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But will it be free-to-play with microtransactions? Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis- a sort of mobile gamingRPGsandwich of the originalFinal Fantasy VIIand its spin-offs Crisis Core and The First Soldier, plus gacha mechanics - is coming to PC and Steam, publisher Square Enix have announced. The Steam release will share data with the mobile version. Ever Crisis on mobile is a free-to-play game with microtransactions and curvy, colourful chibi-style visuals. It’sFinal Fantasy: Polly Pocket Edition, sort of....

A Game Pass surprise Like most people, I had assumed EA shut downAnthemsoon after dashing BioWare’s hopes to overhaul and revive the sci-fi looter-shooter. I was surprised to see Anthem on Game Pass while poking around checking out space games which are notStarfield. It did shut down, didn’t it? Surely it did. So why’s it on Game Pass? If an 80GB download is the price I pay for a ha-ha-hilarious joke post where I review a spinning loading ball or server error message, so be it....

“We have a lot of diligent and consistent work ahead of us”, says CEO You may have read thatalways-online crime caper Payday 3 has had a disastrous launch, with players forced into long queues for the privilege of playing by themselves. The chaos continues this week, as developer Starbreeze have now elected to take the game wholly offline for several hours at a time across Tuesday 26th and Friday 28th September, while exploring ways to minimise the game’s reliance on internet access....

Open world detective sim heats up Shadows Of Doubtis in many ways my ideal game: a procedurally generated detective sim set in an open, rain-slick noir city. I’m waiting for it to get further along in its Early Access journey, and to that end, its first major content update is here now. The Cheats And Liars Update, as its called, adds new “infidelity cases” to investigate, alongside simpler lost-and-found side jobs....

Here’s how to rescue Barrett and get yourself a new companion How do you rescue Barrett in Starfield’s Back to Vectera mission?So, you’ve finished The Old NeighborhoodStarfieldmission and Sarah has tasked you with finding Barrett, last seen on Vectera after the Crimson Fleet attack. Unsurprisingly, the Argos Extractors are now packing up operations and getting outta dodge. It’s not all shiny packing peanuts and farewell drinks on Vectera though as you’ll soon find out....

A spacesuit for every occasion If you land and go exploring on one ofStarfield’s many planets, you might become afflicted with a status effect. It won’t bother you too much, though, and you can cure the effect with an item or a quick trip to a doctor. It wasn’t always so easy. In an interview with Game Maker’s Notebook, Todd Howard says that environmental damage was initially “punitive”, until they “nerfed the hell out of it....

Also nixes AMD star flare glitches I’ve read several comments here and elsewhere that Bethesda’sStarfieldis “a mile-wide but deep as a puddle”, or variations on that theme. Said commenters might be tickled to know that there is, in fact, a puddle in the game’s Akila City that contains infinite loot: by dint of peering into it, you’ll magically gain access to a nearby store’s inventory. Strip the shelves, then wait a day or two, and you’ll be able to do so again, forever and ever....

Update: Valve approve release after CW removed from Steam page I’ve been greatly looking forward toFortune’s Run, despite absolutely sucking at the demo. Scandalously, we don’t appear to have covered this indie sci-fiFPSon these golden pages, so here’s a quick overview: you’re the high-jumping, sword-wielding, bullet-pumping lovechild ofDeus ExandDOOM, galloping through a world that recalls the Imperial bases and sewers ofDark Forces, taking down grungy pixelart sprites by means of precision parries, grabs, combos, headshots, terrain traps and much more besides....

Ghosts are running scared The Talos Principle 2, not so much. The philosophical puzzler is launching November 2nd. “Though finished and set for release, we want Red and Antea’s story to get the spotlight it deserves.” They then describe its new release date of February 13th as the “perfect date for an epic love story”. Meanwhile, Talos Principle 2 marked its release date announcement with a new trailer: If I had spent years making a game - particularly a potentially mainstream action game and one not in an established series - I would definitely avoid releasing it at the busiest and most expensive time of year....

A great choice for video editing, 3D modelling and scientific computing. While DDR5 RAM is the future now, there are still millions of DDR4 systems out there used for gaming, content creation and much more. Happily, the advent of DDR5 means that DDR4 prices have nose-dived, bringing extremely high capacity kits into much more reasonable price points. For example, this 2x 32GB kit of DDR4-3600 RAM from Viper, is down to £98 on Amazon - after retailing for over £130 as recently as July....

Score wars On the latest-but-one revision of theirAbout page, Metacritic describe the process of calculating a videogame’s aggregate “Metascore” as a kind of “magic”. The FAQ cheekily invites you to “peek behind the curtain”, evoking the figure of the theatre conjurer beckoning the audience on-stage to inspect the props, before performing the trick. You’re only shown so much, however. There are tables for conversions between different review scoring systems, demonstrating how a B- becomes 67/100, but the “weighting” Metacritic gives to each source publication when producing the combined Metascore is a closely-guarded mystery....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for September 26? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses? All you have to help you in finding the Wordle answer are the contextual clues you gain from each guess - but often, that’s not enough. Wordle can be tricky, you see, and it’s not unusual to look for a little bit of help if you want to preserve your year-long winstreak....

“I will continue to create in my Hideki Kamiya way.” The post continues: “We believe that he will continue to succeed in his future endeavours as a game creator. We are looking forward to seeing the game industry grow into a better place with him in it. We wish him all the best for the future.” Kamiya himselfadded on his personal accountthat the move “came after a lot of consideration based on my own beliefs and was by no means an easy decision to make....