Twittering Birds Never Fly is Engrossing Gay Yakuza Melodrama

Among its many horrors, there was one small silver lining to this year: the transition to digital screenings of new films meant that film fans outside of a small cluster of major cities finally had the opportunity to watch limited run and festival films. This was true in the world…

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Every Explanation for Cyberpunk 2077’s Bisexual Erasure Fucking Sucks

The following will contain spoilers for Cyberpunk 2077. It’s been about a month since Cyberpunk 2077 launched, and while it was a largely negative experience for me (and time has not been kind to it for a lot of people), I had a weird moment last week where I was…

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Mass Effect: Legendary Edition Store Listings Leak March Release Date

Well it looks like we won’t need any more video games in 2021 after March. A couple retailers seem to have put the official Mass Effect: Legendary Edition release date on their store listings, with each saying the remastered collection of Bioware’s science fiction RPGs will launch on PC, PlayStation…

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Every Destiny 2 Weapon & Armor Piece Getting Sunset for Season 13

Destiny 2: Beyond Light is finally here after months and months of waiting. Acting as the next major chapter in this FPS/RPG hybrid, players will embark on a journey to Europa to battle against a Fallen leader called Eramis and learn more about the true nature of the Darkness. This…

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CW Breaks My Heart by Passing on Green Arrow and the Canaries Series

It sounds like DC’s television universe (known colloquially as the “Arrowverse”) has lost one of its upcoming series, as Green Arrow and the Canaries, the sequel/spin-off to Arrow, won’t be moving forward at the CW. News of this comes from a report from Variety over the weekend, which says plans for…

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The Hobbyists Making the Hottest New Virtual Boy and Atari Jaguar Games

You probably haven’t played Hamburgers En Route To Switzerland. Described as R-Type if R-Type starred a flying burger, the solo indie production ranks among 2020’s most obscure games. And that’s largely because it was released for the Virtual Boy. Nintendo’s infamous flop console receives a trickle of homebrew titles every year,…

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Twitch Is Introducing a New PogChamp Emote Every 24 Hours in 2021

Earlier this week, Twitch pulled the PogChamp emote, one of its oldest and most popular emotes, from its platform. “We’ve made the decision to remove the PogChamp emote following statements from the face of the emote encouraging further violence after what took place in the Capitol today,” tweeted Twitch on…

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The Best Sting Is the Sting Who Doesn’t Wrestle

On December 2, the man called Sting debuted in AEW. I’m not a frequent reader of dirt sheets, so I don’t know how much of a surprise it was, but it certainly shocked me—five years after retiring due to an injury sustained in a match against Seth Rollins, now at…

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Epic Games Acquires Company Behind PlayStation 5 Data Compression Tech

Epic Games has acquired RAD Game Tools, the video game software development company behind Oodle. Oodle Texture is a compression technology that Sony has licensed for the PlayStation 5 which charges the console’s Input/Output (IO) system. As a result of being optimized for compressing GPU textures, Oodle Texture is a…

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Everyone Is Already Pretending Cyberpunk 2077 Never Happened

Cyberpunk 2077 isn’t the game many people wanted. In many other ways, however, it’s the game we deserve. Beyond the most obvious reasons why it exists (one rhymes with “honey”), an enormous questions remains: Why now? Why this particular retro-flavored amalgamation of grand theft cyberpunk? We’re talking about an endeavour that took nearly a decade of development…

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Cyberpunk 2077 Sparks Confusion on Kerry Eurodyne’s Sexuality and Romance

Cyberpunk 2077 has caused confusion related to one of its queer romance options: an ostensibly gay man named Kerry Eurodyne. Except that’s not quite the case in the Cyberpunk universe. Kerry is only available as a romance option for male-presenting V in Cyberpunk 2077 and is portrayed as a gay…

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Dying Light 2 Art Director and Writer Leaves Techland After 22 Years

Pawel Selinger, the Art Director of Dying Light 2, has left developer Techland after 22 years. He was also a writer on the game. He made the announcement on LinkedIn earlier this week, where he wrote: After over twenty-two years, I decided to end my cooperation with Techland. I would…

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