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While Final Fantasy XV may have taken awhile to finally release, Square Enix has been adamant to continue giving players a reason to return to the 2016 JRPG. While the beginning of the post-content road map consisted of episodic stories before expanding into a new multiplayer mode, future DLC content sees those plans coming full-circle, with new story expansions expected to be released. In an interview with Polygon, Final Fantasy 15 director Hajime Tabata revealed that the next set of DLC coming to the game should be referred to as a “brand new story....

Last month, Illinois state representative Marcus Evans Jr. filed HB3531, which wants to amend an existing law that prevents the sale of certain video games to minors. The amendment would instead ban violent video games like Grand Theft Auto 5 that show “psychological harm” from being sold to anyone, minors and adults alike. Evans filed this amendment as a response to the rise in carjackings in the Chicago area. Spieltimes recently conducted an interview with Evans to discuss the proposed amendment....

Last month, Riot Games accidentally pushed out the patch notes for patch 2.06 in Valorant early, even before the patch went live in the game. This patch added some noticeable buffs to Yoru, and Viper, while further nerfing Bucky shotgun. Fast-forwarding to yesterday, Riot did something similar with the upcoming patch 2.07 in Valorant. Yesterday, ValorLeaks tweeted out the complete patch notes for this upcoming patch that features buffs to Astra and changes to Viper and Raze....

VALORANT has taken Twitch by storm. Its closed beta fired up earlier this month, causing a massive surge in viewership on the platform. Although armies of VALORANT viewers may sound nice to Riot Games – the overwhelming response isn’t as authentic as it seems. Riot and Twitch partnered up to give fans a shot a gaining access to the beta via “drops.” This was a fantastic marketing idea. It was so good, in fact, that it’s now created negative side-effects....

The Vampire: The Masquerade Companion has brought three of the thirteen clans into the modern World of Darkness. Today, we’re going to look at the new iteration of clan Tzimisce and how they compare to the fiends of old. In the old World of Darkness, the greatest threat to the Masquerade was a faction known as the Sabbat. The Tzimisce were one of the ruling clans of the Sabbat, and they reveled in their existence as monsters....

Seasoned Warzone players know that hacking has been an issue with the game since it was launched. The addition of cross-play added millions of PC players to the community, and Infinity Ward was not prepared to deal with the hordes of hackers and smurf accounts. Almost a year after the game’s release, and there is still no anti-cheat in the game. Infnfinity Ward has made several statements on the subject, but hackers still roam Verdansk....

Call of Duty: Warzone’s Realism Mode is going to become a regular part of the game, according to Infinity Ward. Last week, Call of Duty: Warzone replaced its regular quads mode with something called “Realism Battle Royale (Quads).” The new mode was essentially the same as Quads but included the “realism” modifier. This changes several key aspects of the game, including reduced HUD information so that you can’t see how many bullets you have left in the magazine....

Outriders is set for release in early 2021, and it will be a third-person shooter set in outer space that has RPG elements and customizable characters. Because Square Enix is publishing the game so close to the beginning of a new console gen, some people are speculating that Outriders will be a big hit in the sci-fi genre, beating out some more anticipated games. While it remains to be seen exactly what impact Outriders will have in its genre, it has some hype built up already, especially around some intriguing-sounding classes like the time-manipulating Trickster and powerful Technomancer....

Another week, another Weekly Game Trailer Roundup. There’s a lot to cover here, so let’s get started. The games in question this week? Army Corps of Hell, Tactical Intervention, Dark Legends, Sins of the Solar Empire: Rebellion, SSX, Binary Domain, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, and The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings Enhanced Edition. The offering of trailers this week focuses more on lesser known titles - which is actually a plus since there are a number of quality games that have been flying under the radar....

Collaborations often bring fans the best of both worlds, and a chance to see what two of their favorite franchises would look like when brought together. Fans of AMC’s The Walking Dead and Wizards of the Coast’s Magic: The Gathering card game may be intrigued to see how the popular zombie show fits into one of the world’s most played TCGs. The Walking Dead is an ongoing TV show that explores what several human characters’ lives are like during a zombie apocalypse, while Magic: The Gathering is a fantasy-themed trading card game where players compete to create the most effective decks....

The Witcher series draws on many real-life inspirations for its factions, making the political dynamics as complex or violent as their historical counterparts. One such faction in mind is the Order of the Flaming Rose which has always been a thorn in Geralt’s side (pun intended). While not all their members are enraged bigots, most are, making the general impression for them too negative. In fact, there was one point in the game’s canon that the Order of the Flaming Rose got so notorious that kings and kingdoms, such as Temeria, essentially drove them out....

Fans discover a strange Twilight Easter egg in CD Projekt RED’s fantasy RPG, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The game is stuffed full of jokes and secrets, like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill Easter eggs so it’s not surprising that fans are discovering things so long after release. On Reddit, a Witcher 3: Wild Hunt player shared a screenshot of text from an in-game book called Moribundia: The Vampire’s Last Likeness....

The last half of the Nineties was full of high budget science fiction action movies like Independence Day, Men in Black, Starship Troopers, The Matrix, and several more remarkable hits. Celebrity action heroes like Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis filled up theatres with their entries to the genre year after year. Amidst them all came a quiet little epic starring Kurt Russell called Soldier. Despite bombing terribly at the box office and receiving negative reviews, the themes and conflicts of the film are deeper than most appreciate....

A new Twitter account continues the incredible journalism of @CanYouPetTheDog by telling us what’s behind every waterfall in video games. There’s a commonly held trope in video games that says there’s always something behind a waterfall. Sometimes it’s gold, sometimes it’s treasure, and sometimes it’s a secret passage to even more gold or treasure, but waterfalls are always hiding something. And now there’s a Twitter account that will tell you just what that something is....

Whereas the month of January went out with a bang, the first week of February takes a bit of a breath within the indie games scene. However, there are still plenty of titles that are worth checking out this week, as well as some games that we loved that are making their way to other platforms. Here are our picks for this week in indie games, January 31 - February 6....

With Minecraft now out in full and getting post-launch updates, Scrolls in deep development with a release later this year and Cobalt - the first third party game published by Mojang already playable, what’s next from the Swedish indie studio? As it turns out, quite a lot. Three new games are in development and two of them Mojang will be releasing, or at least unveiling, in the first half of this year....

The Titans are the eponymous stars of Titanfall 2, despite the game’s pilots arguably being the most fun humans to play as in any first-person shooter. Pilots have the ability to wall run and double jump, making for two of the best mechanics in any FPS for ground-based play, Despite that and their array of weapons, it’s not hard to see why Titanfall 2 Titans get all the spotlight. They’re the largest, most in-your-face, and most iconic features of the series, after all....

Titanfall 2 developer Respawn Entertainment confirms its reasoning behind the game’s free DLC, stating that it does not want to ‘split the community.’ As it stands, players of Titanfall 2 are going to get plenty of bang for their buck. Although the original game only offered up multiplayer modes for users, the sequel is going to receive the first single player campaign in the franchise – a move that could potentially even improve the multiplayer experience....

Respawn Entertainment delivers an early look at Titanfall 2’s single player campaign with a cinematic trailer that showcases the role of pilot and Titan. More Titanfall 2 trailers are always welcome, but today Respawn Entertainment has a special treat for fans of the upcoming shooter. Respawn has now debuted another trailer for Titanfall 2’s single player campaign, which is still mostly a mystery. The three-minute long cinematic trailer is a mix of live-action and CG, with the campaign’s gameplay remaining a secret....

The protagonists of the previous chapter in Falcom’s long-running Legend of Heroes, the heroes of Trails of Cold Steel are no joke. They’re a collection of talented men and women that excelled in their work, battling against multiple different threats to their way of life and to their homeland of Erebonia. Over the course of four different games, players get to see these ten teenagers grow as people…and as fighters. With this list, we take the original Class VII (so no teachers or “Bracers”) and rank them according to how good they are as playable characters, with a nod to their actual growth as well....