Video games have come to embrace open-ended design to encourage players to engage with their games for tens to hundreds of hours. Yet so many of these same games also go out of their way to push players toward rushing the main story. Why is that?

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Sometimes prequels hit, and more often they miss. So what happens when you take the guys who made Kingdom Hearts and have them make a prequel to Final Fantasy 1?

You certainly get a memorable game, that's for sure.

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Taking a look back at a game that set in motion a series that almost 40 years later is still going strong. It also begs the question of how well such an ancient style of game design philosophy holds up in the modern day?

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Yo, what the good God damn fuck???

The final party of the Final Fantasy VII Remake Trilogy is on the distant horizon, but a question still remains, which is how the fuck are they going to write themselves out of the hole they've put themselves in?

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Despite being set over 5,000 miles away from the town itself, Silent Hill f manages to feel very at home with the series, and it has a story that'll have you playing through it again, and again, and again.

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I miss the days when I’d see commercials for Nerf guns and Flaming Hot Cheetos.

Now all I see are ads for finance management and health insurance

If you thought AI slop was bad already, imagine how horrifying the next Evil Within is going to be?

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videogames are *so* art they have attained the cultural position of being primarily an instrument of financial speculation for the already-wealthy

With Square Enix set to fully embrace generative AI, what does it mean for game developers who continue to barely make ends meet while fighting for relevancy in an increasingly competitive field?

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It’s so weird watching a stock analyst shaking and trembling on live television over Chinese ChatGPT like they just dropped an atomic bomb on mainland US.