Day: December 27, 2024

Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza is longer than the last Yakuza spin-off, but it’s not the dev’s fault: “The volume increased by itself”

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Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza is longer than the last Yakuza spin-off, but it’s not the dev’s fault: “The volume increased by itself”

December 27, 2024

The delightfully-named Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is set to be a little bigger than...

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Despite “a rocky couple of years,” analyst reckons Xbox’s console war is “actually looking pretty bright” – “If you look at the PlayStation sales chart, you see a lot of Microsoft on there”

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Despite “a rocky couple of years,” analyst reckons Xbox’s console war is “actually looking pretty bright” – “If you look at the PlayStation sales chart, you see a lot of Microsoft on there”

December 27, 2024

While the past few years have been somewhat up and down for Xbox as a whole, one...

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20 years later, the first Trails JRPG is getting a remake because its developer doesn’t know where to tell newcomers to start

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20 years later, the first Trails JRPG is getting a remake because its developer doesn’t know where to tell newcomers to start

December 27, 2024

The Trails series has been going strong for over two decades, but after 13 mainline games and...

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Final Fantasy 14 battle designer admits the team “vetoed some interesting ideas” for Endwalker fight mechanics “so melee players wouldn’t be frustrated by periods of downtime”

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Final Fantasy 14 battle designer admits the team “vetoed some interesting ideas” for Endwalker fight mechanics “so melee players wouldn’t be frustrated by periods of downtime”

December 27, 2024

If you found yourself a touch underwhelmed by Endwalker’s bosses in Final Fantasy 14, the game’s battle...

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Maryland sues maker of Gore-Tex over pollution from toxic ‘forever chemicals’

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Maryland sues maker of Gore-Tex over pollution from toxic ‘forever chemicals’

December 27, 2024

Maryland is suing the company that produces the waterproof material Gore-Tex. State officials say the company’s leaders...

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One owl rescued by a Minnesota woman is euthanized; efforts to save the other continue

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One owl rescued by a Minnesota woman is euthanized; efforts to save the other continue

December 27, 2024

One of the two owls rescued by a Minnesota woman in a story that went viral this...

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives close brush with the sun’s scorching surface

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives close brush with the sun’s scorching surface

December 27, 2024

NASA has confirmed that a spacecraft has made the closest approach to the sun. Earlier this week,...

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This PS1-style action horror game went straight on my Steam wishlist when I saw a ghostly samurai come out to parry the boss instead of just a dodge roll

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This PS1-style action horror game went straight on my Steam wishlist when I saw a ghostly samurai come out to parry the boss instead of just a dodge roll

December 27, 2024

I love Sekiro for making everyone hungry for parrying, and this PS1-style action horror game has it...

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“If we spoiled Arcane, it would have been heartbreaking”: League of Legends spin-off Teamfight Tactics had scripts 2 years ago, and went to extreme lengths to keep them secret

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“If we spoiled Arcane, it would have been heartbreaking”: League of Legends spin-off Teamfight Tactics had scripts 2 years ago, and went to extreme lengths to keep them secret

December 27, 2024

Some secrets are harder to keep than others, with one of those harder secrets to keep being...

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Almost 100GB of classic Halo content has leaked online, including the 1999 demo from when the legendary FPS was in third person

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Almost 100GB of classic Halo content has leaked online, including the 1999 demo from when the legendary FPS was in third person

December 27, 2024

After Insomniac Games, Rockstar, and the Pokemon Company were all hit by major leaks in recent years,...

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