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Of all the creatures and enemies you expect to encounter in Unicorn Overlord, a goat isn’t on that list. Yet goats abound in Vanillaware’s tactics RPG, at least on Albion, an island kingdom that players reach late in the game. These goats are friendly, and produce milk. But befriending these animals and actually…
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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has a lot of mini-games. Some might argue it has too many, some also might argue that there are more than we put on this list. The truth is, Rebirth is full of so many diversions from the strategic, action-based combat that you could argue anything that doesn’t have protagonist Cloud Strife…
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The third week of March was an eclectic one for gaming news. We’re still hyped for Unicorn Overlord, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and the upcoming samurai adventure Rise of the Ronin. But we’re a little less enthusiastic about the new Star Wars remasters. These are the flaming hot takes you need to know for this week.
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We get it, you’re probably very into Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Unicorn Overlord this week. So are we. And if you’re stuck on a tricky boss fight, unsure of who to take out on a date, or want to finish that capture quest, we’ve got you covered.
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Gaming culture is vast and multifaceted, stretching beyond the realm of digital play itself and into areas like online streaming, fast food merchandise and, of course, ill-advised celebrity clothing lines. This week’s news was something of a sampler platter. Sure, we covered big gaming announcements like everything…
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Epic RPG Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has a lot of fighting. Like a lot. Naturally, you’ll want to up your damage output, cast buffs and debuffs to get through these fights, but healing materia is one of the most essential orbs you can snag and slap into your weapon or armor.
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The PS5 Pro rumor mill is turning once again. While some analysts believe Sony’s PlayStation refresh will launch sometime this year, likely before GTA 6 comes out, we still don’t know too much about the console. Now, a new leak suggests the improved PS5 will not only have more teraflops than the Xbox Series X, but…
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Recently, Valve published a list of the top 100 most-played Steam Deck games over the last 12 months. Digging into this much data is fun, and the full list is both a snapshot of recent trends and a reminder that old favorites are some of the most popular options on Valve’s portable PC.
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Stardew Valley’s developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has fired off his latest patch note for the game’s upcoming 1.6 update, and it’s quite possibly the funniest one yet. ConcernedApe is tweeting out a single detail from the 1.6 update’s patch notes once a day until it drops for PC on March 19, and they have all been…
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In 2010, Microsoft shut down Xbox Live servers for the original Xbox. That meant the online components of titles like Phantasy Star Online, Star Wars: Battlefront II, and Halo 2 were completely unavailable to play. While not everybody in 2024 still has access to an original Xbox and is mourning the inability to play…
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Just a little over one month since we were celebrating the Valentine’s Day of Madame Web, Sony’s latest, occasionally greatest, often just most bizarre Spider-Man spinoff is connecting its web to a digital home release. You know, in case you just couldn’t bring yourself to watch outside of the comfort of your own home.
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Third-person co-op shooter Helldivers 2 has captured the hearts and minds of players around the world and the community that has formed around it is enthralling to watch. Players have fully surrendered to the game’s humor and roleplay as soldiers of Super Earth who are out there squishing bugs, lighting up killer…
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If you are playing Minecraft on PC using the Xbox app, be careful before you update the popular open-world survival game. Developer Mojang says you might end up destroying your saved worlds—unless you do some digital repairing.
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If you didn’t know or, like me, completely jettisoned the information from your brain, popular social deduction game Among Us is getting an animated series by way of CBS Studios. Today, Variety reported the series’ cast, and it’s absolutely stacked with talent, including actors from some big franchises like The Lord…
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Metal Gear Solid is a confusing franchise. As someone who’s never played an entry all the way through—other than the superb Revengeance, which isn’t really a Metal Gear Solid game—I’m familiar with the series but always found myself perplexed by its intricate narrative threads that span decades. Thankfully, David…
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One of the coolest things The Pokémon Company sometimes does in its trading card game is make multiple cards whose images tell a story. It’s happened several times over the years, such as a set of Tepig, Pignite, and Emboar cards showing a Pokémon growing up alongside its family, or a Quaxly, Quaxwell, and Quaquavel…
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One of 2024's breakout hits is the monster-taming survival title Palworld. While still technically in early access, the game’s melting pot of popular genres has helped it quickly reach widespread popularity and achieve high sales since January 19. Now developer Pocketpair is ready to add more content to the game in…
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A new Xbox giveaway is happening right now and you can win a cool-looking Final Fantasy-themed Xbox Series X console. It looks awesome! It also, uh, apparently doesn’t actually work.
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I’d like to believe that developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone is having a blast tweeting out daily lines of Stardew Valley’s forthcoming 1.6 update. It all started with a stray patch note about fruit trees and has very quickly become a ritual for the most devout Stardew Valley players. Every time ConcernedApe has…
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The Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection launched on March 14, and it sounds like it’s a bit of a mess. As of this writing, the compilation has mostly “Overwhelmingly Negative” user reviews on Steam, with only 19 percent of over 4000 scores being positive. Fans are complaining of online server instability and…
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Publishers are always trying to find the best way to sell the latest game to players. Usually that is done in the form of flashy trailer showing off the game’s mechanics and story. But recently there’s been a new approach, hiring respected British actors to explain a game to fans. It’s a weird micro-trend, and the…
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One of 2024's biggest games, Palworld, was not developed by a big team. In fact, Pocketpair founder Takuro Mizobe recently told Bloomberg that the studio is tight-knit because it’s modest in size, comprising just 55 people in Tokyo. Mizobe also said that he not only wants to keep Pocketpair independent, but that the…
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As it turns out, the Dune: Part Two sandworm-shaped monstrosity that AMC is passing off as a popcorn bucket isn’t the only one of its kind. In fact, since 2019, AMC has apparently made a killing selling all kinds of collectible tie-in buckets for the year’s biggest blockbusters, from Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker to Tay…
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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the second installment of Square Enix’s audacious project to remake the original 1997 RPG, released on February 29. In the weeks since its launch, it’s clear that Rebirth is a massive RPG full of a wide variety of side activities and quests, but it also weaves an equally epic and cryptic tale
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It seems like there is always some great sale or bundle on Steam filled with outstanding games. The ubiquitous PC games storefront is best known for its seasonal sales that offer some of the biggest games at huge discounts.
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The Epic Games Store offers free games every week, with some freebies being better than others. For example, one of January’s free games was developer Eidos-Montréal’s excellent action-adventure game Guardians of the Galaxy, while February saw a couple of Fallout games go up for $0. Right now, one of the free games…
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Helldivers 2 is one of the biggest (and best) games of 2024 so far so it shouldn’t surprise you that PlayStation is looking to capitalize on the sci-fi co-op shooter’s success with some new spiffy merchandise, including a mug that I might just add to my collection.
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Video game weapon replicas are expensive and often used just for cosplay purposes. But let’s be honest—they’re also pretty freakin’ cool display items. I don’t have any intention of cosplaying as an Elden Ring Tarnished warrior trying to become an Elden Lord any time soon, but looking at this replica of the Dark Moon…
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Gameloft, the company behind Disney games Dreamlight Valley and Speedstorm, has announced that it is working on a Dungeons & Dragons life-sim RPG that will be set in the Forgotten Realms, the same universe in which Baldur’s Gate III (and many other D&D adventures) take place.
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Every year the video game industry gets together during the Game Awards to celebrate the latest and greatest in interactive entertainment. But what about recognizing old games as the best of the best, the ones that boldly innovated new possibilities and paved the way for the best games of today? That’s where the World…