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UncategorizedYes, Final Fantasy XIV Really Was This Bad The First Time Around
Since its 2013 relaunch as A Realm Reborn, Final Fantasy XIV is one of the best massively multiplayer role-playing games going, but let’s not forget the poor performance, shoddy lighting effects and nightmarish copy-pasted landscapes from the original 2010 release that made the relaunch necessary in the first place. YouTube’sSpeakers Network has launched the first…
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The Week In Games: Get In The Car And Drive
The year is almost over, but there are still a few games left to come out, including the trippy, mind-bending racer Drive!Drive!Drive! The premise is that you drive along multiple tracks at once, learning to feel the road beneath you, where it exists, on multiple levels at once. The Pittsburgh synth duo Zombi created the music…
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Speedrun’s Unique Idling Requirement Leads To Temporary Twitch Ban
The third day after embarking on a multi-week speedrun of Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, a streamer who goes by the name Baffan woke up to continue streaming his attempt only to learn that Twitch had temporarily suspended his account for “non-gaming content.” That’s because he had left the game idling all…
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UncategorizedBest Buy Employees Surprise Teen Who Visited Store Every Day To Play Smash Bros.
Some store associates at the Best Buy in Valley Stream, New York took it upon themselves to purchase a Wii U for one of their customers after seeing him come in on most days to play Smash Bros. on the display version of the console located in the store’s game section. The early Christmas present…
By Ethan Gach - Uncategorized
Kojima Calls Guerrilla’s Decima Engine A ‘Rocket’ That Can Take Death Stranding To Jupiter
Hideo Kojima likened the development of Death Stranding using Guerrilla’s Decima Engine to the Space Race during the Cold War in a series of recent tweets. The collaboration with the creators of Horizon Zero Dawn, in Kojima’s words, “enables us to go to the mars but even to the Jupiter.” Metaphorically speaking, at least. While…
By Ethan Gach - Uncategorized
Valve Reveals Sweeping New Patch 7.00 For Dota 2
Valve released notes on Dota 2‘s latest upcoming patch, 7.00, earlier today. The site originally crashed when the notes were first supposed to go live, but is now back up and running with full details on a list of extensive changes that will be coming to Valve’s free-to-play MOBA. Did I say extensive? I meant…
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EsportsValve’s Dota 2 Boston Major Ends Like The Battle Of Thermopylae
An epic game three between OG and Ad Finem in the Grand Finals of this weekend’s premier Dota 2 tournament showed both teams were going to leave everything they had on the stage that night. While the superior OG eventually took the series 3-1, winning $1,000,000, it wasn’t before their Greek opponents could etch their…
By Ethan Gach
