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Final Fantasy XVI Update Will Make You Less Nauseous While Playing
6.7.2023
Final Fantasy XVI’s first post-launch update just added one of its most requested features: the option to turn off motion blur. A new toggle in the settings menu will let players make the PlayStation 5 game look less dizzying, a boon to everyone who was getting motion sickness while trying...
Animoca still bullish on blockchain games, awaits license for metaverse fund
6.7.2023
Animoca Brands co-founder Yat Siu expects a number of its blockchain gaming investments to come to market by the end of 2023
Super Mario: Crypto Thief, SEGA blockchain game, AI games rights fight — Web3 Gamer
6.7.2023
AI-assisted game development leads to fights over rights, SEGA and Ubisoft’s first blockchain games, and Super Mario: Crypto Thief
This Horror Game Gives You A Virtual Girlfriend From Hell
5.7.2023
Fairy tales and Drew Barrymore movies taught me that a girl with butterflies in her stomach might be easily inconvenienced by some weird guy (either a literal beast or an everyman who acts like one), but the fluttering is a product of purity, clear like a raindrop. Without a sword or a big-shot...
The Skyrim Modding Community Has Its Own Deepfake Porn Controversy
5.7.2023
The Skyrim modding community is currently embroiled in its own deepfake porn controversy, with popular modding site NexusMods and AI voice-cloning technology at its center. Ahead of the release of Bethesda’s upcoming space epic, Starfield, and the belief that the game will be a sort of Eden for...
Hot New Steam Shooter Is The First Good Battlefield Game Since 2016
5.7.2023
A simple new low-poly online PvP military shooter that plays a lot like Battlefield 3 and only costs $15 might not seem like the next big thing. But in fact, it is, and after playing it for a week I get why: It’s just a really good shooter focused on gameplay and chaos. Read more
9 Street Fighter 6 Settings To Tweak Before You Start Throwing Hands
5.7.2023
Street Fighter 6 is a frontrunner for my game of the year, but sometimes it feels like I spend more time fighting with its menus than I do throwing hands with other players online. I’ve put around 80 hours into Capcom’s latest fighter and have dealt with several annoyances just trying to change...
The Switch Has Its Own Dollar Store Last Of Us Knock-Off
5.7.2023
The Last of Us and its sequel are blockbuster action-adventure games with incredible graphics and deep narratives. They’re also games that, for a few different reasons, will never officially be playable on Nintendo’s aging Switch console. But don’t worry, you can just play The Last Hope - Dead Zone...
Popular Horror Game Friday The 13th Unlocks Everything Before Getting Pulled
5.7.2023
Friday the 13th: The Game is going away at the end of the year, so in the meantime the developers decided to let players enjoy the asymmetric multiplayer horror chaos with free unlocks and level boosts.Read more
The Outer Worlds Was Pitched As A More Casual 'Fallout Meets Firefly' RPG
5.7.2023
If you haven’t been tuning into Fallout creator Tim Cain’s YouTube channel, you are sorely missing out on some fun gaming trivia and insights. Whether it’s the gritty details of how RPG gameplay gets fleshed out or Cain’s own personal experience as a gay dev, the former Obsidian creative is never...
Review: 2023’s Worst Game, Gollum, Has Entered The Chat
5.7.2023
After hours of dodging orcs and ducking spiders, I found Shelob’s lair. I’m a slave in The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, performing tasks like collecting tags and herding animals for maybe a bite of rotted bread. I was aching to escape. Meeting Shelob seemed like the first real attempt at bargaining...
Looks Like Tears Of The Kingdom’s Best Rupee Glitch Is No More
5.7.2023
The most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom patch seems to have done away with a few popular glitches, a Reddit post suggests. Nintendo issued update 1.2.0 on July 5 in order to “improve the gameplay experience,” it wrote in its patch notes, and to burn through your infinite money...
Don't Worry, Diablo IV's Hardest Boss Probably Won't Ruin Your Run
5.7.2023
One of the first bosses I encountered in Diablo IV was the Butcher. I was doing reasonably well up until that point and thought “sure, I’ll just take this guy out real quick.” That didn’t work out for me, butI’m not alone—-The Butcher is as challenging as he is rare. And until now, there hasn’t...
New Official Pokémon Forums Are A Disaster You Can’t Look Away From
5.7.2023
The Pokémon Company has launched official forums on its website. While it seems only natural to have an official place for your community to gather, I am praying for the moderation team’s good health because they have their work cut out for them.Read more
Grand Theft Auto V Is Back On Xbox Game Pass
5.7.2023
Grand Theft Auto V is one again crashing the party on Xbox Game Pass just in time for the summer vacation. It headlines the subscription service’s slate of new games for July 2023, alongside some smaller indie releases and Capcom’s new dino-shooter, Exoprimal. Read more
Exploring crypto in virtual games: Research on Bitcoin and gaming
5.7.2023
Virtual games are gaining recognition as the most engaging options available to enthusiasts. People choose games to keep their minds occupied, often to contend with someone from an entirely different location. Internet-based virtual gaming has indeed made this feasible by bridging geographical...
Huge (Sometimes Tragic) Collection Of Sega Documents From The 90's Have Leaked
5.7.2023
While Microsoft’s FTC case has let the world catch a glimpse behind the scenes at a modern platform holder’s emails, at the same time an enormous treasure trove of old Sega documents from the 90's have leaked, and they go a long way to explaining...well, why Sega isn’t a platform holder...
14 Amazing Games To Celebrate Indie Penance Day 2023
5.7.2023
Hello! It’s Indie Penance Day once again! The day that all Americans put aside their differences and unite in celebration of the joy of independent games development. Ever since the founding fathers played their first game of World Of Goo, the celebration has been observed by every American by law....
PowerWash Simulator's New DLC Is Going To Clean Up (Not Sorry)
4.7.2023
The rise and rise of 2022's PowerWash Simulator is everything that’s right with video games. It’s a game about washing the dirt off stuff, delivered with absolute sincerity, and extremely well made. It got me through a horrible bout of Covid, as I meticulously scrubbed every fleck of dirt from...
Valve Does Not Want To Discourage The Use Of AI In Games
4.7.2023
Last week, there was wide speculation that Valve might be intending to ban games that use AI-generated content, following a post on Reddit that suggested the practice was not being allowed. However, this seems not to be the case—at least, it’s nowhere near that simple—following a statement given...