Atomic Heart is being criticised (via Resetera) for the presence of a racist caricature in one of the old Soviet cartoons that air in the game’s Resident Evil-style save rooms. Those rooms, which serve as a brief respite from the game’s robo-bashing combat, offer players a chance to kick back for a bit and watch old episodes of Nu, Pogodi! (Well, Just You Wait!) a beloved Soviet children’s cartoon that first aired in 1969. But at least one of the episodes featured might be a bit too reminiscent of its era.
Nu, Pogodi! is, in essence, Soviet Tom and Jerry, starring an impeccably-dressed Soviet disco wolf (Volk) as he tries and fails to get his hands on a mischievous hare (Zayats). Atomic Heart is being criticised for a segment in episode 12: “Museum,” from 1978. In a quick flash on…
Read moreAlright, quick show of hands: How many of us have started up approximately 30,000 games of Skyrim determined that—this time for real—you’re not just going to end up maxing out sneak, archery, and annihilating all your enemies from afar? All of us? All of us.
Now, put your hands down if every single one of those attempts eventually ended with you, hunched over in a cave’s dank corner, cackling as you loose dragonbone potshots at your foes for 3x damage? All of us? All of us.
Well no more, my friends, because Skyrim Special Edition’s still-thriving modding scene has delivered us from our own temptations in the form of Stealth Archer Killer, a mod from, uh, SpongeBobHentaiSimulator that offers a simple yet permanent solution to the problem of stealth archer…
Read moreWe’ve suspected AMD’s Granite Ridge family of Zen 5 based processors might show their faces soon, given that AMD has already said it’s aiming for a launch in the second half of this year, and CEO Dr. Lisa Su is set to deliver the Computex keynote on June 3. Now Gigabyte has released a BIOS update for several of its AM5 series of motherboards in anticipation of the new chips, and it seems to confirm that they’ll be called the AMD Ryzen 9000 series.
In a news post on the company website, the Gigabyte AM5 X670, B650 and A620 motherboards are confirmed to receive boot up support for “the coming AMD Ryzen™ 9000 series”, with the most recent AGESA 1.1.7.0 beta BIOS.
While we’ve already seen leaks suggesting this name would be used for the new chips, this is the first o…
Read moreChad Stahelski, stuntman and director of all four John Wick movies, will be taking a break from his Keanu-packed schedule to make a Rainbow Six movie. Called Rainbow, it’ll be based not on any of the recent games, but on the original Tom Clancy novel.
That is the same story the first Rainbow Six game was based on, however, so fans of that 1998 tactical shooter may get a thrill seeing it recreated on the big screen. Michael B Jordan is starring, and it’ll serve as a follow-up to his 2021 film Without Remorse, which was also based on a Tom Clancy novel.
It’ll be Stahelski’s first non-John Wick movie as director, and while bone-crunching action is pretty much guaranteed, I do question what his approach to the story might be. Both the novel and that first game are essentia…
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