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Latest Elden Ring Patch References New Maps, Rebalances PvP

Business By · January 17, 2025 · Comments off

Elden Ring might be the frontrunner for game of the year 2022, but the past few months have been rather quiet ones for From Software. Now, a new patch that rebalances Elden Ring’s PvP has added hidden references to new maps, as well as laying the groundwork for a wider PvP reshuffle that fans have been asking for.

Patch 1.07 is almost exclusively multiplayer-focused. The biggest change is the addition of separate damage scaling for PvP battles, which is by far the biggest change that the game’s community has lobbied for in the months since its release.

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Business By · March 18, 2025 · Comments off

This year, I decided I’d finally play 2022’s Case of the Golden Idol, a mystery game that thrusts you onto the scene of a murder moments after it’s happened. You pan through several screens, absorb every detail you possibly can, gather clues in the form of nouns and verbs, and make logic-based deductions by filling in the missing details in passages that tell the story of what occurred there. There are systems in place to guide you in the right direction, and the game begins quite simply, but by its end, I was being pushed to my absolute limit. The first few cases took all of about 10-25 minutes, but the final one in the game seemed to stretch across the span of an entire night. My head was positively bursting with possible motives and culprits, and kudos to Case of the Golden Idol for allowing me the room to be wrong about these cases until I eventually divined the right permutation of terms and cracked the case. It was one of the most frustrating ends of a game ever, and…

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Here's How Rings Of Power Invented New Characters For Middle-earth

Business By · February 5, 2025 · Comments off

While Prime Video’s upcoming series Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power takes place in JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth, the showrunners got to take some liberties with the world, like expanding on Tolkien’s work with brand-new characters.

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Halo Infinite has wrapped up its first full year of operation, and developer 343 Industries has now shared some first-year statistics. Live-service boss Sean Baron said in a blog post that Halo Infinite had the “biggest launch year” in Halo’s 20-year history.

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Final Fantasy XIV's Huge Newfound Adventure Patch Is Live Now

Business By · January 18, 2025 · Comments off

Final Fantasy XIV’s Patch 6.1, dubbed Newfound Adventure, is out now and ready for players to explore a wealth of new content. The patch adds a bunch of new main storyline quests, a new alliance raid, a PVP mode named Crystalline Conflict, and more new content, as well as a bunch of quality of life updates and bug fixes.

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When it was first announced that Walt Disney World would be opening an immersive Star Wars hotel, it seemed like a dream come true. The chance to spend three days living out your own Star Wars story while on a “cruise” through space sounded amazing. Later, though, we learned exactly how much that “cruise” would cost and it was quite a bit. Could Star Wars: Galactic Stasrcruiser possibly be worth the thousands of dollars, though? After partaking in the full experience as part of a press preview, we actually know the answer–and it’s a bit of a complicated one.

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Konami Announces Castlevania 35th Anniversary NFTs, Auction Starts Next Week

Business By · January 17, 2025 · Comments off

The Castlevania series is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year, and to mark the occasion, Konami is rolling out new Castlevania-themed NFTs. The “Konami Memorial NFT” program, as it’s called, begins with an auction starting on January 12.

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This summer is littered with gaming events, and many are from major publishers releasing AAA games. For anyone looking to know what limited-edition physical games they can get their hands on from smaller companies, the Limited Run Games 2021 showcase will be taking place on Monday, June 14, at 1 PM PT/4 PM ET. Limited Run Games has said that the hour-long showcase will feature 25 announcements, including new games, physical editions of cult classics, and reissues of classic titles.

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Limited Run Games’ “#LRG3 2021” goes live Monday, June 14, at 1 PM PT/4 PM ET. The show, produced by Mega64, promises 25 physical game announcements in an hour-long presentation. During the 2020 show the company announced physical versions of Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2, Katana Zero, To The Moon, and many more, so expect a variety of titles to be announced during the showcase.