Nihon Falcom's 40 Years of RPG Glory

Nihon Falcom’s 40 Years of RPG Glory

Founded in March 1981, Nihon Falcom is one of the oldest active video game studios. Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, the company helped pioneer the action-RPG genre, shaping both the JRPG industry and PC gaming scene in Japan. These days, Falcom is best known for its iconic Ys and Trails franchises. While only recently attracting more attention in the West, the studio has retained a…

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Best Tips for Playing Dust2.-nfmgame.com

The current rotation of best grenade spots dust 2 maps is among the oldest. It is a map with a high-paced and aggressive play style that is well-known in professional play. Teams that excel on this map are those who have really crazy aim skills or fast tactics. You should know your defense To begin with, you have to understand what angles to play from the CT perspective. It’s time to look at each…

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This Pokémon Trading Card Shop Is The World's Largest, Apparently

This Pokémon Trading Card Shop Is The World’s Largest, Apparently

Image: Nintendo Life The Pokémon Trading Card Game went big during lockdown, with stock selling out all over the world and millions of cards being sold. We’ve also seen the value of rare cards reach insane levels. While it might not be the best time to open a store relating to a trading card game in Japan – a nation which is currently closed to tourists, lest we forget – that hasn’t stopped the…

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Halo Infinite Makes A Major Change To Radar After The Beta

Halo Infinite Makes A Major Change To Radar After The Beta

After Halo Infinite’s long-awaited first beta, the team at 343 Industries has been hard at work gathering and processing player feedback from the play test. Now, in one of 343’s characteristically long and in-depth blog updates, the studio is sharing some of that feedback and how it’s being implemented–including updates to Infinite’s contentious radar changes. 343 first hinted that Infinite would…

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What do Game Companies 'owe' Gamers? - Gaming Instincts

What do Game Companies ‘owe’ Gamers? – Gaming Instincts

While they’re undoubtedly still killing it at the bank, it seems that our favorite game companies just can’t win over hearts and minds these days. From the global chip shortage sapping the available supply of next-generation consoles to the continuing pandemic causing both delays in the development of upcoming titles and a lack of spending money in their fans, this is not the year that Sony,…

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Yakuza Director & Jet Set Radio Artist Is Back At Sega

Yakuza Director & Jet Set Radio Artist Is Back At Sega

Image: Sega I’m not normally someone to dwell on personnel changes at video game studios, but this isn’t your everyday career change: Ryuta Ueda, who while at Sega served as Art Director on both Jet Set Radio titles, has announced his return to the company almost a decade after he left. As VGC spotted, Ueda shared the news on a public Facebook post back in May, where he thanks his colleagues at…

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This Week's Deals With Gold And Spotlight Sale (until 13th of September) : xboxone

This Week’s Deals With Gold And Spotlight Sale (until 13th of September) : xboxone

2K Ball N’ Brawl Bundle $44.99 £37.49 €44.99 $69.71 $52.49 Spotlight 9 Monkeys of Shaolin $9.89 £8.24 €9.89 $14.83 $13.19 Spotlight A Plague Tale: Innocence $11.99 £10.49 €11.99 $16.48 $16.19 Gold A Way Out $5.99 £4.99 €5.99 $7.99 $7.99 Spotlight Aces of the Luftwaffe Squadron – Extended Edition $9.99 £7.99 €9.99 $9.99 Spotlight Age of Wonders:…

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Diablo-like Last Epoch is making waves after its latest Early Access update

Diablo-like Last Epoch is making waves after its latest Early Access update

The action-RPG genre is bubbling away even without a new Diablo to lead the way, and Last Epoch has been enjoying some notable success in Early Access on Steam. The Sands of Majasa update landed in the game last week, and it’s helped the game reach the ‘very positive’ echelon of Steam reviews. Last Epoch has the hacking, slashing, and looting you’d expect from the genre, spiced up with a time…

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F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch Review (PS5)

F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch Review (PS5)

The absurdly titled F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch begins in Torch City; a dirty, dieselpunk dystopia, inhabited by anthropomorphic animals, and a few years prior to the beginning of the game invaded by the robotic Legion and their ‘Iron Dog’ army. Our hero is a gruff rabbit named Rayton – a former ace pilot in a slump, struggling to deal with defeat in the war. When his only friend is taken…

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Kenshi in 2021 | JoyFreak

Kenshi in 2021 | JoyFreak

Why Kenshi Is Still Worth Playing In 2021​ Some of the best Steam games of 2021 has are those that cannot really exist anywhere else. Complicated RPGs and strategy games require the unique features of a gaming PC to thrive, and Kenshi is a perfect example. Taking cues from the old Mount & Blade games, Kenshi is a sandbox, squad-based RPG where you’re in charge of your own story. You’re dropped…

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Bus Simulator 21 review - Road runners

Bus Simulator 21 review – Road runners

Coming three years after Bus Simulator 18, Stillalive Studios has returned with the next entry in its hit franchise. Bus Simulator 21 kicks things into a higher gear with more freedom, streamlined mechanics, and a richer open-world map to explore. In a lot of ways, it does feel like a much more put-together experience, but then there are other ways where it seems like the long development cycle…

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Super Arcade Football Sees its full release

Super Arcade Football Sees its full release

OutOfTheBit has announced that Super Arcade Football – their fast-paced, modern take on classic football games that has been warming up in Steam Early Access since 2016 – has now left Early Access and is available to play on Steam. As well as classic matches against the computer, players can take Super Arcade Football online against other players, and play with four players locally via couch…

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List of Pokemon Roster Recommendations

List of Pokemon Roster Recommendations

The current Pokemon Unite roster is good, but it can be better by making it bigger. After all, more Pokemon to choose from would mean a healthier, more competitive metagame. The problem, however, is knowing which of the 900 Pokemon deserve to be in the franchise’s first-ever MOBA. For that, here are a few suggestions.  Emboar Gen V is badly underrated despite its unique art style and Pokemon.…

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Atelier Sophie Getting Summery Figure Designed by Noco from Amakuni & AmiAmi

Atelier Sophie Getting Summery Figure Designed by Noco from Amakuni & AmiAmi

News The Atelier series has started to receive tons of figures with Atelier Ryza but manufacturers aren’t forgetting Atelier Sophie. Published on September 6, 2021 Giuseppe Nelva Home » News » Atelier Sophie Getting Summery Figure Designed by Noco from Amakuni & AmiAmi While the Atelier series has started to receive tons of figures with Atelier Ryza, Japanese manufacturers aren’t forgetting…

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An Apex Legends Boost Is the Most Effective Way to Optimize Your Online Gaming Time

An Apex Legends Boost Is the Most Effective Way to Optimize Your Online Gaming Time

No matter how good you are at a game like Apex Legends, there are always countless other players with more time on their hands, more appetite for tedious but essential grind, and more good old-fashioned talent. So thankfully there are plenty of power-levelling services out there.  In case you’ve never dabbled in this world, it’s basically a way to get the most out of a game by paying somebody…

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Hello friends, I posted something about an Xbox 360 that had the ring of death. I opened it up and found this, is this the problem? : xbox

Hello friends, I posted something about an Xbox 360 that had the ring of death. I opened it up and found this, is this the problem? : xbox

These capacitors are part of the circuits that supply power to the processor unit(s), and when they go bad they can indeed cause the processor(s) to “hang” or overheat. I’d definitely try to reflow the CPU & GPU first, and then repaste, because repasting won’t resolve the issue by itself. What is your secondary RROD code? That would help a lot in diagnosing the issue because several things can…

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Tripwire CEO Quits After Supporting Texas Anti-Abortion Law

Tripwire CEO Quits After Supporting Texas Anti-Abortion Law

Photo: Sergio Flores (Getty Images) John Gibson, the CEO of Tripwire Interactive—the studio behind Maneater and Killing Floor—has “stepped down” following enormous public and internal backlash over his support of Texas’ recent decision to strip women of a basic human right. Texas recently introduced a new anti-abortion law, known as Senate Bill 8. The controversial law bans abortion after six…

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