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Final Fantasy 14‘s next big patch, 7.5, will be dropping next month—and in subsequent updates will be adding Beastmaster to the game. Players have been waiting a long time for this’un. Given Square’s propensity to announce almost everything in an expansion before its launch, we’ve known about Beastmaster since (checks notes) two entire years ago….

A quarter of a century ago, Finnish software company MadOnion released its third iteration of a certain benchmark tool called 3DMark, and together with the launch of Nvidia’s GeForce 3 series of graphics cards, 3DMark2001 showcased the potential of shaders in DirectX-powered games. For myself, it was the start of a period in my life…

Launching in 2001, Nvidia’s GeForce 3 series marked an important step for Nvidia, according to CEO Jensen Huang. In a YouTube video, Huang celebrates the 25-year anniversary by waxing lyrical about the card and what it means for the company. “GeForce 3 was such a transition for us,” Huang says. “We introduced really the first…

Before the rise of Overwatch there was the fall of Titan, a cancelled Blizzard MMO which was stripped for parts and used to craft the foundation of the team-shooter we all know today. Ex-Overwatch boss Jeff Kaplan had been working on Titan and was the driving force behind redirecting the team to something new. It…

Arc Raiders looked very different in its early stages of development, and even compared to its initial reveal trailer. While the team was flip-flopping between genres, one thing was clear: your goal was to kill a boss as fast as possible. Naturally, there was a lot of mobility in these early prototypes. You’d move fast…

Near the latter half of 2024, Microsoft boldly claimed nearly anything could be an Xbox. Your mobile phone, your gaming handheld, your smart TV, your car seat screen. Heck, maybe even a really smart, smart fridge could be your Xbox. Now, in the wake of announcing a new Xbox console-PC hybrid, Microsoft has not only…

If, like me, you’ve been watching the memory supply crisis escalate from between your fingers, then I don’t need to tell you just how expensive some key PC components have become. Well, it’s not just silicon wafers seeing runaway pricing these days, but even more foundational materials like copper foil. Mitsui Kinzoku is arguably the…

Fortnite announced this week that V-Bucks—the last remaining currency with any goddamn dependability around here—were about to get more expensive. “The cost of running Fortnite has gone up a lot and we’re raising prices to help pay the bills,” said Epic. I’m not a Fortniter (no reflexes at my age, you see), but given the…

It is the year 2026. You are in 25 Discord servers. Six of them are for your friends and family, one of them is so you can create custom emojis, one is just called “the chungle zone”, you do not remember how you joined it. The rest are all videogames you haven’t played in months….

“There are so many innovative games coming up that I can’t wait for,” Game Developers Choice Awards host Sam Maggs said Thursday night. That doesn’t sound like the setup for a spot of black comedy, but wait until you hear the names of the games Maggs rattled off. Perfect Dark? Canceled, as Microsoft shut down…