Author: Valhalladidde

PC

‘That was my first experience with PvP,’ Naoki Yoshida’s love for game design all started with a tragic Mario Brothers bait and switch

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Ask anyone who even dabbles in Final Fantasy 14’s most laid-back fights to explain a mechanic, and you’ll quickly understand how the MMO’s encounters can go from exercises in teamwork to all-out PvP brawls. After listening to FF14 director and producer Naoki Yoshida explain where his love for videogames started, that all makes more sense.Speaking to Jesse Cox during PAX West’s Storytime panel, Cox asked Yoshida where his love for games began on the path from fan to professional. The FF14 producer cut his teeth early in the 1980s with Nintendo’s original Mario Brothers, explaining how he grew tired of…

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News

The Blood of Dawnwalker Interview: Killing Time and Major NPCs in Ex-CDPR Devs’ New RPG

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If you’ve played more than a few role-playing games, you’ll know how your hero’s journey typically plays out. In the prologue, a terrible thing will happen – an event that demands you move quickly to prevent an apocalypse or defeat an all-encompassing evil. In the following hours, you’ll spend 90% of your time completely ignoring that impending threat, instead helping randomers you met in the pub and collecting loot from dungeons. That’s okay, though, because the big bad will always wait for you. The world perpetually teeters on the brink of extinction until you’re ready to fix it. Not so…

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Playstation

Popular PS4 Platformer Sets Release Date for PS5 Remake

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PM Studios and Playtonic Games announced the Yooka-Replaylee release date, revealing when the remade and enhanced version of 2017’s Yooka-Laylee will come out. When is the Yooka-Replaylee release date? Yook-Replaylee will release on October 9, 2025, and will be available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC. The game will be available digitally on all listed platforms for $29.99, and will also have a physical edition, packed with a selection of “goodies,” available at retail stores for $49.99. Preorders for the game’s physical edition are available now. Check out the game’s announcement trailer below: Yooka-Replaylee is…

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Xbox

Eight Tips for Causing Maximum Chaos in Friends vs Friends From Day One

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Category: ID@XboxAugust 29, 2025 Eight Tips for Causing Maximum Chaos in Friends vs Friends From Day One Edu Verz, Creative Director, Brainwash Gang SummaryFriends vs Friends launches on Xbox Series X/S September 1.Battle your friends and enemies in chaotic online multiplayer that combines shooting with deckbuilding.Learn about the basics and the best cards and characters for beginners. Hey fellow Xbox enjoyers! Today we announced that our chaotic online PVP shooter Friends vs Friends will be coming to Xbox Series X & S next week on the 1st September! Friends vs Friends is a game that blends deck-building with first-person shooting.…

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Nintendo

Review: Shuten Order (Nintendo Switch)

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There’s an awful lot going on in the nation state of Shuten. For starters, the world is going to end in 168 days. Bad news, right? Not to the members of the religious organization called the Shuten Order. They seem to be welcoming it. But then their leader and founder is murdered, apparently by one of his top ministers. You know this because you were that leader and founder. You’re awakened the next morning by a visit from two angels. They give you a mask and a new name, Rei Shimobi, and explain that you now have to participate in…

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