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I'm going to lose hours playing cards in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
Queen's Blood sucker.
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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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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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth demo out tonight, leak suggests
UPDATE: Demo now live.
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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Fable reboot narrative lead joins Cyberpunk 2077 sequel
Hack in the game.
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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Square Enix reviewing overall game development to improve quality
Will take effect in spring.
Square Enix will review its development system to improve the quality of its games, company president Takashi Kiryu has announced.
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Resident Evil 3 remake one of three leaked Xbox Game Pass titles for February
UPDATE: Full list confirmed!
UPDATE 2.20pm: Microsoft has confirmed the next batch of Xbox Game Pass games.
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Looks like Netflix-exclusive Valiant Hearts: Coming Home headed to consoles
Aorta check it out.
Valiant Hearts: Coming Home looks to be making its way to consoles in the future.
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Feature | Infinite Craft is a powerful glimpse into other minds
Plus toys.
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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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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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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Witcher star Henry Cavill says Warhammer "greatest privilege" of his career
"I'm very happy to be here."
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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Elden Ring mobile game reportedly in development at Tencent
Rune-r has it.
Tencent is developing an Elden Ring mobile game, according to a new report.
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Nintendo says current hardware is "main business" heading into 2024, as Switch 2 reports swirl
New platform.
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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Review | Silent Hill: The Short Message review - a potent but hardly subtle parable
Literal device.
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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Steam Next Fest is back and underway with "hundreds" of playable PC demos
And "hours" of developer streams.
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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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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Gears of War reportedly also being considered for PlayStation release
Alongside Starfield, Indiana Jones, and more.
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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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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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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Review | Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League review - an idea destined to fail
Death by a thousand buffs.
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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Composers Stephen Barton and Gordy Haab won at the Grammy Awards last night for their Star Wars Jedi: Survivor score.
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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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Uncharted: Drake's Fortune remake "considered" by Sony, report suggests
Elena Fisher-ing for more.
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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Final Fantasy 14 Xbox open beta test launches later this month
Ahead of full release.
The Final Fantasy 14 open beta test for Xbox Series X/S will begin on 21st February.
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Jim Carrey returns as Dr. Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 film
UPDATE: More cast members join.
UPDATE 05/02/24: More cast members for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 have been announced, joining the returning Jim Carrey.
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Microsoft mulls major Xbox exclusives Starfield, Indiana Jones for PlayStation 5 - reports
As part of monumental strategy shift.
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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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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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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A Yu-Gi-Oh! collection is coming to Switch and PC via Steam
But only in Japan for now.
Konami is releasing a collection of Yu-Gi-Oh! games for Switch and PC via Steam.
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See no evil, hear no evil.
There are "five Resident Evil games in dev[elopment] right now, including Resident Evil 9".
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