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Smash Player Effs Up Opponent
21.7.2021
Last night, a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate competitor styled on his opponent so hard that the entire venue lost their minds.Read more
I Had My Sexual Awakening Thanks To Final Fantasy X
21.7.2021
Final Fantasy X’s 20th anniversary is this week, and while it’s not my favorite Final Fantasy, it is one I come back to whenever I think about sex. No, not in the way you’re probably thinking (although Kimahri Ronso, if he wanted, could get it). But Final Fantasy X represents one of those...
Early NEO: The World Ends With You Players Locked Out Of Game
21.7.2021
Over the weekend, NEO: The World Ends With You fans discovered that Square Enix was accidentally leaking the game early to people who pre-ordered it on Switch. Now, with a week still to go before its official release, access to the upcoming action RPG has been rescinded.Read more
Final Fantasy XIV Director Apologizes For Overloaded Servers
20.7.2021
Final Fantasy XIV server congestion has been a huge problem for the player base as of late, and you probably won’t be surprised to find out the culprits are, in part, difficulties introduced by the covid-19 pandemic.Read more
New FFXIV Update Will Now Kick Idle Players, And That Kinda Sucks
20.7.2021
Final Fantasy XIV is suffering from success. There’s been a recent explosion in active users driving up queue times and flooding the FFXIV subreddit with daily threads complaining about said queue times. Square Enix is working on the problem but in the meantime, the latest patch, deployed during...
Just What Japan Needs: More Gundam Manholes
20.7.2021
Manholes! In Japan, they’re works of art, reflecting the city or region or city they’re in with beautiful designs and even lovely colors. Previously, we’ve seen Pokémon manholes, which were great and excellent. The first Pokémon manholes were installed in 2019, but as of last August, there were...
Choosing Random Is A Huge Flex
20.7.2021
Last week, publisher GameMill Entertainment unveiled Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, a fighting game featuring iconic Nickelodeon characters like SpongeBob SquarePants, Nigel Thornberry, and that one dude with the toast-shaped face. Between the memes, you might see prospective players debate who’d...
You Can Beat Castlevania Before Guilty Gear Strive Finishes Loading
19.7.2021
Guilty Gear Strive is, by most accounts, an excellent fighting game, but one major issue has been vexing players since it launched over a month ago: the absurdly long time it takes the game to load into its main menu.Read more
BOTW Fan Finishes Game Without Stepping In The Same Place Twice
19.7.2021
Throughout Breath of the Wild’s four-year life, players have come up with all kinds of quirky ways to play. There are no damage runs, shield only runs, and what I like to call the “Naked and Afraid” challenge where has Link beat the final boss of the Champion’s Ballad DLC with no clothes and only...
Pokémon Go Fest 2021 Ended In A Total Anticlimax
19.7.2021
This last weekend offered the world Pokémon GO Fest 2021. This year, the mobile game’s biggest annual event attempted a more outgoing vibe yet still managed to end everything on the dampest squib imaginable: a quest line entirely focused on Hoopa, that absolutely in no way included Hoopa.Read more
NEO: The World Ends With You Leaks 10 Days Eary Via Square Enix Store
17.7.2021
Folks who have been waiting nearly a decade for the follow-up to The World Ends With You got a nice, little surprise in their inbox this morning: A full digital copy of the NEO: The World Ends With You. Read more
Trains Crash Through Empty Worlds In My New Favorite Racing Game
16.7.2021
Trains are good. I don’t know how else to describe them other than, yeah, pretty good. But I’m not really into the serious train simulation or tycoon genres. No, I need something with more speed. Something with velocity. Something that lets me twist and turn, knocking rival trains off the rails...
Skyward Sword HD Might Make You Actually Like Motion Controls
16.7.2021
There’s a weird cognitive dissonance surrounding The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. In my casual discussions of Zelda games, Skyward Sword often seems lowly regarded. And yet, the Metacritic scores for the 2011 Wii game paint an entirely different picture, making it one of the highest scoring...
First Look At Netflix's Monster Hunter CG Film
16.7.2021
Next month, Netflix will stream a CG animated movie based on a Capcom video game. This time, it’s a Monster Hunter film called Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild. Here’s the official plot description:Read more
Japan to reportedly take action to scrutinize crypto globally
16.7.2021
Japanese Ministry of Finance is hiring more staff to develop stricter global rules for digital currencies, particularly fiat-pegged stablecoins
Skyward Sword HD Amiibo Delay Means No Fast-Travel At Launch
15.7.2021
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD is out tomorrow, but its accompanying Zelda & Loftwing amiibo will be missing for most players. Nintendo confirmed today that the toy, which unlocks fast-travel in the game, is facing a number of shipping delays that will keep it out of most people’s hands...
Italian Regulator Warns Binance Crypto Exchange Not Authorized to Provide Investment Services in Italy
15.7.2021
Binance’s regulatory troubles grow with Italy being the latest country to issue a warning on the global cryptocurrency exchange. Other countries that have issued similar warnings include the U.K., Japan, Thailand, and the Cayman Islands. Crypto Exchange Binance Unauthorized in Italy...
Pokémon Unite Launches On Switch July 21
15.7.2021
Pokémon fans eager to get in on the team-based multiplayer battles of Pokémon Unite following last month’s Japan-only network stress test don’t have long to wait at all. The free-to-start PokéMOBA starts service on the Nintendo Switch on Wednesday, July 21, giving us a little less than a week...
Resident Evil Re:Verse Suddenly Delayed To 2022
15.7.2021
Resident Evil Village was meant to launch with a multiplayer mode, Resident Evil Re:Verse. In April this year, after some not great open betas, Capcom announced it would be delayed until July. It’s July now, but look around you. Nope. Indeed, minutes ago the developers announced it has now slipped...
Square Enix Doesn't Rule Out Final Fantasy X-3
15.7.2021
Final Fantasy X-2 was originally released way back in 2003, but that doesn’t mean a sequel to the iconic PlayStation 2 game is impossible. When speaking with Weekly Famitsu, producer Yoshinori Kitase, director Motomu Toriyama, writer Kazushige Nojima, and character designer Tetsuya Nomura were...