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Neil Druckmann Is Tired
29.2.2024
Neil Druckmann, the co-president of Naughty Dog and creative director of The Last of Us, is tired. From the sound of it, he might be looking to change his career up so he doesn’t have to deal with the stress of leading a AAA team that puts out games on the scale of Sony’s flagship studio.Read more
Five Years Ago, Anthem Was A Warning
29.2.2024
In January 2019, I was optimistic when I flew out to BioWare’s headquarters in Austin, Texas. I’d been invited to test out Anthem, the studio’s take on the live-service looter-shooter, before it made its way into players’ hands. I was immediately smitten by the polish of the demo, zipping around...
FF7 Rebirth’s Character Folios, Explained
29.2.2024
As a massive RPG, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has an extraordinary number of ways to grow and customize your characters. One of Rebirth’s newest additions to character building is the Character Folio, a network of abilities and stat boosts that make your characters even more powerful as you invest...
Former Call Of Duty Devs Form A New Studio To Make The Anti-COD
29.2.2024
The last few years have seen a number of high-level departures from Activision Blizzard, with a great deal of those folks going on to found their own studios and compete directly with the giant. The latest team to spring up from the exodus is Netease-backed BulletFarm, founded and led by David...
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Keeps The Janky Spirit Of The Original
29.2.2024
Final Fantasy VII has always been an extremely weird game, from the impromptu snowboarding excursion to fighting a Triceratops fused with a truck. That sense of weirdness seeps into every aspect of the game and often rears its head as a strange—and, more often than not, janky—minigame. The 1997...
AI-driven analysis: Cryptocurrency-powered tool for winning big games!
29.2.2024
AI-driven analysis encompasses AI algorithms, which are now prevalent in crypto gaming applications. It provides a superpower to the cryptocurrency market as game operators can forecast future price movements using it. Additionally, AI-driven analysis may assist investors in determining...
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: Should You Focus On Just The Main Story?
29.2.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has finally arrived. The second installment of Square Enix’s attempt to remake one of the most celebrated video games of all time is here for PlayStation 5. The massive RPG offers damn near close to (if not more) than 100 hours of gameplay. Now you might be asking...
Does Aerith Die In Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Explained
29.2.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is out today. If you’re a big fan, you’re probably already playing it and aren’t looking at this article. If you’re a casual fan or onlooker who is mainly just interested in how it handles certain events of the original game, you’re probably wondering what happens...
16 Things To Know Before Starting Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
29.2.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Square Enix’s latest RPG, is an enormous game. And like any huge adventure, there are dozens of subsystems, features, and layers to navigate. If you’ve played the first game in the new trilogy, Final Fantasy VII Remake, you already have a good handle on the basics...
EA Cancels Respawn Star Wars Shooter Amid Mass Layoff
28.2.2024
Respawn’s unnamed Star Wars first-person shooter, first confirmed by EA in January 2022, has reportedly been canceled as the publisher pulls back on licensed games amid a large round of layoffs. Read more
Twitter Banned Runescape's Account Because It Thought An 8-Year-Old Created It
28.2.2024
Earlier this week, the official Runescape Twitter/X account got banned. It’s since returned, but the reason behind its temporary ban was that someone at the social media company thought the account was created by an eight-year-old kid, which would be a violation of Twitter’s rules. Read more
Analysis: the state of F2P games on Nintendo Switch
28.2.2024
An under-discussed topic. Also: a micro-indie breakout & lots of discovery news
I Thought This Final Fantasy VII Character Had Big Goat Ears For Decades
28.2.2024
Let me be clear: I have never played a Final Fantasy game. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth may be out very soon, and the series may be one of the most influential in the history of video games, but I have never touched one. Aside from tangential knowledge gleaned against my will via the internet...
New Fan Blog Argues (Rightly) That Final Fantasy VIII Is The Best
28.2.2024
I have always been a staunch defender of Final Fantasy VIII. I love its broken junction system, the exceptional card game Triple Triad, and the central story of Squall and Rinoa. Not everybody is as enlightened as I am, though. Ever since its release in 1999, the game has been overlooked...
Helldivers 2 Players Losing It Over The Fall Of 'Robot Vietnam'
28.2.2024
If you’ve heard of or seen Helldivers 2, a co-op third-person shooter inspired by the movie Starship Troopers, you more than likely caught a glimpse of Malevelon Creek. It’s one of the game’s playable planets, controlled by one of two enemy factions, the automatons. You likely haven’t heard...
PS Plus' March Offerings Include One Of 2022's Best Martial Arts Games
28.2.2024
As February comes to a close, Sony has removed the cloche to unveil March’s PlayStation Plus cuisine. (I’m feeling hungry right now, leave me alone.) The crop of free games you get next month for being a PS Plus subscriber is actually pretty solid, with the offerings including one of the best...
Some Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Discs Are Misprinted And Could Cause Problems
28.2.2024
Due to a manufacturing error, physical editions of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth in Japan contain discs that are misprinted. This could cause problems for folks trying to play the highly-anticipated Square Enix RPG as they will likely end up inserting the wrong disc into their console. Read more
Cinematrix Is The Best Commute Game Since Wordle
28.2.2024
As someone whose commute to and from the office every day is under half an hour, I am always looking for something short and sweet to do while riding the subway. Sure, there’s the New York Times Games app and its offerings like Wordle and the more recent Connections. But as of February 26, there...
Remastering One Of The Best Star Wars Games Ever Made Wasn't Easy
28.2.2024
First released back in 1995, Star Wars: Dark Forces is a first-person shooter that plays similarly to Doom, but included new (for the era) features—like rooms on top of rooms, looking up and down, and jumping—elevating it beyond a simple clone. It also had an original Star Wars story and introduced...
PSA: Be Careful Skipping Cutscenes In FF7 Rebirth’s Flashback Chapter
28.2.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, part two of the ambitious project to remake 1997’s Final Fantasy VII, arrives tomorrow, February 29. Fans eager to play this new entry have likely spent some time in the game’s demo, which launched on February 6. Should you play the demo, you’ll get the chance to skip...