It doesn’t really make sense that soccer star Ronaldo is now a Fatal Fury character, but if you follow the money you can see how it happened

Soccer players aren’t generally known for their fighting prowess, but that’s not stopping SNK from adding famed footballer Cristiano Ronaldo to the lineup of Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, the latest addition to the long-running Fatal Fury series of fighting games. “One of the top football players in the world,” Ronaldo’s character page states….

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Today’s RPG fans are ‘very sensitive to feeling like they wasted time’ when they die, says Metaphor: ReFantazio battle planner—but Atlus still made combat hard anyway

According to HowLongToBeat, Atlus’s 2024 RPG Metaphor: ReFantazio is a mere 65-and-a-half hours long—if you stick to the critical path. Go for the mad completionist playthrough and you’re looking at 105 hours of turn-based battles, cutscenes and life simmy chats with your party members, which is objectively a lot of game. But imagine how much…

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A new Game of Thrones RPG is coming to Steam today with a cast of ‘familiar faces,’ which is good because it’s really the only way to tell it’s a GoT game at all

I didn’t watch HBO’s Game of Thrones series—I get my fill of political intrigue and badly-behaved dimwits from the real world, thanks—and so when the whole thing fizzled out like a wet tissue tossed into a burn pit, it was a bit of a non-event for me: I was mostly just surprised at how quickly…

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Old armor continues to fall victim to Final Fantasy 14’s bizarre two-channel dye system, unless you’re super into changing the colour of teeny-tiny eyelets: ‘Why even bother at this point?’

It only took a decade, but Final Fantasy 14 finally added an extra dye channel to a multitude of armour when Dawntrail released last year. It’s, unfortunately, been rather hit-or-miss, with that second dye channel ranging from changing actual important things like overcoats or stitching, to ridiculous details like a tiny belt buckle. Older gear…

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As if your work meetings weren’t already fun enough, now Otter has a new all-hearing AI agent that remembers everything anyone has said and can join in the discussion

Imagine a new work colleague who remembered everything you or anyone else ever said in a meeting. Wouldn’t that be, er, fun? Well, it seems something like that is for real and it’s the new Otter AI Meeting Agent (via The Verge). Otter already had a text-based agent for its collaboration and AI-transcription platform. But…

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By the time Bethesda was on Starfield, you’d ‘basically get in trouble’ for breaking schedule, says former dev: ‘A lot of the great stuff within Skyrim came from having the freedom to do what you want’

Starfield sort of came and went, huh? With a lukewarm reception on release, a DLC that didn’t quite summon that bygone Bethesda magic, and a dedicated fanbase starting to gnaw on their own tails due to a lack of communication, an RPG we were anticipating to be a landmark has gone quiet as the vacuum…

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