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Pokemon Legends: Arceus Can’t Be The Next Breath of the Wild, But That’s OK

Posted: 19 Aug 2021 10:00 AM PDT

Sure—Pokémon Legends: Arceus looks like Breath of the Wild—this isn't a controversial take, but what does that actually mean?

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RuneScape Composer Jailed For Sexual Assault Of Preteen Girl

Posted: 19 Aug 2021 09:45 AM PDT

Ian Taylor, the composer behind much of the music for free-to-play MMO RuneScape, was sentenced today by the Peterborough Crown Court in England to 22 months in prison after admitting to drunkenly assaulting a girl under the age of 13 last December.

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Twitch Viewers Control Streamer’s Life, Sims Style

Posted: 19 Aug 2021 09:30 AM PDT

Twitch's Jerma has elevated stunt streams and practical jokes into high internet art, and his latest project is shaping up to be one of his wildest yet. Yesterday, the popular streamer performed a real-life version of The Sims with viewers controlling his every move. The nearly-three hour stream hit all the high…

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ScummVM Is Bringing CD-ROM Games Back

Posted: 19 Aug 2021 08:45 AM PDT

ScummVM, the collection of recreated last-century game engines that allows replaying classic adventures from the likes of LucasArts and Revolution, has just added support for Macromedia Director. This opens the door for the return of previously unplayable '90s CD-ROM games, starting with the legendary Spaceship Warlock

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Frostpunk 2 Is Already Getting Hit By ‘Scammer,’ Says Dev

Posted: 19 Aug 2021 08:20 AM PDT

The first piece of promotional art for Frostpunk 2, a survival city-builder game announced last week, shows a shirtless man kneeling in the snow, the word "liar" painted in black tar across his chest. This week, Frostpunk 2's developers said that some sort of sketchy situation regarding pre-orders for the game popped…

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Street Fighter Pros Apologize For Trolling Streamers

Posted: 19 Aug 2021 07:00 AM PDT

Kawano is one of Japan's top Street Fighter V players. He recently took first place in Evo 2021 Online East Asia and won the Topanga Championship 3. But his actions online earlier this summer have recently come under greater scrutiny.

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Turmoil For Japanese Anime Power Couple

Posted: 19 Aug 2021 05:45 AM PDT

Voice actor Tatsuhisa Suzuki and his popstar wife LiSA are an anime power couple. But earlier this month—following revelations about Suzuki's alleged extra-marital activities—they suddenly announced they were taking a break from the entertainment industry.

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Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut's Iki Island Expansion Is Just Fine

Posted: 19 Aug 2021 05:00 AM PDT

Of all the features announced for the PlayStation 5 version of Ghost of Tsushima's new director's cut—bullet points like "DualSense wireless controller haptic feedback" and "dynamic 4K resolution targeting 60 fps"—the one that most caught my attention was "lip sync for Japanese voiceover."

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Humankind’s Animations Are Too Damn Slow

Posted: 18 Aug 2021 08:20 PM PDT

Humankind has lots of fun, interesting ideas to refresh the 4X genre. But some of those ideas can be hard to appreciate when you're stuck on the menu screen waiting for your goddamn units to get a move on.

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Time For An Upgrade

Posted: 18 Aug 2021 06:35 PM PDT

Brad Myers is an artist with Call of Duty studio Sledgehammer Games.

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Yes, Skyrim's Foxes Do Lead You To Treasure, Sort Of

Posted: 18 Aug 2021 05:30 PM PDT

Ever since The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was released almost a decade ago, fans have been quietly suspecting that foxes lead you to treasure, without ever knowing it for sure. Well now we do, thanks to some insight provided by a former developer.

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'Stolen' Game Aeon Must Die Returns, Despite Unresolved Allegations Of Abuse And Corruption

Posted: 18 Aug 2021 04:30 PM PDT

Last year the game Aeon Must Die, highlighted during a PlayStation showcase, disappeared after a group of former developers accused Estonian studio Limestone Games of "unbearable work conditions with endless crunch, harassment, abuse, corruption, and manipulation."

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Suda51 Has Ideas For No More Heroes 4, But The Series’ Future Isn’t Up To Him

Posted: 18 Aug 2021 02:00 PM PDT

It shouldn't come as much of a surprise, but eccentric No More Heroes creator Goichi "Suda51" Suda has already put some thought into what a potential No More Heroes 4 might look like ahead of the third entry's release next week. Sadly, the future of the franchise isn't entirely in his hands, even as CEO of No More

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Black Panther: War For Wakanda Is The Best Marvel’s Avengers DLC

Posted: 18 Aug 2021 01:15 PM PDT

My least-favorite moment in the story portion of the free Black Panther: War for Wakanda expansion for Marvel's Avengers is when the rest of the Avengers show up. Until then it's the T'Challa and Shuri show, and it's perfect.

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Epic Store Adds Self-Publishing, And There’s Still A Loophole For Porn

Posted: 18 Aug 2021 12:15 PM PDT

Today Epic Games announced its own self-publishing program which enters closed beta. The program will allow developers to publish games on the Epic Store without the assistance of Epic employees so long as it meets several requirements, such as not being porn.

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Yakuza's Kiryu Joins The Growing Super Monkey Ball Cinematic Universe

Posted: 18 Aug 2021 11:45 AM PDT

Move over, Jet Set Radio's Beat, you've been usurped as the coolest guest character in Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania. Sega announced this morning that Kazuma Kiryu, the principled protagonist of the Yakuza series, will also be playable in the upcoming game.

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Why Halo Infinite’s Bots Act So Much Like People

Posted: 18 Aug 2021 11:20 AM PDT

Last month, developer 343 Industries hosted a beta—fine, a "technical test"—for Halo Infinite's competitive multiplayer mode. Those selected for participation were given a chance to test-drive one shaky server, three maps, and about a dozen-odd weapons for the long-anticipated first-person shooter, plus a brand-new…

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