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Square & Enix, before forming one company, were two of the most notable video game creators of the 90s. When the PlayStation was released, it wasn’t surprising to find that these companies, having already made many of the well-remembered games for the SNES, would also take the market by storm for this new console. However, one of the things that many fans of this pre-Square Enixgaming era have forgotten over time is just how difficult some of Square’s games were....

While Sony has remained notoriously quiet on PS5, Microsoft has been very open on sharing new information on theXbox Series X. Xbox was the first to reveal its console, something Sony hasn’t even done yet, as well as the first to provide info on some of the specific capabilities of the console as well. Considering this openness of information, it’s very likely Microsoft will be announcing the official release date along with its 20/20 presentation next month....

Way back in 2006, Square Enix and then-head developer Tetsuya Nomura debutedFinal Fantasy Versus 13. The game languished in “development hell” for several years before Nomura was moved on to directKingdom Hearts 3,yet traces of Nomura’s ideas fromVersus 13ultimately made their way into several other games in theFinal Fantasyfranchise andKingdom Hearts. Almost fifteen years later, the intended spin-off title may still be impacting the development of the next mainline entry,Final Fantasy 16....

Ever since the first arcades in the 80s, fighting games have been a staple of the medium. The genre has survived through the decades, all the while gaining a dedicated fan base, and more recently, developing its own esports scene. If there is one franchise that undoubtedly pioneered fighting games, it’sStreet Fighter. Rumors floated around for a while about the next installment in the series, and the expectations were at a fever pitch with the hype ofCapcom Fighting Collectionpushing the envelope....

Despite the ongoing tech shortages in which consumers are struggling to get hold of any new gaming hardware, it seems thatNvidiaand AMD are still plodding on. With team red recently announcing the RDNA 3 andIntel getting ready to unleash its own brand of Arc GPUs, Jensen Huang and co. are looking to keep themselves in the game as competition becomes ever fiercer. However, before the next generation lands, team green is due to launch its most powerful card to date, but it looks as though it will set gamers and PC enthusiasts back a lot of money....

MLB The Show 21is coming to both Sony and Microsoft consoles in 2021 along with aspecial edition highlighting Jackie Robinson. As an added bonus of the game being on the PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X, it’s also getting a feature that no other current sports title can offer. MLB The Show 21has been a Sony exclusive for well over a decade now. However, last year there were signs and hints the exclusivity was coming to an end....

Summary In most video games, fun comes through overcoming adversity of some kind, whether an abstraction, such as time, or more tangible targets like shambling zombies, oversized monsters, or the soldiers on the other side. For more seasoned players, the more adversity (as in, the tougher the challenge), the more fun is to be had. However, there’s a fine line between giving players a breath of euphoric relief after smacking down a big bad and making them blue in the face with frustration after their tenth reload....

Dengeki Online held a special Christmas stream on December 24, showing various gamesincluding the anticipated 2020 releaseNioh 2. Koei Tecmo, along with developer Team Ninja, has been hard at work creatingNioh 2since the release of the surprise hitNiohin 2017. Since the release of the beta for the sequel, players have gotten a taste of what the new game has in store,while some seem to have already mastered what we have ofNioh 2....

Connectionsis back with another mind-boggling selection of seemingly random words to put into groups. There is only one possible answer, and it can be a huge challenge to get to it before you run out of tries. If you are already familiar withhow to playConnectionsbut are looking for help with this puzzle specifically, you can find all sorts of helpful tips in the article below. In it, you’ll see general puzzle hints, clues to the categories, spoilers, and even the whole answer if you want to see it....

The halcyon days of the slasher film are long gone, but its greatest icons live on in the cultural memory, becoming some of the best-known recurring characters in cinema. The lone survivor of the slasher craze isHalloween,thanks largely to a top-down reboot, a technique that could also breathe new life into the badly burned corpse of theNightmare On Elm Streetfranchise. TheHalloweenfranchise is currently in the midst of its 3rd reboot series, starting in 2018 and ongoing to this day, which completely revitalized the decades-old idea....

The Devolver Digital-published horror titleInscryptionwill become available on Xbox after its initial launch two years ago.Inscryptionis a mysterious card-based deck building game with many creepy twists and turns for players to discover.Regarded as one of the best indie games of 2021,Inscryptionwas first released for PC in October of that year and later came to PlayStation and Nintendo Switch in August and December 2022, respectively. As one of the leading indie game publishers in the industry, having supported games likeGris, Katana Zero,Death’s Door,andCult of the Lambamong many others, Devolver Digital’s games are typically highly praised and sought after....

Destiny 2is making plenty of headlines nowadays, with the latest piece of news from Bungie relating to the sheer number of preorders thatDestinyfans have placed on the game’s next major piece of DLC:Witch Queen. According to Bungie’s official announcement on Twitter, over 1 million pre-orders are now in place. WithThe Witch QueenDLC forDestiny 2featuring plenty of new features to toy around with, fearsome foes to vanquish, and loot to farm (or craft, as it were), the excitement surrounding this particular release seems to be particularly energetic in the variousDestinyonline communities....

Summary Overwatch 2kicked its PvE content into full gear when it released its first set of story missions with Invasion back in August 2023. While players need to buy these features to access them, there are free PvE events that everyone can access, like the recently released Trials of Sanctuary. This four-player co-op game mode plays similarly to previous PvE missions. Players are loving the mode so far, and it’s partially because it has a feature that allOverwatch 2PvE content should probably implement moving forward....