Mario’s tall and cowardly brother is back, in Lego form. To celebrate the news, we took this new, blocky Luigi and took him on some new adventures.
Welcome back to another fine installment of Snapshots! This week we got some pretty photos from various Spider-Men games, some tasteful black and white images, and more great stuff.
Hello, everyone. Welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight. I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to your host as we look at another wonderful edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! It's hard to think, but we have officially started a new month! Video games are starting to come out even though we are slowly but surely transitioning into the season of Summer. People seem to be enjoying Returnal and New Pokémon Snap, and if you are one of them don't forget to share how you feel about the games on the site! Otherwise, it was another quiet week on the site with most people still enamored by Jeff perusing the many items in his garage. With that in mind, let's jump into the site-related housekeeping.
Life is a series of decisions. For example, where would you put this Kyojuro Rengoku figure?
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For those who missed the chance to order these two when they first came out, they will be available again for a limited time.
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I played a lot of Valorant in the two weeks after its release and enjoyed myself immensely. Then I got yelled at by a teammate and never played the game again.
Now Riot say they're going to start recording in-game voice comms so they can analyse it and "take action against players who use voice comms to harass others, use hate speech, or otherwise disrupt your experience." They also acknowledge that this will pose a privacy concern for some, but that "if you prefer to not have your voice chat captured, you may turn off voice chat."
Tenet finally hits HBO Max, plus what’s on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Hulu
Konami gave fans some good and bad news about E3 2021.
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Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada had Takahashi Meijin as a guest on his weekly talk show.
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On New Year's Day 2020 I attended a protest march. My friend, a Croatian journalist covering the technology beat for The South China Morning Post, and I, a visitor passing through, left her apartment around noon. Following a fortifying meal of phở we joined the thousands thronging the streets of Wanchai, on the central island of Hong Kong.
Many of the protestors were dressed in black. It was even a family affair for some, with three generations turning up for the march. In Cantonese they chanted, "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our era!" It was a chorus sung by all, but most vocally by the young. They were creative: on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day hundreds had occupied malls and shopping areas, with many wearing reindeer antlers. In November, university campuses had transformed into fortresses with the student protestors using tables and umbrellas as bulwarks.
The protests also spilled over, expansively, into the digital realm.
Saints Row The Third Remastered hits Steam on 22nd May.
Confirmation comes from the official Saints Row Twitter account.
The Saints Row The Third remaster came out in May 2020 on console and PC via the Epic Games Store. Now Epic's standard one year of PC exclusivity is up, Volition's game can hit Steam.
Sundays are for getting those all-important squash to water ratios just right. Before you turn on the tap, let's read this week's best writing about games.
UPDATE: Microsoft has said it will not change its revenue share from Xbox game sales, after an internal document suggested it had planned to do just that.
In a statement issued to The Verge, Microsoft said: "We will not be updating the revenue split for console publishers."
It looks like Microsoft had a change of heart from just a few months ago, when the internal document was put together. More on that in the story below.
Six blurry seconds of Elden Ring have leaked on the internet.
VGC reports the short clip emerged from 4Chan, before ending up all over social media.
The clip, which ResetEra is currently hosting, features the same Bandai Namco internal watermark seen in the footage that leaked in March.
What would you from Siliconera in the future? More written news stories, features, interviews, and reviews? Want videos? Let us know.
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The Resident Evil Village demo is now live across all platforms.
The demo is available to play on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X and S, Xbox One, Steam and Stadia.
This demo was originally supposed to be available for just 24 hours, but Capcom extended it to last until the end of the week.
Returnal’s Metroid influences run deep, even into Selene’s movement speed
As a sheltered and awkward child growing up, I really have to hand it to my childhood friend Tristan. Our friendship was always tricky (he was my best friend, but I wasn’t his), but growing up, he helped me come out of my shell. He also introduced me to so many of the things I love today, like ham and cheese Hot Pockets, orange soda, potato chips on sandwiches, Super Smash Bros., and a giant beast known as Godzilla.
My first exposure to that radioactive lizard was over at his house, watching Godzilla 1985. The American cut, not the superior, Raymond Burr-less The Return of Godzilla on which it’s based. We didn’t know any better at the time. We just saw a giant lizard stomping shit, and it was the coolest thing ever. There would be many weekend sleepovers with VHS-dubs of all the classics, watching Godzilla fight everybody from the Thing to the Smog Monster to Mechagodzilla.
Zero and Mikhail will appear as recruitable characters for a limited time.
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According to internal documents filed in the ongoing Epic Games vs Apple case, Microsoft has plans to reduce its cut on digital downloads on the Xbox console store from 30% to 12%.
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.
Shirley Curry, better known as the Skyrim Grandma, is now available as a follower in Skyrim via a mod.
Curry is available as a follower via the Shirley - A Skyrim Follower mod, which is now available to download from Nexus Mods for Skyrim Special Edition and Skyrim VR, and from Bethesda.net for PC and Xbox.
"She'll join you on your adventures, but don't expect her to simply carry your burdens!" reads the official blurb.
Can you resist her adorable face and pose?
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New Pokémon Snap is out! That means my Twitter feed is currently filled with cute Pokémon photos. It’s honestly a nice change of pace. But let’s have some fun with these Pokemon photos!
Cblogs of 4/24 to 4/30/2021
-Lord Spencer reviews Klonoa: Door to Phantomile as part of his PS1 REVIEWS blogging series.
-Solidsnape writes about how Battlefield 4 still holds the flag of the franchise.
-Solidsnape shares their thoughts on Scavengers Early Access gameplay.
-Kerrik52 celebrates finishing their Tales series retrospective blogs and takes a well-earned break.
Previously, Konami confirmed that it has "a number of key projects" in the works to share with fans, but the company has opted to join EA, Sony, and more in the decision to skip out on E3 2021. Following the confirmation of another company missing from the now-digital showcase (due to COVID-19), the ESA has issued its own statement.
"Due to timing, we will not be ready to present at E3 this year," reads the initial statement from Konami. "We want to reassure our fans that we are in deep development on a number of key projects, so please stay tuned for some updates in the coming months. While we are not participating this year, we have great respect for the ESA and we know that 2021 will be a great success. We will continue to support the ESA and wish the best to all participant's in this year's show."
So wait, it has dungeons AND puzzles?
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Kaiyodo's new figure comes with multiple pieces to swap out.
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Resident Evil Village has a demo, but it’s been a stupid mess, with limited windows to play it and early access on only Playstation. But yesterday the time-limited demo went live on all platforms, including PC. Naturally, PC players quickly figured out a way to bypass the one-hour timer and play for as long as they…
A couple of weeks ago, I cold-called Kerri Ann Hoskins, famous for her roles in Mortal Kombat 3 and Aerosmith's Revolution X, to see if she wanted to do an interview for one of my podcasts. A week or so later, she said "Sure." She didn't even ask what it was for! That "who gives a f*ck let's just do it" attitude is a big part of who she is, and I am so grateful for it.
In just under 25 minutes, she gave an amazing overview of some of the highs and lows of her life and career. I had planned to chat with her for 5 minutes about whether she wanted to play Sonya again and a couple of other light topics, but then a half-hour later, she was still talking about growing up with a step-father with wartime PTSD, the mesh implanted in her bellybutton, being pregnant with twins while playing the pinup girl villain in the Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero, and a lot of other parts of her life that make Sonya's struggles in the games look lightweight in comparison. In fact, while we were talking, you may see her check her phone a few times to check to see if her twins had contracted COVID-19. I was amazed that she was willing to take the time to talk to me in the midst of this potential crisis, but as I soon discovered, pushing through difficult times has been her way of life for as long as she can remember.
The director also asked fans to wait a little longer for the preregistration announcement.
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This week get ready to creep around scary, dilapidated houses searching for green herb and bullets, because Resident Evil Village is out on May 7 for basically every platform.
Resident Evil: True Director’s Cut is a patch made by Deli295 for Capcom’s original horror classic that wants to be the most comprehensive version of the game available, adding in a bunch of stuff from earlier Japanese releases that for whatever reason we never got in Western editions.
New information confirms no loot boxes, new gameplay features, and a loose release window.
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