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At the time, Final Fantasy 7 was an innovative and technological marvel that raised the bar for the capabilities of RPGs and to some extent video games as a whole. It was the first game in the franchise to utilize fully 3D graphics technology, without sacrificing the world-spanning nature of SquareSoft’s RPGs. The world of Final Fantasy 7 Remake intends to use modern game design to recreate a specific portion of that world, Midgar, in intricate detail in an attempt to create a definitive version of this world and this game....

With the recent announcement that Hideo Kojima’ s tenure with Konami has ended (his first day was back in 1986), fans were rightfully curious what this would mean for the current games he has been developing for the publisher. First and foremost, Kojima wanted to assure players that he will remain 100% involved in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Moreover, Kojima promises that Metal Gear Solid V will be his “greatest game” to date....

Fortnite fans have been expecting the newest crossover character to join for a while since it was initially teased. But as of today, the Predator, star of the movie franchise of the same name, is available to unlock as a skin in the game’s Battle Pass. For anyone who may be unfamiliar with the character, there is no singular Predator, as its entire species (the Yautja) are a race of honorable warriors that hunt other species for sport, which makes it a perfect fit for the bounty hunter theme this season of Fortnite is going for....

Most years, when the season’s eighth episode of The Walking Dead airs, it would mark a midpoint. But not so for the eleventh season of the AMC zombie epic, which is due to roll out 24 episodes for the show’s final outing. With two-thirds of the show yet to air, and two-thirds completed on the production side, executive producer Greg Nicotero is feeling the pressure to bring it on home....

Many gamers’ first memories involve swapping a controller back and forth during the original Super Mario Bros., or memorizing the fatality combos in Mortal Kombat. Today, young gamers are far more likely to remember being cussed out on Xbox Live. Multiplayer games have undergone a massive shift in recent decades. Compared to the cozy prevalence of couch co-op games in the 90s, very few games today include local multiplayer as an option....

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears. The world of Miss Fisher is filled with many rich character dynamics, but the relationship between Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis) and Detective Jack Robinson (Nathan Page) has always been at the heart of the period mystery drama. Three seasons of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries chronicled their ever-burgeoning romance, as they slowly fell in love over various murdered bodies (it’s more romantic than it sounds)....

The Silver Case 2425, developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and published by NIS America and Playism, will be released for Nintendo Switch on July 6 in North America and Europe. The visual novel compilation includes the remakes of the mystery adventure games The Silver Case and The 25th Ward: The Silver Case, directed, designed and co-written by Goichi Suda, aka Suda51. In Japan, The Silver Case 2425 first launched for PS4 in March 2018 and for Switch in February 2021....

H.P. Lovecraft’s writing could potentially be an ideal setting for a video game. You get strange cosmic monsters, conspiracies, cultists, and usually some kind of average Joe protagonist who most likely will be driven mad by the things they’re seeing. The Sinking City does a pretty admirable job telling its Lovecraftian tale, but it should have put the same care and effort into the making sure the game wasn’t a buggy mess....

Of all the Sonic games that were released in the late aughts — about eight games to be exact — the Sonic fandom has apparently decided that Sonic Unleashed has aged like fine wine. In other words, they’ve crowned it a good Sonic game over 12 years after its release. The overdue praise for Unleashed originated from fans asking something along these lines on social media: “Am I the only one who likes Sonic Unleashed?...

This article contains major spoilers for The Suicide Squad. We have a spoiler free review here. The DCEU is alive and well and dividing its time between Corto Maltese and Belle Reve prison. James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad gives us the most DC characters in live action in any one movie ever assembled! OK, fine, the vast majority of them die. And a fair portion of them most folks have never even heard of....

Even though some The Witcher fans might wish otherwise, Yennefer of Vengerberg is Geralt’s greatest love. The couple has a long and complicated history. Despite all problems they face, they always return back to each other, sooner or later. Possibly because of the magic bond between them or simply because they love each other for real. That depends on interpretation. Yennefer played a bigger part in the books than she did in the CD Projekt Red games....

Eredin Bréacc Glas - which means Eredin Green Trout in Irish, making the King of the Wild Hunt significantly less intimidating than his skull mask otherwise implies - is immortal. Like all of the Aen Elle elves, he can die in battle, but aside from that he’s like Legolas from The Lord of the Rings - he could be 6,000 years old and look like the cover model for Men’s Health....

The Alien franchise is one that hasn’t necessarily transferred well into the realm of video games, and fans of the films are understandably skeptical of any game-related announcements that tie into the series. Even with the lacklustre and critically shamed installment that was Aliens: Colonial Marines firmly in the books, the reveal trailer for Alien: Isolation looks to at long last be the game that consumers have been waiting for....

This week in Destiny 2, the Guardian Games continues! Sure, The Almighty is still careening towards Earth and threatens the planet with an extinction-level event, and even if we survive that we still have the Darkness to contend against, but that’s no reason to stop the Destiny Olympics, right? The Guardian Games continues in Destiny 2 as though nothing is wrong except for the fact that Titans are currently leading the medal count....

Rockstar Games seems to have a dark sense of humor this week in Grand Theft Auto Online. The studio has introduced a series of new missions in which players help Gerald, who needs help getting ready for an oncoming in-game recession. Of all the times to seek out a way to recession-proof one’s holdings, it feels farcical to do so when the United States faces some of its largest unemployment figures in the history of the country....

Released all the way back in the year 2000, The Sims games have long let players ruin or build up the lives of virtual characters. Careers, alien abductions, marriage and the common occurrence of simulated murder at the player’s hands are just a few examples of what’s possible, and it’s this ability to design these little moments and watch them play out in front of our eyes that have made the games so popular....

Every day hundreds of viewers tune in to watch their favorite Call of Duty: Warzone or Modern Warfare streamer. Streams get great attention as anything can happen, and with the adventure of Warzone even more possibilities arise. Fans never know what might happen during a stream, and that is only part of what makes them so entertaining. TimTheTatman is one of the most popular Warzone streamers on Twitch. It is widely known that he is a father, a gamer, and a tattoo enthusiast....

The Zombies mode has always been a fan-favorite staple of the Call of Duty games. In fact, there are plenty of people who buy the newest CoD purely for its Zombies content (more of which was just recently teased). And, it’s back once again in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, though there’s only one map out at present. But, there’s plenty to do in this map, and the difficulty to scale pretty drastically around, especially when new types of Zombies like the Sprinters start spawning Round 50+....

We have a couple of new trailers for today — three to be exact — for three new games releasing in the next month or so. First up is the most controversial of the bunch: the launch trailer for Dead Space 3. I say that not because it further emphasizes the game’s use of micro-transactions – a feature we discovered not too long ago – but rather that it does not feature Phil Collins’ original version of ‘In the Air Tonight’ but a modern cover....

About a couple of months ago, Night Dive Studios’ remaster of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter received a PEGI rating for Xbox One, indicating that it and the remaster of its sequel, Seeds of Evil, would be coming to Xbox One soon. Now, both of the updated titles are making their way onto the current generation platform on March 2, 2018, as confirmed by the games’ appearances on the official Microsoft Store....