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While Square Enix chips away at Final Fantasy 16’s development, other veteran developers from the franchise are concentrating on another JRPG. Astria Ascending, from the French studio Artisan Studios, is working with two Final Fantasy creatives to produce the turn-based RPG. Based in Quebec and Montpellier, France, Artisan Studios has joined forces with Final Fantasy 7 writer Kazushige Nojima and Final Fantasy 12 composer Hitoshi Sakamoto to develop Astria Ascending. A host of other Japanese veterans are on board producing the indie for consoles and PC, with no definite release date in sight....

For a game that’s expected to be pretty good-looking - which it often is - Final Fantasy VII Remake also has some very serious texture issues that can be hard to ignore. The fantastic lightning and gorgeous character detailing aren’t too impressive when you take a good look at the environment, which sometimes looks more than a decade old - and not in a good way. First noticed and reported by the folks over at PushSquare, this issue appears both on he standard PlayStation 4, and the PS4 Pro....

At Gamescom 2016, Ubisoft reveals the twelve different classes between the three factions of For Honor along with the ability for players to completely customize each one. It has been an eventful week for Ubisoft at Gamescom 2016, as the company revealed a ton of new information and trailers for many of its upcoming games like Watch_Dogs 2, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, and Ghost Recon Wildlands. One of the more intriguing early 2017 titles is For Honor, a game that sees three different warrior factions go head to head to head, placing a greater focus on brutal melee combat....

Just in time for Spooky season, Fortnite has a new “Most Wanted” secret challenge to complete for Season 4 The Marvel and Fortnite crossover has been going on for quite a while now, with implications suggesting it will last beyond Season 4. With that content has come plenty of new unlockables and challenges to complete within Fortnite. One of the new secret missions for week 8 of Fortnite is called “Most Wanted....

There is a new free emote up available to Fortnite players who don’t mind doing a little sleuthing. Agent Peely has given players the slip and they need to search around to find him. So get out those magnifying glasses and follow the clues through four different rooms to earn the Banana Badge emote. Players won’t have to worry about getting into the thick of battle, however, the mission can be undertaken by navigating to the Fortnite main menu screen and then the Agents section....

Predator has arrived in Fortnite. Not just its pod or the accompanying sound effects, but the real thing, and it’s scary. Last week, Predator’s pod crash-landed in Fortnite, confirming that the alien is season five’s mystery skin. However, only three related items came with it, none of which were the skin itself. For tips on how to complete the first three challenges and unlock the related items, check out TheGamer’s handy guide....

For those who have completed the season 6 week 3 challenges in the wildly popular battle royale game Fortnite, it is time to collect this week’s hidden battle star. It’s worth mentioning that this is the second battle star of the season, as last week contained a Hidden Banner. Although they were introduced late last season, it seems they could be rotating weeks this season. If the pattern continues, then that means Fortnite players can expect a hidden banner next week....

Fortnite Season Three has now officially begun. The third season of the hugely popular multiplayer and crafting game introduces new skins, new weapons, and several big gameplay changes as well. However, these aren’t the only differences that players may notice the next time they play the game. Fortnite Season Three also introduces a new musical score and Epic Games creative director Darren Sugg explains that “Music is so important in setting the tone for the players’ emotional experience....

Fortnite season 9 has finally arrived, bringing with it a futuristic redesign of the entire Battle Island. The Volcano from season 8 has become the Pressure Plant, Retail Row has become Mega Mall, and Fortnite’s Tilted Towers has become Neo Tilted. And with all of the map changes, there is also a new set of challenges to complete as part of the new Fortnite season 9 battle pass. One of these challenges is to find the 7 Sky Platforms across the Battle Island....

13 years and two Batmen later, Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight remains the ultimate Batman movie. With Heath Ledger’s Oscar-winning performance as the Joker and some of the greatest IMAX action sequences ever shot, The Dark Knight is not only the greatest Batman movie of all time; it’s one of the greatest movies ever made. Tim Burton’s gloomy expressionist Batman movies were groundbreaking gems that redefined Bruce Wayne and there are a couple of great animated features about the Caped Crusader, but The Dark Knight is the movie that best encapsulates the Batman character and what makes him tick....

As surprising as it sounds, The Witcher and Twilight have a lot in common. Both feature various incarnations of werewolves and vampires, tons of violence, and ridiculously good-looking characters who are also impossibly old. If Twilight featured more decapitations and nudity, and The Witcher had more whiny high school kids they’d practically be the same thing. So even though their timelines are hundreds of years apart, a reference to the popular young adult novels inside one of CD Projekt Red’s Witcher titles isn’t as dumb as it might seem....

One of the best parts of playing Genshin Impact is the large variety of available characters. The game is set to keep releasing four-star and five-star characters for years to come. The list of upcoming characters is always changing and being updated as new events and information roll out from Mihoyo. To help players better understand what’s to come in the game, the guide below lists the confirmed upcoming characters along with ones that are speculated to be added into the game later on....

MiHoYo’s Genshin Impact has seen quite a bit of success since it launched last week. Already it’s been reported that the game had the biggest global launch of any Chinese game with over 21 million pre-registrations across PC, PS4, and mobile devices. Now it seems more information about this record is coming to light, as it’s been announced that the game has accrued over 17 million downloads on the mobile version alone....

Ghost of Tsushima has delivered on its promise of a gorgeous game set in feudal Japan. It combines all the elements from major franchises like Assassin’s Creed, God of war, Horizon Zero Dawn, and many more. Then put it all together to create one hell of a game. It is challenging and fun. Getting platinum is a demanding task. Most of the trophies are gained while progressing through the game. Players can get platinum even on the highest difficulty because it not affected by that....

Ghost of Tsushima’s weekly reset happens every Friday, so the week 5 Nightmare mode challenges have already begun. For the story mission this week, players will need to clear the The Veil Between Realms, the level that initially introduced the Kami attunement mechanic to players. Naturally, this Nightmare mode mission provides a whole host of challenges, but players will be able to overcome it if they go in prepared. There’s a lot to consider in terms of equipment, classes, and skill loadout, so those aiming to get the guaranteed piece of 110 gear this week should read onward for some helpful strategies....

Sony and Nintendo each had rival games releasing on July 17 with Paper Mario: The Origami King and Ghosts of Tsushima making their long awaited debut. The Nintendo Switch and PS4 games both scored spots on the UK gaming best-sellers charts, but one easily beat the other. Ghosts of Tsushima is the long awaited new IP from Sucker Punch productions, makers of Infamous and the Sly Cooper games. The game opened to positive reviews and is already well known for its stunning imagery, bringing out the best of the PS4 system before it retires....

The review embargo on Ghost Recon: Wildlands has lifted, and critics are beginning to offer their analysis of whether Ubisoft’s latest open world adventure is a worthy return for the squad-based offshoot of the Tom Clancy franchise. The game hits shelves tomorrow, but many players might have already made their minds up for themselves. A record-breaking beta allowed anyone who was interested in the game a chance to experience Ghost Recon: Wildlands firsthand....

After recently dropping hints about a higher memory variant of its new GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card, Nvidia has remained quiet on the topic. However, production partner Gigabyte has accidentally revealed that not only is a 20 GB variant of the RTX 3080 coming, expanded versions of the RTX 3070 and 3060 are on their way too. The information was discovered on Gigabyte’s redemption page for its Watch Dogs: Legion promotion by hardware site Videocardz, with the list of eligible Nvidia graphics cards including the unannounced variants: RTX 3080 20 GB, RTX 3070 Super/Ti 16 GB, and RTX 3060 Super/Ti 8 GB....

Goat of Duty for free? Maybe this terrifying world of ours isn’t such a bad place after all. Now, self-isolation can be super tough, as people around the world are finding out. There is a silver lining, though - some of us can eke out a little more gaming time. Raiser Games, it’s your turn to shine. The gaming industry takes a lot of flak, there’s no doubt about it. What with season passes, microtransactions, excessive violence and all manner of other issues, our beloved medium is a bit of a punching bag at times....

While God of War is largely a straightforward adventure as far as its story and progression are concerned, developer Sony Santa Monica has apparently left some clues for players to decode should they wish. One such clue was recently discovered on the cloth map included in the game’s Collector’s Edition, and solving it has uncovered a unique item for any players in the game. Things started to come together when a Reddit user called Aldroyd discovered a puzzle in the cloth map included with God of War’s Collector’s Edition....