If you first played Square’s groundbreaking 3D Final Fantasy on a PC, sometime after 1998, you might be thinking: the characters have mouths. But if you played Final Fantasy 7 on the PlayStation, you’re more likely thinking: Wait a minute. I started searching for the answers to those questions after looking into the history of the PC ports of Final Fantasy 7 and Final Fantasy 8, two rare, early examples of console games being ported to the PC. Final Fantasy 7 and Final Fantasy 8 for PC were deve

You play as Rich Savage Jr., physical manifestation of unregulated markets and son of a wealthy media executive. At first blush, this is a game about making money, buying stocks, undercutting competitors and pacifying any who dare question the ethics of monopolising the very air we breathe. Buying a chunk of magazines increased my influence, which in turn increased the amount of money I could pry out of my father. There around 60 stock options in the game, and the goal with each seems to have be

”Anyway, you’ll be able to buy Night Trap again soon. Night Trap was also the subject of major controversy at the time, positioned alongside Doom, Mortal Kombat, and Lethal Enforcers in congressional hearings over depictions of violence in videogames. Here’s the trailer:A commercial hit through its single print run, Night Trap was still critically divisive. Yes folks, Night Trap is the first interactive movie on the Mega-CD and the great news is—it works! Night Trap’s a treat to look at and hold

Note: The gifs embedded in this story contain full frontal male nudity of the video game variety. But while my character was dancing, I started running, at which point I noticed the dance emote was continuing uninterrupted. You can apparently run while dancing, and when you combine that with full frontal nudity of Conan Exiles… oh my god no. First, here’s what one of the dancing emotes looks like while standing stationary and wearing clothing. There are also some flirting emotes, but after wit

After a month aboard the hype train, Heroes of the Storm’s 2.0 update is finally live in the NA region, with EU following later tonight. The update will also revamp player progression, uncapping hero and account leveling. And as part of the progression rework, the experience needed to level up a hero has been massively scaled down. The new currency systems replace real money with Gems and add Shards that can be used to unlock specific cosmetic items. Blizzard’s clearly looking to entice new play

Yesterday, Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan dove into the necro’d thread to say, okay. “Uprising is the first event to support subtitles,” Kaplan wrote, alluding to the Overwatch seasonal event that got underway earlier this month, featuring balance changes, a pile of new skins, and a four-player PvE brawl. “We now have some of the underlying tech and systems in place to proliferate subtitle support to other parts of the game. The team is very passionate about adding subtitle support.” Kaplan

Mario is Missing Back in 1992, an educational PC adventure game featured Mario and Luigi, and boy, was it ever was dreadful. Read all about the PC Mario game that time forgot. Back in 2012, a modder decided to remedy that with the Super Skyrim Bros mod for Skyrim, which created a new Mario-inspired adventure involving Goombas and Koopa Troopas, magic hammers and mushroom power-ups, and iconic bosses like Waluigi and Bowser. I’m pleased to report that the Super Skyrim Bros mod is now also availab

So let’s consider a tech card that has been relatively successful lately: our crabby friend, the Golakka Crawler. On the subject of crabs seeing play, we also need to talk about the OG shellfish, the Hungry Crab. Hungry Crab is also a fairly narrow tech choice: like the Crawler, Hungry Crab only eats one tribe of minion, so Murlocs need to be very common for the crab to be worth running. All of which helps us understand the present failure of a once beloved tech card: The Black Knight. As a fina

Infiltration adds a new elite enemy unit to the game, and also an “explosive” new weapon: The “Prototype Neunfaust.” Rebellion also released a free new multiplayer map called Urban, which works with Survival mode and all competitive multiplayer modes. The free patch also adds a Capture the Flag multiplayer mode and makes changes and bug fixes to both singleplayer and multiplayer. New weapon – The Prototype Neunfaust (Deathstorm 2 Only)New enemy type – The Valkyrie (Deathstorm 2 Only)AI equipped

Zotac’s GeForce GTX 1070 Mini is typically the cheapest upgrade path into GTX 1070 territory with a price tag that hovers around $370. That’s not a gigantic savings, but considering it’s already the least expensive GTX 1070 around, shaving another $30 off isn’t too shabby. Depending on the model, you could easily drop $400 or more on a GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card. Zotac’s Mini model is a shortened version for cramped spaces, especially small form factor builds. It measures about 210mm long, w

Nvidia’s newest promotion doesn’t do anything to soften the financial blow, at least not on the hardware side of things, but it will get you started with a few VR games once you’ve dropped a wad of cash on the Oculus Rift headset, Oculus Touch controllers, and qualifying GeForce GTX graphics card. Once you’ve made those purchased from a participating vendor, you can claim three VR games for free. There are four graphics cards that qualify for the bundle—GeForce GTX 1060, 1070, 1080, and 1080 Ti.

Just in case you missed the pop-up box in Windows, Nvidia has a new Game Ready driver package available. That is a larger collection of optimized games than is typical of Game Ready driver update, though not unprecedented by Nvidia. There are still a bunch of open issues Nvidia is working to correct, including over a dozen in Windows 10 and five more spread out between Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 7. “Having the best possible quality for a game at launch is important, and it becomes even more impor

The Witcher 3 bestrides our list of the best PC games to play today, and also ranks high on the best RPGs of all time , so it’s always interesting to learn more about its influences. Our colleagues over at TechRadar did just that when they asked the developers at CD Projekt Red to name their favorite PC games of all time . The Witcher 3 was presumably out of the running for this question, or the devs were humble enough to pick different games. Lead level designer Mateusz Piaskiewicz got nostalgi

Original X-Com creator Julian Gollop teased his next project, a “turn-based tactics and world-based strategy game” called Phoenix Point, early last year. In Phoenix Point, humanity has been all but wiped out by a horrific alien pathogen called the Pandoravirus. Gollop said that Phoenix Point will take inspiration from both the original X-COM games that he created, and the Firaxis reboot, which he’s apparently quite a fan of. “We are creating Phoenix Point by taking influences from the famed X-CO

Your defenses come in the form of cards: laser cards and missile cards, primarily, in this turn-based game from developer Nathan Meunier. Missile Cards is a bit of a casual game in that it’s easy to learn and playing a hand only takes a few minutes. Your defense cards, meanwhile, need to be picked up and placed in one of the four empty slots above the threats. However, Missile Cards can often feel unfair, such as when there’s a long line of threat cards cycling into play and you simply haven’t h

Fate of Atlantis, the classic LucasArts point-and-click adventure, seemed like the obvious choice, but then I remembered another Indiana Jones game that a lot of people seem to have forgotten about. Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb, released on PC way back in 2003, is a third-person action game in the style of Tomb Raider. But those complaints aside, it does a superb job of capturing the spirit of the Indiana Jones films. Of course it helps that you’re playing as Indiana Jones, and that comp

After months of murmurs within the farming role-player’s forums, Stardew Valley now has localisation in six new languages. Update 1.2 also brings with it improvements to controller support as well as a host of bug fixes. Surplus to its default English option, players can now sow and socialise in German, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Brazilian-Portuguese. Switching from ‘Windowed Borderless’ to ‘Fullscreen’ should now go straight to fullscreen instead of Windowed mode. Fixed

You might’ve caught James’ review yesterday, or his words on how it has one of the most intense endings of any horror game ever. Then again, you might have avoided all that as you’re yet to play the first game. If that’s you, let me tell you the Humble Store is giving away a copy of the original Outlast free-of-charge with every purchase of Outlast 2 for as long as stocks last. When you’re not running or hiding, you’ll be scouring the building for spare batteries for your camera, for keys to unl

The Asus ROG Swift PG279Q is a 27-inch monitor with an IPS display and a 2560 x 1440 resolution, and it just so happens to top the list of our favorite screens. The good news is that you can find it at a discounted price right now on Amazon, where it’s sitting at £703. You’ve also got Nvidia’s G-Sync technology which eliminates screen tearing if you’ve got the right graphics card for the job. It has been seen as cheap as £669 on Amazon before, but that was during last year’s Black Friday sales.

Nothing is confirmed as yet, but series mastermind David Brevik reckons it’s not necessarily as straightforward as people may think. Speaking on the Diabloii.net podcast, Brevik says he was inundated with queries about a Diablo 2 remake in the wake of the StarCraft remaster announcement. Everybody would just make 3D artwork and put it on a 3D grid which works except for it doesn’t work. Because the moment that you change the fundamental way that you interact with the game and you move around the