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The Red Village Announces $6.5M Seed Round Led by Animoca Brands and GameFi Ventures Fund
2.6.2022
PRESS RELEASE. 3 June, 2022 — Sydney, Australia: Play-and-Earn game The Red Village has announced $6.5M in seed funding from some of the world’s leading blockchain investors, including Animoca Brands and GameFi Ventures Fund, to create an immersive dark-fantasy ecosystem targeted at traditional...
Final Fantasy X’s Blitzball Now Exists In Star Wars, Sort Of
31.5.2022
Hey! Remember Blitzball? It was that weird-looking, but also kind of cool underwater sport from Final Fantasy X? Well, now Blitzball is (sort of) a part of the Star Wars universe thanks to a person who used to write about the NHL and his new book starring Anakin and Obi-Wan. Read more
What To Expect From Sony’s Big Not-E3 Press Conference
31.5.2022
This year’s not-E3-but-basically-E3 kicks off on Thursday with Sony’s big summer State of Play showcase. PlayStation has already had a pretty banner year, thanks to a number of exclusives (Horizon Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7, Ghostwire: Tokyo) and a forthcoming revamp of its subscription...
Final Fantasy XIV Players Are Once Again Free To AFK (And Dance) Forever
26.5.2022
With lengthy wait times a distant memory, the Final Fantasy XIV team is ready to return to normalcy by letting folks stay logged in forever, no matter how long they go without, you know, actually playing the massively multiplayer online game.Read more
Yoshitaka Amano Makes Batman Look Like Final Fantasy And I’m Here For It
25.5.2022
A future issue of DC Comics’ Detective Comics (that’s Detective Comics Comics’ Detective Comics for those of you keeping score at home) will feature a variant cover by none other than prolific Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano, the company’s August 2022 catalog announces.Read more
This Beautiful Farming Sim Combines Chinese Fantasy With Stardew Valley
24.5.2022
Last Friday, when I started playing Steam Early Access farming sim Immortal Life, I was only planning to play for a couple of hours before bed. I finally ended my session at 5 a.m. It’s a standout among farming sims because it tries to emulate the verisimilitude of life instead of the dreary...
Konkurence pro Zaklínače? Poláci chystají další temné fantasy RPG
24.5.2022
Chystá se další herní adaptace polské knižní série. Mordimer Madderdin sice v tuto chvíli nemá mezinárodní proslulost jako zaklínač Geralt, to by se ale díky chystané hře mohlo změnit. Obzvláště s přihlédnutím k tomu, jak originálně působí její svět
The PS5's Worst Game Is Taking A Long, Hard Look At Itself
23.5.2022
Babylon’s Fall fell indeed, and now the live-service loot slasher’s next season is going to last twice as long as Square Enix had originally planned. After promising players everything was just fine a couple months ago, Platinum Games is now planning to “re-evaluate” its future content plans.Read...
The Halo Show’s First Season Closes With Uncertainty And Promise
20.5.2022
With “Transcendence,” the ninth and final episode of the Halo show’s premiere season, a lot is uncertain. This show has been a giant experiment of taking a “spaghettified” collection of Halo games, books, comics, and other related media and funneling that into an on-screen adaptation firmly rooted...
Superstar Final Fantasy XIV Producer’s First Square Enix Game Was Canceled
19.5.2022
Naoki Yoshida, the man often credited with turning Final Fantasy XIV around after the MMO’s miserable launch and who is now in charge of bringing the upcoming Final Fantasy XVI to life, wasn’t always the superstar we know him as today. In fact, the higher-ups at Square Enix canceled Yoshida’s very...
Gaming’s Best Character Creators, From Demon’s Souls To Final Fantasy
19.5.2022
Sometimes I think I like sliding into a character creator sandbox more than the game it’s attached to. Character creators let me play a benevolent god that only creates hot people—like Abercrombie in the 2010s, except I’m a socialist. I feel powerful and clever until I run smack into a wall:...
New 40K Game Is XCOM With Space Marines, And It's Great
12.5.2022
Like I’ve said before, there are too many Warhammer games, and one of the big downfalls of that carefree licensing is that when there are so many games coming out with the same branding they just become background noise. Which is a shame when one comes along that deserves to stand out.Read more
Final Fantasy XIV Players Sent To In-Game Jail As Devs Mull Mod Controversy
12.5.2022
At least two Final Fantasy XIV players pulled into an in-game jail by moderators while streaming the massively multiplayer online game this week. Many believe this was done to reprimand them for using third-party modifications to optimize HUD details for high-level raiding, a frequent pain point...
Final Fantasy XIV Mod Drama May Prompt Official HUD Upgrades, Director Says
9.5.2022
As part of a larger blog reiterating the Final Fantasy XIV team’s disapproval of mods following their prevalence in a high-profile raid event, producer and director Naoki Yoshida promised to improve the massively popular game’s HUD to match the functionality of these unofficial tools.Read more
Meet The Only Person Keeping Action RPG Babylon’s Fall Alive
9.5.2022
Babylon’s Fall, the troubled live-service action-RPG from action game luminaries Platinum Games, has seemingly hit life support. After two months on the market and a lukewarm reception at launch, Square Enix’s latest effort was reduced to just one player on PC last week. They revealed themselves...
40K Developers Criticised Over Dumb Twitch Drops
9.5.2022
Complex Games, the developers of the new Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters, have issued a statement apologising to players after running a campaign where certain in-game items were only available to those who sat through some Twitch streams.Read more
Even Game Pass Knows It’s Backlog Season
3.5.2022
It’s that time of year again, when the release cadence cools down a bit, giving you time to make your way through your backlog from the spring (or the fall). Game Pass, for the moment, isn’t adding too much to the top, and is in fact removing quite a bit from the bottom. Here’s everything coming...
Final Fantasy VII Remake Mod Gives Barret A Classic Amano Makeover
30.4.2022
A new Final Fantasy VII Remake mod gives party member Barret Wallace an updated aesthetic that hews closer to the pre-development concept art created by famed illustrator Yoshitaka Amano.Read more
Final Fantasy XIV’s Newest Raid Is Blowing Everyone’s Minds
28.4.2022
Final Fantasy XIV’s latest update saw Square Enix give serious players a new “ultimate” raid to conquer. The last few days have been a whirlwind as groups try to be the first to complete the raid, known as Dragonsong’s Reprise, and new developments concerning the potential revival of a dearly...
Final Fantasy XIV's Director Is Asking You Not To Be Jerks
28.4.2022
Final Fantasy XIV recently introduced a new 5v5 player-vs-player mode called Crystalline Conflict. And while for the most part it seems to be going just fine, and folks are happy with it, the team behind the game aren’t as happy with some people’s behaviour in the mode, and so have taken the time...