Scuf Omega review

In recent years, Scuf controllers have lost some of their purpose to me. I distinctly remember wanting a Scuf controller to play Call of Duty as a teenager, as they were one of the only brands making solid pro controllers with distinct visuals and partnership deals with pro players. Now, you can get a pro…

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Riot co-founder doesn’t think 2XKO was ‘a mistake’ but perhaps a tough sell: ‘You’re not just competing against games, you’re competing against everything’

After years of development, a shaky launch, and layoffs a mere three weeks later, the inevitable came for Riot’s tag fighter 2XKO in August: shutdown of future development after this year, and refunds for everyone who had made in-game purchases up to that point. In its announcement post, Riot admitted that it was unable to…

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Square Enix wants Final Fantasy 7 to be an ‘IP with an ever-evolving future’, which is strange to say about a franchise that’s already ever-evolving

Final Fantasy 7’s remake trilogy has, at the very least, given us a trio of pretty solid RPGs—I had a great time with the first, and I’m soon to buckle up and finally give Rebirth a go. But I can’t help but wonder, quietly, whether or not Final Fantasy has fallen into the same ‘fear…

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Once again, it is genuinely cheaper for me to fly to PAX West and track down Nvidia’s ‘GeForce Evangelist’ rather than buy the RTX 5090 anywhere else

Hello, and welcome to another episode of ‘I’d do anything for an Nvidia RTX 5090 at MSRP, but I won’t do that.’ This time, ‘that’ is hopping on an international flight from the UK to Seattle, Washington in the US, so I can buy a 50-series card at PAX West. Nvidia’s self-described GeForce Evangelist Jacob…

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‘If you’re designing an RPG, you have to go back to the source:’ The post-apocalyptic RPG Entropy takes notes from Fallout and a long-abandoned Warhammer spinoff

The early access RPG Entropy is a very different beast to its developers’ previous work. Dread Delusion was a shockingly good homage to first person RPGs like King’s Field or The Elder Scrolls, while this new game is distinctly JRPG-inflected, nailing a lot of the feel and intangibles of something like Final Fantasy 10 or…

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The Tetris Company confirms it had nothing to do with the White House’s racist rip-off: ‘we believe in the power of connection and bringing people together, not dividing them’

One of the many things making this feel like a particularly dumb epoch to be living through is the way the US government has taken to using videogames as a tool for self-aggrandizement and disseminating its pro-war and anti-immigration messages. A bunch of people who usually argue politics should be kept out of videogames have…

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