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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has 36 side-quests littered across the planet’s surface. And once you finish the main story for Square Enix’s massive RPG, you can choose whether to reset these quests or not. The only tricky part, of course, is that Rebirth’s menu options have some confusing language.
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In a recently released deposition for an October 2023 defamation lawsuit, businessman and eternally online divorcée Elon Musk spoke about the impact his posts on X (formerly Twitter) have had on the business side of the social media site, which he purchased for $44 billion in October 2022. The deposition, which was…
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For a little while now, Sonic the Hedgehog fans have known that 2024 is the year of the blue blur’s angsty rival, Shadow the Hedgehog. He’s getting his own story in the Sonic Generations remaster, he’s starring in the third live-action movie premiering in December, and he’s even getting his own IHOP pancake order. But…
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Bethesda’s open-world RPG Fallout 4 arrived on PC, Xbox One, and PS4 on November 10, 2015. Given that it’s nearing ten years old and is vast enough to easily take up well over a hundred hours of your time, it’s entirely possible that you may have fallen off this title too soon.
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On April 9, Ubisoft released the latest trailer for its upcoming open-world action game, Star Wars Outlaws. And as you might expect, this trailer is packed with small details, characters, hints at what the story will be about, and lots of Star Wars stuff to get all excited (or angry) about.
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In 2022, game studio Blizzard and Chinese internet provider and gaming giant NetEase failed to come to an agreement, ending their 14-year relationship and effectively pulling the former’s marquee titles from Chinese markets. It was a tough blow to both parties, whose partnership helped bring huge titles like World of…
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I am very much enjoying the return to a late-nineties-early-aughts-era style of movie promotions (like Dune: Part Two’s questionable-looking popcorn bucket), so I am excited to present to you what I have dubbed the Twisters Tube. According to a post shared on X (formerly Twitter) by Discussing Film, movie theaters…
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One of the most interesting characters you can meet in Dragon’s Dogma 2 is Wilhelmina. As the proprietress of the Rose Chateau in Vernworth, she knows a lot of secrets about the other citizens dwelling within Capcom’s action RPG. She is also one of the game’s romanceable characters, but to see her whole story and win…
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Physical copies of rare video games sell for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars. Just this past February, an ultra-rare copy of The Legend of Zelda on the NES went for over $700,00, while a mint-conditioned copy of the OG Super Mario Bros. game sold for $114,000 in July 2020. Collectors will slam their…
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When multiple corners of the internet collide, you sometimes stumble upon some of the most absurd, unexplainable nonsense. That’s half my TikTok For You Page, and having firmly set myself on the Pokémon TikTok track, the algorithm feeds me all sorts of videos of Pikachu and all his 1000+ friends.That means I have seen…
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On April 9, after some teasing (and a leak) Ubisoft released a new trailer for its upcoming and highly-anticipated open-world Star Wars game, Star Wars Outlaws. The third-person action-adventure game is being developed by Massive—the same studio behind The Division—and will be out this August.
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Battlefield 2042’s seventh season, going on now, will be the game’s last. While the online shooter will continue to receive some support, EA and Dice are looking forward to what’s next. To help build that future, Motive Studio—the team behind the Dead Space remake—will join the franchise and work on future games in…
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Dredge, the 2023 indie game that was part fishing sim, part cosmic horror, is getting the adaptation treatment. Developer Black Salt games will be partnering with production company Story Kitchen on a live-action film based on the game’s world. Dredge is just the latest in the ever-growing trend of video game…
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Moon Studios, the developer behind the beloved Metroidvanias Ori and the Blind Forest and its sequel, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, is working on No Rest for the Wicked. The action RPG is set to launch this month on April 19 and is a bit of a departure from the Ori series that made the studio famous. But what…
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Troy Baker’s voice is in a lot of games. He’s Booker DeWitt in Bioshock Infinite and Delsin Rowe in Infamous Second Son. He’s Shadow of Mordor’s Talion, Joel in The Last of Us, even Indy himself in the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. His acting career is as long as a grocery receipt from Costco. One game…
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Surprise surprise, Helldivers 2 players did not, in fact, beat the Automatons once and for all. After a lengthy campaign that involved the loss, and subsequent reclamation, of Malevelon Creek—or “Robot Vietnam”—a recent push from Arrowhead Games Studios called Operation Swift Disassembly tasked players with…
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Oops. Someone at Ubisoft accidentally pushed the wrong buttons on a YouTube trailer premiere for Star Wars Outlaws. The latest trailer for the open-world Star Wars game wasn’t published in full, but the premiere page went live alongside the video description a little earlier than it was supposed to. As a result, we…
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Over 60 hours into Rise of the Ronin and I still haven’t discovered everything that Team Ninja’s latest open-world samurai adventure game has to offer. And now, outside of all the cats to collect and fugitives to kill, there’s another secret connected to Nioh that I only just came across. That’s right: William Adams,…
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First there’s a solar eclipse, and now there’s an Avatar: The Last Airbender crossover event in Fortnite. Somewhere out there, a grown man is plotting an attack on the Fire Nation while he and his kids get a victory royale and I think that’s beautiful.
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A new Fanatical PC bundle containing seven Fallout games, basically the entire franchise, is currently available right now for the low price of $25. Even better, many of these games are playable on Steam Deck, too.
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Midori, the reliable leaker known for revealing that Persona 3 Reload would be getting The Answer as DLC, has more news for Persona fans. This time it’s about the inevitable Persona 6, which remains unannounced by Atlus. According to a post on social media from Midori, the dominant color in the next mainline entry’s…
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Ordz Games has revealed a new retro-inspired handheld gaming console that will allegedly let players earn Bitcoins while playing games that are connected to the larger blockchain network. The console isn’t out yet, but will likely cost around $500, according to the company behind the device.
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Final Fantasy is a series that’s been known for its epic summons, god-like entities who’ll aid you in battle. Rebirth introduces a number of classics who you can acquire by defeating them in Chadley’s combat simulator. One of which is Odin, who is notoriously able to swiftly end fights with just one attack. Fittingly,…
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If Hatsune Miku were an actual person and not an insanely popular virtual popstar vocaloid (a software that synthesizes sining from lyric and melody inputs) she’d currently be in hot water with fans after her latest concert series. Miku Expo is an annual international tour where vocaloid developer Crypton Future Media…
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Over the weekend, a lucky few JetBlue fliers were treated to a pleasant surprise as they entered Terminal 5 in New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport: a photo op with none other than Nintendo’s (and gaming’s) leading man, Mario.
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With Sonic the Hedgehog leaping from the small screen to the big one and spawning TV series spin-offs devoted to specific characters (looking at you, Knuckles), executive producer Toby Ascher has said the film franchise will grow to Avengers-level proportions.
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Later this week, the Fallout TV series premieres on Amazon Prime after what feels like years of rumors, hype, and teasing. But before the show has even aired a single second of its first episode, Amazon is set to deliver more post-apocalyptic drama and has seemingly started prepping to film a second season in…
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With the release of the Rising Tide DLC on April 18, Final Fantasy XVI’s story will finally be over. While that doesn’t mean Square Enix is done working on the project (a PC port is still in the works), it does mean fans are curious as to what the team will do next and if we will ever see the game’s world and…