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It took a long time, but Square Enix finally launched Final Fantasy XIV on Xbox consoles earlier this year. Speaking with Eurogamer at Gamescom 2024, producer Naoki Yoshida discussed the community's response to the launch and reiterated Square Enix's commitment to Microsoft's console platform.
Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki 'Yoshi-P' Yoshida says the Dawntrail expansion's release on Xbox is the "starting point" of more Square Enix games releasing on Microsoft's console.
DDOS mitigation company Global Secure Layer claims to have fielded the largest DDOS attack in recorded history, in terms of packets per second, which reportedly saw one unfortunate "Minecraft gaming customer" bombarded with a buckling 3.15 billion PPS from a botnet said to be concentrated in Russia, but with traffic sources also spanning 17 other countries. For clarity, this doesn't mean people from these countries were involved, it just means attacks originated from sources in these locations.
Chinese engineers have found a rather interesting loophole in US export controls, allowing them to access NVIDIA's cutting-edge AI accelerators.
PlayStation 5 is becoming even more expensive in Japan, in an announcement made by Sony on the Japanese PlayStation blog. This price hike comes after "the recent challenging external environment, including the current fluctuations in the global economic situation, and the impact it will have on our business." With the current state of PlayStation's finances across the globe, the price hike isn't too surprising. However, it is a relatively drastic price rise for PlayStation 5 overall. Regardless of what edition of the console people buy, they will now have to fork out an extra $90 in Yen.
Amazon Prime Gamingis handing out even more free games, this time from within the vast world of Prime members will be able to get their hands on a number of free games right now. The games are being made available to celebrate the release of season two of which debuts on August 29.
Making a videogame is a tough business at the best of times, and for Ukrainian studios like Stalker 2 developer GSC Game World, these are much closer to the worst of times: Ukraine suffered a full-scale invasion by Russia in early 2022, and while the country has defended itself far more ably than many expected, it still faces relentless daily assaults in a war that's cost tens of thousands of lives.
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