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  1. Close up of Cloud with purple glow in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

    The grasslands lay out before me, the greens and blues seemingly luminous compared to the polluted, labyrinthine city of Midgar. The map screen is a tantalising glimpse of how sprawling this particular region is and icons at the top of the screen tempt me towards the main quest. But all I can think about is playing more cards.

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  2. Close up of Sephiroth standing in fire in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

    Feature | Final Fantasy is a "toy box", says series producer Yoshinori Kitase

    On remakes, side quests, and Tekken.

    "My take on Final Fantasy, and this is quite deliberate, is I don't restrict it to being any one thing," says series producer Yoshinori Kitase. I'd asked him what he felt was the essence of Final Fantasy, especially as so many fans have their own ideas of what the series should be.

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  3. Close up of Aerith praying with black feathers in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

    UPDATE 07/02/24: The demo for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has now been officially announced and is available to download and play immediately.

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  4. Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty screenshot

    Anna Megill has joined CD Projekt Red as lead writer on the studio's upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, codenamed Project Orion.

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  5. Extreme close up of Clive in Final Fantasy 16

    Square Enix will review its development system to improve the quality of its games, company president Takashi Kiryu has announced.

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  6. Jill Valentine in Capcom's Resident Evil 3 remake.

    UPDATE 2.20pm: Microsoft has confirmed the next batch of Xbox Game Pass games.

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  7. Valiant Hearts: Coming Home key art

    Valiant Hearts: Coming Home looks to be making its way to consoles in the future.

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  8. Infinite Craft screengrab showing main area combining words like Tiamat, Ctuhlu, Monster, Dragon, and Lava Cake

    Years back I knew someone who was really into lucid dreaming. They had never actually had a lucid dream, but that inevitably only made them more into it. They read books on lucid dreaming and probably attended symposia on lucid dreaming. Their house was filled with Post-it notes on which they had written, over and over, "IS THIS A DREAM?" before plastering them to every surface, because the books and symposia had all told them that the key to this magical garden was teaching yourself to constantly question whether or not you were dreaming right now.

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  9. Close up of Bonsly crying from the Pokemon anime

    A Twitch streamer has had his custom Pokémon emote removed due to sexual content - even though it's just an innocent Bonsly.

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  10. Meze 99 Neo review: stylish headphones with a warm, detailed sound profile

    Digital Foundry | Meze 99 Neo review: stylish headphones with a warm, detailed sound profile

    These sure are some gorgeous cans.

    I've always been a fan of underdog brands, and Romanian headphone maker Meze definitely counts as one. The company has been making wave amongst audiophiles, and today we have in for review their most affordable headphones - the £185/$199 Meze 99 Neos. These are far from cheap headphones at that price, but when the other end of Meze's range tops out at €4000 they're still relatively modest!

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  11. Henry Cavill in Netflix's The Witcher adaptation

    Henry Cavill has hung up the long white locks of The Witcher's Geralt, and is now ready for his next foray into the gaming adaptation sphere with Warhammer, calling it the "greatest privilege" of his career.

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  12. A screenshot from Super Mario Bros. Wonder showing Mario's transformation into a dungaree-wearing elephant.

    Nintendo remains tight-lipped on the widely-expected launch of Switch 2 this year - except to say that its current Switch hardware would remain its "main business" heading into the year.

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  13. Silent Hill The Short Message official image showing the protagonist in a room with walls covered in notes

    Content Warning: Silent Hill: The Short Message contains explicit and continual themes and references to self-harm, suicide ideation, child neglect, and child abuse. While I won't dwell on these in this review or go into much further detail, please be mindful of this before reading further or, indeed, playing the game yourself.

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  14. A logo for Steam Next Fest's February 2024 edition.

    If it's demos you want, today's your lucky day; Valve's thrice-yearly Steam Next Fest event is back for another outing, this time featuring "hundreds" of demos across its seven-day duration.

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  15. Xbox and PlayStation logos.

    Phil Spencer says Xbox will share "vision for the future" in event next week

    Amid claims Xbox games heading to PlayStation and Switch.

    Following a day of reports pointing to a potentially seismic shift in Microsoft's approach to its first-party games, Xbox boss Phil Spencer has confirmed the company will be sharing its "vision for the future of Xbox" in a "business event" next week.

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  16. Artwork showing Gears of War protagonist Marcus Fenix crouched with a gun in his hand while a fiery explosion fills the background.

    Amid a fresh swirl of reports suggesting Microsoft is at least mulling a dramatic shift in strategy for its first-party Xbox titles, it's been claimed Gears of War - a series that's long been tightly intertwined with Xbox's identity - is also being considered for a PlayStation release.

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  17. An example of Roblox's new text translation feature, with one character speaking English and another in Korean

    Roblox adds instantaneous text translation, plans to translate voices using AI in future

    "We've made something possible... that isn’t even possible in the physical world."

    Roblox is today introducing a new AI feature that will translate a user's real-time text into other languages. Following this, the Roblox team has plans for a feature which will translate voices into different languages with the use of its AI tech.

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  18. apex legends season 20 official cover art of Mirage, Rampart and Crypto

    Apex Legends Season 20 launch date confirmed, new Legend Upgrades explained

    Apex Legends Season 20 adds Legend Upgrades, 120Hz mode, and more Breakout stars.

    Apex Legends: Breakout, the 20th season of the fast-paced battle royale is due to launch on Tuesday, 13th February and there are a few big changes coming including a new Legend Upgrade system, Shields being removed from ground loot and a ranked reset.

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  19. Official Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League image showing evil Superman with the sun flaring behind him

    If there's a sense of burning injustice at Rocksteady Studios, it's probably understandable. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is filled with little moments of brilliance: humour, style, expression, that signature rhythmic, flow-state approach to combat. There's no question - as there rarely is with any video game - that its team was remarkably dedicated to making it as good as it could be. It's just that for each upshot there's a matching, crashing downturn, and in looking for a cause it's difficult to see beyond the ambitions that this game has been asked to juggle.

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  20. Cal Kestis and BD-1 in Star Wars: Jedi Survivor

    Composers Stephen Barton and Gordy Haab won at the Grammy Awards last night for their Star Wars Jedi: Survivor score.

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  21. 2B in Nier: Automata, female character in black with white hair, blindfold, and giant sword

    Tencent was developing a new mobile game for the Nier series but stopped development in December, according to a new report.

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  22. Nate Drake and Elena Fisher in Uncharted Drake's Fortune

    A remake of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune was "considered" to be in the pipeline at PlayStation, a new report has claimed.

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  23. Alisae in Dawntrail trailer

    The Final Fantasy 14 open beta test for Xbox Series X/S will begin on 21st February.

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  24. Jim Carrey as Dr Robotnik in Sonic film looking through a hole in a wall

    UPDATE 05/02/24: More cast members for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 have been announced, joining the returning Jim Carrey.

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  25. A Starfield screenshot showing a pilot in their spaceship cockpit, mountains visible in the distance through the glass.

    Major Xbox console exclusives such as Bethesda's Starfield and the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Great Circle are being considered for launch on Sony's PlayStation 5, as part of a huge shift in strategy by Microsoft.

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  26. The famous Bloodborne promotional image of our hunter facing away from us with expandable cleaver in one hand, blunderbuss-style shotgun in the other, and a long travelling cloak on. The hunter faces a dark and misty city.

    The Last of Us Part 2 originally started out as an "open world game inspired by Bloodborne"

    "I really like that feeling that you get of mastery over the world."

    The Last of Us Part 2 was originally designed as an open-world action game that was heavily inspired by Bloodborne.

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  27. Palworld is spending £378K a month on servers to ensure the service "never goes down"

    Palworld is spending £378K a month on servers to ensure the service "never goes down"

    And CEO Takuro Mizobe jokes Pocketpair may "go bankrupt due to server fees".

    Pocketpair is spending around half a million dollars a month – that's around £378,000 – to keep its sleeper-hit Palworld's servers online.

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  28. Yu-Gi-Oh!

    Konami is releasing a collection of Yu-Gi-Oh! games for Switch and PC via Steam.

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  29. Resident Evil 4 Remake Leon S. Kennedy

    There are "five Resident Evil games in dev[elopment] right now, including Resident Evil 9".

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