Posted: 13 May 2021 05:00 PM PDT

As part of Sega's latest financial results report, the company had something of a public awakening, realising that after years and sometimes decades spent sitting in the archives, covered in dust, it might be worth bringing back series like Jet Set Radio, Shinobi and Crazy Taxi.

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Skyrim Player Tries To Kill Every Single Living Thing In The Game, Will Die Alone And Remorseful

Posted: 13 May 2021 04:30 PM PDT

No doubt looking for fresh challenges in a game that's been out for nearly ten years, jaeinskyrim recently decided to embark on a quest to...kill every single person and creature in the entire game world of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

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Not Even Mass Effect Legendary Edition Will Compel Me To Make Different Choices

Posted: 13 May 2021 02:00 PM PDT

Vanguard class. Colonist. Sole Survivor. Paragon.

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No, I Won't Ride The Giant Cat In The New Assassin's Creed DLC

Posted: 13 May 2021 01:30 PM PDT

Last year, when Assassin's Creed Valhalla launched, Ubisoft tried to get me to swap my trusty horse for a massive wolf. I firmly declined. Now Ubisoft is back to its old tricks, trying to once again tempt me into riding another ahistorically large version of an otherwise undomesticated animal. This time it's a lynx.…

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Ghostrunner Is Getting A Sequel

Posted: 13 May 2021 12:25 PM PDT

Good news for fans of wall-running and paint-by-numbers cyberpunk themes (so, everyone). Ghostrunner, the first-person cyborg parkour game, is getting a sequel, publisher 505 Games announced today. It'll be called [drum roll] Ghostrunner 2.

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Why The Rain In Returnal Feels So Damn Good

Posted: 13 May 2021 10:42 AM PDT

Returnal, a PS5 game based entirely on Vaas' iconic refrain from Far Cry 3, is an impressive game. But few things are more impressive than its rain, which feels unnervingly real in your hands, a result of the PS5 controller's advanced haptic feedback. Today, in a post on the PlayStation Blog, Housemarque's Gregory…

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