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The Final Fantasy 14 team at Square Enix has just done the smartest thing possible right now by capitalizing on the hugely positive response to patch 7.4 with the return of the FF14 free login campaign. The special event allows lapsed players to come back and check out the latest additions, from the new story content to the final act of Dawntrail’s Arcadion raid series, along with all of the quality-of-life tools that have just been rolled out. With player sentiment at its highest since Endwalker wrapped up, it’s a good time to find out why. There was no question…
Larian Studios is peeking over the shoulders of mod makers, at least when it comes to user interface ideas, while making its next big CRPG, Divinity.After a gruesome debut trailer last month and a hefty dollop of controversy around generative AI, the Baldur’s Gate 3 developer just yesterday decided to hold an online AMA centred around Divinity, answering questions big and small about everything from co-op party sizes to D&D limitations.When asked if the team were looking to Baldur’s Gate 3 modders for inspiration, design lead Nick Pechenin confirmed that “we’re taking notes on all of the UI mods for…
Ah, hello, Prince Arthur. This is King Dutch. Long time no see. We thought today would be a good day for rolling. The katamari. The gunslinger suffering from tuberculosis. Where the first rolls the second follows. Roll, roll, roll. That, essentially, is the ethos behind a Red Dead Redemption 2 mod which streamer Blurbs created late last year, and has since shown off in a video that’s heavy on large masses of horses and pardners being rolled into rootin’ tootin’ chaos balls.
Decided to kick off your weekend with a couple of rounds of Apex Legends and a couple of cold brewskis? Well, if you ended up heading to bed early when your Ballistic lived up to his name by slamming every bullet you own into a cliff face without your involvement, don’t go blaming the ol’ liquid courage. Turns out someone has managed to find a way to “control the inputs of another player remotely,” says Respawn Entertainment. While the studio says it was able to curb the issue within a few hours, it’s never a good thing for the reputation…
As Housemarque celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, it’s definitely on the up. It doesn’t feel that long ago (but it was – 2017!) that the studio announced it wouldn’t be making small, arcade-like games any more, which was an incredibly sad day given its prior output. But having made Returnal, a standout title in PS5’s line-up, the decision (and Sony’s purchasing of the developer) was vindicated – now backed by big budgets, spiritual successor Saros is looking to evolve on this new concept of glossy, twitchy play. Made to push the power of the PS5, it’s set for release…
As the Bob Dylan song goes, how many lush alien planets must a Man presumptuously land on and turn into poorly optimised Toyota plants before he finally decides he’s sick of being an extractivist piece of shit? Dylan was being rhetorical, but I studied at the school of Homer Simpson, and want you to give me an actual figure. I’m going to say: four and a half. If you’ve yet to hit your personal quota, well, here’s StarRupture out now in early access.
Care to kick off your new year with another potentially massive waste of time? I mean that in a good way. The best way, actually. As someone who benched their annual festive WoW Classic play for a renewed stab at Old School Runescape, if my Hardcore Ironman team doesn’t materialize in the next couple of days, Dreadmyst, a new indie MMO in the style of ’90s isometric point and click adventures, might become my next obsession. And with plenty more to come, it could very well be shaped into one of the best MMORPGs of the new year. Dreadmyst, a…
Baldur’s Gate 3 developer, Larian, has suggested that any potential Nintendo Switch 2 port of the critically acclaimed RPG is out of its hands.The Game of the Year-winning RPG is already available on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, but many fans have been asking for a Nintendo Switch 2 port, which would allow them to play it on the go with Joy-Con controllers.In a Reddit AMA held on Friday, Larian CEO Swen Vincke was asked if Baldur’s Gate 3 will ever come to Switch 2, and if it’s even technically possible, considering the size of the RPG.Vincke indicated…
There’s a deep, dark, and milky secret about a handful of highly successful developers on Steam: Valve likes to send them chocolates at the end of the year. Rumors about Valve’s mysterious “chocolate tier” have become more prominent over the past year or so, and it very much seems that those whispers are true.Perhaps the most detailed breakdown of chocolate tier out there comes courtesy of games marketing consultant Chris Zukowski, who published a video in December laying out the basics as he understands them from speaking with developers over the years. According to Zukowski, Valve will send out a…
While it hasn’t taken as commanding a stranglehold over the world’s collective consciousness as its debut series did, the second helping of Amazon’s Fallout TV show is succeeding in helping drive a number of extra Steam players back to the wasteland. That said, a number of said wastelands being heavily discounted as part of the platform’s recently concluded winter sale likely hasn’t hindered those efforts.