Disney Infinity 3.0 will have a few Kingdom Hearts homages

Plus, a Keyblade WhenDisney Infinity 3.0hits, it’ll arrive with a few great extras forKingdom Heartsfans, which were announced at Disney’s annual D23 Expo event last weekend. For starters, the Keyblade is in the game as a special unlock,similar to the lightsaberin the original title. It was also announced that the “King Mickey” costume will allow Mickey to transform into hisKingdomgetup — but right now, that power disc is only for D23 attendees....

July 31, 2025 · 1 min · 99 words · Wayne Reed

Division 2 Scout 8 solutions (Y7S1 Crossroads)

The Manhunt missions inThe Division 2‘s Crossroads season have been pretty interesting to say the least, and week 8 has three objectives to complete. It’s still going to take over a month for the Manhunt missions to complete as we slowly work our way towards theTinkerermask. The main objective for the reward is to complete all the Scout missions of every previous week as released during the season. Division 2 Scout 8 solutions Week 8 of the scout missions is similar to the seven previous weeks....

July 31, 2025 · 1 min · 160 words · Michael Mcgee

Don’t fear the swine flu! Videogame pigs are the real threat

Lock your doors! Bar your windows! The pigs are going to destroy the world! It is only a matter of time before … wait, the pigs are going to destroy the world with anew strain of the flu? Seriously? Sorry, I don’t mean to sound insensitive. The recent swine flu outbreak is a scary thing and it is awful that people have lost their lives because of it. But in the world of videogames, pigs have donea lotworse than just threatening humanity with a high fever and fits of coughing....

July 31, 2025 · 7 min · 1488 words · Jennifer Goodman

Dragon Quest IX delayed to July for the Japanese market

If you’ve been waiting patiently forDragon Quest IXto come out in Japan feeling that it means we’re that much closer to the North American release, I’m afraid I have to be the jerk who pees in your cereal today: you’re going to be waiting quite a bit longer. According toIGN, Square has announced that the release date for Japan has been pushed back to July 11th, over three months later than the original release date of March 28th....

July 31, 2025 · 1 min · 161 words · Tony Sparks

EA FC 24: How to get Jonas Wind FUTTIES for free

The Jonas Wind FUTTIES card could be yours for free inEA FC 24Ultimate Team for absolutely free. This is the first time when Wind has received a promo card in Ultimate Team. Since it’s part of an objective, you may unlock the card for absolutely free. Let’s take a look at all the tasks that have to be completed to unlock the card in the first place, and if doing so is worth your time and effort....

July 31, 2025 · 2 min · 216 words · Bradley Foley

Everything included in the Sekai Project Steam Publisher Sale

It’s time to get visual, because the visual novel publisher Sekai Project is running a massive sale on Steam until next Monday, October 2. Included in the midweek sale are titles from developers such as VisualArts/Key, LYCORIS, 122pxsheol, andmany more. If you fashion yourself a visual novel aficionado, now’s your chance to nabClannad,World End Economica, orNekoparawhile they’re marked down. Everything included in the Sekai Project Steam Publisher Sale VisualArts/Key It’s possible you know developer VisualArts/Key for the anime adaptations ofKanon,Clannad, orRewrite....

July 31, 2025 · 1 min · 191 words · Alyssa Hart

Exoprimal Title Update 2 and its Street Fighter collab suits are live now

Capcomhas releasedthe second big update for their robot-powered dinosaur murder game,Exoprimal. Among the added features are the anticipatedStreet Fightercrossover skins. Do you rememberExoprimal? It’s the game that everyone thought might be a newDino Crisiswhen it was first announced, but then it turned out to be a live service multiplayer title. It’sactually pretty good! But pretty good is sort of a bad place to be in the live service market where most of the pie is being greedily gobbled up by a few of the most popular games....

July 31, 2025 · 2 min · 241 words · Tyler Dorsey

FFXIV: All Umbral Calamities, explained

Final Fantasy XIVhas extensive amounts of lore, and none is more potentially confusing than the stories behind the Umbral Calamities. These Calamities have changed the world, brought worlds colliding together, and left legacies in their wake. There have thus far been eight Umbral Calamities, most of which seem to center around a particular element. Some are definitely more well known than others, but all of them should be remembered. The First Umbral Calamity The First Umbral Calamity is what marked the beginning of what we now know as The Source....

July 31, 2025 · 5 min · 1049 words · Jose Mcguire

Final Fantasy 16 producer says that the debut trailer’s look wasn’t final, will have a more ‘polished’ version eventually

It looked good to me Sony kicked off their recent PS5 event right:with confirmation ofFinal Fantasy XVI. But it wasn’t just any old Square Enix trailer, though. It actually had gameplay!According to producer Naoki “Yoshi-P” Yoshida, that was deliberate. According to a new panel during TGS (translated by Twitter user Audrey), the team was “pressed for time” to make the trailer, but also wanted to ensure that it had in-game visuals....

July 31, 2025 · 1 min · 180 words · Lori Martin

Final Fantasy XIV’s new Oceanic data center is coming this month

It’s going online on June 24, 2025 Square Enix has finally confirmed a firm date for the new Oceanic data center forFinal Fantasy XIV: July 21, 2025.Confirmed on the game’s official news site, the datacenter, which has been planned “for some time,” is going to get a “little sudden” release in just over a week. So here’s the deal: we’re actually getting two bonus worlds (servers) immediately. The original concept was for Square Enix to launch the Oceanic center with three worlds, then add two more at a later date....

July 31, 2025 · 2 min · 373 words · Jennifer Young

Free-to-play Magic: The Gathering Arena revealed

Room for one more? Another digital card game is entering the fray. Wizards of the Coast has unveiledMagic: The Gathering Arena, a free-to-play title in production at the company’s in-house Digital Games Studio. Sign-ups are open for aclosed beta, and while the game is currently targeting a PC release, it’ll “expand to other platforms when it’s ready.” The beta will “start with Constructed play, where you can build decks using all 279 cards from the upcomingMagicsetIxalan....

July 31, 2025 · 2 min · 239 words · Wesley White MD

Games time forgot: Tender Loving Care

Following myminor essayon live actors in videogaming yesterday, I thought it’d be only appropriate to make this week’s forgotten game one populated, plotted, and almost entirely driven by real actors — chief among them, John Motherf*cking Hurt. Tender Loving Care, created by the makers ofThe 7th Guestand11th Houris an “interactive movie” in every sense of the word: you make choices that determine where the plot goes and how characters will react to things, but there’s no realchallengeto a game where the player makes decisions simply by answering personal, psychological questions about his or herself, in addition to divulging possible interpretations of the story at large....

July 31, 2025 · 5 min · 939 words · Jacqueline King

Greenlit: Shovel Knight, Dreamfall, and Planet Explorers

Newest set of Steam Greenlight titles After hearing what games you thoughtdeserved to be greenliton Steam earlier this week, Valve’s announcement for the newest batch of approved titles today should result in a fair few smiles. Some of these have been pushed for hard, and that work has paid off: As for greenlit software, it’s game recorderPlayClawand strategy plannerGamePlan. I’m really glad to seeHammerwatch,Legend of Dungeon, andShovel Knightget through, so now I can shut up about those and concentrate on the stuff that’s still in submission hell....

July 31, 2025 · 1 min · 96 words · Harold Flores