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Meet The Only Person Keeping Action RPG Babylon’s Fall Alive
9.5.2022
Babylon’s Fall, the troubled live-service action-RPG from action game luminaries Platinum Games, has seemingly hit life support. After two months on the market and a lukewarm reception at launch, Square Enix’s latest effort was reduced to just one player on PC last week. They revealed themselves...
Outriders, Square Enix's Answer To Destiny, Didn't Turn A Profit In Its First Year
6.5.2022
According to a recent operations report from the development studio People Can Fly, the online loot shooter Outriders didn’t make any profit by the end of 2021. Read more
Bungie Defends Abortion Rights Even As People Urge It To Stick To Games
5.5.2022
A studio best known for blockbuster games about shooting aliens now increasingly has a reputation for not taking shit from the people who play them. Creator of Halo and Destiny 2, Bungie, took fire from angry gamers this week, for coming out in support of abortion rights. Instead of flinching like...
Square Enix Will Hold On To A Few Western-Made Franchises
3.5.2022
Yesterday, Square Enix announced that it was selling its Western studios, like Crystal Dynamics—and much of the intellectual property (IP) connected to those studios, like the Tomb Raider franchise—to Swedish holding company Embracer Group for $300 million. But while this move seems to signal...
Even Game Pass Knows It’s Backlog Season
3.5.2022
It’s that time of year again, when the release cadence cools down a bit, giving you time to make your way through your backlog from the spring (or the fall). Game Pass, for the moment, isn’t adding too much to the top, and is in fact removing quite a bit from the bottom. Here’s everything coming...
Florida Cops Killed Someone Over Shoplifted Pokémon Cards
2.5.2022
Osceola County Sheriff’s Office deputies opened fire on four suspects believed to have stolen Pokémon cards and a pizza, Vice reports. One died after being transported to a hospital, while two others were charged with petty theft.Read more
Final Fantasy VII Remake Mod Gives Barret A Classic Amano Makeover
30.4.2022
A new Final Fantasy VII Remake mod gives party member Barret Wallace an updated aesthetic that hews closer to the pre-development concept art created by famed illustrator Yoshitaka Amano.Read more
Final Fantasy XIV’s Newest Raid Is Blowing Everyone’s Minds
28.4.2022
Final Fantasy XIV’s latest update saw Square Enix give serious players a new “ultimate” raid to conquer. The last few days have been a whirlwind as groups try to be the first to complete the raid, known as Dragonsong’s Reprise, and new developments concerning the potential revival of a dearly...
Final Fantasy XIV's Director Is Asking You Not To Be Jerks
28.4.2022
Final Fantasy XIV recently introduced a new 5v5 player-vs-player mode called Crystalline Conflict. And while for the most part it seems to be going just fine, and folks are happy with it, the team behind the game aren’t as happy with some people’s behaviour in the mode, and so have taken the time...
Pokémon GO Fest 2022: Everything You Need To Know
27.4.2022
Pokémon GO Fest 2022, the biggest event in the massive mobile game’s calendar, is confirmed for the 4th and 5th June this year. For the not-inconsiderable sum of $14.99, the weekend will include rotating habitats, Land Forme Shaymin, shiny debuts, and “customized special research,” where players...
Bethesda Adds Free Classic Elder Scrolls Games To Steam
26.4.2022
Back in February, Bethesda confirmed that it was shutting down its proprietary PC game launcher and would move affected games back to Steam. Now, as we get closer to the May 11 shutdown, Bethesda has started adding some of its classic games to Steam. Some are arriving on Valve’s digital storefront...
Even The Studio Behind Pokémon Is Getting In On The 4-Day Work Week
26.4.2022
The studio behind Pokémon is moving to an optional four-day work week. Game Freak announced the new “progressive” work policy on Tuesday, citing a desire to give employees more flexibility. The move comes as other studios are implementing similar policies, and is at odds with fans’ perceptions of...
Final Fantasy Creator Balks At Square Enix’s $11,000 FF6 Statue
26.4.2022
If you were blown away by the expensive Final Fantasy statue Square Enix unveiled over the weekend, you’re not alone: Series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi couldn’t help but express his own shock at the more than $11,000 price tag.Read more
Diablo Immortal Is Hitting PC Because Players Would Just Emulate It Anyway
25.4.2022
Today, Blizzard announced that Diablo Immortal will be out on June 2 for iOS, Android, and PC. The PC version was a surprise as Blizzard had previously said that this new entry in the ARPG dungeon-crawlin’ franchise was built for mobile devices from the ground up. But according to the Warcraft...
Shadowrun Trilogy Is Coming To Xbox, PlayStation And Switch
21.4.2022
We’re coming up on the tenth anniversary of the release of 2013's Shadowrun Returns, and it’s only today I learned that the game (and its two sequels) were never released on console. I just assumed they had been, at some point! That sucks, so it’s wonderful to see Paradox get around to fixing...
Digimon Survive Is Coming Out The Same Day As Xenoblade Chronicles 3
21.4.2022
Long-awaited strategy JRPG Digimon Survive finally has a release date and it’s July 29, 2022. Any other year, like the ones Survive was previously supposed to release in, that would be a perfectly reasonable date for a niche game with a cult following. But the announcement comes just a day after...
The Pokémon Company Buys Its Trading Card Manufacturer While Demand Soars
20.4.2022
The Pokémon Company has announced that it will be acquiring The Millenium Print Group, the manufacturer that has been printing the Pokémon trading card game since 2015. According to a press release put out by TPC, Millenium will remain autonomous, while benefiting from TPC’s investments...
Kingdom Hearts 4 Sleuthers Find Sora’s Apartment IRL, And It Ain’t Cheap
15.4.2022
Kingdom Hearts stans are tearing all the meat off the bones from the recent Kingdom Hearts IV announcement trailer, picking it apart for any and all possible details about Sora’s upcoming adventure. There’s a bit of disappointment to go with the hype, like the painful revelation that our big-shoed...
Nomura Explains What's Up With Sora's Realistic Kingdom Hearts 4 Look
14.4.2022
When Square Enix revealed Kingdom Hearts IV over the weekend, it looked…different. Hero Sora was looking realistically emo with nerfed kicks while hanging out in a Shibuya apartment that actually exists. But fans were quick to point out that there were likely lore reasons explaining the...
Witcher 3 Next-Gen Upgrade Pulled From Russia Studio, Delayed Indefinitely
13.4.2022
The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S upgrade for The Witcher 3 won’t arrive anytime soon. In fact, CD Projekt Red announced today that it’s delayed indefinitely. That follows the decision to bring development on the next-gen version back in house after it was handled by Saber Interactive’s Russia...