CategoriesNews GamingScreenshot: Square Enix / Kotaku There’s no outfit in gaming with a stronger history of telling tales about picking fights with God than Square Enix. Literally or metaphorically, from Final Fantasy Legend/SaGa and Star Ocean to Xenogears and even some Final Fantasies, a foundational narrative in which our heroes push back against a cruel, manipulative […]
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CategoriesNews GamingAmazon Games said it “regrets confusion” over remarks by CEO Christoph Hartmann on voice acting and AI that drew sharp criticism online, seeking to clarify that it thinks generative AI needs to be used “responsibly” and calling actors “essential creative contributors.” Amazon’s statement was in response to a lengthy comment from Hartmann, in which he […]
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CategoriesNews GamingNintendo UK Play it on: SwitchCurrent goal: Discover the truth about a chilling crime I haven’t played either of the earlier Famicom Detective Club games, but the marketing around Emio — The Smiling Man was enough to seduce me into finally giving the series a shot with this, its first truly new entry in decades. […]
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CategoriesNews SportsCommonwealth Games Scotland Wants 2026 Decision As Glasgow Waits In Wings Commonwealth Games Scotland (CGS) has called on the Scottish Government to decide whether Glasgow can host the 2026 multi-sport event. The State of Victoria, Australia, was due to stage the Games but withdrew in July 2023 citing rising costs and agreed to pay the […]
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CategoriesNews GamingTetris has always been able to make players feel something. Whether that’s despair at a loss, or overwhelming joy at a triumph, it has always been able to elicit a feeling. I stress this because Tetris Effect is often burdened with this perception that its combination of lush visuals, emotive music, and satisfying gameplay finally […]
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CategoriesNews GamingIn my experience, Labor Day sales tend to skip over video games. But, for some reason, most of the games I’ve been waiting for a good deal on are at their lowest prices ahead of Labor Day weekend. In fact, I’m seeing better Switch deals now than anything I could find during Prime Day earlier […]
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CategoriesNews SportsParalympic Games: Former Lifesaving Ironman Tom Gallagher’s Remarkable Return To The Podium After Near Death Experience In Tokyo Standing on the Paralympic gold medal podium in Paris today has been three painful, determined years in the making for former WA lifesaving ironman Tom Gallagher who revealed he almost died after being rushed to hospital after […]
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CategoriesNews GamingDeep Rock Galactic Is one of my favorite games of the last several years. In the middle of the dreaded pandemic, I rekindled my relationship with my closest friends in the world over games like this and Left 4 Dead. Cooperative first-person shooters in which you face endless onslaughts of enemies are just a wondrous […]
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CategoriesNews GamingGraphic: Kotaku / Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Who doesn’t love free video games? It’s the best way to expand your backlog of titles you’ll never touch – at least not until you retire, which is what you keep telling yourself to assuage the guilt. To help feed this cycle, Amazon Prime is giving subscribers three […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: WB Games / Bandai Namco / MLB / Sony / Kotaku As we near the end of August, it’s time once more for PlayStation to reveal the next collection of free games coming to PS Plus in September. This time around, we’ve got two very different sports titles and a wonderful little horror game. […]
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