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The cellist, Tina Guo, is best known for her work the soundtrack for the recent Wonder Woman film, released a new video showcasing her take on the God of War theme, complete with matching cosplay.

This isn’t the first time Guo has tackled video game music. You can follow the links for her takes on the Skyrim soundtrack, a whole bunch of Zelda music, and a whole bunch of Pokémon music.

[Source: Tina Guo on YouTube]

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Starting in 2013, Game Freak figured out it would probably be a good idea to start putting all of its Pokémon game soundtracks on iTunes. It must be working out pretty well for the developer, because it has generally been keeping up and releasing each of their games’ accompanying soundtracks online. Thankfully, Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee are no exception.

You can grab the soundtrack here for $9.99. For our review of Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee, head here where Brian Shea said, “Town and battle themes have been reworked and sound great.”

[Source: iTunes, via ResetEra]

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Al Lowe, the creator of the Leisure Suit Larry games as well as a number of other classic Sierra titles, is selling some of his source code for classic Sierra projects on eBay. In an interview with YouTuber MetalJesusRocks Lowe said, “I’m 72 years old, and none of my kids want this junk! Does anybody?”

You can check out all the eBay offerings by heading here. Some highlights include the source code for Leisure Suit Larry currently going for $7,600 and the source code for Leisure Suit Larry 2 going for over $7,800 at the time of this posting.

You can check out more about the whole endeavour by watching the video below where he says, “I backed everything up because I knew Sierra didn’t.”

It’s worth noting that Lowe says he hasn’t tested any of the discs recently, and that owning the source code obviously doesn’t mean you own the intellectual rights to the games, but it is an interesting piece of video game history.

[Via: Ars Technica]

Our Take
This belongs in a museum! But I am glad Lowe is willing to part with it. I just hope that’s where it all lands – a museum.

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There’s been a lot of news surrounding Bethesda’s new multiplayer Fallout game lately, most of it bad. Between rumors of a class-action lawsuit and accusations of false advertising, the publisher has had its hands full dealing with fan response. A new story about the people in the game, however, is one of the more disturbing things to come out from the game.

(Warning: The following story does its best to avoid using strong language, but it is unavoidable in some instances. Content warning for homophobic slurs.)

A Fallout 76 player named AJ tweeted out a video last night tagging Bethesda support showing harassment they received by players. In the video, AJ is confronted by a group of other players lead by a user named NathanTheHicc. Nathan’s beef, judging from his voice chat comments, is that he was there to kill AJ because he’s gay.

The voice chat in Fallout 76 is meant to work via proximity. That is, voice chat is always on if someone is talking, and you hear it if you’re close enough to them. When NathanTheHicc met with AJ and his friends earlier to ask for a Disease Cure item, one of AJ’s friends commented that Nathan’s outfit or character was cute. After an aggressively homophobic remark, Nathan disappeared. He reappeared later with friends, calling themselves “The Gay Eliminators,” to kill AJ.

Player Vs. Player, or PVP, in the game is also a little strange compared to most games of its ilk. After a certain level, players can opt into PVP using a toggle in the options, but the screen warns that players who opt out can still be killed by other players. If you opt out of PVP, it simply means that an attacker does minimal damage to you, meaning anyone intentionally trying to kill you would have to sit there and try for a while. Presumably, this method is to discourage grouping in big area-of-effect attacks while not letting players be killed if they don’t want to be.

This did not seem to deter NathanTheHicc, who encircled AJ with his group and proceeded to yell homophobic slurs and insults over the voice chat while doing infinitesimal damage. AJ figured they would eventually just get bored and leave, but they stuck around until AJ’s character was killed, prompting him to change servers.

Because there is no in-game report function, AJ took to Twitter with a recording of the incident. Bethesda’s Twitter account replied, sending him to a web-based report site, but the site didn’t work. In order to file a report, you need to upload video evidence, which AJ had. The problem is the site didn’t accept any video files.

“The tweet was forwarded to some community managers for the game and they were very kind and helpful,” AJ told Eurogamer. “We were given a link to report the players but had issues with it. The site asked for a video file of the incident but the accepted file types weren’t video files. So we couldn’t send one. For me, the page would not even load. It seems very difficult to report players.”

NathanTheHicc also uploaded video of the interaction to his YouTube channel and titled the video “Cleansing of the queers.”

When Eurogamer contacted Nathan, the apparent high school senior was more or less unrepentant. “My version of the incident is more or less the same as the public has taken it, the only differences being the fact that I don’t hate gay people. It was just a late night of having fun and after the first encounter (seen on my channel) we felt it would be fun to offend them somehow. You can call that evil but I think it’s just playful immaturity. I do not regret the incident. I will not apologize given the opportunity. I don’t plan on doing anything like this in the future but to be fair I didn’t plan the initial incident, I just found them and decided to go through with it.”

Bethesda initially banned him for three days while they investigated, but decided to up the punishment to a lifetime ban soon after, as well as the other players identified in the video.

[Source: Eurogamer]

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We’re getting close to December and a lot of the editors are starting to work out their games of the year list. That means many of us are trying to catch up on Red Dead Redemption II. It looks like the other most popular game this weekend is Pokémon Let’s Go, which seems like the furthest away from Red Dead you could get.

Are you doing anything fun this weekend? Let us know in the comment below!

Javy Gwaltney – I’m traveling this week so in my free time I’m working on becoming the best Pokémon catcher and completing my season journey for my monk character in Diablo 3. Those great rifts are no joke!

Jeff Cork – This weekend, I’m hoping to inch my way closer to Red Dead Redemption II’s credits. Just when I think I’m getting there, something new crops up. But I’m still trying to stay optimistic! Other than that, I’ll probably do some mystery heroes in Overwatch and play a little Let’s Go, Eevee! and see what all the fuss is about.   

Kimberley Wallace (@kstar1785) – For the love of God, I need to finish Red Dead Redemption II. It is my mission. It’s the last game I’m really trying to wrap up for the year. Need to see where it lands on my GOTY list! 

Kyle Hilliard (@KyleMHilliard) – I’ll be covering news a bit this weekend and getting a haircut – two things I haven’t done in a long time. Otherwise I will be checking out some lesser-played games for our end of the year discussions and trying to make some progress in Red Dead Redemption II. That game is super long.

Jill Grodt (@Finruin) – I’ve been getting really into Pokémon Let’s Go and I recently got drawn into Persona 5 again. I don’t know if I’ll get through either, but I’ll give it a good try! I’m also thinking I need to get out and experience some fun Minneapolis things while I have the chance, but it’s so cold outside!

Imran Khan (@imranzomg) – This weekend, I plan to do some GOTY voting cleanup. I’m going to revisit some games I have been pretty sure are on my list and play some stuff I haven’t gotten a chance to touch. I’m also playing Pokémon Let’s Go a lot, which I like more than I thought I would, but I absolutely can’t play docked. I was so excited to sit down and play Pokémon on my TV with a Pro controller and am inconsolable that I can’t. I am also going to watch Wreck-It Ralph 2 this weekend and do my best not to judge it for not being entirely about video games.

Leo Vader (@leovader) – The Ludum Dare game jam starts tonight, so I’m gonna see if I can whip something teeny up for that. If I find time, I’ll be playing more Red Dead Online, which I’m having fun in but also could complain about for hours! HAGS!!

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