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How’s It Going?: Sharing Edition

It’s a very sunny Tuesday where I live! Welcome back to our daily open thread. I made a cake last night with some ricotta I needed to use up. I’ve been doing a lot of stress baking, and I mostly don’t mind having to eat all of what I make myself. (“Guess I have to…

CD Projekt Red’s Witcher-themed card game Gwent is now on Steam. There’s cross-play with the GOG and mobile versions of the game, and this also means Steam players of the standalone campaign, Thronebreaker, can finally start earning rewards in Gwent for their trouble.

Sony Is Releasing A Last Of Us II PS4 Pro And It’s Extremely Lowkey

Tied to the upcoming release of The Last of Us Part II in June, Sony is releasing a Last of Us-themed PS4 Pro with some special engravings on the top. A lot of times, limited-edition consoles can be over the top. I love Spider-Man, but I don’t necessarily love the idea of having a Spider-Man…

Joyride

Joshua Cotter is an artist who has worked at places like Treyarch. You can see more of Cotter’s stuffat his ArtStation page

Big Soccer Tournament Shelved, Konami Releases DLC For It Anyway

Like the Olympics, this Summer’s Euro 2020—Europe’s big, once-every-four-years football championships—have been moved to 2021. But Konami’s planned adaptation of the tournament is going ahead this year anyway, because why the hell not. It’ll be out on June 4, and comes in the form of a DLC update for Pro Evo 2020, the company’s flawed…

Hellboy‘s Creator Is Drawing Pokémon And I Love Them

Some combinations are no-brainers. Chocolate and peanut butter? Boom, done, delicious. But real magic is when tastes you had never thought of combining, like French fries and milkshakes, come together and surprise you. Earlier today, Hellboy creator Mike Mignola dropped a load of milkshake-covered French fries on our collective plates with his beautiful renditions of…

How The Hell Did We Ever Beat The Lion King As Kids? (We Didn’t)

Having access to a lot of classic games these days means a lot of impromptu trips down memory lane. The games I loved as a kid—and the games I’d forgotten I loved as a kid—are all at my fingertips, begging to be replayed for that jolt of nostalgia-flavored serotonin to the brain. So I’ve been…

Epic Games Store Apparently Offers Partial Refunds If A Game You Bought Goes On Sale

Have you ever bought a game digitally only for it to go on sale just a few days later? Annoying, right? Epic Games Store is reportedly streamlining the process of returning and repurchasing a game—so the buyer can take advantage of a late-breaking discount—with a new automated system, which appears to have been rolled out…

Mileena Joins Mortal Kombat 11, Still Isn’t Playable

Mortal Kombat 11 features an extensive cast of classic and modern characters, but fan favorite Mileena remains a glaring exception. And while she’s finally set to make a brief appearance in the upcoming Aftermath expansion, something tells me her vocal fanbase won’t be satisfied with this small concession. In addition to expanding the Mortal Kombat…

Hackers Take Full Advantage Of GTA Online Going Free

Grand Theft Auto Online on PC has always had a problem with hackers and modders. But the situation has gotten much worse after the game became free on the Epic Games Store last week. It’s been a wild few weeks for GTA Online. The month started off nicely with a fun alien war that players…

Disney Shuts Down Club Penguin Private Servers Due To Hate Speech, Sexual Content

Disney is going after unauthorized Club Penguin private servers, as a BBC investigation found one of the most popular fan-run versions of the kid-friendly social game was filled with racist, homophobic, anti-semetic, and sexual messages. From its launch in October of 2005 to its closure in March of 2017, Disney’s Club Penguin was an online…

The Many Things We’ve Learned About Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

From the moment it was announced, I had a lot of questions about Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. So when I recently spoke to the game’s creative director, Ashraf Ismail, I packed a lot in. I wanted to know about quests, controls, and colonization. I wanted to know about learning lessons from Assassin’s Creed Origins’ artificial intelligence…

After Grinding All Weekend, Destiny 2 Players Find Quest-Breaking Bug [Update]

The latest turn in the ongoing saga around Destiny 2’s Felwinter’s Lie quest is a tragic one, as players encounter a progress-halting bug. Introduced in last week’s reset, “The Lie” is a multi-step quest, the first part of which required players to collectively grind through this season’s Seraph Tower public events on earth, IO, and…

How’s It Going?: Normalcy Edition

It’s Monday—they’re still making those, I guess. Welcome back to our daily open thread. I’ve been rewatching The Leftovers, because people keep talking about doing that on Twitter. I watched it a couple years ago, but it’s a pretty different experience given everything that’s going on in the world. Our current context has made the…

The Week In Games: Get Ready To Jump The Shark

Become a shark and eat anything that gets in your way in Maneater, releasing later this week for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. I’ve written about how there just aren’t enough games that let you play as an animal. One of my favorites came out years ago, back on the PS2. Jaws Unleashed was a…

Track: Try | Artist: Neil Young | Album: Homegrown

It Appears You Have A Bug Problem

Peter Lee is an artist at Blizzard where he’s worked on games like StarCraft II, Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm You can see of Lee’s stuff at his ArtStation page

‘Shop Contest: Tony Hawk

A new Tony Hawk game means a new digital recreation of the world’s most famous skater. Let’s have some fun with this new model. Your challenge this week: Add Mr. Tony Hawk to video games, movies, TV shows, etc. I pre-cut a Tony just for you folks to use how you see fit. I also…

How’s It Going?: Harley Quinn Edition

Welcome back to another wonderful open thread. Come chat with us about…well anything! I’ve tweeted about the animated Harley Quinn show a few times over the last few months, but I seriously love this damn show. The writing is great. The cast is great. All of it is great. The show feels like an adult…

The Blacklist Season 7 Finale Looks Like A PS2 Game

The Blacklist, a TV show on NBC, aired its season 7 finale on Friday night. Due to COVID-19, the final episode wasn’t finished and the production team had to use animation to complete the final episode. The results are both impressive and silly. The episode looks like a forgotten PS2 game. After only four days…