Remedy has revealed the full system requirements to run its highly-anticipated sequel, Alan Wake 2, on PC. Offering minimum, recommended, and ultra specs – as well as what you'll get if you select low, medium, and high ray tracing settings – players can assess how their machines will fare when running the PC version… and it certainly seems that you'll need a pretty powerful rig just to run it, let alone max out the performance. The requirements, which were posted to its social media channels ove...
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Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi was asked whether he'd work on the MMORPG as a guest creator, and his
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Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi originally turned down the roleplaying game’s now-iconic soundtrack by Nobuo Uematsu - until the legendary composer simply changed the track order, that is.
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EA has disabled an EA Sports FC 24 perk in order to address a glitch that was giving some players an unfair in-game advantage. The newly-discovered glitch in the soccer sim popped up earlier in the week, allowing dribblers with the Trickster Playstyle to attach the ball to their calf and then simply run into the opposition's net to score. After first acknowledging the glitch was a problem, EA has now confirmed that it has "temporarily removed" the FUT perk to prevent players from exploiting the ...
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Square Enix provided new information and images of the upcoming first graphical update coming with the Final Fantasy XIV expansion "Dawntrail."
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Harvest Dew. If the 'Uncanny Valley' is the term for something being almost-human-but-not-quite, then Harvest Moon: Winds of Anthos is in the Uncanny Stardew Valley. It's so close to being a really good farming sim game, but doesn't quite manage to hit the mark. However, for the first time in the turbulent and confusing history of Natsume's Harvest Moon games, it's actually... fun. The story is the same old, same old: the Harvest Goddess disappears after some catastrophic geographical event, and...
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The high-end Roomba s9+ may normally be too expensive for most people to justify spending on a robot vacuum, but a one-day-only deal has shaved the price nearly in half, bringing it down to an all time low of $500. If you’ve been holding off on buying the premium model, which we ranked as one of the best robot vacuums out there, now’s the time to scoop it up. The Roomba s9+ is a splurge in every sense of the word, and boasts 40x the suction power of iRobot’s more basic vacuums. Its 1.5-foot-tall...
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You can now use an array of necrotic spells thanks to this new Skyrim mod, which has rolled around just in time for the spooky season. You can use necromancy to summon ghostly apparitions, necrotic weapons, and even explode corpses in the Bethesda RPG game now, and it’s perfect if you’re revisiting Tamriel this Halloween.
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Final Fantasy 14’s crossover with Fall Guys looks as gloriously chaotic as the original mean bean gauntlet - and it’s out very soon. The incoming minigame playable inside the MMO will see 24 Warriors of Light race across Fall Guys courses given a Final Fantasy-themed twist.
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The final episode before the season 2 finale is packed with new directions for Stede, Blackbeard, and crew.
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Final Fantasy XIV has revealed the first of two new jobs coming to the MMO in next year’s expansion Dawntrail. The Viper is a fast-paced melee DPS armed with two swords that can transform, Bloodborne-style, into a single two-handed weapon. It’s brand new for the Final Fantasy series, too.
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Player beware, you’re in for a scare.
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It's like a weird Baldur's ROM hack, and swipes assets from a much more recent Obsidian RPG?
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GBC memories. It's now 25 years since Game Boy Color launched, and for many of us in the West, it was on this system that we first caught and traded Pocket Monsters with pals back in 1998.
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Transplanar RPG ‘started with ideals of trans representation at the table’.
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It's so hard to secure a Twitch partnership these days that even its own CEO had their application rejected. Twitch CEO Daniel Clancy announced on Twitter/X earlier today that he decided to apply to the Partner Program, but kept the application under wraps to see what would happen. "For anyone that got denied being a Partner from Twitch, don't feel so bad," Clancy said. "Just got my Partner application denied. Did not tell anyone I was applying.
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The sale even includes new releases like Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and Detective Pikachu Returns..
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The most controversial Assassin’s Creed Mirage graphical setting is getting removed for all players of the game later in October 2023, but you’ll still have the option to turn it back on. Ubisoft says it has listened to feedback and will be removing chromatic aberration from its virtual 9th-century Baghdad, and I’m sure that’s going to be a real boon for a lot of us.
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European Spidey fans are struggling to install Marvel's Spider-Man 2 from physical discs. That's according to dozens of players posting in the game's official subreddit community, some of whom are reporting that the installation stalls when it hits 36 per cent. According to those who've experienced the issue, it doesn't matter if they take the game back and swap it for a brand new disc – whatever mitigations they try to put in place, be that turning off internet connection, cleaning the disc, or...
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The voices behind the fun. Super Mario Bros. Wonder sees the voice actor Kevin Afghani step into the role of Mario and Luigi for the first time ever, but who else is involved in this new entry? If you have been wondering, you've come to the right place. Now that the game has been out for a few days, the full English voice cast has been revealed - with some of the talent even making an announcement about it on social media. There's a mix of new and returning VAs. Below is the full round-up, start...
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An amazing, spectacular Spidey experience.
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Today Final Fantasy XIV developer Square Enix hosted the opening keynote of the Fan Festival 2023 in London, providing lots of details about the expansion Dawntrail.
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SpaceX is planning to launch as many rockets as it can over the next two-and-a-half months in an attempt to fly 100 flights by the end of the year, company exec Bill Gerstenmaier recently told the US Senate Subcommittee on Space and Science. He also revealed that the company has an even more ambitious goal for 2024: To launch around 12 flights a month, for a total of 144 missions for the whole year. According to a company official who talked to Ars Technica, SpaceX intends to ramp up its mission...
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After a flurry of rumors suggesting we might see some new iPad models this week, a new Apple Pencil turned out to actually be what was in the cards. The new Apple Pencil charges via USB-C, launches early next month, and is the cheapest model in a lineup that now includes three different Apple Pencils. This week saw some additional rumors about future iPad and iMac models, while we're continuing to hear more about next year's iPhone 16 lineup, so read on below for all the details on these stories...
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A cup of something cosy. Cottagecore fans, this one’s for you. Witchy Life Story is a visual novel packed full of sweet characters, magical charms, and cozy rituals. Coming from Sundew Studios, it has already been around on Steam for a while, and it’s now available on Switch.
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Sandworms, tripods, and really fast trains.
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At the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival in London Producer Naoki Yoshida announced a collaboration with Final Fantasy XVI and detailed the one with Fall Guys.
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With FFXIV Dawntrail on the horizon, we've been given another big glimpse into the future of Final Fantasy 14 courtesy of FFXIV Fanfest London 2023. To open the show, producer and director Naoki Yoshida, otherwise known as Yoshi-P, and localization supervisor Michael-Christopher Koji Fox took to the stage for their FFXIV Fanfest keynote, and PCGamesN had the pleasure of attending the event live in person to bring you all the details directly from the show floor.
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A Final Fantasy 16 crossover is coming to Square Enix's MMORPG Final Fantasy 14. As revealed at the Final Fantasy Fan Fest in London, the crossover will be a special event featuring protagonist Clive joining the Warriors of Light. Better yet, there will be a Torgal mount and even puppy Torgal.
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Final Fantasy XIV is finally crossing over with the MMO that inspired it, as FFXI Alliance Raid Echoes of Vana’diel is coming to the game in a series of 7.0 updates. That’s right, longtime FF MMO fans will be over the moon to hear that both games are coming together, at last.
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I mean, it has the dog which is all you need, really.
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Here's the next Job coming to Final Fantasy 14: Viper. Revealed at the Final Fantasy Fan Fest in London, the Viper is the first of two Jobs coming in the next expansion, Dawntrail. The Viper is a Final Fantasy 14 original Job, a dual-wielding melee DPS with two swords that combine into one. See them in action in the new extended trailer below.
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Topay, during the opening keynote of the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival in London, Square Enix announced the times for the open beta of the Xbox version.
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Final Fantasy XIV is once again dipping into the rest of the storied series in a new series of raids and quests for the MMO.
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