Today’s RPG fans are ‘very sensitive to feeling like they wasted time’ when they die, says Metaphor: ReFantazio battle planner—but Atlus still made combat hard anyway

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According to HowLongToBeat, Atlus’s 2024 RPG Metaphor: ReFantazio is a mere 65-and-a-half hours long—if you stick to the critical path. Go for the mad completionist playthrough and you’re looking at 105 hours of turn-based battles, cutscenes and life simmy chats with your party members, which is objectively a lot of game. But imagine how much

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SignalGate Isn’t About Signal

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The eye-popping scandal surrounding the Trump cabinet’s accidental invitation to The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief to join a text-message group secretly planning a bombing in Yemen has rolled into its third day, and that controversy now has a name: SignalGate, a reference to the fact that the conversation took place on the end-to-end encrypted free messaging tool

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19 founders and VCs working with Elon Musk’s DOGE

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Silicon Valley used to take a backseat to Washington, D.C. But now, the people disrupting technology have taken the wheel at the highest echelons of government. And that’s thanks, in large part, to the Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE. Much reporting on DOGE has focused on its staffers’ ties to Musk, the billionaire bestie of

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One year later, City of Heroes’ officially recognized fan server has me praying it’s the future of dead MMOs

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A little over a year ago, City of Heroes got the sort of second chance most defunct MMOs never do: a fan-made private server with written permission from the publisher to continue operating. While NCSoft hasn’t guaranteed that the fan server can last forever, it’s a mite more generous than the cease and desist letters

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ first hotfix addresses stability issues and a photo mode crash

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The first Assassin’s Creed Shadows hotfix is live, and in what I have to imagine is seen as good news by developers, the list of fixes is remarkably small. Update 1.0.1, as it’s known, does the following: Stabilization – Fixed some global issues [PS5] Fixed a Photo mode issue that could cause a crash when

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Investors Are Gripped by Fear and Distrust, But Hold Onto Favorite Stocks

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A stock-market correction, mixed messages on the future of economic policy from the White House, and a plunge in consumer confidence have driven individual investor sentiment and expectations to their lowest levels in years. According to our recent survey of individual investors, 61% of respondents are either “worried” or “somewhat worried” about recent market events

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Metaphor: ReFantazio battle director says turn-based RPGs can still be just as popular as action RPGs: ‘I personally believe turn-based games have a long future ahead of them’

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Metaphor: ReFantazio won PC Game’s RPG of the Year award in 2024, following Baldur’s Gate 3’s overall GOTY win in 2023. Both are turn-based RPGs, a category we’re happy to see thriving on PC—because for a few years there, it sure seemed like big budget roleplaying games were convinced that flashier action was the way

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The Witcher 3 devs had to practically remake the game engine to make official modding possible

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is still going. Nearly 10 years into its life, The Witcher 3 remains a popular canvas for modders adding new quests and locations, custom gameplay tuning, and the occasional oddity like Geralt on ice skates. For most of the last decade the mod scene had no official support from CD

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Silent Hill f is not messing around – now it’s been banned in Australia

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Silent Hill f may not release in Australia thanks to a decision by the country’s Classification Board. The horror reboot has been “Refused Classification”, which means its content is too extreme for an R18+ rating and is thus banned. As of right now, the organisation hasn’t explained what’s behind the ban. It’s not hard to