The Culling 2 Is a Stunning Flop You Should Probably Avoid
The Culling 2 unexpectedly launched yesterday, but it’s already off to a terrible start. Currently sitting at a measly 13% positive reviews of around 150 total on Steam, it’s one of the worst averages for a follow-up to a well-known game I’ve ever seen. And, frankly, it may deserve it.
The first Culling doesn’t have a sterling review average either, especially after development was officially shut down in December. It currently sits just below 60%, but still managed to gather over 13,000 reviews since its Early Access launch two years ago. It’s still early days for The Culling 2, but it isn’t trending toward even a fraction of that success, and may already be dead in the water.
Realm Royale Early Access Review
Within the confines of the battle royale genre’s defining rules, in which up to 100 players rush to find the best gear and fight to be the last one standing at the center of a shrinking circle, there is a ton of room for variation. Among others, PUBG offers a more realistic and hardcore interpretation while Fortnite cartoonishly lets you build structures instantly and H1Z1 innovated with an exhilarating car combat game mode. Now Realm Royale, one of the latest free-to-play battles royale to hit early access, mixes things up with a fantasy theme and class-based structure with positive results.
What immediately sets Realm Royale apart is that instead of starting everybody with nothing and letting the randomly distributed loot determine who plays what role, here you pick from five classes at the start of a match: Warrior, Engineer, Assassin, Mage, or Hunter. Each has a unique passive buff, two slots for equipping whichever of the four class-specific abilities you come across, an inherent movement ability, and two weapon slots. This totally changes how you have to think about playing – mostly for the better.
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Beyond Episode 550: Our Favorite Games From Every PlayStation Generation
BEYOND! To celebrate Beyond’s latest milestone episode, Jonathon “Never Shuts Up About Kingdom Hearts” Dornbush, Tina “Not a Meanie” Amini, Barrett “Bam Bam” Courtney, and Tom “The Pie Man” Marks look back on their favorite games from every PlayStation home and handheld console.
(We’re not talking necessarily the best here, but the games that defined our memories of those systems.)
In addition to that walk down nostalgia lane, the panel runs down Fortnite’s Season 5 teases and where the mega-hit battle royale game can go from here, Nathan Drake’s surprising amount of luck, the reveal of Darksiders III’s release date and special editions, and who we’d want to see in a God of War Netflix series…even though one isn’t actually in the works.
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Ms. Marvel Co-Creator Takes Over Wonder Woman at DC
DC Comics’ ongoing Wonder Woman series is getting a new creative team, with Ms. Marvel co-creator G. Willow Wilson taking the helm.
Per Newsarama, Wilson and artist Cary Nord are taking over starting with Wonder Woman #58, which will be released on November 14. The storyline will follow Wonder Woman trying to find and save Steve Trevor after his military unit goes missing.
Diana Prince will investigate inside a war-torn Eastern European country and will also run into the God of War, Ares, who Diana will try to redeem.
“I’m delighted to be writing such an iconic character as Wonder Woman and to be working with DC once again,” Wilson said in a statement.
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Fortnite Season 5 Axe Image Hints At History, Again
Fortnite Season 5 is just around the corner, and Epic has been steadily hinting at a historical or time travel theme this time around. Those clues are slowly getting more explicit, and the latest teaser image appears to be at it again–perhaps even showing an upcoming piece of equipment in the process.
The teaser image dropped on Twitter shows a stylized axe similar to Viking and Scandinavian hatchets. We can probably expect to see the axe make an appearance in Fortnite proper, perhaps as part of the Season 5 Battle Pass, which should be full of new cosmetic rewards. The same image appeared in today’s in-game updates menu, with the phrase “Worlds Collide.” That would seem to tie in with everything we’ve seen happening in the past few weeks.
For days, Fortnite has been home to strange time-bending shenanigans. After a missile launch appeared to open rifts in the map, strange historical objects have been phasing into existence. The effect goes both ways, too, as some items that have disappeared from the Fortnite map have popped up in unexpected places in the real world. Or sometimes, llamas. All of that has led to speculation of a time-travel theme for Season 5, which this latest tease seems to imply as well. The objects popping up in-game don’t seem to match the time period, so this all stands to reason.
2 days until Season 5… pic.twitter.com/6mukx8KXLP
— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) July 10, 2018
Fortnite Season 5 is scheduled to begin on Thursday, July 12, at 1 AM PDT / 4 AM EDT / 9 AM BST / 6 PM AET, so you have precious little time left to finish the Season 4 challenges. You can also take that time to finish your fan film for a screening and a bunch of V-Bucks.
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