Kotaku Monday, December 26, 2022 11:00 AM  The line between an amazing video game name and a terrible one is nebulous. Some game names try so hard that they loop back around and become good, despite being objectively bad. Some game names are good only in that they use cool words, but the vibe screams, "I was created in a vat overseen by a focus group." And… |
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PCGamesN Monday, December 26, 2022 10:06 AM  The sun-drenched ruins of Nier Automata seem to have inspired a custom Minecraft Map, which you can download and explore in your own copy of the massively popular sandbox game. 'Abandoned City' is an ambitious and impressive map that looks even better with some choice Minecraft mods and shaders installed. Continue reading This Minecraft map is straight out of Nier Automata MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Minecraft seeds, Minecraft skins, Minecraft mods |
PCGamesN Monday, December 26, 2022 6:59 AM  With all these upcoming retellings like The Witcher Remake, Resident Evil 4, Dead Space and more, developers have a chance to take a leaf out of Square Enix's book on Final Fantasy 7 and just get weird with it. And they should - nostalgia be damned. We live in an age in which media exploits our nostalgia, making us point at our screens and go 'I know that thing' before even showing us anything of value. That's not to say all remakes are bad, exactly, but nostalgia is by definition limiting. Retrospective. Almost anti-creative. The FF7 Remake proves that, if developers are bold enough, they can find new and valuable treasures when revisiting the past. MORE FROM PCGAMESN: The Witcher is still hugely atmospheric, The making of The Witcher |
PCGamesN Monday, December 26, 2022 5:28 AM  To those looking for the best games to play over Christmas; we've got you. Each year, people spend time with family and get all the latest updates on the lives of friends. We PC gamers on the other hand have something much more vital to do in the process of whiling away those many hours of light intoxication: we have a pile of shame to tackle. It grows ever more insurmountable each year: saddled by the insufferable need to eat, sleep, and work, promising games inevitably slip by the wayside. As games get longer and more become fully-fledged 'services', we are increasingly encouraged to play fewer games, but each of them for longer. Nobody tells us where the extra hours are supposed to come from. Christmas, then, is an important time for gamers. Each year, on Jesus's special day, we can pretend to our royally-soused selves that we can conquer the heap of games we picked up in many a Steam sale, only to remain untouched. The following games are the ones you should think about releasing from their digital purgatory this holiday season. Continue reading The best games to play over Christmas MORE FROM PCGAMESN: The best Elden Ring builds, Elden Ring bosses, The best Elden Ring classes |
PCGamesN Monday, December 26, 2022 7:23 AM  While some may reel at the idea of Diablo 4 followers, like them or loathe them, the helpful companions have become a staple part of the action RPG game's combat. I asked Blizzard what its plans are for aides in Diablo 4, and while they didn't say too much, it looks like followers may join the roster at some point. Continue reading Diablo 4 followers confined to RPG game's campaign, for now MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Diablo 4 release date, Diablo 4 gameplay preview, Diablo 4 classes |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Monday, December 26, 2022 12:00 PM  Guides work is a very strange beast, and one that we don't talk about as often as we maybe should. By its nature, we here in guidestown can feel a bit isolated from the rest of RPS. Our guides aren't very visible to our regular readers. No one hops onto a website like this and says to themselves, "Well now! I wonder what guides have been written today that I can spend my time reading through!". The vast majority of people who read our guides come straight from a Google search into something specific like "Can I romance Yennefer and Triss at the same time?" (spoiler alert: you can, but it may not end well for you). Because we operate so much behind the scenes, it's easy to miss some of the amazing stuff that the team did in guidestown this year. It ain't easy, writing a walkthrough or how-to that's useful for the reader while simultaneously appeasing those nebulous and mercurial SEO gods. But 2022 has been a stonkingly good year for guides, and I'd love to take a little bit of time to shine a light on some of the things we're most proud of having achieved this year - and to toast what will hopefully be another smashing year for guides in 2023! |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Monday, December 26, 2022 9:00 AM  Maybe I hadn't looked hard enough, but I played a lot of games this year which ended up being a bit naff or totally fine. All of my top picks made it into the Advent Calendar, so that's good! But otherwise, I didn't have to think too hard as to what I'd shout out here. Hope you're having the merriest of Christmases and catch you for - hopefully - a big 2023 filled with big games. |
Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Monday, December 26, 2022 6:00 AM  A little known fact is that all of the RPS staff are complex clockwork automata, designed and built by a little gnome with the kind of inch-thick glasses that make your eyes look comically large. We're each powered by a spell that lasts but 12 months, so every Christmas we fall over like sad marionettes. The gnome has to spend a couple of weeks trekking up a mountain to see the fairy who can recast the spells on us. You can help fund his sled dogs and provisions by becoming a member of the RPS supporter program. While he's away, we've prepared some Christmas Crackers for you. Time to enjoy your lovely joke! Q: What happens when you rest your kneel down in the snow? |
Twinfinite Monday, December 26, 2022 8:00 AM A relaxing time in pursuit of alchemical greatness. |
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A new anime in the Tenchi Muyo! franchise is in production. More specifically, it's related to Tenchi Muyo GXP, according to the announcement from media company EXNOA. (EXNOA also helped produce Blue Reflection Ray.) The title is Tenchi Muyo GXP - Paradise Begins (Paradise Shidou-hen). It will be produced, in part, to celebrate the franchise's 30th Anniversary. [Thanks, Famitsu!]. At the moment details on the new anime adaptation are scarce, but creator Masaki Kajishima drew the teaser below. [gallery columns="1" size="medium" link="file" ids="944953"] The series is being produced through EXNOA's anime brand Kinematics, with Kajishima credited as a Supervising Director. The screenplays will be provided by Hideki Shirane, who worked on the original Tenchi Muyo GXP, Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar, and the 4th and 5th seasons of the Tenchi Muyo anime. For those unfamiliar, Tenchi Muyo GXP is a spin-off of the original Tenchi Muyo! series. (That is known as Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki in Japan.) Chronologically, its story runs in parallel to the original, but features a new cast, rather than the group led by protagonist Tenchi Masaki. GXP instead stars Japanese student Seina Yamada, who is almost killed by a spacecraft that crashes behind the Masaki residence. He meets the spaceship's pilot, Amane Kaunaq, who gives him an application form. Mistaking the form for a contest entry, Seina's forced by his family to fill it out, only to realize that it was an application to join the Galaxy Police. The series aired in Japan in 2002 and followed Seina, Amane, and their companions as they struggle to carry out missions for the Galaxy Police. Tenchi Muyo GXP - Paradise Begins will pick up several years after GXP, with Seina grown up and assigned on a new mission to return to Earth. Tenchi Muyo GXP - Paradise Begins is in production and does not yet have a release window. The post New Tenchi Muyo GXP Anime Series Announced appeared first on Siliconera. |
