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Over the last couple of months, EA Sports has been promoting a new dramatic story mode for the next installment of its critically-acclaimed Fight Night franchise, Fight Night Champion. Teaser trailers narrated by Andre Bishop, the protagonist of the tale, revealed a new Hollywood-style presentation for the single-player experience akin to that normally seen in games developed by Rockstar Games. The “Champion” mode teaser trailers, while intriguing, were pretty short in duration and created more questions than they answered....

The original Final Fantasy 7 is now fully voice acted, thanks to a new mod by the Tsunamods community. Available today, Echo-S 7 adds voice acting to every scene, with automatic text boxes “to help the scenes feel like you’re watching a movie”. “We gathered actors from all over the world to voice act the entirety of Final Fantasy 7. Every main, minor, and NPC; you name a character, they’re voiced - even the tutorials!...

Along with a bunch of other media folks, I’ve had the privilege of spending a day messing around with Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, and now I’m free to tell you all about it. Endwalker‘s first dungeon, its areas, its jobs. That said, “all about it” is a bit of a misnomer because what we could actually see was limited, so let’s quickly go over how I’m dividing this up and what I won’t be discussing....

Today Square Enix announced some of its plans for the future of Final Fantasy XIV, including the reopening of the sale of new copies of the game. Due to the massive congestion of the servers due to the launch of the Endwalker expansion, sales have been suspended for about a month. New players will be able to purchase the game again on January 25. The date also has significance due to the much-awaited opening of the Oceanian Data Center....

The wait is finally over Warhammer 40000 (Wh40k) Darktide is finally out now and available for all players globally. This first-person action game is developed by Fatshark and is available on steam for PC users. It will soon be released for Xbox players. However, before that, there are already several complaints about it. After a long wait, the game still has some bugs and errors. In one of the errors players are not able to launch the game, if it does, it gets stuck on the loading page....

Bioware has confirmed the official title of the next Dragon Age game as Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. The studio revealed the new title in a brief announcement today on the company’s official blog. While it didn’t reveal too many more details, it did confirm that Solas will indeed be the game’s antagonist. The blog post even noted a tweeted clue it dropped from way back in 2018 in which the studio said “#TheDreadWolfRises”....

I called it! BioWare revealed the new DLC for Dragon Age: Origins today, and just like I had prophesied you will be playing as a Darkspawn. The Darkspawn Chronicles will set you in the shoes (greaves?) of a Hurlock Vanguard set to the task of burning Denerim to the ground. Rally your warriors and heed the call of the Arch-Demon, and you may win this war for the side of evil....

There’s nothing like a callback to the bygone days of youth to promote a long-running franchise. A recent Japanese live-action trailer for the upcoming Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot has those callbacks in spades. With the tagline “We’re all Goku,” the ad focuses on flashbacks from a player’s life, showing the times he imitated his animated hero across the years. The entire ad is in Japanese, but it covers such a universal idea that it’s well worth a watch even if you don’t know a single word of the language....

The worlds of Dragon’s Dogma and No More Heroes will be colliding in two new crossovers, one of which will see Travis Touchdown becoming a party member in the Nintendo Switch version of Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen. In Dragon’s Dogma, the player creates their own character and is also able to design an NPC party member known as a “Pawn,” who acts in a support role during combat. It’s possible for the player to hire more Pawns that are designed by other players, as well as sharing their own Pawn online....

UPDATE: Driveclub PS Plus Edition is finally here. If you’re in Europe, head through here to grab it from PlayStation Store. ORIGINAL STORY: Driveclub PS Plus Edition will launch tomorrow as a free download for PlayStation Plus members, Sony Computer Entertainment has announced. DriveClub PS Plus Edition offers PlayStation Plus users access to 15 cars and all 13 tracks in the game’s India location. “After a lot of hard work from the team at Evolution Studios, I’m pleased to announce that we are making the Driveclub PlayStation Plus Edition available to all PlayStation Plus members starting on Thursday, 25th June,” wrote Shuhei Yoshida, president of Worldwide Studios....

Dynasty Warriors 9 is a pretty major step forward for the long-running slash-’em-up franchise, being the first game in the series to feature an open-world China to explore. While the size of the game world has been relatively unknown at this point, we now have a better idea of just what Dynasty Warriors 9 is packing. Japanese outfit Dengeki recently took it upon themselves to find out just how vast the game world is, and their efforts concluded that it’s pretty bloody massive....

During last week’s E3 2011 Game Rant was treated to a behind closed doors preview of two of Paramount Digital Entertainment’s upcoming titles: Stark Trek and The War of the Worlds. While we have already detailed Stark Trek, and its intriguing co-op innovations, it was now time to share what The War of the Worlds is all about. Paying homage to retro titles like Prince of Persia and Out of this World, The War of the Worlds features 2D side scrolling that isn’t focused on flashy combat or fast-paced action set pieces....

It is a fear that keeps every artist up at night. The intangible terror that, come nightfall, takes on a shape as vivid as the shadows on the wall. What if I’m no good? It drove Hemingway to the bottle and van Gogh to self-mutilation. But perhaps more disturbing is when it afflicts the hacks too—the journeyman whose travails can occur in lifelong obscurity. Even the most legendarily awful can be haunted....

While Elden Ring has a plethora of buffed weapons or armaments, there are only nine legendary armaments to wield. The bolt of Gransax is one of the nine legendary armaments that you can find out across the mystical Lands Between. It is a spear that deals with strength and dexterity attribute points. As you get a trophy or achievement for collecting all nine armaments, you might not want to miss on this legendary spear....

Bandai Namco announced today that it will host a special Jazz music event dedicated to the super-popular game Elden Ring by FromSoftware. The event will be broadcasted live from Hollywood and will star Grammy Award winner Kenny Garrett and Japanese jazz artist Takuya Kuroda. The title is “A Night in the Lands Between,” and it’ll be hosted on December 3 2022 at the Bourbon Room. It’ll include melodies from Elden Ring’s soundtrack performed in Jazz style including improvisation....

FromSoftware’s latest game, Elden Ring, might have been heavily criticized for its demanding minimum specifications and generally wobbly performance on PC, but surprisingly it’s actually going to be playable on Steam Deck. In a discovery made today by Wario64, the RPG has been confirmed as verified for Steam’s anticipated handheld. Elden Ring is verified to run on Steam Deck pic.twitter.com/UaVGzbPHdn — Wario64 (@Wario64) February 24, 2022 Elden Ring has already been issued a sizable day one patch that fixes several performance issues and quest bugs, but its performance on almost all platforms does occasionally still suffer from framerate woes and texture pop-in....

Batman! Superman! Aquaman! Wonder Woman! Black Widow! Wolverine! That Guy Who Wears Green! There’s so many superheroes, and in many ways, they’re more popular today than ever. But who is the best? As we know in 2016 the only way to decipher such a thing is with review scores, so here’s (almost) every superhero ever reviewed. Let’s put this debate to bed!

From No Time to Explain and Fearless Fantasy to Party Hard and Secret Neighbor, tinyBuild is one of those very rare game developers and publishers that just gets it right every single time. Their work on SpeedRunners, alongside DoubleDutch Games, has proved worthwhile, as they’ve sold well over 600,000 copies. Mainly designing games for iOS and Android-operated mobile games, they’ve also stretched out into Steam territory. At PAX West this year, where a whole slew of swag and free games have been ongoing, the tinyBuild panel was a flurry of exciting news and brand new games....

Max Verstappen has called this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual ‘a clown show’ after the high-profile sim racing event once again suffered server issues that saw two red flags that stopped racing and numerous disconnects that took teams out of contention - including reigning F1 world champion Verstappen’s Team Redline, whose retirement inspired a polemic aimed towards the organisers Motorsport Games and the rFactor 2 platform on which the event was hosted....

As foreshadowed by the lack of a beta on Steam, today PC Gamer broke the news that Fallout 76 won’t make an appearance on Steam at all–at least at launch. According to Bethesda, “The PC version of Fallout 76, for both the [beta] and the launch, will be available only via Bethesda.net, not on Steam.” Additionally, it appears the beta is the final build. Progress will carry over when the full game is released–which seems like a savvy move....