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Nobuo Uematsu, the legendary musician who composed the soundtracks for various Final Fantasy games, is done composing full soundtracks for the series. In a chat with German outlet Zeit (via VGC), Uematsu said he just doesn't have it in him to put together an entire game's soundtrack anymore.
Skull and Bones, the official pirate simulator of the Singaporean government, is setting sail for season 1 in the wake of its release earlier this month, and Ubisoft is touting some stats to celebrate.
Botched patches are the worst. Devs spend hours, days or weeks on them, players get excited for them, but when they release they just cause tumult and upset. Ideally, they just mess up something minor, a bagatelle that very few people will notice and that you can rectify in the next patch. But sometimes it's worse. Sometimes, you accidentally fix a bug. You think it only ever happens to other people, and then it happens to you.
So far as I can tell, choosing when to release your videogame is a kind of haruspicy. Just a collection of folk rituals, nuggets of received wisdom, and a smattering of hard data that you somehow have to translate into a decision that—done wrong—could utterly sink your game. What's the right choice? What's the wrong one? It's almost impossible to tell until after release.
I don't know whether to describe this as an act of herculean heroism or sisyphean torment, but someone has beaten Skyrim. No, really beaten it. Wrung every last drop of adventure out of it in a trial that left them with every spell, item, and perk in the game at level—wait for it—1,337, entirely without mods or cheats. Why? My friends, why climb the highest mountain? Why fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? Not because they are easy, but because you can brag about it online.
Bad news, folks: The imminent release of Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC might mean we all have to start beating Malenia by ourselves. Let Me Solo Her, the jar-headed, dual-wielding hero who's helped countless players overcome the game's toughest boss, says it might be time to call it quits.
Hey, remember how much time you spent tackling Shar's Gauntlet in Baldur's Gate 3? The bloodshed? The tears? The gems? It's a real, well, gauntlet. But here's something to make you feel even worse about it: you could have skipped the whole thing using one level 2 spell.
Millennia, that Paradox-published Civilization-like from C-Prompt Games, has gotten its release date. It's coming March 26, giving you a shot at navigating 10,000 years of history in an orderly, hex-based manner across all sorts of ages and crises.