Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director asks modders to avoid making anything ‘offensive or inappropriate,’ Final Fantasy 7 modding community says ‘yeah sure’

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is coming to PC in January, and you know what that means: nude mods. Game director Naoki Hamaguchi would really prefer if you didn’t do that, though, saying in an interview with Epic Games that he hopes everyone will keep it clean. There’s a whole host of mods available for the…

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‘We are beholden to the lore’: CD Projekt says there are ‘valid worries’ about Ciri as a witcher, but ‘the answers we want to give in The Witcher 4 are in line with this attitude’

So Ciri’s a Witcher now, taking the lead in The Witcher 4, and that has resulted in questions. Some of them are the predictable hue and cry about a girl taking over for Geralt—complaints about “wokeness” and DEI and all that sort of nonsense—but there are also legitimate questions about how it all fits with…

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Helldivers 2 players rip into Arrowhead for ‘straight-up ridiculous’ Killzone crossover prices, CEO defends the choice: ‘The more of this we sell, the more Illuminate-type stuff we can keep dropping for free’

Helldivers 2 takes two steps forward and one leap back. Less than a week after surprise dropping the Omens of Tyranny update at The Game Awards, Arrowhead has dropped another surprise, though this one isn’t as fun or exciting: Helldivers 2 just got a Killzone armor set, cosmetics, and a Helghast gun, which is kinda…

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The weird cat game announced at The Game Awards is not made with AI, developers say, and has ‘zero blockchain technology’ or NFTs

The developers of Catly, a game about cats, have denied using generative AI to create the announcement trailer that debuted last week at The Game Awards, and have also rejected suggestions that their game is built on blockchain technology or makes use of NFTs. We missed Catly when it was announced during last week’s show,…

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