Final Fantasy XV Patch Will Add More Story, Improve Chapter 13

Why buy games on day one anymore? A newly planned set of updates for Final Fantasy XV won’t just fix bugs, they’ll add story cutscenes and improve the game’s slow-paced thirteenth chapter by adding more powers to Noctis’s repertoire. “We want you to enjoy Final Fantasy XV for a long time to come,” writes director…

What We Like (And Don’t Like) About Steep

Last week Ubisoft’s Steep opened the slopes of its majestic mountains to extreme winter sports fans around the world. We’ve spent a bit of time with the game, and we have much to discuss. While I’ve currently reached level 17 (of 25) to Stephen Totilo’s 7 or 8, both of us played Steep in both…

Final Fantasy XV Sells 690,471 Retail Copies In Its First Week In Japan

We finally (heh) have FFXV’s first week Japanese sales number: 690,471 copies sold at retail. Let’s see how it compares to previous FF debuts. But how do these numbers stack up historically? In comparison, during Final Fantasy XIII’s first week on sale, the game sold1,516,532 copies at Japanese retail. As My Game News Flash points…

Eat This Ramen In Less Than 20 Minutes, Earn $438!

Not bad for only twenty minutes of work. Yes, eating this would be work. Tokyo ramen restaurant Umakara Ramen Hyouri has “mega serving” challenge: If you eat this whole bowl of ramen in under 20 minutes, they’ll pay you 50,000 yen (US$438). Do it in 30 minutes, and they’ll give you 30,000 yen ($263). Japanese…

Sony Just Announced Project Field, A New Way To Play Card Games 

Sony hopes to change the way kids play card games with its newly revealed Project Field.  Project Field uses a specially developed Sony pad with smartphones or tablets. It’s outfitted with an IC reader, sensors, LED, and Bluetooth so that the pad can easily connect with tablets and smartphones that are running the corresponding Project…

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Sonic The Hedgehog’s Fancy Coffee Table Art Book

To mark Sonic’s 25th anniversary, art house Cook & Becker are releasing this big art book collecting all kinds of concept and promotional images from the series’ history. It looks a lot nicer than you’d think, given how shiny and gross the series’ art design has gotten over the years, wisely opting to cover the…

Dude Recreates 28 Of The World’s Best Roller Coasters In Planet Coaster

In the real world, Joey Designs works as an architect. In Planet Coaster, though, he’s busy recreating some of the world’s biggest/best actual roller coasters for anyone who wants to use them in their park. As Motherboard report, while the game’s Steam Workshop is full of building homages to Disney, Star Wars and Universal Studios,…

Will Ferrell Starring In Movie About Esports

Will Ferrell is making a movie about esports. ESPN says it “will have similarities with the role he had in Talladega Nights”. His schtick, as exciting and unexpected as you may find this, will be that he’s an old dude playing in competitions where nobody else is over the age of 30, and esports powerhouses…

Final Fantasy XV‘s Flying Car Can Do Some Incredible Things

Behold, my adventures with Final Fantasy XV’s flying car, the Regalia Type-F, which Noctis and crew can really have a good time using, as you’ll see in the video above.

Sennheiser PC 373D Headset Review: Great Audio, Steep Price

Most gaming headphones are made by companies better known for video game gear than for audio equipment. Enter Sennheiser, recording industry stalwarts trusted by people who actually use headphones to listen to music. A few weeks ago someone from Sennheiser emailed asking if I’d like to check out their new PC 373D surround-sound gaming headphones.…

Mads Mikkelsen, After Kojima Explained Death Stranding: ‘I Only Understood Some Of It’

Don’t know what’s going on in the new trailer for Death Stranding? No worries: neither does Mads Mikkelsen, and he’s starring in it. In an interview with Birth.Movies.Death, Mikkelsen told the outlet that he only joined the project after checking out the first trailer with Norman Reedus. “I thought that was spectacular just from the…

The No Man’s Sky Subreddit Is Happier Now

On October 5th, the No Man’s Sky subreddit temporarily shut down due to being what then moderator R0ugeW0lf called “a hate filled wastehole of no actual discussion.” If you checked the community today, you see none of that. For reference, this is a smattering of topics that reached the front page of the sub on…

Brutal Pokémon Sun and Moon Hack Makes The Game Way Harder

Pokémon Sun and Moon are among hardest games in franchise, meaning that for some, fainting is a real danger. Others, however, don’t think the challenge is enough. Enter ROM hacks. GTA Temp user Kobazco has developed an edit of Pokémon Sun and Moon that amps the difficulty nearly to the extreme.Dubbed Pokémon Rising Sun and…

Overwatch Players Hit Lowest Possible Rank In Record Time

Remember Dale Brown, aka Hanjo, aka the guy who got the lowest possible rank in season one of Overwatch? Well, he’s still around, and this time, he and a friend pulled off a world first. On the first day of Overwatch season three, Brown and his friend Jon “WrstReaperNA” Kingham hit rank one, with Kingham…