A large and popular open-source mapping database used by many companies, apps, and websites is currently dealing with a strange problem: Random, fake beaches are appearing in places like backyards, church parking lots, and golf courses. And the community knows who to blame: Pokémon Go players trying to catch a rare…

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Earlier this week, Riot Games deployed a patch for League of Legends that introduced new anti-cheat software to curb “scripters, botters, and cheaters.” Unfortunately, players reported issues with the popular MOBA following the update, saying that the new anti-cheat program had bricked their PCs. Riot Games has…

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Every now and then, Baro Ki’Teer sells mods in his biweekly rotations that you should get immediately. Other times, he has Warframe mods like Peculiar Audience which makes you wonder what it is. 

We’ll clear up any confusion on the mod if you should use it, or if it’s worth something.

What is Peculiar Audience in Warframe?

Peculiar Audience is a mod that you apply on your Warframe that will “amuse a certain Void entity” when you kill an enemy with a cooldown. The entity referred to in this mod description is Skittergirl, an NPC who you may encounter when taking on missions on the Zariman Ten Zero tileset.

She can be summoned near the classrooms and will start to run away. If you follow her, she oftentimes leads you to a Voidplume or a room with a lot of loot. In other missions, she can become a nuisance, oftentimes during Void Floods.

She is seen as an enemy in these missions, but won’t actually damage you. Archimedean Yonta will come up on the screen to apologize for her manifestation of anxiety. This refers to the Skittergirl.

If you listen closely, you can hear her laughing as she can run into you and knock you down. She’ll also run away, stealing any vitoplast.

What is the point of Peculiar Audience?

The point of Peculiar Audience is to simply recreate her laughter noise outside of the Zariman when killing enemies. It does not provide any benefit to your gameplay, but those who may not have reached the Zariman yet may be confused or even a bit spooked as to why there’s a little girl laughing in their missions.

You can definitely use this mostly to troll or scare newer players without outright spoiling them for things to come. 

This acts a lot more interactively compared to Peculiar Growth or Peculiar Bloom which are more cosmetically involved. If you have the mod space for it in your builds, go for it. Otherwise, it’ll just add to your growing collection of mods.

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Earlier today the Helldivers 2 community exploded after it was announced that a PlayStation account would be required to play Helldivers 2 on Steam moving forward. Now Arrowhead’s CEO has come forward to apologise.

Games with art styles that deliberately shoot for PS1 graphics are fairly commonplace, particularly with…

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I ran into an unfortunate softlock during my review of Another Crab’s Treasure, an adorable but still intimidating Soulslike, that has so far barred me from completing the game. Near the end of the game, you’re prompted to activate an elevator by an NPC that takes players to the final major area and the last few…

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Metal Gear Solid’s Master Collection has been out since October 2023. And while it is very lacking in some key ways that we’d expect from a modern remaster in the 21st century, it still contains a hefty selection of some of the greatest games of the late ‘90s and 2000s.

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Sony recently announced that Helldivers 2 players on Steam will soon need to link to a PlayStation Network. While this was the case at launch, the publisher made it optional due to technical problems. However, many PC players are unhappy with the decision to bring it back, flooding the game’s Steam page with negative reviews. […]

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There’s something mysterious brewing over at Nintendo; a new listing for a previously unannounced Switch game, called Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, has been spotted on the US’ Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) website.

Helpfully, the ESRB – which has rated the game ‘E’ for ‘Everyone’ if you’re curious – has a few details on Nintendo’s mysterious new title, describing it as a “collection of 2D challenges and platformer games in which players traverse through various modes (e.g., speedrun, survival)”.

“Several challenges involve reaching specific points, while others prompt players to defeat small enemies or survive brief battles,” the ESRB description continues. “Some games depict pixelated characters using small swords or arrows to strike at enemies; enemies typically get stunned or disappear in a flash.”

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Almost a decade after it set crowdfunding records on Kickstarter, and five years after its release, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night‘s developers have announced the final free update for the Castlevania: Symphony of the Night successor.

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