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Players like to vent their frustrations about games online, and that’s their right when it’s all impersonal. Write angry social media posts, be my guest, scribble a bad review on Steam. But when you’re attacking a developer on their personal social media page, things have gone too far. Square Enix is cracking down on such harassment in the court of law, deanonymizing one player who was harassing its developers and forcing them to apologize. The Final Fantasy 14 developer promises to “take strict measures” against further instances. Whether the player in question sent their Final Fantasy 14 grievances directly to…
Microsoft has confirmed the rest of this month’s Game Pass titles for Xbox console, PC and cloud streaming.The 10 games, which are set to release over the next couple of weeks, include Vampire Crawlers, Kiln and Final Fantasy 5.Game Pass has been gradually making all the past Final Fantasy games available, with Final Fantasy 4 added to the service on April 7.The full list of games confirmed for Game Pass for the rest of April is as follows:Coming to Xbox Game PassLittle Rocket Lab (Cloud, Console, and PC) – April 21 – Now with Game Pass Premium; joining Game Pass…
JackSepticEye says he’s putting “all the pressure in the world” on himself to deliver the best Bloodborne movie possible.Speaking with RadioTimes Gaming at the BAFTA Games Awards, the Irish YouTuber described the FromSoftware title as his “favorite game ever made”, as he also revealed that the team behind the adaptation will soon start searching for possible writers and directors.”I’m just super excited that anything Bloodborne is being talked about or being mentioned again in 2026,” JackSepticEye, whose real name is Seán William McLoughlin, told the publication. “Especially after people heard news of [PlayStation-owned developer] Bluepoint [Games] getting shut down, which…
As if catching the same briny breeze as early access darling Windrose, unannounced but blatantly obvious Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced, and, uh, Soulframe, there’s yet more pirates coming in yet more pirate games. Publishers Hooded Horse have announced Corsair Cove, an island citybuilder and freebooter colony management sim in the works at Tropico 6 and Park Beyond devs Limbic Entertainment. Hoving into view sometime in 2026, Corsair Cove will have you hammering up a simple shanty town into a bustling pirate kingdom, while sending out ships in search of booty and/or to fight those narcs, the Crown. There’s an…
There’s always one person who takes trash talk too far. There’s always someone ragequitting because they get (rightfully) knocked for hurling racist, sexist, or other-ist abuse down voice chat in even the most benign online games. I grew up in Modern Warfare 2 lobbies, where I saw the worst of humanity coalesce into an amorphous blob of abuse and expletives. But there’s an element of safety behind a screen; safety which was breached at the DACH CS Masters Counter-Strike 2 tournament this weekend, where one player sucker punched another live on stage after some mild trash talk. The player, known…
Polymega manufacturer Playmaji has announced that the long-promised Polymega Remix will be released next month along with the Polymega App.Polymega is an emulation-based console which was originally released in May 2021, and lets players rip their own physical cartridges and CDs to its hard drive.The $450 console has numerous add-on Element Modules, each of which adds a new cartridge slot and controller support for a different retro console (such as NES, SNES, Mega Drive / Genesis, TurboGrafx-16 / PC Engine, N64, Atari 2600 and Atari 7800).However, the company has continually suffered from stock issues, while some players have found the…
The Pragmata secret ending unlocks only after you’ve 100%’d the game, equipped the special Black Box Mod, and defeated the final boss a second time in the Unknown Signal mode. It’s quite a commitment as finding all those collectibles isn’t easy. And to set expectations, the secret ending isn’t especially exciting to watch, adding only a single line of dialogue to the regular ending, but it does have some interesting implications for the future. So, with full spoilers ahead, here’s everything you need to do to unlock the secret ending for Pragmata and what it means.Major spoilers for both of…
Pensive and flamboyant action-RPG Soulframe has just received a new update that adds a pirate class, together with rapiers, cutlasses, and a flouncy sailor’s outfit. The class in question is the Duelo pact, which boasts of “swashbuckling abilities”: these include an artful dodge that spawns a decoy phantom, an enemy-slowing sword flourish, and the old classic ‘flintlock to the face’ manoeuvre. They’re also introducing a haunted shipwreck environment, plus a bunch of new enemies, another siege infiltration activity, and the ever-popular quality-of-life improvements. “WHY ARE ALL GAMES ABOUT PIRATES NOW,” I lamented to James, before starting this article. James ignored…
Intel Nova Lake is expected to be the next generation of Intel desktop gaming CPUs and arrive under the Core Ultra 400D and 400DX naming scheme. Despite the 400 in their name, these will be just the second generation of Core Ultra desktop CPUs, but are expected to bring huge increases in core counts and cache levels over the current Intel Core Ultra 200 / Arrow Lake series. The arrival of Nova Lake is expected to be Intel’s first serious threat to the dominance of AMD’s AM5 X3D chips, when it comes to being the best gaming CPU in the…
Former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida claims he was “fired” from his role as SIE Worldwide Studios president because he didn’t listen to then-CEO Jim Ryan.The popular executive quit Sony last year after 31 years at the company, where he helped launch the original PlayStation, and served as its president of SIE Worldwide Studios between 2008 and 2019.In 2019 it was announced that Yoshida had stepped down to work on a new initiative focusing on building relationships with indie developers, with Hermen Hulst replacing him as president.Since then, however, Yoshida has stated a number of times that it wasn’t his decision…