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With patch 7.2,Final Fantasy XIVplayers get a new round of four Arcadion fights to take part in, the Cruiserweight Tier. These fights are not for the faint of heart and will pit players’ wits against some powerful enemies intent on coming out on top. If you want to take on Dancing Green and his three pals, you’ll need to complete thefights and quests of the AAC: Light-heavyweight Tier, including the level 100 quest “The Neoteric Witch”....

Waiter, there’s a bug in my drink I’ve seen bath bombs shaped like Pokeballs with Pokemon surprises inside of them, but this is next level! Redditor miscellaneousmaoshared this kitchen creation with the world: a hot chocolate bomb. As hinted, it’s actually a little ball that dissolves when a hot beverage is poured over it that opens up to “bomb” the hot chocolate mixture and let a little creature rise to the top....

Like other recent From Software games,Armored Core 6has an optional online component that players can interact with. The good news is that you aren’t forced into it! The entirety ofArmored Core 6‘s campaign is playable offline: here’s how to do that if you’re so inclined. You have the option of logging in right at the main menu or toggling it via system settings After booting upArmored Core 6, the game will try to connect to theArmored Coregame servers....

He said it again! If we’re lucky, we get a couple of Virtual Console releases a week. Nintendo sure likes to take its sweet time. What’s the holdup? One investor asked exactly that during the company’s 75th annual shareholders meeting,now translated in English. In short: it’s time consuming. Also, licensing. “[B]ack when we started this service, there were some points that we could not sufficiently foresee about how big this business would grow to be and how the business would expand,” said CEO Satoru Iwata....

Uncover the secrets of Dr. Wu (spoilers: it’s dinosaurs) A new expansion is getting ready to hatch in Frontier Developments’ dino-based management titleJurassic World Evolution. The Secrets of Dr. Wu is a paid DLC add-on that will bring new missions, facilities and, of course, dinosaurs to the alternative theme park sim. Featuring the Dr. Wu character, (played by B.D. Wong in theJurassic ParkandJurassic Worldmovies), the new DLC will add new campaign missions to the game, set within two secret research facilities Wu has situated on Isla Muerta and Isla Tacaño....

There’s plenty of cards for casuals and veterans alike It’s time for yet anotherMagic: The Gatheringset, which means that it’s time for anotherMagic: Arenaset. As the two formats—paper and digital—debut together, we enter yet another busy year with four sets to juggle in 2020: that’s Theros: Beyond Death, Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths, the newly minted Core 2021 and the upcoming Zendikar Rising. Let’s take a look at Core 2021. In case you haven’t playedMagicin a while, the main goal of the “Core” sets is to introduce old cards into the game to shake up the meta a bit, while providing new twists on old concepts (or characters) as a sort of “hall of fame” or “greatest hits” set....

Pro-tip: The Chainsaw is a lie A genre-defying, point-and-click head-scratcher is back, as the originalManiac Mansionis now available for purchase on Steam. The original LucasArts graphic adventure, which first released in 1987, paved the way for a host of games designed for the SCUMM engine. These include sequelDay of the Tentacle, the famousMonkey Islandseries,Sam and Max Hit the Road, Full ThrottleandZak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders. Like all the games listed above,Maniac Mansionis an iconic but baffling affair, often requiring the most abstract chain of events in order to ultimately achieve a simple task....

Today is a day to be filled with blood and ring outs. MLG’s Summer Fighter Arena, containing bothMortal KombatandSoulCalibur V, has just gone live. Watch it by heading over to theofficial site. This event is today only and has $3,400 up for grabs in both games. You can watch the action in standard definition for free, or you can upgrade to HD viewing for five dollars. Upgrading also grants you access to the archived match videos as soon as their available, an invaluable asset for fans who can’t always sit at home all day to watch the tournament....

Pour one out for the online component ofN+handheld. According toa poston core developer Metanet Software’s blog, the community servers for the DS and PSP versions of the platformer are down for good. All the data on said servers has been lost, despite attempts by publisher Atari to retrieve it. Another online option won’t be presented to owners of the title, either, as it has been labeled “something of a financial failure” and Atari is withdrawing support....

I know it’s still fairly early and only Tuesday, but you need to pump yourself up for the secondHumble Indie Bundle. The games included areBraid, Cortex Command,Machinarium, Osmos, andRevenge of the Titans. As per tradition, you can pay as much or as little as you want, and split up your money between the developers, Child’s Play, or the Electronic Frontier Foundation using some way-too-fun sliders. What’s more, this bundle applies to Mac, Linux, and Windows, so no one is left out....

Biggest release of this week belongs toDementium IIfor the DS. It’s a follow up to one of the best first-person shooters to ever grace the DS and the sequel fixes many of the issues people had with the first game. Look for a contest later today where we’ll be giving the game away! Other than that,Zeno Clash: Ultimate Editionfor XBLA is worth the purchase for all that missed the PC version the first time around....

Naked Meele Armaggedon Instructions: Each click spawns a naked person. Basically, you click the playing field as fast as you can to raise the biggest army of nakeds you possibly can before the aliens touch land. Then they duke it out! Simply brilliant. MyTrack n’ Fieldfingers loved it.

Desilets’ return is now confirmed WhenTHQ’s ashes were cast to the wind, the fate of a lot of staff and franchises wasn’t clear. One such person was Patrice Desilets, the former lead designer of the firstAssassin’s Creedgames, but today, Ubisoft hasconfirmed to Polygon that Desilets is back. When Ubisoft bought over THQ Montreal, it was assumed Desilets and the games he was developing would be taken on by Ubisoft but there was no confirmation at the time....