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Garrus Vakarian, I Am Free For Dinner On Thursday

3 years 1 month ago

The Mass Effect Legendary Edition is a month away. Today, BioWare put out a new video and developer blog detailing the process that went into graphically updating the Mass Effect trilogy. Weeding through all the technical information, I have come away with an important conclusion: Somehow, some way, BioWare has made…

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Ash Parrish

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Army of the Dead Is Zack Snyder's Full Vision, in More Ways Than One

3 years 1 month ago

No need for hashtags this time. When Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead is released by Netflix on May 21, it will be his “Snyder Cut” and SnyderVerse, all rolled into one. “This is the movie,” Snyder said during a virtual press event Tuesday. “There are no other cuts of the movie. I didn’t have to fight [Netflix]. It was…

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Germain Lussier on io9, shared by Riley MacLeod to Kotaku

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Even Outriders Has Flat-Earthers

3 years 1 month ago

Outriders is set on an exoplanet roughly a dozen light years away from Earth, so it’s no surprise the game features some anomalies, like electromagnetic hurricanes and tank-sized, fire-spitting arachnids. But perhaps the strangest entity in People Can Fly’s loot-shooter is also a familiar one: human beings who believe…

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Ari Notis

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Care Has Always Been Infrastructure

3 years 1 month ago

The emerging debate over whether care is infrastructure isn’t new or surprising. The question “what is infrastructure?” was triggered by President Biden’s announcement that the American Jobs Plan includes a $400 billion investment to expand Medicaid coverage of home and community-based services for people with…

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Ai-Jen Poo on Jezebel, shared by Riley MacLeod to Kotaku

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For the 25th anniversary of "Steamed Hams," its creators answer the one question they've never been asked about the segment

3 years 1 month ago

It certainly isn’t “unpossible” to uncover a new reference or new meaning in a classic episode of The Simpsons, even one as pored over as “22 Short Films About Springfield.” But as former Simpsons writers and executive producers Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein tell The A.V. Club ahead of that episode’s 25th…

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Danette Chavez on TV Club, shared by Riley MacLeod to Kotaku

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Why Did No One Tell Me About Maneater?

3 years 1 month ago

There are backlogs, and there are theoretical backlogs. Those games you never bought, but heard about, thought about getting, and then never did for whatever reason. I’m finding this fallow period for big game releases an excellent opportunity to reach into that pile of potential purchases, and grab something I…

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John Walker

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Kinesis’ TKO Is My New Favorite Compact Keyboard

3 years 1 month ago

Kinesis Gaming’s new 60 percent keyboard is a lot more than just small and portable. The TKO Tournament keyboard’s got hot-swappable switches, an optional triple-split spacebar, and the ability to tilt up either side for maximum ergonomic comfort. It’s more than I knew I needed in a tiny keyboard.

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Mike Fahey

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First PS5 Update Introduces Loads Of New Stuff

3 years 1 month ago

The first major update for the PlayStation 5 console is due to land on Wednesday, April 14, and among the additions and improvements to the console are the ability to keep games on USB storage, new social features, and changes to the PlayStation app.

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Luke Plunkett

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Same. Exact. Energy.

3 years 1 month ago

The time had finally come for me to check out id Software’s unapologetic 2011 Mad Max ripoff Rage, and true to its reputation, I spent the first couple hours just trying to get it to run smoothly like a game built on a normal engine. Megatextures, am I right? But I succeeded, and promptly ran into the game’s first…

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Alexandra Hall

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