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Final Fantasy 14’s in-house rock band is heading to one of the UK’s biggest music festivals and it feels like my two main friend groups meeting for the first time

I’ve had the pleasure of attending a single Download Festival—one of the UK’s biggest rock and metal events going—and I thought I was cool with never attending another. Well, erm, that certainly was the case until about two seconds ago, when the organiser dropped another 14 acts for this year’s festival. Among them? Final Fantasy…

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Assassin’s Creed 3’s greatest feature was pushed to the side until Black Flag because Ubisoft was worried that ‘the tech wouldn’t work’

In hindsight, Assassin’s Creed 3 is both fascinating and fundamental to the later development of the series. At the time, the expansive wilderness and smaller settlements felt restrictive compared to the series’ massive cities, but it gave Ubisoft a model it would carry on successfully many years later in Origins, Odyssey, Valhalla and Shadows. And…

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The Denshattack! demo sees you kickflipping, grinding, and joyriding a Ferris wheel into an active volcano on the world’s most tubular commute

Denshattack! is brave enough to ask, ‘What if you could do a kickflip as a train?’ Now, it’s unclear whether anyone was actually asking this question, but it sure is brave enough to ask it. Anyway, we can finally find out the answer to that via its Steam Next Fest demo, which is ‘You’d crash…

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ID@Xbox Developer Acceleration Program Celebrates Games from Across the African Diaspora

Category: Games ID@Xbox Developer Acceleration Program Celebrates Games from Across the African Diaspora James LewisDirector, ID@Xbox Developer Acceleration Program Published February 23, 2026 Black artists have had a tremendous impact in art forms such as film and music, with Black culture and stories reaching audiences around the world in record numbers. This interest in diverse…

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