Author: Ed Nightingale

The next expansion for MMORPG Final Fantasy 14, Dawntrail, is up for pre-order, but the process has been beset with issues. It began with failed card payments when pre-ordering on the Square Enix Store, which Square Enix acknowledged. In a post on X, it suggested using PayPal instead and then stated transaction difficulties…

Creature collecting RPG Cassette Beasts will receive a multiplayer update in May, plus it’s heading to mobile devices this year. Publisher Raw Fury held a Cassette Beasts showcase (below) detailing a number of new features coming to the game. The big addition is multiplayer, coming to all platforms on 20th May, which…

Another F-Zero game is on the way to Switch. F-Zero: Maximum Velocity will join Nintendo Switch Online for Expansion Pack subscribers on 29th March. The high speed racer was a launch game for the Game Boy Advance and took its cue from the SNES original with its flat, twisting tracks and pixel…

Blizzard has delayed the fourth season of Diablo 4 by a month, to a new release date of 14th May. The game’s third season, Season of the Construct, will be extended for an extra month, as announced in the developer’s latest Campfire Chat stream. The reason for the delay is to allow the…

Today, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth receives a new patch that promises to fix issues with its performance mode. Just ahead of release, an update aimed to improve the visual quality of performance mode, which was criticised for its blurry image. Now it’s been improved further, along with other fixes. According to the…

The 1.6 update for Stardew Valley has caused a massive spike of interest, resulting in a new record Steam concurrent player count. The previous peak was set back in January 2021 with around 95,000 concurrent players, according to SteamDB. Now that’s leapt to over 146,000 players. It’s also now inside the Steam…

Obsidian’s espionage RPG Alpha Protocol is today making a grand return to PC on the GOG store, 14 years after its debut. The re-release is a collaboration between Obsidian, GOG and Sega, after the game was pulled from Steam in 2019 due to expired music rights. Now the game will return…

On Xbox, Final Fantasy 14 will have its own currency for service fees and optional item purchases. The MMORPG will arrive on Xbox consoles on 21st March following its open beta, with Square Enix releasing further details on the launch in a new Lodestone blog post. Not only is Game Pass required…

Flat2VR Studios is a new developer dedicated to turning flatscreen games into VR experiences. The studio was born from the Flat2VR community, comprising modders who have created unofficial VR versions of games like Half-Life 2 and Doom, which have received millions of downloads. The team is working on its first licensed VR…