Final Fantasy 14’s due a new coat of paint, and if you’ve been following the ramp-up to Dawntrail, you know it’s getting one. Better lighting, shinier models, and an overall tune-up to a game that’s past its 10th anniversary by now. In a recent interview with Play magazine (thanks, GamesRadar) Naoki Yoshida—also known as Yoshi-P—let…

Helldivers 2 just had its first proper balance patch, and a few fan favourites had their numbers tuned down. Namely the Breaker shotgun, the Railgun, and the Energy Shield Backpack—a holy trinity that most players rocked on higher difficulties, aside from missions where more specific tools were called for. Arrowhead’s mission objective here isn’t to…

In a twist of events that may seem a bit out of the ordinary, Dragon’s Dogma 2’s game director, Hideaki Itsuno, has spoken about one strong source of inspiration for the soon-to-arrive fantasy RPG, and it wouldn’t be my first choice. Dragon’s Dogma 2 is set to release on March 22 and easily sits up…

When it comes to graphics cards, a significant portion of their performance comes from the onboard VRAM. That memory not only has to store masses of data for rendering or compute, it also needs to be able to transfer data very rapidly. JEDEC, the semiconductor standards body, has finalised the specifications of GDDR7, the next…

Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion is due for release in June and, alongside the recent trailer for what the developer says will be its biggest expansion yet, FromSoftware CEO and creative director Hidetaka Miyazaki went on the interview circuit. By far the most intriguing thing he said (well to me at least) was…

World of Warcraft Classic isn’t necessarily hard, it’s just punishing—requiring, as many old MMORPGs did, a huge amount of patience on behalf of the player. It’s easy to accidentally pull too many mobs or wipe on an ill-fated dungeon run, forcing you to make a long jog back to your corpse. Adding permadeath to that…

Like some kind of evil Victorian capitalist attempting to make up for a lifetime of exploitation, EA appears to have unexpectedly slashed the prices on some truly excellent RTS games immediately after making headlines for, ah, laying off 5% of its workforce. Every little helps? Spotted by PCGamesN (and, for clarity, likely not related to…

On Sunday, Factorio’s God Factory was born. Using over 160 copies of the game running simultaneously, a group of players created a monster so big it more than tripled the previous world record for the most science produced per minute. Eternity Cluster, the name of the project run by over 400 players from around the…

I learned from the movies that the best way to unearth a criminal conspiracy is to follow the money. That advice also applies to understanding videogames: feel out where a game dedicated the big bucks and you’ll get a sense of where its heart truly lies.  In Baldur’s Gate 3, the money went into the…