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Patch 2.4 Rejoice,Final Fantasyfans. Some time ago we got confirmation that Shiva would be coming toFinal Fantasy XIVin the form of boss fight, but one lingering question remained — willshe snap her fingersfor her Diamond Dust spell? According toa recent developer’s update— yes, she will. The update also provides us with a few extra details on the creation process from a number of staff members (including some musings on how they hit “rock bottom” during the 1....

Ha! That number soundssoooomade up. But it’s real. Strong Black Friday sales helped push the Wii install base in the U.S. to 37.7 million units. I thought everyone already had a Wii, but so many more were sold this holiday season. Nintendo says they moved 860,000 Wii systems in November alone! Black Friday’s numbers were more than half of that, coming in at 520,000. None of those people are waiting around for the Wii U....

We were too concerned with whether we could WayFaorward has revealed a rough release window for its devastating kaiju-’em-upDawn of the Monsters— the building-bashing fighter will launch on PC and console platforms in March 2022. A new trailer, (which you can check out below), offers us our first real look at the lore behind 13AM Games’ new scrapper. In the year 2036, a wave of terrifying, gargantuan creatures arrives on Earth, leaving death and destruction in their wake....

This is the third in a series to preview all of the games withinNintendo Landfor the Wii U. You can check outThe Legend of Zelda: Battle QuesthereandLuigi’s Ghost Mansionrighthere! Ninjas star in some of my favorite games of all time:The Legend of the Mystical Ninja,Ninja Gaiden,Shinobi. Having a ninja in your game can easily make your game that much better. But how doesTakamuru’s Ninja Castlefare? Does it keep the ninja love alive?...

I don’t get it, Nintendo. You claim you were dedicating an entire morning to Wii U games, yet you showed pretty much the same third-party sizzle reel as last year. The only new third-party game announced wasScibblenauts Remixwhich, while awesome, is only one thing. C’mon, Nintendo! Why hold back!? Platinum Games has a game, tentatively calledProject P-100, that we only learned about by checking the Nintendo All-Access page. APikmin-like superhero game in which you collect a mass of citizens and transform them into giant fists and guns and anvils to fight giant robots?...

Gamecock’s anti-E3 event, EIEIO, was a very chill and completely welcome experience amidst the chaos of jumping from hotel to hotel and appointment to appointment. Located at Hotel California right off the Santa Monica pier, press is greeted by two completely-reasonable would-be booth babes, or “gate babes” as they prefer to be called. One has to wonder how many times “cock” came out of their mouths today, but I wasn’t going to ask them as they look like they’d had enough Cock already....

Team Asobi’sAstro Botis a cornucopia of nostalgia and pure joy. Of course, if you’re an avid fan of the past 30+ years of gaming, then the former will feed the latter and vice versa. There are 305 lost bots to find in the platformer, with 173 being cameos from various influential PlayStation titles. Here’s every character reference inAstro Bot. Where to find every Cameo Bot in Astro Bot There are seven zones stuffed to the brim with levels of the regular and hidden varieties, each containing 300 known bots....

Its fiercest competition was The Last of Us Part II The polls are closed, and Sucker Punch’s samurai action gametook the Players’ Voice awardat The Game Awards.Ghost of Tsushimafaced tough competition fromThe Last of Us Part II– Sony really showed up this year–but its cozy open-world vibe beat out Naughty Dog’s harrowing storytelling. I had not-so-secretly hoped thatGhost of TsushimaandThe Last of Us Part IIwould essentially cancel each other out in the final round and helpHadesbubble up to the top, but it wasn’t meant to be....

$30 off for a few more hours It didn’t take long for Google Stadia to go on sale. It also won’t be on sale for very long. Despite launching only last November, Google Stadia is already discounted for one day only. Through March 20 at 11:59pm Pacific, Stadia is marked down to $100 from $130 — nearly 25 percent off its regular price. This sale is on the Stadia Premiere Edition, the best version of Stadia but also theonlyversion of Stadia right now....

Fast travel, hidden walls return StevenandChrisboth tried their hands atDark Souls IIIlast month. Despite the increase in overall speed and the addition of the Battle Arts mechanic, they both came away with the opinion that it felt like moreDark Souls(which is what most of us want, anyway!). Now, viaGame Informer‘s Octoberissue, we know a little more about what mechanics will remain and what will be revamped. As far as what’s staying the same, players will be able to fast travel from the beginning of the game, respec their characters (though we don’t know yet if it will be done with a Soul Vessel item), and New Game+ will be similar toDark Souls IIin that enemy placement will be altered....

Visions of hope One of the main selling points forDark Souls: Remasteredis a smoother and more stable frame rate, and even though recent footage has been encouraging in that regard, we’ve still wondered how Blighttown would fare given how poorly it ran in the game’s original release. This footage captured by YouTube user Reakor Kacho at PAX East shows a bit of the area on Nintendo Switch. Even from just this short off-screen footage, you can tell the performance is greatly improved....

Local Legends are minibosses inGenshin Impact. They can be found at various locations in the overworld in Fontaine. They’re a bit stronger than most enemies, and defeating them grants you a unique achievement for each Local Legend. Here’s how to find and defeat all three new Local Legends that were added inGenshin ImpactVersion 4.1! Automated Supercomputing Field Generator The Automated Supercomputing Field Generator can be found to the north of Fontaine, in a small dirt clearing north of some ruins....

If you’re playingAvatar: Frontiers of Pandoraand regret your choice in hairstyle (even if there are maybe only four at the start), you don’t have to suffer long. You can change your appearance inAvatar: FoPafter starting the game, you just need to know what object to use. There are only a handful of places inAvatar: FoPthat let you alter your look. They can also be tough to find, so much so that I often had to wander aimlessly using my Focus until I found one....