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Yes, 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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Best 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…
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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…
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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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3D Printed Case Makes Your Smartphone More Like A Game Boy
Reddit user Gabbelago likes to play games on their smartphone, so they decided to 3D print a case for it that had buttons. The resulting prototype is both practical and elegant. Gabbelago documented the project, titled “EmuCase,” in a series of images uploaded to Imgur yesterday evening “As to if it was designed for Pokemon,…
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New Update Makes It Even Easier To Play Mini Games Like Skee Ball Inside Halo 5
J. Dickinson Este invented the first Skee Ball machine in 1909, and just over a century later, the game has finally made its way into Halo 5 Reddit user AllAboutPenguins tried to recreate the classic arcade variation on bowling using Halo’s now robust level editing tools, and said “I started building a skeeball map before…
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New Trailer Shows Skyblivion Fan Project Is Still Alive And Well
The folks over at TES Renewal Project released a new trailer yesterday updating fans on their progress with Skyblivion, a mod aimed at recreating all of Oblivion inside of Skyrim In a four minute video depicting a trip through Cyrodiil, the capital province of the Empire in Tamriel featured in Oblivion, we see everything from…
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A new trailer shows both Kuma and Panda will be in Tekken 7. The two bears are mainstays of the fighting series and were revealed during this morning’s The King of Iron Fist Tournament 2016 Tekken tournament in Japan. Between Panda’s style and Kuma’s fish, the two look as ferocious as ever.
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A Career Waiter’s Journey To Twitch Cooking Star
In 2014, it seemed like chef Justin Warner’s star couldn’t rise any higher. He was on Zagat’s 30 under 30, he had won season 8 of Food Network Star, which would net him at least a pilot of his own cooking show, and he ran a successful restaurant, Do or Dine. By 2015, he’d lose…
By Gita Jackson
