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Final Fantasy VII Remake Continues To Look Like A Brand New Game

Blink and you’ll miss some of the brand new additions to Final Fantasy VII for the remake, as showcased in this new trailer that Square Enix put out in honor of the Tokyo Game Show this week. Among other things, there’s a new boss fight with Reno, some sort of dart minigame, a brand new…

The soundtrack to Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers is now live for digital download on iTunes. Masayoshi Soken’s score offers some of this year’s most powerful moments, and it well worth grabbing if you’re a fan of Final Fantasy XIV or good music in general.

Twenty Years Later, Chrono Cross Remains A Musical Masterpiece

I’m playing Greedfall right now and enjoying myself in spite of some misgivings. One thing I miss at the moment—and it’s something crucial to role-playing games—is a solid musical score. There’s moments of rousing action music, but it’s very limited. That got me thinking: What RPG has the best music? The answer is simple: It’s…

Surprise, NBA 2K20 Is Still Full Of Bullshit Microtransactions

The NBA 2K series has, for years now, been an excellent basketball game beset on all sides by predatory microtransaction practices. If you’re looking for a 2019 update on this eternal struggle, know that the core of NBA 2K20 is still rotten, it’s just not (from what I’ve played so far) quite as rotten as…

Red Dead Online’s New Update Is Great–If You Have Enough Gold

Today’s Red Dead Online update is a big one, adding three new career paths, a battle pass system, improving how combat and movement feel and giving players more ways to earn items, emotes and weapons. This new update gives players more reasons to log in every day, but you might need a lot of gold.…

Put on your funny hats. I’m playing Greedfall with my good pal Paul Tamayo right now on Twitch Come join chat to talk BioWare RPGs, pirate ships, and more! 

Gun Gun Pixies Is A Silly Erotic Game With A Serious Message About Your Health

Gun Gun Pixies for the Nintendo Switch and PC is a third-person shooter-platformer about a pair of miniature aliens learning about human behavior by infiltrating a women’s dorm. It’s silly. It’s racy. There are panty shots galore and lots of censored anime nudity. I expected as much from the latest PQube release. What I did…

Mortal Kombat 11 Rookie Steamrolls Evo Champion SonicFox To Win Major Tournament

The ongoing Mortal Kombat 11 Pro Kompetition made its first and only stop in Canada last weekend, bringing players to the Great White North to compete for a chunk of points towards qualifying for the finals next year. Even with some of the world’s greatest players in attendance, the Mortal Kombat 11 tournament at DreamHack…

Borderlands 3‘s Review Situation Sure Is Strange

Borderlands 3 reviews hit the internet this morning, but only at a select few websites, thanks to a bizarre scenario that publisher 2K says is in place because of security concerns. Typically, video game reviewers work off early retail copies of games provided by publishers. They can be either digital or physical, and they function…

Jump, dash, double jump! Chris and me are hopping into Celeste’s bonus chapter nine right now on Twitch. Come join chat and we’ll talk about life, mountain-climbing, and more!

The Sega Dreamcast Changed My Life

Today is the 20th anniversary of the U.S. release of the Dreamcast, so we thought it was appropriate to reshare this piece on the console’s legacy that originally ran September 9th, 2016. The Sega Dreamcast was released 17 years ago today in the United States. A console defined by experimental games and features far ahead…

‘Attack Bastion’ Stops Being A Joke When Overwatch Pros Use It

For a solid three years, “attack Bastion” was a meme in Overwatch, referring to the idea of using the semi-stationary hero on an offensive play. Now, it’s a serious strategy for serious pro players for when some serious money is on the line. The turret hero Bastion is not very mobile and does the most…

Man Arrested After Allegedly Threatening Osaka Game Company With Arson

A 25-year-old man has been arrested after sending threatening messages to Osaka-based visual novel company Visual Arts. One of the company’s brands, Key, had its visual novels adapted into anime by Kyoto Animation. According to FNN and MBS (via ANN), suspect Toshiki Benikawa, from Shizuoka Prefecture, allegedly sent messages threatening arson and murder to the company…

A Basic Version Of Civilization, Running As An Excel Spreadsheet

As part of a coding jam, s0lly decided to build a version of Civilization…a version based on the original 1991 video game, and which was made and runs inside a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet Here’s the game in action: As you can see, it’s really just approximating the very early days of Civilization, with a handful…

The Latest Minecraft Trend Has Fans Building Creepy, Giant Skeletons

Over on the Minecraft subreddit, a new trend has popped up in the last week or so where players use in-game blocks to build giant skeletons. Some are designed to look like humans or giants, others are built to look like large,dead versions of Minecraft animals or enemies. As usual with these trends, it is…

Mario Maker Contest: Pipes, Pipes And More Pipes, Winners!

Last week I asked you, folks, to create some Mario levels featuring pipes! You delivered, giving me a diverse set of levels featuring every color and shape of pipe. Mario would be proud! This week I got some of the best levels yet! Most of the entries I enjoyed a lot, even if they weren’t…

Wade Callender, the former Gearbox lawyer who has been in a sprawling legal battle with the Borderlands studio and boss Randy Pitchford since late last year, has joined… the National Rifle Association. Yes, really.

After Disappearing For Six Years, Cube World Is Finally Coming Out

The much-anticipated, long-simmering-in-development-hell Cube World is actually coming out, according to its developer, who said today that the exploration game will be out either this month or next. “Cube World will be released on Steam!” wrote developer Wolfram von Funck on Twitter this afternoon, linking to the game’s new Steam page. “Hopefully around the end…

I’m finally jumping back into some Tetris 99 LIVE on our Twitch channel. Come watch me play the newest 2.0 update and join me in the chat.

Dragon Quest Walk, Square Enix’s version of Pokémon Go, will be released in Japan on September 12. No word yet on an international release yet.