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UncategorizedTips For Playing Final Fantasy VII Remake
Final Fantasy VII Remake is not a difficult game, but there are still things you should know before you play it—ways to be more efficient, to get more treasures, and to avoid those pesky game overs. Here are some basic tips for Cloud’s adventures through Midgar 2.0: Regular attacks don’t do much The first thing…
By Jason Schreier Published April 9, 2020 -
CultureHow’s It Going?: Outdoors Edition
It’s Thursday, which makes it almost Friday. Welcome back to our daily open thread. I live in a very crowded city, and it’s been tough not to be able to go outside much. I belong to a Facebook group for trail-runners, which a friend invited me to when I expressed interest in learning to do…
By Riley MacLeod Published April 9, 2020 -
CultureIt’s A Good Day For A Final Fantasy VII Electronic Dance Album
Here are three things to do while waiting for tomorrow’s official release of the Final Fantasy VII Remake. Dance, dance, dance. From RoboRob, producer of last year’s Billboard-charting Kingdom Heartbeats, One-Beat Angel is an album that transforms Final Fantasy VII’s most iconic music into danceable electronic tracks. Well, more danceable that before. It’s amazing what…
By Mike Fahey Published April 9, 2020 -
ReviewsToysMcFarlane Toys Is Remastering The Original Spawn Action Figure
Yesterday I wrote about my favorite new Spawn action figure. Shortly after that post went live, McFarlane Toyslaunched a Kickstarter for a remastered version of the original Spawn action figure from 1995, with double the articulation and a remastered version of the pack-in comic book. In comparison, the figure I wrote about yesterday is garbage…
By Mike Fahey Published April 9, 2020 -
UncategorizedFans Think The PlayStation 5 Controller Looks Like Totoro, Rei From Evangelion And More
Quick! When you look at the PlayStation 5 DualSense controller, what do you see? Maybe you just see a slick new piece of hardware. But maybe you see other things, like Totoro, a Stormtrooper, a spaceship, and more. Since the controller was revealed this week, fans have been comparing it to all sorts of things.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 9, 2020 -
UncategorizedIssue 21 of Weekly Jump, which was slated for April 20, will be delayed a week due to a coronavirus covid-19 case in the editorial department. Staff is now working from home, and on April 27, a double issue 21/22 will go on sale. Weekly Jump said no manga artists apparently were in physical contact with…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 9, 2020 -
UncategorizedI’ve been playing someForegone in between digging up eggs and pulling eggs out of the sea, and it’s pretty good! A bit brutal in parts, but the endless respawning (and gear improvements that come with it) temper this a little. The animation is gorgeous.
By Luke Plunkett Published April 8, 2020 -
UncategorizedA Whole Book About Architecture In Anime
Anime Architecture is an upcoming book from Volume that is an exploration of, well, architecture in anime, looking at the buildings, cities, and designs from some of the biggest films in the medium. It’s got loads of production and behind-the-scenes material, much of it unseen before now, from movies like Akira, Patlabor (and Patlabor 2!),…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 8, 2020 -
OpinionHey History Games, The Nazis Were The Bad Guys
I’m playing Slitherine’s Panzer Corps 2 at the moment and loving almost every minute of it. It’s one of the best turn-based strategy games in years, but there’s also something a bit off about it, something that’s troubling about a lot of historical strategy games: It has a little too much fun playing the Germans.…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 8, 2020 -
UncategorizedNearly Six Months Post-Launch, Modern Warfare Keeps Getting Better
Modern Warfare is almost halfway through its one-year lifecycle, and the annual shooter has made great strides to become a better Call of Duty Call of Duty: Modern Warfare launched on October 25, bringing changes the community sought for many years: ditching paid passes to bring free maps for everyone and crossplay between PlayStation 4,…
By S.E. Doster Published April 8, 2020 -
CultureNext-Gen Consoles Reignite An Old Argument Over Controller Batteries
Without electrical juice controllers are just paperweights, and Sony and Microsoft continue to take dramatically different approaches to solving that problem. Yesterday Sony revealed its PlayStation 5 controller: the DualSense. It’s chunkier than the current-gen DualShock 4 and comes loaded with a number of new features, including haptic feedback and a built-in microphone. People wasted…
By Ethan Gach Published April 8, 2020 - Uncategorized
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By G/O Media Published April 8, 2020 -
CultureTwitch‘OK, Boomer’ Girl’s Rise To Twitch Fame Was ‘A Perfect Storm’ Of Memes And Politics
Several decades ago, at the beginning of March 2020, when Bernie Sanders was still in the race for president, a streamer who goes by the handle Neekolul posted a short video of herself lip syncing and dancing along to a song by YouTuber Senzawa made up entirely of variations on the phrase “OK, boomer” to…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 8, 2020 -
UncategorizedFinal Fantasy XIV‘s Latest Relic Hunt Is A Compelling Story Quest
If there’s one thing a good MMO needs, it’s fancy loot. That can mean World of Warcraft’s various class artifacts or Final Fantasy XIV’s relics, some of the best weapons in the game. The latter come with each new expansion, and it’s finally Shadowbringers’ turn. There’s a twist: What used to be a painful and…
By Heather Alexandra Published April 8, 2020 -
CultureGoogle Stadia Pro Goes Free For Two Months
Google announced today that it’s making its Stadia Pro video game streaming service free to everyone for the next two months, as people stay home to limit the spread of Covid-19. “Video games can be a valuable way to socialize with friends and family when you’re stuck at home, so we’re giving gamers in 14…
By Ethan Gach Published April 8, 2020 -
CultureHow’s It Going?: Simple Pleasures Edition
We’re halfway through the week, if time still has meaning for you. Welcome back to our daily open thread. As I wrote yesterday, I’ve been struggling to do much besides worry lately. Nevertheless, I’m trying to force myself to notice the good things that I can still access, or that this situation is bringing out.…
By Riley MacLeod Published April 8, 2020
