Despite bankrolling Square Enix, ‘cost’ is somehow the reason Final Fantasy 14’s newest raid (which has only been cleared 400 times in 23 days) wasn’t given an easier version

Dear reader, my job is to find clever, informative, and interesting ways to deliver news to you—but upon hearing that the Forked Tower, a raid at the end of Final Fantasy 14’s recent exploration zone the Occult Crescent, wasn’t given a normal version most people could do because of “cost”? I am struggling for words…

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Honkai: Star Rail Version 3.4 arrives July 2

Honkai: Star Rail Version 3.4 arrives July 2

Dear Trailblazers, greetings from the Honkai: Star Rail development team. It’s been a while, we’ve truly missed you. Today, we bring you the latest news from Version 3.4, “For the Sun is Set to Die,” arriving officially on July 2. As the trailblazing expedition reaches its dramatic peak in Amphoreus, the Chrysos Heirs are pouring…

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GOG says it won’t repeat its ill-fated Daggerfall GOG Cut with its new one-click modding program, not least because it can send more than one message a day to modders now

Remember the Daggerfall Unity GOG Cut? Odds are you don’t. It was, in essence, a pre-modded version of The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall, in the excellent fan-made Daggerfall Unity engine reimplementation. The idea was that if you wanted to play Daggerfall but didn’t want to go through the rigamarole of modding it into modernity, you…

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‘We just kept geeking out’: Skyblivion devs were invited to Bethesda HQ and ended up spending the whole day talking about modding with the team and Todd Howard

In the build-up to Skyblivion’s release Bethesda has been rather normal. It’s not only let the modders carry on with their competing Oblivion remaster without any legal qualms, but has also been quite supportive—handing over Oblivion remaster keys and inviting them over to Bethesda HQ for tea and sweet rolls. The trip actually started as…

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Reminder: You Can Use Non-Nintendo USB Cameras With Switch 2

And it appears some USB-A cameras work, too. Check out the official details for Switch 2 USB camera compatibility on Nintendo’s website and you’ll be greeted with a surprisingly straightforward message from the Big N stating that, “You can use the Nintendo Switch 2 camera accessory (sold separately) or any compatible USB-C camera you’d like.”…

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FF14 ‘stalker plugin’ PlayerScope shut down after creator says they were sent a cease & desist—though that’s not quite the end of it

Final Fantasy 14 has a technical problem—it’s been ongoing for a few months now, but the jist of it is this: A change to the game’s blacklist system, designed to help reduce stalking, accidentally opened the door for modders to obtain info on every character their targets had, making them more vulnerable than they were…

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These 7 games need a remaster, and they need it now

We live in the age of the remaster. From classics of yesteryear, to games that are only five years old, to games you barely remember releasing the first time, it seems that these days almost anything is ripe to return in shinier, cleaned-up, modernised form. And yet… there are still some conspicuous absences in the…

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