Tag: video games
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond review: an excellent modernization, but not a total reinvention
It’s been 18 years since the last Metroid Prime game, but I felt right at home in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. Almost too at home. Whether fighting my way through a volcano, exploring a research base in a frozen tundra or getting lost in a vast desert, I couldn’t shake…
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Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined is all about enhancing the game’s greatest strengths
Square Enix has been on a tear in recent years remastering and outright remaking many of its landmark role-playing games. Along with Final Fantasy, the developer has given the Dragon Quest series such attention as well, and the next game on deck is a remake of the PlayStation 1's Dragon…
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Ubisoft made a prototype game with voice-controlled AI teammates
Ubisoft has announced a new game prototype featuring voice-controlled AI teammates that understand visual context and natural language. This “Teammates” project builds on the Neo NPCs Ubisoft showed off with Nvidia in 2024 to demo in-game AI that can naturally respond to players. A key difference this time, besides the…
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Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles is a classic still worth the challenge
Square Enix loves to remaster, remake and reheat its RPGs. The latest title to get the treatment is the critically acclaimed Final Fantasy spin-off, Final Fantasy Tactics. Tactics has undergone its own remakes before, with War of the Lions bringing the game to the PlayStation Portable and, eventually, iOS and…
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Epic Games Store will finally let you gift games
There's finally a way to gift games purchased on the Epic Games Store. Epic has announced that it's now possible to gift digital games through the Epic Games Store, provided the person you're sending them to has an Epic Games account. On a game's store page, you'll now see a…
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Analogue 3D review: Modern processing can’t fix vintage flaws
While there are countless ways to play old video games, endless emulators that eat up ROMs and spew out memories, the hardware offerings from Analogue have elevated the act of retro gaming to an art form. With an obsessive dedication to pixel-perfect reproductions of classic platforms, Analogue's various devices generally…
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