Check out this gorgeous mosaic of over 20,000 FF14 screenshots assembled for the game’s 10th anniversary

Final Fantasy 14 had its 10th anniversary back in September—though the official website‘s been stacking up post after post to celebrate, including some very cute anniversary messages from voice actors, prominent figures, and the father of Final Fantasy himself Hironobu Sakaguchi.  The latest addition to the celebration is pretty incredible to look at. It’s a…

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Steam keys for the unavailable disaster game The Day Before are being resold for up to $400, despite its servers’ uncertain future

The Day Before is 2023’s fastest-moving disaster—starting off as a top-wishlisted game on Steam after an alluring trailer, it only took four days after its (eventual) launch before the thing was taken down. Following that, the Discord server, YouTube, and even CEO‘s social media channels disappeared or were scrubbed. The developer’s response? “Shit happens.” (Image…

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Fallout 4’s intro is both the most ambitious and the most flawed of any Bethesda game—and it feels like Starfield learned all the wrong lessons from it

Reinstall This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 389 in October 2023, as part of our Reinstall series. Every month we load up a beloved classic—and find out whether it holds up to our modern gaming sensibilities.  A staggering eight years ago, Fallout 4 was released. Its developer, Bethesda, made the swap back…

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Xbox chief Phil Spencer thanks Bobby Kotick for his ‘invaluable contributions’ to the games industry as Kotick officially exits Activision Blizzard after 32 years

It is now official: In a farewell message to employees, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has confirmed that he will be leaving the company. Kotick’s future with Activision Blizzard came into question almost as soon as Microsoft announced its intention to acquire the company back in January 2022. The decision appeared to be all but…

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Yikes: Xfinity has suffered a data breach exposing the usernames, hashed passwords and potentially even partial Social Security numbers of 36 million internet subscribers

On December 18, Comcast notified customers of a “recent data security incident” with one of its software companies that exposed their personal information to an outside party. In October, someone gained “unauthorized access” to customers’ usernames and hashed passwords for a period of four days. And it gets worse: Comcast says that “for some customers,…

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The ESRB has started slapping blockchain games with Adults Only ratings, so Epic has changed its store policy to allow them

Unlike Steam, the Epic Games Store has a hard-and-fast rule against adult content. Its content guidelines state very clearly that “products with Adults Only ratings cannot be distributed on the Epic Games Store.” But it recently updated those guidelines to allow AO-rated games on the store for one specific reason: If they were given that…

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