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Digital Foundry | Final Fantasy 7 Remake on PC is a disappointing, barebones port
And there are performance problems too.
Nearly two years after its debut, Final Fantasy 7 Remake is finally available for PC. It's a port of the PlayStation 5 'Intergrade' version that came out earlier this year and as you may have seen from the headlines, it's a contentious release to say the least. While Square-Enix's conversion retains all of the graphical features of the PS5 game, it's a barebones release, plagued with awful hitching and stutter problems and one of the most basic options screens we've seen in years from a major release.
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Recommended | Loop Hero review - Round and round the garden...
Stroll-playing game.
Editor's note: Hello! Over the next few days we're running a "Games That Got Away" series, where we finally get round to reviewing games that released at some point in 2021 but, for various reasons, we couldn't quite manage to cover at the time.
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FIFA 22 is the UK's Christmas number one
EA has more Christmas hits than any other publisher.
FIFA 22 is the UK's Christmas number one this year, at least by physical sales.
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PlayStation Holiday Sale launches today
Discounts on console exclusives.
The PlayStation Store's Holiday Sale begins today with discounts on exclusive games.
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Halo Infinite's Winter Contingency event launches
Event brings change to reward roll-out.
Halo Infinite's holiday event Winter Contingency has launched, featuring various Christmas related rewards.
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Ubisoft to continue with NFT platform Quartz despite criticism
"We will stay true to our three principles".
Ubisoft's NFT platform Quartz has been hit with a considerable backlash, especially as the numbers so far appear laughable.
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Unreleased hand drawn cinematic for Bioware's Sonic RPG surfaces online
Sonic intro unleashed.
A previously unreleased 2D intro cinematic for Sonic RPG Sonic Chronicles has surfaced online.
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Twitch co-founder's new NFT platform hit with NFT scam through Discord hack
Community duped for $150,000.
Twitch co-founder Justin Kan last week launched a new platform to sell NFTs, but its Discord server was hacked and hit by an NFT-selling scam.
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Final Fantasy 6 pixel remaster due February 2022
Still under Locke and key.
The Final Fantasy 6 pixel remaster now has a release date of February 2022.
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Feature | 2021 in review: How Deathloop emboldened this boring player to take risks
3am Eternalist.
Hello! Over the next few days we're going to be going back over some of our favourite games and moments and themes and whatnot from this very strange year. We hope you enjoy looking back with us!
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Let off steam with this Doom NFT mod
Ape escape.
As the games industry reels from NFT backlash, a new mod has been created for Doom 2 that allows you to screenshot monkeys.
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Feature | The 20 best Pokémon games of all time
Unova list feature.
Although the Pokémon series has been around for 25 years now, it has seldom been more current, with the Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl remakes just released, and the hotly anticipated brand new game, Pokémon Legends Arceus, due very soon in early 2022. And Pokémon is more than just a series of core RPGs. Those are a major part of it, of course, but then so is the trading card game, and the anime, the movies, the cafés... Although the series has been around for 25 years now, it has seldom been more current, with the Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl remakes just out and the hotly anticipated brand new game, Pokémon Legends Arceus, due very soon in early 2022.
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Ubisoft's NFT platform, Quartz, caused quite a stir when it was announced at the beginning of the month.
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Feature | Final Fantasy 14 Endwalker is a storytelling masterpiece
A fitting climax, and a promising foundation for what's to come.
Towards the beginning of Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker, an unnamed soldier hands a man from the opposing side a coffee-filled mug. After dealing with countless hardships throughout the story, filled with destruction and death, the soldier tells the man, "It's the little things that make life worth living, don't you think so?" This single statement was enough to bring me to tears. Final Fantasy 14 is one of those little things in my life that has brought so much joy and comfort in the past two years of hardships around the world.
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Intel chief reiterates global chip shortage will continue into 2023
"Exploding demand has persisted".
Intel chief Pat Gelsinger has reiterated the global chip shortage is set to continue into 2023.
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Ubisoft staff leaving in "the great exodus"
Resignations at all levels of the business.
Staff are leaving Ubisoft in what's been dubbed "the great exodus".
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Hello! Over the next few days we're going to be going back over some of our favourite games and moments and themes and whatnot from this very strange year. We hope you enjoy looking back with us!
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PC owners of the GTA Trilogy remaster can claim an extra game for free
Players have until January 5 2022.
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition has received mixed reviews from the community and reviewers alike, thanks to a myriad of technical issues and contentious artistic choices.
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Recommended | Age of Empires 4 review - the classic RTS rediscovered and restored
Wololonderful.
Editor's note: Hello! Over the next few days we're running a "Games That Got Away" series, where we finally get round to reviewing games that released at some point in 2021 but, for various reasons, we couldn't quite manage to cover at the time.
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Review | Kid A Mnesia: Exhibition review - a striking audiovisual tour
Trippy down memory lane.
Editor's note: Hello! Over the next few days we're running a "Games That Got Away" series, where we finally get round to reviewing games that released at some point in 2021 but, for various reasons, we couldn't quite manage to cover at the time.
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It's been out for less than a week on PC, but modders have already started work on manipulating Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade.
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Feature | 2021 in review: One of the best years for visual novels
A novel occurrence.
Hello! Over the next few days we're going to be going back over some of our favourite games and moments and themes and whatnot from this very strange year. We hope you enjoy looking back with us!
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Recommended | WRC 10 review - a feast of off-road delights
Gazoo kid.
Editor's note: Hello! Over the next few days we're running a "Games That Got Away" series, where we finally get round to reviewing games that released at some point in 2021 but, for various reasons, we couldn't quite manage to cover at the time.
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Feature | 2021 in review: Spacing out with The Artful Escape
Not so mellow.
Hello! Over the next few days we're going to be going back over some of our favourite games and moments and themes and whatnot from this very strange year. We hope you enjoy looking back with us!
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Battlefield 2042's first season reportedly won't be released until March 2022
Plus new map details.
The first season of Battlefield 2042 won't be released until March next year at the earliest.
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Feature | Dicebreaker Recommends: Fog of Love, a board game about roleplaying relationships that's all heart
Valentine's cards.
Dicebreaker Recommends is a series of monthly board game, RPG and other tabletop recommendations from our friends at our sibling site, Dicebreaker. Don't forget to also check-out their list of the best couple's board games.
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Sand together.
Dicebreaker Recommends is a series of monthly board game, RPG and other tabletop recommendations from our friends at our sibling site, Dicebreaker. Don't forget to also check-out their list of the best family board games.
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Feature | Dicebreaker Recommends: Hanabi, a crowdpleasing co-op card game worthy of summer nights
One explosively good game.
Dicebreaker Recommends is a series of monthly board game, RPG and other tabletop recommendations from our friends at our sibling site, Dicebreaker. Don't forget to also check-out their list of the best co-op board games.
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You up-holstery?
Dicebreaker Recommends is a series of monthly board game, RPG and other tabletop recommendations from our friends at our sibling site, Dicebreaker. Don't forget to also check-out their list of the best two-player board games.
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PS Plus owners of Final Fantasy 7 Remake get free PS5 upgrade this week
It's all in the cloud.
PlayStation Plus subscribers who previously redeemed a digital copy of Final Fantasy 7 Remake will be able to upgrade to the PlayStation 5 version from Wednesday at no extra cost.
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