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Final Fantasy Creator’s New RPG Looks Unique And Will Be Out This Year

Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of Final Fantasy, has been working on the follow up to his Terra Battle role-playing games. It’s called Fantasian According to Sakaguchi, the game has been in development for the past three years and is slated to hit Apple Arcade sometime soon this year. Nobuo Uematsu is doing the score. “The…

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Umurangi Generation Will Have Gyro Controls On Switch

When photography game Umurangi Generation hits Switch sometime this year, it’ll do so, the developers just announced, with an updated suite of mechanics that make use of the console’s unique features. One of these will be gyro controls, to help you snap the perfect picture. I tend to turn off motion stuff when I play…

Lost Video Takes Us Inside Nintendo In 1990, Shows NES Consoles Being Made

This 20-minute collection of B-roll footage, shot as part of a news report and only uploaded to YouTube this week, gives us a fascinating look behind the scenes at Nintendo of America in 1990, showing everything from manufacturing to R&D to the Nintendo Power Line. While some of it is narrated or is part of…

My Nine-Day Final Fantasy XV Blitz Commences Tonight

Let me explain. Final Fantasy XV is one of my “ones that got away”—a game that I deeply enjoyed without ever finishing despite getting very close to its end. One day I just put down FF15 and walked away, like Andy abandoning Woody. Thanks to Xbox Game Pass, however, I have the opportunity to correct…

1994’s NBA Jam Has Been Updated With 2021 Rosters

I love NBA Jam, and I love 90s basketball, but look, I don’t always want to play as Tom Gugliotta or Kendall Gill. Sometimes, I want to play NBA Jam and play as Alex Caruso or Bam Adebayo, and now I can. This excellent mod for 1994’s NBA Jam Tournament Edition (not 1993’s NBA Jam)…

You Can Buy A 912lb Box Of PlayStation Consoles

What an age we live in. PlayStation consoles, by the pound. From time to time—thanks, Goodwill Goblin!—Goodwill will clear out excess stock online in bulk, and here are two very big examples of that. First, a “GAYLORD OF VARIOUS PLAYSTATION CONSOLES” (as a non-American, I had to google that one, it means a very big,…

Valve, Capcom & Bethesda Fined $9.5 Million For “Geo-Blocking” PC Games

The EU have fined Valve and five publishers a total of €7.8 million (USD$9.5 million) over their practice of “geo-blocking” PC game sales on Steam. This basically means forcing users in a country (say, Germany) to only pay the German price for a game, instead of letting them buy a cheaper version of the same…

Bernie Memes Are Here For All Your Curmudgeonly Needs

Today at noon Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, but online it was another super-old white guy who stole the show thanks to a photograph by Brendan Smialowski showing Bernie Sanders sitting in a chair emanating such levels of sass and “I don’t have time for…

Rust, As Told By Steam Reviews

If you even casually follow the Grimace-colored streaming monolith that is Twitch, you’re well aware that the current flavor of the month is Rust, a survival game that originally came out in 2013. This means new players are discovering the genre oldtimer for the first time. While some enjoy the game’s inhospitable chaos, others are…

Donald Trump has been indefinitely suspended from Twitch. After the Capitol Building insurrection, Twitch suspended the then-president, now-professional angry baby man (who is no doubt weeks or even days from a TV deal), but with the caveat that it would “reassess his account after he leaves office.” In a statement, Twitch said that it’s turning…

Ocarina Of Time Demo Fragments Reveal A Much Earlier Version Of The Game

Nintendo preservationists Forest of Illusion recently got their hands on a Nintendo 64 development cart containing what appears to be the demo version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time shown at the Space World ‘97 trade show. This early build includes maps, items, abilities, and even story beats that didn’t make it into…

New Mod Makes It Possible To Play Skyrim At 60 FPS On PS5

Nearly a decade after it released as a bit of a mess on PS3, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on PS5 can now be played at 60 FPS thanks to the work of one of the game’s console modders. Created by a modder who goes by Wrighton, “Skyrim @ 60fps” is exactly what it says…

It’s me staring into a giant toilet waiting for the second chapter of Deltarune to release. It’s been just over two years since the first one came out, but the Undertale creator Toby Fox says “development is going well!” on the follow-up.

A Farewell to Liyue, An Exceptional Part Of Genshin Impact

Genshin Impact has one of the most exciting regions that I’ve visited in a video game in years. It’s called Liyue and its geological and agricultural bounty is distinct from other open world games. To the west, a traveller can find gorgeous cliffs of ashy stone and golden amber. In the east, rugged archipelagos mark…

The New Hawkmoon Quest Is Solo Destiny 2 At Its Best

Destiny 2 has always primarily been, and will likely always remain, a multiplayer game best experienced with kind strangers or old friends. But occasionally there have been times where the loot shooter has invited and even encouraged players to see what troublesome fun they can get up to on their own, and the latest Hawkmoon…

Rare Sketches Of Donkey Kong Country Show Off DK’s Early Evolution

In the latest video from YouTube’s DK Creations (via NintendoLife), long-time video game artist Kev Bayliss shows off original sketches from Rare’s Donkey Kong Country, and talks about how he transformed Nintendo’s original cartoon ape from 2D villain to 3D-rendered platform hero. Using character design sketches he created while working on the 1994 Super Nintendo classic…

Pikachu Makes Everything Better, Even Casio Watches

Casio’s line of Baby-G watches are great. Know how to make the timepieces even better? Add Pikachu, that’s how. The iconic Pocket Monster is once again joining forces with Casio for the Baby-G Pokémon. (Back in 2019, Casio and Pikachu teamed up to mark 25 years of Baby-G.) The latest watch doesn’t just have Pikachu…

The Art Of Cyberpunk 2077

While the game itself may not have entered full-blown development until 2016, some of the stuff you’ll see in this collection of concept and production art dates as far back as 2013. Below you’ll find a big collection of environment, character and 3D pieces from throughout Cyberpunk’s development, from the earliest sketches through to models…

Horizon Zero Dawn’s Last Big PC Patch Has Finally, Mostly Fixed The Port

While it was great that PC owners got to play a big Sony exclusive last year, what wasn’t so great about Horizon Zero Dawn’s port was that it ran like shit. Well, five months later things are looking much better. While players were initially beset by everything from sluggish performance to textures not loading, a…