January 9, 2025
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January 2025

‘It’s simply impossible to make a difficulty level that’s just right for all players’: How Final Fantasy 14’s lead battle designer has been playing a precarious balancing game for Dawntrail’s dungeons and raids

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While Final Fantasy 14 is often praised for its story, it’s the endgame where players spend most of their time. With dungeons, trials, savage raids, and more casual endeavours, FF14 has something for everyone. The latest expansion, Dawntrail, has the best endgame yet, and I wanted to know how the team fine-tunes the challenge across…

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The RTX 5090 might make triple-fan cards look light on cooling if these four-fan and five-fan versions from Gigabyte and MSI are anything to go by

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Undoubtedly the biggest news from CES 2025, at least for us PC gamers, has been the Nvidia RTX 50-series graphics cards. There’s a big jump up from the RTX 5080 to the RTX 5090, though—a $999 to $1,999 kind of jump—and we’re now seeing that all that apparent top-end grunt is pushing some AIB manufacturers…

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League of Legends’ new season trailer is basically an epilogue to Arcane with 6 new Fortiche champion redesigns in it—so if it’s not a preview of the upcoming Noxus show, I’ll eat my hat

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League of Legends is getting its first in-game season of 2025 soon and, as is Riot’s tradition, there’s a big and flashy new trailer with some gorgeous animation to accompany it. Namely, it has collaborated once again with Fortiche, the studio Riot threw $250 million at to make Arcane, a bet which I’m pretty happy…

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Physical Game Sales Took A Nosedive In The UK Last Year

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Revenue dropped by nearly 35% from 2023. 2024 was a fairly turbulent year for the games industry in many ways, but what’s clear from the latest data is that physical games sales in the UK are struggling mightily. According to data from the Entertainment Retailers Association, and based on data from Nielsen/GfK, India and GSD…

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