Final Fantasy 14’s Endwalker expansion will close a nearly decade-old tale this fall with a war between gods, Zodiark and Hydaelyn. As the story comes to a close, we’ll (hopefully) wrap up some of Eorzea’s biggest plot threads, before starting anew in the updates following version 6.0. As I look to the future of the […]
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Exclusive Interview: Saber Interactive’s Adam Tedman On His Move From Rockstar, Growing The Studio, And Evil Dead: The Game
Adam Tedman, former Vice President of New Media at Rockstar Games, recently joined up with Saber Interactive as the new Head of Marketing. The move comes following the Embracer Group’s acquisition of Saber Interactive in early 2020, with the studio positioned in an exciting place for exponential growth – not to mention the highly-anticipated release […]
How Mass Effect Was Demade Into A Monkey Island-Style Point-And-Click Game
I love all of the techno babble around the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition remaster. It’s all 4K this and ray tracing that, which basically translates into it being the same game we all know and love, it just looks better. That’s why I’m so fascinated by the work of Lee Swain and Brett Pelaez. A […]
Tokyo PS5 stock sale turns into riot as police called
A Tokyo shop’s attempt to sell PS5 consoles has ended in chaos, with a witness saying, ‘I’ve never seen that kind of insanity in Japan before’. There’s been a lot of talk lately, of how demand for the PlayStation 5 in Japan has been disappointingly low, and how Sony is thought to be disengaging from […]
The VR Game Launch Roundup: Immersive, Creative and a Little Scary
Some weeks there’s a real dearth of virtual reality (VR) titles and then others they arrive in abundance. Next week is definitely the latter with a whole host of premium and indie videogames due to arrive for various platforms. As VRFocus likes to do every Friday, there’s our roundup of what’s to come. Into The […]
Pokémon Go players can buy into the final Throwback Challenge
The final Pokémon Go Throwback Challenge event will start on June 3 and players who missed out on previous opportunities to unlock it will be able to purchase a $7.99 pass to participate. To unlock the set of Champion Special Research, players had to complete the previous weeks’ Timed Research Tasks for the Kanto region, […]
Facebook acquires Giphy to integrate with Instagram
(Reuters) — Facebook is acquiring Giphy, a popular website for making and sharing animated images, or GIFs, and will integrate it with its rapidly growing Instagram photo-sharing app, Facebook said in a blog post on Friday. The cost, which Facebook and Giphy declined to disclose, was placed at around $400 million by news website Axios. […]
Validating an Experimental VR/AR Shortcut Interface with Flaming Arrows & Paper Planes
The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox. Email Address Last time, we detailed our initial explorations of single-handed shortcuts systems. After some experimentation, we converged on a palm-up pinch to open a […]
Call Of Duty: Warzone Will Introduce Fortnite-Style Events
Call of Duty: Warzone is planning to take a page out of Fortnite’s book. Narrative director Taylor Kurosaki told VentureBeat that Infinity Ward is planning to introduce Fortnite-style events in the battle royale game to help keep the experience feeling fresh and worth coming back to again and again. “That’s exactly the kind of thing […]