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Cblogs Recap: Week 16 –Niorwrites an excellent retrospective regarding the entire shmup genre. This is something to bookmark and reference. –Black Red GamingreviewsHalf-Life: Alyx. –Exberwrites a report about his gaming exploits in the first quarter of 2020. –ExberreviewsMetal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. –Lexingtonguewants to have a discussion regardingFinal Fantasy VII Remake. –Shoggoth2588writes the first part of his review of 2013 as part of his “Decade in Review” blogging series. –Shoggoth2588writes the second part of his “Decade in Review” blogging series....

Don’t play chicken with a global pandemic KFC was forced to shut down several restaurants in China this weekend after masses ofGenshin Impactplayers turned up to take part in the fast-food outlet’s crossover event. KFC announced that it would be offering exclusiveGenshin Impactpins and in-game items to customers who turned up and shouted the phrase “Meet in another world, enjoy delicious food!” at the restaurant’s employees. However,as reported by Kotaku, KFC outlets in the Shanghai, Nanjing, and Hangzhou district were overrun with fans....

Once Humanhas seen a massive drop in its player base since its launch, but I expect we’ll see a decent resurgence once The Way of Winter launches on July 18, 2025. Speaking of the Way of Winter, you can claim a free cosmetic hat if you log into the game and turn your scenario reminder on. Here’s how. How to claim your free cosmetic hat in Once Human All you have to do is follow the prompts....

All gone! Thanks for participating, and congrats to those who were fast enough to grab the codes. See you online! We’ve got 25 codes to download the Halo: Reach betatoday. You want this, and you know it. Here’s how: After the jump you’ll find a numbered list of the 25 codes. There’s a catch — each will be missing the last five digits. Pretty useless on their own. How do you get the rest of the codes?...

Play the full game for a limited time Bungie is looking to sway newcomers with aDestiny 2free trial weekend on PS4. All modes are included and the promo runs from Friday, June 29 at 12:01am Pacific until Monday, July 2 at 10:00am. You can download the trialright here. It’s roughly a 30GB download. If you skippedDestiny 2and have time to kill this weekend, sure, why not? Meanwhile, I’ll be over here biding my time until theForsakenexpansion drops in September....

FZ: Side Z Disasterpeace just released a second remix album forFez.FZ: Side Zcontains nearly twice as many remixes asFZ: Side Fhad, and it can all be yoursfor $5, or more if you’re feeling kind. Like the two other soundtracks forFez, and pretty much anything Disasterpeace does really,Side Zsounds great. I’ve been streaming the musicfrom his Bandcampmost of the day and it’s kept me in quite the happy mood the whole time....

The patch notes for Title Update 12 are now available inEA FC 25, and EA Sports is leaving gameplay unchanged for the time being. Despite the recent positives, the gameplay at the moment is far from balanced. There are several issues like the auto-press getting activated with 95 height, which disrupts the overall flow of the game. Unfortunately, the latest patch will focus mainly on bugs as EA Sports fixes some crucial issues plaguing the community....

One of Steam’s best, and most impenetrable, indie roguelikes (read: “like,” not “lite”) is slated for a 1.0 release on December 5, with a tutorial aimed at onboarding beginners originally planned to release at the same time. Luckily for those of us who want to jump in a bit early, that tutorial wasrecently addedin a regular patch, well ahead of its scheduled release. Caves of Qudis a fantastic, weird, extremely breakable game that sports worldbuilding to rivalDuneand player freedom to rivalDwarf Fortress....

August 22nd to September 1st In addition to its14-day free trialcampaign,Final Fantasy XIVis hosting a one-year anniversary login period. From August 22 at 11:00 GMT to September 1 11:00 GMT, players who have previously purchased the game and do not currently have gametime on it can play for free. You can find all of theother anniversary festivities here, which range fromDragon Questcross-overs to aFinal Fantasy XIIItie-in.Keep this page bookmarkedso you can download the client in two days and get started....

Not as much like Sonic as people think Galaxy Trail’s fantasticFreedom Planetis coming to Wii U on August 3, according tothe Nintendo eShop page.No price has currently been announced, but the game costs £10.99/$14.99 on PC. We’ve been told for a while now that the Wii U version would be coming “before the end of 2015”, so getting it to us five months earlier than expected is pretty impressive! A lot of people compareFreedom Planetto the olderSonic the Hedgehoggames....

GungHo merger lets Suda focus more on the creative side I, along with many of you, was pretty surprised to learn thatGrasshopper Manufacture merged with GungHo Online Entertainmentearlier this year. Personally, I was worried that this would ultimately hurt Suda51’s studio, but as it turns out that’s not the case at all. “Even before the February 1 announcement, we were talking about creating a game together so we already had that synchronized vibe together,” Suda told me during the Game Developers Conference....

No clownin’ around, gang Just take a key from our Closed Alpha Test giveaway forSteel Circus. Ok well we’re already behind on this, so not much time to dilly-dally. We’ve got 100 total Closed Alpha Test keys forSteel Circus, so just take one, already. Ok so in the future the leaders of the galaxy meet once a year to do galactic governing. During this meeting, they also play Blitzball with robots....

Go get yourself Dungeons 2 Video game playing: It can be free sometimes! (Disregarding the cost to own the equipment to run the games, the mostly-nominal uptick in your electricity bill, the opportunity cost of not doing something where you could’ve made a lot of money like inventing an app or franchising a TGI Friday’s, and any emotional toll from net negative experiences outweighing net positive experiences.) Hell yeah, everyone loves free video games!...