Month: October 2018

Teenagers getting high is still a sensitive subject for video games

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″] [et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Weedcraft Inc. is not a standard Tycoon-style simulation game. Instead of providing one big world in which you can adjust the rules or design a just society, the game will present the player with a series of focused vignettes to play through. Each one will highlight some aspect of “legal” weed sales and business in the United States, and the challenge will be to play through it while navigating the often confusing and contradictory structure of marijuana laws in the United States. But one of the issues the team backed away from ... Read more

Overwatch Update Patch Notes Include Torbjorn Rework And More

Overwatch has kicked off its Halloween Terror 2018 event, and the patch that adds the holiday festivities includes a lot more besides that alone. The full patch notes show changes made to Torbjorn, color blind options, and a lot more. Halloween Terror 2018 is the headliner of the update, but it also includes the major update for Torbjorn that was announced last month. Torb no longer uses armor packs or the scrap system. His secondary ability instead has changed to “Overload,” which works a lot like his previous Ultimate ability. The new Ultimate, called Molten Core, will shoot out pools ... Read more

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: Review, Length, And What You NeedTo Know Before Playing

You may have read a lot about Assassin’s Creed Odyssey leading up to its release on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The new open-world game has finally arrived, and below, we’ve rounded up all of the essential information about the series’ latest entry in one place. We’ll run down many of Odyssey’s broader features and go through the basics of what you should know before jumping in. Everything from story to combat tips are outlined below, along with links to more detailed guides if you wish to dig deeper. Note that there are no major story spoilers in this ... Read more

Epic Games partners with Hachette for Fortnite handbooks, yearbooks, stationery, and more for 2019

  Hachette UK in association with Hachette Book Group, Hachette Illustre, and Group Anaya partners with Epic Games for a Fortnite branded publishing programme. This programme will see stationery, handbooks, yearbooks, and more release in 2019 published by Headline in UK, Hachette Books and Little Brown Books for Young Readers in the US, Hachette Heroes and Hachette Infantil in Spain and by Hachette Jeunesse and Hachette Heroes in France. Alex Clarke, Publishing Director of Wildfire Books UK, who led negotiations on behalf of Hachette commented: “Everyone is talking about Fortnite! We are delighted that Epic Games has chosen to partner ... Read more

‘Star Wars: Knights of Old Republic’ Unreal Engine 4 Fan Mod Shuts Down After Legal Threats

For the last three years, a fan effort to remaster the beloved 2003 video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic with modern graphics and other tweaks has chugged along with nary a word from the franchise’s rights holder. Now the project, called Apeiron, will shut down for good with only tantalizing snippets of gameplay to show for its efforts after Lucasfilm—which was acquired by Disney in 2012—sent a cease-and-desist letter to John Taylor Trotter, the head of the Atlanta-based and volunteer-run indie studio leading the Apeiron project, Poem Studios. “Notwithstanding Poem Studios’ affection and enthusiasm for the Star ... Read more

Did you know there’s a storage box aboard your ship in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey?

Did you know there’s a storage box aboard your ship in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey? Because there totally is, right behind where you normally stand. Goodbye, crappy Ubisoft Club items that I can’t dismantle. (Thanks, Redditor Tirnirnog86, for pointing this out.)

Real Surgeons Play Surgeon Simulator and It Doesn’t Go So Well

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‘Cyberpunk 2077’ and ‘GTA V’ Collide With This Mod

By Liana ‘LiLi’ Ruppert – October 11, 2018 Since we have no actual idea when CD Projekt RED’s highly anticipated RPG Cyberpunk 2077 will be releasing, gamers everywhere have found creative ways to pass the time until we get a release date. From amazing mods, to cosplay, the creativity is real and for those that enjoy the open-world of Grand Theft Auto V – that same creativity benefits you. Keep in mind that this Grand Theft Auto V is not a direct copy and paste of characters, instead it’s simply inspired by the gritty world surrounding Night City and the ... Read more

Ninja Eager to Play ‘Black Ops 4’ After ‘Fortnite’ Frustrations

By Liana ‘LiLi’ Ruppert – October 11, 2018 Tyler “Ninja” Blevins is one of the biggest streamers on the scene right now with Fortnite being his claim to fame. But the popular young streamer has had his fair share of frustrations with the community lately so it should be of no surprise that he has those battle royale eyes set on another price: Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 ‘Blackout’. In the stream at the top of the article you can see Ninja getting frustrated in-game. At first that frustration was birthed from losing a 1v1 match due to a ... Read more

Video Game Heroine of the Month: Kassandra, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

Girl power has come back to Assassin’s Creed once more with a female protagonist in the “real-world” version of the narrative as well as ancient history, as its heroine Kassandra takes the honor of being October’s Video Game Heroine of the Month.  Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, like Assassin’s Creed Syndicate before it, features both a male and female protagonist. In the case of Syndicate, you could opt to play as either Evie or Jacob Frye, both with their own unique traits and personalities. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey opts for a more streamlined concept, offering the characters Alexios and Kassandra, essentially the “male” and ... Read more

Freebies You Can Grab Before Battlefield 5 Arrives

Battlefield V is slated to release on November 20. To help drum up excitement from shooter fans, publisher Electronic Arts is giving away all four Battlefield 1 expansions in October. The first two are available for free between now and October 16. The prices of the other two will presumably drop to zero for the final two weeks of the month. Obviously you can’t take advantage of the freebies without a copy of Battlefield 1, so we’ve looked at all the US retailers and found the best price for the game on each platform. Here are the best deals available ... Read more

The One reason you should learn Python

When you speak with researchers, data scientists, and practitioners who are involved in any capacity with data, you are bound to here one word multiple times in a conversation: Python. It is understandable that the data science world has migrated to the Python programming language, and the shift cannot be more clear. Reported this week by The Economist, Python has officially become the world’s most popular programming language. That’s not all. Languages such as Lisp, which popular sites such as Reddit have switched, indicate a further decline of non-Pythonic languages. Python has built itself to be extremely extensible, with inter-operable ... Read more