I reckon one of the benefits of being the director on multiple games is you can just give ’em crossover events without too much faff, and with Naoki Yoshida being at the helm of both Final Fantasy 14 and Final Fantasy 16, it makes an awful lot of sense to mash them together into one cool questline.
That’s exactly what’s happening in the critically acclaimed MMO later this year, with crossover quest series The Path Infernal giving us PC players a chance to get some tangential Final Fantasy 16 goodies down our gullets. We didn’t get a whole lot of info, but a video played during the London Fan Festival keynote showed the Warrior of Light going toe-to-toe with eikon Ifrit with some special Final Fantasy 16 dodges and moves thrown in, and even a glimpse of protagonist Clive Rosfield f…
Walking around on the planet Arrakis, also known as Dune, is a dicey proposition. Gargantuan sandworms are attracted by the rhythmic tremors caused by footsteps and quickly arrive to gulp down whoever is stomping around on the sandy dunes.
That’s where the sandwalk comes in, a method of dune traveling practiced by Arrakis natives known as Fremen. In his novel Dune, Frank Herbert describes the sand walk as making your footsteps “sound like the natural shifting of sand” to avoid alerting the sandworms. “Step… drag… drag… step… step… wait… drag… step…”
PC Gamer editor Wes Fenlon recently interviewed Funcom’s Joel Bylos, creative director of upcoming survival MMO Dune: Awakening, and asked if sandwalking would be a part of …
Do Kwon, former crypto darling and now fugitive, was arrested in Montenegro this March while attempting to flee to Dubai. The High Court in Podgorica, the Montenegrin capital, has now given approval for Do Kwon’s extradition, though whether he’ll be off to South Korea or the US, both of which have open arrest warrants for him, remains to be decided.
Do Kwon was the main player and public face of the TerraUSD stablecoin and the self-described “Lunatic” driving the Luna cryptocurrency. You can probably tell where this is going. The more-or-less overnight collapse of both caused a loss of around $40 billion on crypto markets and was the major factor behind the 2022 catastrophe-slash-contagion that saw FTX go under, with its founder Sam Bankman-Fried now facing a leng…
World of Warcraft: The War Within has launched—although, if you had enough dough to shell out for the early access, you’ve already been playing it for a few days. And while it’s early on in the expansion’s lifecycle (I’m about two-thirds of the way through the second zone myself, as a complete-all-side quests fiend) things seem to be going pretty well.
The expansion represents a few major gear-shifts from Blizzard, angling for more detailed storytelling with better villains, the ability to engage with most of its story content solo (yes, even raids) and the further development of evergreen mechanics like Warbands to shore up the game experience.
So far, so good. The game’s subreddit has quite a few early birds singing its praises already based on, quite literally, vibe…
Survival game Icarus launched back in December of 2021, and since then developer RocketWerkz has not been sitting idle. The studio has delivered an impressive number of small updates, missions, and tweaks to Icarus every single week, along with bigger expansions and features along the way.
While it’s been a minute since I’ve played Icarus, the latest update immediately solidified my weekend plans. Sorry, Diablo 4, your demons are gonna have to wait. I’m going fishing on planet Icarus.
The new update, called Galileo, adds a robust fishing system to the planetary survival game, including three types of fishing rods, 23 lures, fishing traps, and 53 different species of fish to catch in its lakes, rivers, and ponds. That’s a lot of fish. Challenge accepted.
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Few game communities have had to learn patience like Japanese RPGs fans. Series like Nihon Falcom’s Ys have historically taken well over a year to see an official English translation. Yet the latest entry in the series, Ys 10: Nordics, is slated to launch worldwide three months quicker than its predecessor Ys 9: Monstrum Nox did compared to its respective Japanese release. According to publisher NIS America, it’s a sign of things to come.
During a recent digital showcase of Ys 10: Nordics, I had the opportunity to ask NIS America’s Alan Costa if we should expect to see faster turnarounds on translations for RPGs such as this in the future. His response was to the point: “Yes.”
“I can’t really talk specifically to what we’ve done internally to do so, b…
Alienware was first out of the gate with a true OLED gaming monitor in the Alienware 34 AW3423DW back in early 2022. But it was arguably the revised “F” model that followed a year later that really hit the spot. Truly, the Alienware 34 AW3423DWF was a magnificent gaming monitor.
Happily, it’s now subject to a serious haircut thanks to this year’s round of Prime Day deals. Yes, please.
I preferred the F model for one very obvious reason. It has a glossy coating to the non-F’s matte anti glare finish. As I said at the time, the glossy coating really lets the OLED panel tech sing.
That the “F” model was also cheaper that added to the appeal, though “cheaper” is relative. It was still a $1,100 monitor at launch. Whatever, the $200 savings (back then) was possible because…
If you’re thinking of taking the plunge and buying an ultrawide gaming monitor this Prime Day, well, I don’t blame you. I never used to be a fan of ultrawides, but having used quite a few over the past few years and experiencing the benefits of a stretched out screen, I have to admit I’ve become a convert.
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Being able to stretch out multiple windows over a very wide screen boosts productivity, there’s no doubt, and—while it takes some getting used to for gaming—once you’ve gone wide, it’s difficult to go back.
But if you thought going ultrawide meant spending ultra money, you’d be wrong. I’ve collected five of the best ultrawide gamin…
Companies raised over Rs 52,000 crore through mainboard IPOs in 2023, demonstrating resilience amidst global volatility driven by rising interest rates and geopolitical risks.
However, the number of issues rose, marking a dynamic trend. Despite this, experts maintain a strong bullish outlook on the IPO market for 2024. Excluding LIC’s blockbuster maiden public issue of Rs 20,557 crore in 2022, the collection from initial public offerings (IPOs) increased by an impressive 36% this year.
2023 has unequivocally been the year of initial public offerings, witnessing 173 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and 52 mainboard listings. The market has seen outstanding debuts and subscriptions.
Meet the daughter of Hyderabad’s richest man, who help…