Final Fantasy 14’s upcoming Monster Hunter collaboration will ‘feel more like 14’ compared to its more unorthodox Rathalos encounter

Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki Yoshida says the game’s upcoming collaboration with Monster Hunter Wilds will be different from the one it had with Monster Hunter: World, putting a bigger emphasis on the MMO’s mechanics rather than trying to fit an action RPG’s square peg in a round hole. Capcom and Square Enix…

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EA strikes a $55 billion deal to go private in a Saudi-backed buyout just a week before the launch of Battlefield 6

Electronic Arts has announced today that its plans to go private have gone ahead. A consortium that includes Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, alongside the private equity firm Silver Lake, has snapped up EA in a $55 billion deal (via Reuters). “Our creative and passionate teams at EA…

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Fortnite quickly pulls Peacemaker emote while it figures out ‘our partner’s creative intentions’ after the show’s huge twist gives it a whole new meaning

Epic has pulled the Peaceful Hips emote from Fortnite—created as part of a collaboration with James Gunn’s DC show Peacemaker—after the latest episode’s bombshell painted the dance in a pretty damning new light. Warning: spoilers ahead for the latest episode of Peacemaker! The emote comes from the second season’s opening dance sequence, where John Cena’s…

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Heroic tinkerer revives Windows 7 and gets Steam and Silksong running on it, so take that Microsoft and your constant nagging to upgrade to Win11

We are t-minus 15 days until Microsoft finally kills off support for Windows 10 (that is, unless you fork over the cash for its extended support updates or are fortunate enough to live in the European Economic Area), and everyone’s rightly miffed about being cajoled into moving to Redmond’s Copilot-infested, upsell-nagging, taskbar-in-the-middle-having* Windows 11. Not…

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Next year Magic: The Gathering will return to Lorwyn, Strixhaven, Middle-earth, the Marvel Universe—and space, with a Star Trek set

During a preview panel at MagicCon: Atlanta, Wizards of the Coast revealed most of the 2026 lineup for Magic: The Gathering. It’s looking like a year dominated by returns to existing settings—with two popular planes from Magic’s multiverse, and two Universes Beyond crossovers enjoying comebacks—though we’ll also be getting a Star Trek set and something…

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