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Xbox Game Pass Is Losing Some Terrific Games This Month
6.9.2022
Yes, the big Disney Animal Crossing clone rolls out on Game Pass today. But Microsoft’s popular games-on-demand service is set to take a big hit in September with the loss of some of its best games, including a must-play Final Fantasy and some intriguing indies. Here’s everything coming to...
Shadow Of The Tomb Raider (And More) Is Free On PC Right Now
1.9.2022
As sure as the next sunset, there will be more free games from Epic. This time, you can grab the decent Shadow of the Tomb Raider, a former Stadia exclusive sequel, and some goodies in EA’s free-to-play dodgeball game Knockout City for the low, low price of absolutely nothing at all. Read more
PlayStation Plus Expands With Deathloop, Assassin’s Creed, And Watch Dogs 2
1.9.2022
Sony just announced its September lineup of games for its subscription service yesterday, and it’s pretty loaded. PS Plus members will be able to download Arkane’s stylish immersive sim Deathloop, as well as older crowd-pleasers such as Assassin’s Creed Origins and Watch Dogs 2. At the other end...
AI Creating 'Art' Is An Ethical And Copyright Nightmare
26.8.2022
It’s August 2022, and by now you’ve no doubt read (or more likely seen) something about AI art by now. Whether it’s random jokes made for Twitter or paintings that look like they were made by actual human beings, artificial intelligence’s ability to create art has exploded onto the scene over...
Can You Tell The Difference Between These Two Upcoming Magical Action-RPGs?
24.8.2022
Oh hey, some red meat for the folks who love looking at games and saying they bear a strong resemblance to other games: Developer Deck 13 debuted gameplay footage for its forthcoming action-RPG Atlas Fallen, which looks a whole lot like Square Enix’s forthcoming action-RPG Forspoken, which looks...
Final Fantasy Producer Naoki Yoshida Says The Series Is ‘Struggling’
17.8.2022
Final Fantasy XVI’s producer Naoki Yoshida was very candid about the current state of Final Fantasy. In a recent interview with Inverse, he said that the long-running RPG series was not very adaptable to sea changes in the gaming industry.Read more
Stardew Valley-Like Final Fantasy Sim Reveals Horny Produce
5.8.2022
Harvestella is only a few months away and Square Enix is finally starting to dish a little more on its social farming sim. While the core loop will focus as much on job-based combat and character relationships as anything else, raising fruit and vegetables will also play an important role....
Remake Of Beloved RPG, Tactics Ogre, Botches Sprites And Revamps Progression
4.8.2022
Square Enix just announced details for an upcoming remake of their classic strategic RPG Tactics Ogre. Tactics Ogre: Reborn will feature more detailed art, voice over, and a new leveling system. However, fans are frustrated at the high-definition sprites that they believe worsens the overall look...
The Best Time To Play Nier: Automata Is Right Now
1.8.2022
Nier: Automata spent the last week in the headlines, the result of a secret door that sent the community into a scramble. The mystery itself may have come to a sudden, surprising conclusion, but that doesn’t mean the base game it was part of should drop off your radar. In fact, it’s all the more...
8 Things More Likely Than Winning The Colossal Mega Millions Jackpot Today
29.7.2022
The Mega Millions lottery is once again making headlines with a current jackpot worth $1.28 billion. It’s the kind of thing that’s nice to daydream about winning in-between scrolling TikTok and ignoring your boss, because of course you won’t win it. The chances are indistinguishable from zero....
17 NSFW Anime And Manga To Check Out For The 'Plot'
29.7.2022
Anime as a medium has the power to cross physical and cultural barriers through its transformative stories and evocative art styles. To this day, legacy anime like Astro Boy, Akira, and Dragon Ball Z’s inspire modern popular media through their iconic characters and genre-defining stories. Read more
Octopath Traveler: Champions Of The Continent Is Better Than The Nintendo Switch Original
29.7.2022
Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent, newly available on mobile, is a worthy sequel to the original 2018 Switch role-playing game. I had expected a watered-down combat system and a menu hell like many other gacha games on mobile devices. Square Enix proved me wrong. Champions retains...
13 Games Making 2022 A JRPG Bonanza
29.7.2022
Valkyrie Profile, Tactics Ogre, and Front Mission are all due out in the months ahead. What year is it again? It’s 2022, and it’s already been glorious for fans of new and classic JRPGs alike. But some of the most exciting stuff is still ahead. Years after the genre was left for dead, it’s never...
Square Enix Botches New Manga Service With Sex Censorship, Extra Charges
28.7.2022
Yesterday, Square Enix launched the English version of its new online manga service, Manga Up!. But within 24 hours of its release, users have voiced outrage over the app’s aggressive censorship bars and monetization practices.Read more
Former Deus Ex Boss Unloads On Square Enix
28.7.2022
Back in May, Japanese publisher Square Enix announced it was selling a number of Western studios it had owned since 2009, including Eidos Montreal (Deus Ex) and Crystal Dynamics (Tomb Raider). For Stephane D’Astous, who founded Eidos Montreal and left the company in 2013, the deal marks the end...
Nier: Automata Secret Door Nobody Can Figure Out Keeps Getting Weirder
27.7.2022
Factions. In-fighting. The whispers of a bounty. For the past few days, the Nier: Automata community has been tearing itself apart over a secret chamber no one knows how to enter, which could be anything from a prank to cut content to a well-executed spot of viral marketing. Only one thing...
Live A Live: The Kotaku Review
27.7.2022
Live A Live is a pixel-art role-playing game that’s here for a good time, not a long time, a formula that’s sorely needed in today’s games space where RPGs often demand dozens if not hundreds of hours to see through to the end.Read more