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Sunday, Mar 06, 2016

  

The Culling Early Access

The Culling is now available on Steam as an early access game, offering the chance to jump into the not-too-distant future when all entertainment will be some form of blood sport. This post has word that they launched earlier than expected, and offers a list of what's changed, which is odd for an initial public release. Here is word on this Jennifer Lawrence-free experience:

As a contestant in the deadly game of The Culling, you must explore, scavenge items, craft weapons, and build traps that will enable you to slay your fellow contestants and emerge victorious before the end of the round. Only with cunning, skill, and a little luck will you be able to prevail and survive the match.

Unlike add-on modes in open-world survival games, The Culling redefines the battle royale genre by providing a tightly focused stand-alone experience that delivers incredible thrills and endless story-worthy moments.

Steam Top 10

Valve offers the following accounting of the 10 bestselling titles on Steam for last week: This week there are two fewer XCOM 2s than we're used to, but in compensation, we get two Far Cry Primals:

  1. Tom Clancy’s The Division
  2. Stardew Valley
  3. Far Cry Primal
  4. Fallout 4 Season Pass
  5. Far Cry Primal
  6. Rise of the Tomb Raider
  7. Factorio
  8. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
  9. SUPERHOT
  10. The Culling

Sunday Crowdfunding Roundup

  • Stellar Tactics -- Steam Greenlight. "Stellar Tactics combines a classic narrative driven, Party-Based RPG with turn based ground combat, space exploration and a deep character and ship customization system. You will build a team of elite mercenaries and explore a vast universe of over 200,000 systems." Thanks Don.

Gatherings & Competitions

Sunday Previews

Sunday Consolidation

Sunday Mobilization

Sunday Metaverse

Sunday Safety Dance

Sunday Legal Briefs

Hardware Reviews

  • Toshiba EXCERIA M301-EA 128GB microSDXC Card on Mad Shrimps.

etc.

Out of the Blue

Happy National Oreo Day! It's been a long time since I've had an Oreo, but that's not really intentional, and such a prestigious holiday certainly serves as an excuse to rectify this oversight. 15 Interesting Facts About Oreo Cookies has some trivia to celebrate the occasion (thanks Acleacius), and here are a pair of related tidbits from that list: More than 450 billion Oreo cookies have been sold worldwide since their debut, and if all these were stacked, they could reach the moon and back more than five times. Happy dunking!

R.I.P: Email inventor Ray Tomlinson dies at 74. Thanks HARDOCP.

Dunked Links: Thanks Ant and Acleacius.
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