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Want to dive into a Final Fantasy game but not excited about dropping $70 to play Final Fantasy XVI? Then consider checking out two other highly rated games in the series that are now on sale–the remastered Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion and quirky Theatrhythm Final Bar Line. Both games are down from their usual $60 and can be …

Young Horses’ excellent creature collection and charming puzzler Bugsnax ($9.99) hit iOS as a premium release last week. I had been following it ever since it was a game that showed up at multiple Sony events as a PS5 showcase indie. I didn’t play it until getting my PS5 months after the system launched, and I’m glad I waited because …

Large numbers of players are swarming back to older Call of Duty games on Xbox 360 thanks to a recent update. As spotted last week by Twitter user ZekcoFS, an update arrived for a number of older Call of Duty titles that fixed matchmaking. This included classics such Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Modern Warfare 2, Modern …

The FBI used a Nintendo Switch console to locate an abducted 15-year-old girl, who had been missing for 11 days back in August 2022, ABC15 reports. What You Should Know About Mario Strikers’ Big Free Update In a horrendous case involving kidnap and sexual exploitation, a teenage girl was found and rescued only after she logged online with her Nintendo …

The snowball of games delayed out of 2021 and 2022 has settled in 2023, coalescing into the most exciting games lineup of the decade so far. This year, arguably, marks the proper start of the PS5 and Xbox Series X generation with Unreal Engine 5 support building and an increasing number of developers dropping support for last-gen hardware. Each of …

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 will soon be available to stream at home. The superhero movie that caps off James Gunn’s trilogy hits Disney Plus on August 2. That’s turning out to be a big week for at-home streaming of big movies, as Universal’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie comes to Peacock just a day later, on August …

Bungie’s upcoming extraction shooter Marathon has apparently added Halo Infinite’s multiplayer lead to its team. Andrew Witts, the former lead of multiplayer on Halo Infinite, with other titles like Fortnite and Rainbow Six Siege under his belt, announced last week that he has joined Bungie as the gameplay design director on Marathon. “I’m excited to share that I’ve completed …

According to a recent report from Deadline, Hayao Miyazaki’s final Studio Ghibli movie, How Do You Live?, has earned an impressive total of $13.2 million in its opening weekend in Japan. This accomplishment is particularly astonishing considering Studio Ghibli never released a single trailer to promote Miyazaki’s final film, sharing only the title and a single poster. The Week In …

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is out now in theatres, and there’s one scene that might look a little familiar to fans of the Uncharted series. It even caught the eye of Bruce Straley, the co-director of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, who, in a recent tweet, compared images of a scene from the film involving a dangling train …

Kimiko Glenn (Peni Parker in the Spider-Verse franchise) took to TikTok over the weekend to underline comments she made in a recent New Yorker underlining the alleged pay discrepancy between actors on Orange is the New Black and the lack of residuals on future streams. The Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild are under work stoppage orders due …