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Fans of Final Fantasy and other Square Enix properties have been given ample opportunities to attend live concerts performing some of the greatest tracks from the developer’s titles. However, due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, a few Final Fantasy 7 Remake world tour concert dates have now been canceled, with the fate of even more up in the air. The current Final Fantasy 7 Remake World Tour Concert was initially announced early in 2020, and several locations have already enjoyed the concert for themselves over the past year....

Time skips help make any video game story amp up the intensity, drama, and excitement. Fire Emblem has done that with Mystery of the Emblem, Genealogy of the Holy War, Awakening, and recently, Three Houses. When the trailer for the time skip was shown, specifically at E3, fans were in awe at how the main lords looked five years later, with Dimitri being the most shocking as he was seen wearing an eye patch and telling his army to kill every last one of them....

Even into 2021, Fire Emblem Heroes just keeps the gifts coming. With the coming of a new year, the popular gacha game will be introducing a set of new heroes into the mix. Besides that, the game will also be featuring a number of events, trials, and summoning focuses throughout the month of January. The New Year: ω Special Heroes summoning focus will feature heroes like Plumeria (Temptation Anew), Velouria (Renewed Wolfpup), Kaden (Refreshed Kitsune), Peony (Alfar Dream Duo), Alfonse (Askran Duo), Anna (Wealth-Wisher), Lethe (New Year’s Claw), Selkie (New Year’s Spirit), Plumeria (Temptation Anew) until February 1....

It’s been a long time courtship between Valve and the console market, but very soon the two shall meet. Earlier this year we heard first rumblings of Valve’s plan for an open source, Linux-based console, and now things are hitting an important turning point. Very soon, Valve will begin rolling out the first prototypes of its new Steam Machines to developers and industry people alike. The hope is that, after seeing the open source console and controller, developers will begin to craft experiences catered toward their machine....

Flappy Bird developer Dong Nguyen releases a new free to play mobile game called Ninja Spinki Challenges!! in which players guide a little ninja through a series of difficult challenges. While Pokemon GO is a huge success and King’s Candy Crush Saga continues to dominate the market, it wasn’t so long ago that the mobile gaming roost was run by another. Between 2013 and 2014, Flappy Bird fever took over. The free-to-play game, which saw players fly an aerially challenged bird through a series of pipes, became monumentally popular, to the point that one third of new iOS games were Flappy Bird clones trying to capitalize on the game’s success....

It’s not unusual to see game developers start their own studios over time, like when former BioWare devs created Archetype Entertainment under Wizards of the Coast. Yesterday, two former Respawn Entertainment employees, Drew McCoy and Jon Shiring, announced a new AAA studio called Gravity Well meant to create something they hope will “last for decades.” According to Gravity Well’s website, the duo have worked on games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and most recently Apex Legends, for which McCoy was an executive producer....

Fortnite season 7 week 6 challenges have gone live, meaning that season 7 of Epic Games’ wildly popular battle royale title is edging ever closer to its end. And in true Fortnite fashion, players see a wide spread of rather simple challenges with a couple of more difficult ones sprinkled in for good measure. Regardless, players who follow this guide should be able to count this week in the bag. After that, they will hopefully be one more step toward earning that coveted Ice King skin....

Fortnite players who competed in this week’s Daredevil Cup not only had the chance to unlock an exclusive skin but are also on their way to getting their hands on a new glider. Fortnite is all Marvel everything right now and many of its players are citing it to be the best season since the game launched three years ago. Fortnite’s previous limited-time Marvel crossover events have proved very popular in the past....

Fortnite managed to carve out its style in the battle royale genre and its building mechanics alongside unique features have made it the most successful game in its field. Despite its accolades and large fan base, the game has come under an increasing amount of criticism. #RIPFortnite began trending on Twitter and many fans voiced their dissatisfaction with the current state of the game. However, a response by fans still enjoying the game has now surfaced under #ThankYouEpicGames....

Season 3 of Epic Games’ battle royale Fortnite has been defined by its underwater theming, as the in-game map being flooded introduced mechanics like water skiing behind loot sharks, as well as a crossover with DC Comics’ Aquaman. However, as the map has begun to drain, players are waiting on a promised update adding cars to drive around Fortnite’s island. Now it seems that update is finally on its way....

Not too long ago, the developer Epic Games put out an official “State of Development” post for the global gaming phenomenon Fortnite in order to keep fans abreast of the changes coming to the multiplayer sandbox survival shooter down the line. For instance, one future update will include input-based matchmaking, and later this year, fans will have the ability to completely remap controller buttons. In addition to these, the game will also be receiving PS4 Pro improvements at some point as well....

It’s no secret that Fortnite is Epic’s greatest moneymaker. The game is such a golden egg there are even golden eggs hidden in Fortnite, at least for now. With tie-ins for everything from music artists to Marvel, it’s the cash chow that just keeps mooing. However, Fortnite has been in the news lately for reasons entirely unrelated to its gameplay or content. Epic Games recently, and very much against Apple’s wishes, released a payment method that let players bypass Apple Pay and Google Pay when purchasing V-Bucks....

The Battle Royale genre continues to be saturated with potential options for players with newcomers like Hyper Scape attempting to muscle in on territory owned by established titles Fortnite, PUBG, Apex Legends, and even Call of Duty: Warzone. One way to not only capture fan attention but to retain them is to constantly keep the mode feeling fresh through changes and updates. Fortnite has seemingly mastered this element, continuing to evolve the game with new content, map changes, and even secret updates that fans are left to discover on their own....

Fortnite continues its partnership with phone maker OnePlus to bring us Creative Island 90. The year 2020 is making for very strange bedfellows. Epic Games and OnePlus have already teamed up to announce that Fortnite Mobile will run at a blistering 90 frames per second on the new OnePlus 8 phone, beating most other mobile devices by a full 30 fps. Now, the two companies are continuing their partnership with Creative Island 90, made using Fortnite’s Creative mode....

While plenty of players are still trying to get into consistent matches of Friday the 13th and survive the matchmaking problems, others are starting to slowly understand the nuances of the game. Where items tend to spawn, where escape routes are located, and even all of the steps to kill Jason have now become common talking points among active players. One Friday the 13th player, who goes by the moniker Geekboxing on Reddit, has created maps for each of the three levels in the game that highlight all of the possible spawns....

No classic 80s slasher flick is complete without a sexy swim suit slaughter, which is why Friday the 13th’s first camp counselor cosmetic DLC will take players on Spring Break. Today IllFonic released a trailer showing off for the first time all of its Spring Break DLC outfits, featuring swim suits or vacation-wear for each of the multiplayer horror game’s camp counselors. No release date is yet confirmed for the DLC, but players will initially be able to pick it up at a discounted launch price of just $1....

The Summer of gaming reveals is coming to a boil with the Xbox Games Showcase and more digital events just around the corner. From big franchises sequels being teased to the return of a few familiar faces, there’s a lot of news to keep people busy until the next generation of gaming consoles release. Speaking of familiar faces, one name has just returned to the ring. Remember G4TV? Remember watching X-Play reviews and Attack of The Show?...

First released in 2001, Ace Attorney is a series that influenced many games and other facets of pop culture after it. The series was beloved enough to get its own anime, manga, drama CDs, spin-off games, musicals, and even a live-action movie. Those that love the Ace Attorney games tend to love games that are visual novels, particularly those rooted in the mystery genre. In terms of gameplay, puzzles are most suited for Ace Attorney fans as well....

How and where do you sit when you game? We guess that depends on what you are gaming on. Some sort of swivel chair if it’s on PC, perhaps the sofa while on a console, and anywhere you like when you’re gaming on the go. That’s all well and good, but when you’re gaming in the comfort of your own home, is there really that much comfort to speak of? Popping yourself on the couch is fine, and sitting criss-cross apple sauce on the floor for hours on end might be okay for kids, but now we are all grown up, we want to game in comfort....

Halo has been the forefront and staple of the Xbox ever since its debut in 2001, going on to shape the Xbox and Microsoft brand as a whole in the coming years. Halo: Combat Evolved, the first installment in the series, is revered as a classic for having launched the influential franchise, and for good reason; despite being a first person shooter developed nearly twenty years ago, it contains world-building details that you would be hard-pressed to find in many current-gen games....