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Culture‘Free’ Gears 5 Expansion Highlights Growing Divide For Game Pass Subscribers
Gears 5 is getting a new campaign expansion next week. It’ll be available at no extra cost for members of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, a $15-monthly subscription. Everyone else will have to pay up. It’s just one more perk suggesting a growing gulf between the entry-level and premium tiers of Microsoft’s games-on-demand service. The new…
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CultureA Lot Happened In Destiny Today
New content, upgrades for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, and new information about long-awaited features coming in future seasons: Destiny 2 had a big day today, so let’s break it all down. First, the big one: Destiny 2: Beyond Light has now been optimized for next-gen consoles. I’ve played dozens of hours of Destiny 2…
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CultureOdds and EndsIt’s Super Easy To Make Kanye West In Demon’s Souls
Unlike the original Demon’s Souls, the PlayStation 5 remake includes a fairly robust character creation system. While I was mostly content to make a generic, purple-skinned lady for my first playthrough, folks have been able to craft some interesting characters. Someone also figured out how to make a decent Kanye West, if you want to…
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CulturePrince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time Remake Pushed Back To March 18
The upcoming Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake won’t be able to make its original January 2021 release window, developer Ubisoft announced today. It will now arrive on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on March 18, 2021. “2020 has been a year like no other,” Ubisoft’s official statement reads. “We believe this…
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CultureReport: Cyberpunk 2077 Causes Seizure, Doesn’t Contain Prominent Warning [Update]
Game Informer associate editor Liana Ruppert reported yesterday that she suffered a grand mal seizure while playing a review copy of Cyberpunk 2077, due to the game’s use of various flashing visual effects. She wrote an articlefor the site advising players on how to avoid similar experiences, which in some rare instances can be life…
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CultureSquare Enix’s Project Athia Is Console Exclusive On PS5 For ‘At Least 24 Months’
Project Athia, the next game from the team behind Final Fantasy XV, will be console-exclusive to the PlayStation 5 for “at least 24 months,” a new Sony demo reel of upcoming games revealed. Little is known about Project Athia (apparently a working title) apart from it being some sort of fantastical action game from Square…
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CultureCall Of Duty: Warzone Players Are Hunting Glitchers Who Spawn Unlimited Juggernauts
The massive armored suit upgrades known as juggernauts are proliferating in Call of Duty: Warzone thanks to a new glitch, leading some skilled players to go out of their way to hunt down opponents who are using them. The glitch to spawn duplicate juggernauts is straightforward to attempt but can be difficult to pull off.…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryWoW’s Revendreth Makes Me Question If Bad People Deserve To Go To Hell
I really didn’t want to have to think about my country’s carceral state while playing a video game and yet, while strolling through Revendreth, learning about its vampiric venthyr denizens and where they fit into the bureaucracy of Death that is the Shadowlands, my mind couldn’t help but make the connections. Revendreth is a miserable…
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CultureQuick Resume Is Working For More Xbox Series X Games
Microsoft is slowly starting to roll out more Quick Resume support on Xbox Series X|S again, after it took the supposedly signature next-gen feature offline for some games right before the console’s launch last month. This is according to Xbox director of program management Jason Ronald. “As launch games were coming in, we identified some…
By Ian Walker
