Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s director says ‘I respect the modding community’ and uses mods himself, though he still thinks we shouldn’t use ones that ‘detract from the intended game experience’

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s director Naoki Hamaguchi caused a stir last December when he asked modders “not to create or install anything offensive or inappropriate” for the second part of the RPG’s remake, which just launched on PC. While he didn’t specify what was “offensive or inappropriate”, such a broad statement would certainly cover nude…

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The Video Game History Foundation launches its digital library later this month, providing access to over 1,500 videogame magazines and ‘never-before-seen game development materials’

The videogame industry doesn’t have the best track record at preserving its past, though this is slowly changing with the help of independent organisations. One such organisation is the Video Game History Foundation, which today announced it will be launching its digital library platform later this month. Posting on BlueSky, the VGHF revealed that the…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Sunday, January 26

Cut straight to the best bit by clicking through to the answer to the January 26 (1317) Wordle. If that’s all a bit too much all at once for a Sunday puzzle session, feel free to sit a while with our hint for today’s game instead, designed to help without handing you today’s winning word…

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After turning over a new, crypto-free leaf, Atari would like to stress that the meme currency ‘RealPongCoin’ does not have its ‘consent or approval’

On January 23, Atari put out a press release disavowing “RealPongCoin” or “$PONG,” a new crypto meme coin whose account on X, “The Everything App,” was launched that same day. Though the company was once poised to go all-in on crypto and NFTs itself, Atari has since shuttered that side of the business and refocused…

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ConcernedApe isn’t ruling out future updates to Stardew Valley: ‘Maybe even 50 years from now, I might add something’

In a January 24 interview with NPR’s All Things Considered, Stardew Valley creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone discussed his debut game’s legacy nine years on, including his famous propensity for interrupting development on the upcoming Haunted Chocolatier to put out patches and new content for his 2016 farming RPG. “I do take in a lot of…

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Final Fantasy 14 boss Yoshi-P lambasts invasive mod that exposes player data, promises its deletion and potential ‘legal action’

First reported by Massively OP, Final Fantasy 14 producer Naoki Yoshida has issued a statement on the game’s forums regarding a player-made plugin that can reveal private account details in-game. Yoshida doesn’t name a particular mod in his post, but he is almost assuredly referring to PlayerScope, a plugin that has drawn criticism from the…

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