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Far from slowing down in the face of legal trouble, Palworld has announced a mystery collaboration with Terraria for 2025 There are no brakes on this train. Image credit:Pocket Pair, Re-Logic The ongoing legal battle between the Nintendo & The Pokemon Company team and Palworld developer Pocketpair may be heating up, but development of new content for Palworld isn’t slowing down. Now, the company has announced a surprise collaboration with Terraria that will happen in 2025....

Final Fantasy 16 is getting a couple of rounds of DLC, and a PC port is in the works Plus, a new update for the game has dropped today. Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida shared a message today announcing that the game will in fact be getting some DLC, and there’s a new update out now too. Prior to the release of Final Fantasy 16, DLC wasn’t outright promised, but Square Enix had said it would consider it depending on the reception to the game....

Final Fantasy 16 will take you about 35 hours to beat, 70-80 hours to complete Plenty to do, it seems! If you’re wondering how long you’ll need to set aside for Final Fantasy 16 , a new interview confirmed it will take about 35 hours. In a new interview with Famitsu, Final Fantasy 16’s director Hiroshi Takai and producer Naoki Yoshida shared their estimated playtime for the next entry in the classic series, setting it at around 35 hours (translations from aitaikimochi , thanks IGN )....

Final Fantasy 16 won’t hit PC six months after PS5 release, says Yoshida The game will remain a PS5 exclusive for a while it seems. Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki ‘Yoshi-P’ Yoshida has said a PC version of the game will not release within six months of the PS5 version. Speaking on PlayStation Blog Japan , Yoshida has pretty much made it clear not to expect a PC version anytime soon, as the team has spent so much time and money optimizing the PS5 release....

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth gets an action-packed new trailer, and most importantly a release date Cloud and friends are coming back. Image credit:Square Enix Today, during PlayStation’s State of Play broadcast, Square Enix debuted a new trailer for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth , and revealed a February 29, 2024 release date. The trailer features characters Cloud, Aerith, Barret, and Tifa. This team of unlikely heroes will join forces with new playable companions Yuffie, Red XIII, and Cait Sith to hunt down Sephiroth, the one-winged angel bent on ruling the planet....

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth never misses, but sometimes its interpretation of the original game lacks bite Has Square Enix defanged FFVII a little too much in its up-to-date reinterpretation of the story? Maybe. Image credit:VG247 There are many places across both Remake and Rebirth that you can point to this sort of thing; a place where the new games lack the bite of the original. The most obvious example up until now is FF7 ’s ‘Trail of Blood’, a truly iconic and creepy sequence in the original game that, in the modern version, replaces streaks of blood throughout previously shiny and sanitized corporate offices with a sort of weird glowing purple alien goo....

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth review: Ambitious, joyous, and bursting with an energy FF hasn’t had since the 90s For better and worse alike, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is the most impressively ambitious game Square has made since FF’s golden age. It’s glorious, in spite of painful little flaws. In the original Final Fantasy 7 , a beloved character dies in the most brutal of ways. Half an hour later, you’re snowboarding....

Final Fantasy I-VI Collection Anniversary Edition just dropped to its lowest price ever That’s a better price than Black Friday. The discount is available for both Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 (and fully playable on PS5) , this collection brings together the first six mainline Final Fantasy games in their remastered form. Final Fantasy I-VI Collection Anniversary Edition $49.99 (was $74.99) See at Amazon Unlike some of Square Enix’s more drastic overhauls, these versions retain their original pixel aesthetic but have been cleaned up for modern displays, looking sharp whether on a TV or in handheld mode....

Fortnite continues its ambitions to be everything with new games from Lego, Rocket League, and Rock Band devs Brick building, racing, and rhythm gaming abound. Epic Games is continuing its quest to make Fortnite an everything game, as it announces LEGO Fortnite and more. Earlier this week, the launch of Fortnite Chapter 5 brought with it Solid Snake, Peter Griffin, and Eminem in the game’s first live event in almost a year....

Forza Motorsport built to take “full advantage” of Xbox Series X/S The game promises a “generational leap in fidelity, immersion and realism.” <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/forza-motorsport-2023-05-(2).jpg?width=570&quality=85&format=jpg&dpr=3&auto=webp" onerror=“this.onerror=null;this.src=‘https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe7F7TRXHtjiKvHb5vS7DmnxvpHiDyoYyYvm1nHB3Qp2_w3BnM6A2eq4v7FYxCC9bfZt3a9vIMtAYEKUiaDQbHMg-ViyGmRIj39MLp0bGFfgfYw1Dc9q_H-T0wiTm3l0Uq42dETrN9eC8aGJ9_IORZsxST1AcLR7np1koOfcc7tnHa4S8Mwz_xD9d0=s16000';" alt=“Forza Motorsport built to take “full advantage” of Xbox Series X/S - 1”> A seven-minute look at Forza Motorsport was shown as part of today’s Xbox and Bethesda Developer Direct presentation, where more details were shared about the racing game. During this time, the developers discussed how they are striving to make the game look, sound, and feel real through the cars, tracks, and audio - all of which promise to deliver a “generational leap in fidelity, immersion, and realism....

Game Pass October adds Cities: Skylines 2, Dead Space Remake, Jusant, and more Build a city, explore a night market, solve a mystery, and survive a horror remake. Microsoft has announced another wave of games coming to Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass in October 2023, and the list includes some highly anticipated titles. One of the October additions is Like a Dragon: Ishin . This Yakuza spin-off returns us to feudal Japan in this Unreal Engine 4 remake....

God of War: All River Pass Collectible Locations Heading through the River Pass area in God of War , you’re likely to encounter all manner of collectibles that can help increase your experience, stats and hacksilver. We’ve got all River Pass collectibles locations below for you to find and use. On this page: All River Pass Collectibles in God of War All Spoils of War Artifact Locations All River Pass Jotnar Shrine Locations All River Pass Idunn Apple Locations All River Pass Horn of Blood Mead Locations All River Pass Collectibles in God of War As we mentioned above, although the River Pass region in God of War is just the second area in the game, it’s undoubtedly one of the biggest and more complex to navigate your way through....

Good news, Helldivers 2’s latest patch ensures the Ground Breaker armour’s no longer a victim of accidental false advertising Given all you go through to earn those samples and requisitions, being able to avoid buyer’s remorse is pretty important. Image credit:VG247/Arrowhead It’s another day, so here’s news of another Helldivers 2 patch that does things. What are those things? Well, a lot of the usual kinds of fixes, plus a passive swap that stops one of the latest warbond’s armours from accidentally being a magnet for buyer’s confusion, if not buyer’s remorse....

He’s Cooper Howard, and now he’s looming over you as you kill feral ghouls or help a settlement. Image credit:VG247/Amazon/Bethesda/MrBloodjack Yup, we here at VG247 - even Tom - love the Goggins, and we loved seeing him in Fallout, both in raw (regular Goggins) and chargrilled (ghoul) form. He’s so beautiful and funny you almost forget to take in all of the fun little references and easter eggs from the games that’re constantly surrounding him....

GTA 6 will be “the biggest game launch of all time” - Industry analysts speak on Rockstar mega sequel Finally, concrete GTA 6 news is coming next month. Image credit:VG247/Rockstar Games In case you somehow missed it, we’ve now had official confirmation from Rockstar itself that a GTA 6 trailer is coming in December . The game is hugely anticipated by millions of people and who can blame them? GTA 5 was fantastic, while GTA Online has somehow managed to keep folks invested in a game that’s a decade old....

GTA 6: five things it should keep, five things it should skip Rockstar should not be afraid to cherry-pick the best ideas from its past, while ditching the ones that didn’t work. Image credit:Rockstar, VG247 As we wait with bated breath for the Grand Theft Auto VI trailer that’s coming next month , we’ve been replaying some of the older games and trying to imagine what shape a modern GTA would take....

Hollywood continues its crusade against nature with a Rugrats live-action movie featuring cosmic horror CGI babies I’m sickened, but curious. Image credit:Paramount Pictures Hollywood is running out of profitable IPs to adapt, and Paramount is one of the large companies that’s currently struggling to keep up with the big boys. Shortly after the release of Transformers One in theaters, we’re getting word that Rugrats might be getting the live-action treatment next… sort of....

Honkai Star Rail 2.7 banners shine the spotlight on your dead friend Fugue and your old enemy Sunday Honkai Star Rail 2.7 adds two hotly anticipated characters and gives Firefly a rerun Image credit:HoYoverse HoYoverse aired the big Honkai Star Rail 2.7 livestream and showed off who’s inbound in the HSR 2.7 banners . Sunday – the same Sunday who’s antics played merry havoc with Penacony earlier in the 2.X updates – is making his debut, and Tingyun – Fugue brings an old friend back to life....

Honkai Star Rail release time Get ready to board the Astral Express. Image credit:HoYoverse Honkai: Star Rail is almost here, with the release date for the highly anticipated new game from HoYoverse fast approaching. The latest game from the Genshin Impact makers is an epic RPG set in space, that features a stylish turn-based combat system. In the run-up to the Honkai Star Rail release date the free-to-play game hit an impressive milestone, with 10 million players pre-registering ....

Honkai Star Rail Yunli builds and teams How to get the barefoot brawler ready for battle A good Honkai Star Rail Yunli build gives your team a powerful follow-up attacker who can tank and even heal herself – all without using her signature Light Cone. Yunli is essentially an enhanced Clara, and some of those enhancements, including her skill, reduce how much extra care you have to put in her build....