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The idea for Boss Fight Books came to founder Gabe Durham in 2013. He was “hungry for the next thing professionally,” he tells me from Los Angeles, where the publishing house is based. He’d been writi...
When Judgment released in 2018, a lot of long-time fans of RGG Studio were surprised that the western localization had an English dub for the first time since the 2005 PlayStation 2 rele...
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How do you make a game accessible, with gameplay, cinematics, and all, to the visually disabled? With the upcoming release of The Last of Us Part I, Naughty Dog hopes to have found a way, by...
If you’re looking for an in-depth survival game set in a zombie apocalypse, Project Zomboid is one of the most ambitious. It’s complex, ruthless, and more welcoming than it seems. F...
A couple weekends ago, I went clubbing…in Final Fantasy XIV. The Allure Lounge, a free company house that holds in-game parties and performances, was open two nights for their Vegas-themed week...
Last month, Bandai Namco announced the latest Dragon Ball game in their generally fighting-heavy portfolio for the series. Eschewing the usual genre choices this time around, The Bre...
Unveiled as Project Athia in 2020, the game we now know as Forspoken was a very exciting prospect from its initial reveal trailer. The debut showed a witch, later reve...
I don’t often write about transitioning as a non-binary person. Mostly because it’s actually painfully boring. Today I stood in the pharmacy staring at bottles of diabetic cough suppressant for 20 min...
I might have a digital gambling problem. Not really, but I’ve spent entirely too much time in the Gold Saucer in the past few days. I have done the Leap of Faith and Air Force One GATE events ad nause...
With the Mass Effect series in a state of revitalized fandom thanks to the Legendary Edition remasters, and the future in an uncertain limbo, seemingly hinting at some kind of return to...
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I’ll be the first to admit it: I love Destiny lore. From the series’s beginning, I’ve loved digging deep into the fictional sandbox that Bungie’s writers have built. It’s a world where immortal...
Our hands-on preview with an early build of Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker gave us access to all the current and upcoming Jobs all the way up to the new level 90 cap. This means we got to see all...
Getting into Highfleet takes some doing. It starts with a tutorial for moving its hulking airships across the desert world, sort of, but there’s a reason the game labels that segment a “prolo...
Final Fantasy XIV is built in such a way that if you only want to experience the main story — alongside the dungeons and trials that come with it — you absolutely can. You’d still get a s...
During the Live Letter from the Producer last week, Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker was delayed. The expansion was originally planned to launch on November 23, but has n...
No one would have paid attention to Shrek SuperSlam if it wasn’t for the Internet. Even its developers at Shaba Games knew the game they were building wasn’t a hit. Against all odds, Shrek S...
Recently, Electronic Arts announced efforts to expand accessibility across gaming through its new patent pledge. This industry-first initiative grants any developer royalty-free access to five technol...
During a hands-on preview session with Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, we checked out how all Jobs are changing once the expansion launches. Everything — from tweaks to existing skillsets and new...