Final Fantasy VIII coming to PC with upscaled graphics

Final Fantasy VIII coming to PC with upscaled graphics

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, PC On: 20 May

Fans were generally disappointed with Square Enix’s lazy Final Fantasy 7 PC port from last year, but apparently it sold decently, so Square is going to do the same thing all over again with Final Fantasy 8.

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Arkham Origins will have playable Deathstroke, might feature 2 voice actors for Batman? [UPDATE]

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360 On:

The weekends are usually pretty light on news, but two interesting tidbits about the upcoming Batman: Arkham Origins were revealed on Sunday: the game will have DLC that will feature Deathstroke as a playable character, and contrary to earlier reports, it was announced that acclaimed voice actor Kevin Conroy will once again lend his voice [...]

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Final Fantasy 11 is 11 years old today, still profitable

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 16 May

Today marks the eleventh anniversary of Final Fantasy XI’s original launch in Japan. Since the game’s launch more than a decade ago, FFXI has faced fierce competition from newer, flashier, and more accessible MMO’s, but despite all that, the game has remained a profitable title for Square.

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Scribblenauts Unmasked features over 2000 DC heroes and villains

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS, PC, Wii U On: 15 May

How many DC Universe characters can you fit into one game? Over 2000 apparently, as Scribblenauts Unmasked’s developers are bragging that their upcoming DC-themed puzzle-platformer will feature thousands of characters spanning DC’s entire history.

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Take-Two posts slight loss despite strong performance of BioShock Infinite

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On:

Take-Two Interactive announced today that they’ll be posting a loss $31.2 million dollars for the last fiscal year. Despite not quite meeting their goals for the year, the company still has a surprisingly positive outlook: the company’s revenue actually rose quite a bit from the previous year, and with the upcoming release of GTA V [...]

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Square Enix planning less console titles, more smartphone games

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 13 May

2012 was a catastrophically bad year for Square Enix: despite the release of a few critically acclaimed games like Tomb Raider and Sleeping Dogs, the company posted an “extraordinary loss” of about $134 million dollars. Following the resignation of Square’s former CEO Yoichi Wada, the company announced that it plans to return to profitability by [...]

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Defiance renewed for a second season

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 11 May

Defiance, the SyFy Channel TV show that ties into Trion Worlds’ MMO of the same name, has been renewed for a second season. Filming for 13 new episodes of the show will begin in Toronto this August.

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Battlefield 3 double XP event postponed due to massive DDOS attack

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 09 May

Somebody has been trying to take down EA’s Battlefield 3 servers, and so far it seems like they’re doing a pretty good job of it: following a server crash on Tuesday night, the game’s servers across all platforms have suffered numerous outages, which EA says is the result of an on-going, targeted denial of service [...]

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Shadow of the Eternals is being built with assets from a cancelled Silicon Knights project

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Wii U On: 08 May

Shadow of the Eternals, the upcoming crowd-funded “spiritual successor” to Eternal Darkness, features assets recycled from a cancelled Silicon Knights project, which some fans have theorized might have been the oft-rumored Eternal Darkness 2.

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Diablo 3 auction house taken offline after gold dupe is discovered

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC On:

Along with the game’s “always on” DRM, Diablo 3′s in-game auction house, which lets players buy items with real money in addition to in-game gold, has always been one of the game’s more controversial features. The auction house was taken offline today following the discovery of a gold duplication exploit that completely destroyed the delicate [...]

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Final Fantasy XIII owners given priority access to FFXIV beta

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3 On: 04 May

Did you buy Final Fantasy XIII on the day it came out? If so, you might be able to get into the next FFXIV beta test ahead of everybody else.

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All Star Wars games on Steam are on sale this weekend

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC On:

In honor of May the 4th, the official “Star Wars Day,” all games set in a galaxy far, far away are 66% off on Steam this weekend.

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