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EA knows Battlefield 6’s settings menu was a mess in beta, and ‘it’s probably still going to be a little clunky when we launch’

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As simple and mundane as they are, there’s an art behind making a good menu, and sadly, the Battlefield 6 beta missed the mark in that regard. The menus felt designed for controllers over mouse and keyboard, though even that felt remarkably clunky. It’s a shame, considering the interface in previous Battlefield games has been … Read more

The MMO granddaddy you’ve never heard of is celebrating its 35th anniversary, and it still pulls in ‘a few thousand active players’ and needs a staff of 40 to run: ‘We want to be able to survive for another 35 years’

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If any one thing can claim responsibility for sending me down the dark, dark path of writing for a living, it’s probably MUDs—text-based MMOs from an era before 3D graphics that somehow still endure today. It wasn’t school, it wasn’t uni, it wasn’t a mentor’s encouragement or some precocious childhood proclivity. I just spent most … Read more

Final Fantasy 14 director does his best to assuage dooming around the next expansion’s release date with another hint of shaking up its usually rigid timeline: ‘You won’t have to wait long’

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Earlier this week, Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki Yoshida unveiled the three Fan Fest dates for 2026: April for North America, July for Europe, and October for Japan. Those dates put the playerbase in a little bit of a tizzy—traditionally a new expansion comes around six months after the final Fan Fest, which … Read more

Kevin Spacey got ‘a little weird’ on the set of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare: ‘We all had to fake laugh’

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2014’s Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will always be the game that made us “Press F to pay respects”, a weird moment of interactivity that undercut what was meant to be an emotional scene. Even when we’re all gone, the meme will live on. If there’s one other thing that you’ll probably remember about Sledgehammer’s … Read more

A PR storm has erupted around Razer’s gaming laptops with reports of faulty trackpads and keyboards, glitchy software, performance issues and poor customer support

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Razer is the latest tech brand to be hit by an internet storm of bad PR. Multiple videos from at least two major tech channels have been posted criticising the gaming laptop specialist’s products and services, including the latest Razer Blade 16, with issues including faulty trackpads, glitchy software, and poor customer support. Let’s begin … Read more

All Grow a Garden codes and how to redeem them

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Grow a Garden is filled with different seeds and items you need to unlock as you upgrade your plot. However, a lot of these things can be expensive, so a little help goes a long way. Using Grow a Garden codes is the fastest way to unlock rewards without having to spend a single Sheckle, … Read more

Final Fantasy 14’s incoming choose-your-own difficulty will be ‘the general direction’ going forward, but Yoshi-P suggests they might need to trim future patches to compensate

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Final Fantasy 14’s gonna be shaking up how it handles difficulty come patch 7.35, after a mini-disaster with patch 7.25’s Occult Crescent back in May. To put a long story short, Creative Studio 3’s somewhat fumbled approach to content difficulty came to a head; the Forked Tower somehow managed to thread the needle, becoming a … Read more