Sometime after the reactor portion of Gongaga, you may find Cissnei in her home working over the stove. Her concoction is terrible, and you need to help her create Gongaga mushroom soup. This kicks off the “The Spice of Life” side quest. This is one of the quests inFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirththat has multiple outcomes. Depending on how well you do, you could walk away with a gold stamp, you lucky duck....
According to aBBFC listing, THQ International has been confirmed as the publisher for Swordfish Studios’50 Cent: Blood on the Sand. The fate of the title was in question when it was revealed that a number of Sierra-published titles — includingGhostbustersandBlood on the Sand— had been dropped in the Activision Blizzard merger. It was recently revealed thatAtari had snatched upGhostbusters, so it’s good to hear that Mr. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has found a new digital home....
…Shepherd. Video gaming’s worst kept secret is finally out in the open. Electronic Arts has officially announcedMass Effect: Legendary Edition,a full remaster of BioWare’s fantastic space opera trilogy that engrossed a globalaudience of players on PS3, PC, and Xbox 360. Taking the opportunity to celebrate November 7 – known to theMass Effectfaithful as “N7 Day”. EA finally announced that the trilogy remaster was in the works, with a tentative release window of Spring 2021 on PS4, PC, and Xbox One....
Envision Entertainment has revealed that medieval-fantasy city builderPioneers of Pagoniawill be released in Early Access on December 13. To celebrate the news, Envision has also released afree demo that is available now on Steam. In the demo, players will have the opportunity to build a thriving medieval community of thousands of inhabitants. The demo is available in many languages including German, English, Spanish, French, and Polish. Spiritual successor toThe Settlers Even thoughThe Settlersfranchise by Ubisoft is still an active series,recent releases have not been good....
And not the free kind Survivor Mode inAlien: Isolation, as described here in this video andfurther detailedin Steven’s hands-on coverage, sounds cool. You’ll have to complete certain objectives on a timer while being hunted, and factors like which items you grab and how quickly you make it to the end (ifyou make it to the end) will be reflected in your leaderboard score.It should help round out the package. But here’s the catch: “Isolationwill ship with a Survivor Mode demo featuring one playable map....
Side effect: Might create an itch for a new classic Zelda Reverieis an action adventure game set on a fictional island known as “Toromi Island” in Kiwi-land (New Zealand), inspired heavily by classicZeldagames and theMotherseries. In the game you play as Tai, a young kid on summer holiday who then suddenly due to plot reasons has to explore dungeons and other environments to deal with angry spirits that need to be put to rest....
Starting Disney’s love affair with one-word titles Can you believeKingdom Hearts IIIis finally happening? Save for some last minute chicanery, the long, long long-awaited Square Enix/Disney sequel will finally be with us at the dawn of 2019, after years of speculation and development. Speaking of which, a new trailer has been released for the game, focusing on one ofKH III’smany worlds. In particular, the land of Corona, that appears in Disney’s 2010 movie,Tangled....
Still into ‘Quality of Life’ field Nintendo no longer wants towatch you sleepand — wait, did he write “nixes” in reference to shelved new Nintendo hardware ideas while the new Nintendo console is being referred to as the “NX”? What a clever writer, that fellow. Anyways. “In regards to the Quality of Life [device], which was not mentioned in any of today’s questions, we do not have the conviction that the sleep-and-fatigue-themed [device] can enter the phase of actually becoming a product,” Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima said duringan investors Q&A sessiontranslated byWired....
Imagine an Animal Crossing game by Anna Anthropy… Nintendo is in an extremely interesting place right now. They’re run by men like Satoru Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto, who at one time in their lives were artists and programmers (respectively) on games not much larger than today’s average “indie” offering. They’ve survived the industry’s growth from an arcade focused “amusement” to the multi-trillion dollar, “AAA” empire that it is today. They’re arguably the most well known game publisher on the planet, but they’re also the most divisive....
Disappointing but hardly surprising While we know that PlayStation Move controllerswill be supportedby PlayStation 4, it wasn’t immediately clear if the current DualShock 3 controllers would carry forward into this next console generation. According to SCE Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida, the system “doesn’t support DualShock 3.” I had a small amount of hope that with thecloud-based supportfor PlayStation 3 games, perhaps the gamepad would work on PS4. On the other hand, the DualShock 4 is differentiated enough that it was reasonable to expect Sony would take the opportunity to move on....
Includes previously arcade-only Battle Royale Pac-Man Museum, released today on Steam, PlayStation Network, and Xbox Live Arcade, caught my eye this morning. It was my first time hearing about the game and the $19.99 price stood out. What could a compilation like this possibly include to warrant charging so much? Pac-Man Battle Royale— that’s what. The four-player game is finally playable outside of arcades and you don’t need me to tell you it’s a real treat....
Catching shinies in the afterlife Among the readers here, I’m sure there are a few who are so engaged in videogames that they’ve effectively become your identity. Will your game-playing habits be what you are remembered for long after you’ve passed on? A man in Lund, Sweden, is fascinated by aparticular grave statueat a nearby cemetery. It belongs to Joakim Stambolovski — if I’m reading the engraving properly — a five-year-old boy who was apparently quite thePokémonplayer while he was still around....
The firstModern Warfare IIDLC honors those in the military The newest mainlineCall of Dutygame,Modern Warfare II, is out tomorrow, and fans are beyond excited to get into the game. There’s a lot to try out with the new multiplayer maps and the single-player campaign, plus the revamped battle royale mode that’s coming out in November, and as if that wasn’t enough, Activision already announced the game’s first DLC. It’s called the Endowment Protector pack, and it’s already available for purchase at the in-game store....
