'When the world ends, people just dance': As another MMO comes to an end, players come together for a final farewell rave

How to romance Aerith in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

Oh, Aerith. Even after all this time, the kind-hearted flower merchant we first met in Midgar’s Sector 5 slums still has my heart. And though Cloud’s completely oblivious himbo personality is pretty charming, he can’t be trusted to always say the right thing, so I’m here to play the role of matchmaker with an FF7…

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The team behind one of 2024’s hidden gems is following it up with a stop-motion ‘relaxed digging and discovery’ game about a happy robot’s underground adventures beneath a lake of slime

One of last year’s biggest pleasant surprises was Judero, a surreal little adventure by a two-man team whose art consisted entirely of action figures and other handmade, physical objects digitized as sprites and textures or animated in stop-motion cutscenes. Developer Talha & Jack Co. is already working on what’s next: Mashina. “A little robot digs…

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Adata SE880 1 TB external SSD review

It’s difficult to get excited about slightly older external SSDs, but sometimes they can surprise you—the Crucial X9, for instance, certainly surprised me with its consistent performance and low price tag. Unfortunately, the SE880 is not such a pleasant surprise. It’s fine for what it is, but “fine” is all, and there are better options…

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