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Whether you liked it or not, Final Fantasy 16 seems to be a big hit with its series’ creator Everyone’s entitled to their opinion. Whether you were a fan or not, it seems that Final Fantasy 16 has gone down pretty well with the creator of the series Hironobu Sakaguchi. With Final Fantasy 16 taking a much darker, more Game of Thrones like approach to its world, there were obviously some conversations around whether the latest entry in the long-running series is even a “real Final Fantasy game” or not ( our resident FF expert Alex thinks so )....

Whoopsie, the creator of RuneScape’s newest MMO catches a delay of a single day, all because of “some sort of election thingy on the 5th” Easy thing to forget about. Image credit:Fen Research Ltd The co-creator of RuneScape’s next MMO, Brighter Shores , has caught a delay of exactly one day because there’s some election coming up, apparently. Hey, did you know that there’s an election coming up in the US?...

Why are all the games dying? The Thursday Nite Rant From Apex Legends Mobile to Knockout City, dozens of live service games are being killed off. ^Stay tuned for The Thursday Nite Rant, where is week we’re asking: why are all the games dying? It seems like the live service bubble has burst, with a huge swathe of online games including shooters, brawlers, and RPGs announcing their cancellation in recent weeks....

Why is Helldivers 2 so popular? The team at Arrowhead may be familiar with magic, but they aren’t wizards. So why on Super Earth is Helldivers 2 so popular? Image credit:VG247 Okay, so even if you were hyped for the launch of Helldivers 2 , it’s safe to say that no one anticipated how popular it has become. Only yesterday, it hit a concurrent player cap on Steam of roughly 333,000 players, and that’s not taking into account PlayStation users either....

Wild Hearts Ore locations guide: Where to find Mirror Stone, Ore and Coral Fragment True hunters need the purest ore and hardest stone for their equipment In Wild Hearts , a great hunter is only as powerful as their equipment, and crafting the highest quality gear calls for the purest ore and hardest stone you can lay your hands on. Acquiring these materials in the sometimes massive quantities needed is not an easy task, however, so it pays to know where to look....

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 invites some familiar friends to the bloodier sequel Everyone’s here! The loveable bear that is Winnie the Pooh continues to be not-so-loveable in the first trailer for Blood and Honey 2 , where he’s joined by his old friends Tigger and Owl. With Winnie the Pooh now in the public domain, last year saw the arrival of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, a pretty low-budget, British horror film that took your favourite childhood characters Pooh Bear and Piglet, and made them slasher villains....

Wish you could share your every last thought about the latest PlayStation games? The PS Store will soon let you do just that User reviews appear to be coming to the platform. Image credit:Arrowhead PlayStation appears to be testing user-written reviews on the PS Store, meaning you’ll be able to do more than just rate your games with stars. Xbox has allowed its users to leave written reviews for quite a while now, but on PlayStation the only thing you can currently do is give a game a star rating from one to five....

With World of Warcraft Season of Discovery dropping soon, game producer dashes hopes of supply box XP farmers That’s a lot of gold and time wasted - oh well! Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment Getting the edge via a World of Warcraft XP grind is a practice as old as the game itself, and with a new phase coming to World of Warcraft: Classic’s Season of Discovery, folks have been brainstorming ways of earning a chunky initial bump in progress as soon as the new content is released....

Wo Long Lu Bu Boss Guide: How to beat one of the game’s toughest fights He has a horse, no fair! Fighting Lu Bu in Wo Long can be painful, but you are not alone in your heartache. He’s a kind of boss that souls-like players often refer to as a “skill check”, an extra-hard brick wall designed to weed out players who have been scraping by without playing Wo Long “properly” by forcing you to make full use of the game’s different mechanics to progress....

Wo Long Spirit Gauge and Qi explained: Why you keep getting staggered Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty’s most unique systems are also its most complicated, so let’s break them down, staring with Spirit, and Qi. Early on in Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty ’s tutorial, the game introduces you to the Spirit system, the importance of Qi (for both you and your enemies), as well as the Morale mechanic. In essence, the two are intertwined, but their different effects on the moment-to-moment gameplay is what makes understanding each of them crucial to doing well in Wo Long....

Wuthering Waves Character List - All Characters and Abilities Take a look at which Wuthering Waves’ Resonators, uh, resonate with you. Image credit:Kuro Game Update: With the release of Version 2.0 of Wuthering Waves, we have updated this list with all characters added to the game since launch. Wuthering Waves is the latest gacha game on the block, and one that - so far - looks as though it could honestly give Genshin Impact a run for its money ....

Wuthering Waves Microtransactions: Gacha system explained Wuthering Waves is a free-to-play gacha game fuelled by microtransactions, but here’s what you’re getting into! Image credit:KURO GAME Wuthering Waves is the latest anime-style action-RPG threatening to soak up all of your free time, dropping as it is on both PC and mobile devices - whether you’re at home with a monitor or out and about with a phone, you can never escape....

Xbox Game Pass is getting even better in late July with a new batch of games Nine games leading into August. Game Pass expands in late July with a variety of new games, including Venba, The Wandering Village, Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem, and more. Venba , developed by Visual Stories and published by Iceberg Interactive, is a narrative-driven game with a strong focus on storytelling. Set in 18th century India, in it, you take on the role of a young woman named Venba, who must learn the ways of her culture and family while also facing the challenges of a changing world....

Xbox head Phil Spencer discusses recent Microsoft layoffs, Activision Blizzard acquisition, and more Microsoft recently laid off roughly 10,000 of its employees. In a recent interview, Xbox head Phil Spencer touched on a range of topics to do with the platform, including the recent layoffs. Earlier this month, Microsoft laid off roughly 10,000 employees to supposedly prepare for slower revenue growth, and Xbox owned studios like Halo developer 343 Industries and Bethesda were affected too....

Yakuza series’ GOG release removed credits for PC port devs and series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi Nagoshi left Ryu Ga Gotoku to form his own studio in 2021. The entire Yakuza series was recently released on DRM-free PC games retailer GOG, but it seems a number of devs have been removed from the credits. Generally games releasing DRM-free is quite a good thing, as it means you own the game without needing to worry about having a store client to run it....

Yes, that big Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 leak has spoiled some surprises, even if the build’ll be pretty out of date by launch “We’re asking everyone to avoid this unfinished build.” Image credit:Saber Interactive After a full build of the game recently leaked and has ended up offering lots of folks their first taste of the game long before they thought they’d get it, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 ’s developers have acknowledged what’s happened, and urged people not to play the “unfinished” version....

Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Giant White Stallion location and how to tame Howdy, big boy. Update: We added more links to our other TOTK guides that you might find helpful while searching for a new mount! In The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom , the Giant White Stallion is a unique horse roaming the wilds of Hyrule, and while he might not be suitable for every situation, he’s pretty handy to have around....

Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Unlock Upland Zorana Skyview Tower Wash away the sludge! Image credit:Nintendo Conveniently situated in the east of Hyrule, Upland Zorana is one of the more story-driven quests you have to complete to unlock one of the Skyview Tower locations in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom . It’s deceptively simple. However, if you’re prone to exploring you may well stumble upon this Tower and its quest long before you’re acquainted with the item you’re supposed to use to solve it....

Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Warm Clothes - How to survive Unbearable cold To beat the freeze in Tears of the Kingdom you will need a hot meal, spicy elixir or warm clothes! Image credit:Nintendo Update: We updated some links and added some others to ensure you can find what you’re looking for more easily! In The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom , one of the most dangerous biomes across the diverse land of Hyrule is “unbearable cold”....

“J.O.E.L. is out to get you now” Helldivers 2 CEO tells players who definitely weren’t already crapping their Super drawers about where the war’s going next “Cry me a river J.O.E.L, if your jet brigade didn’t want to be destroyed, why did they explode so funny?” Image credit:Arrowhead It’s been looking like something big and Illuminatey has been building in Helldivers 2 ’s Galactic War for a little while now, even if there’s been nothing to fight but the automatons....