Final Fantasy 14 warns players that it’s time for an upgrade as Microsoft gears up to end support for Windows 10: ‘Support for this operating system is a difficult proposition’

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Square Enix has made an announcement today which may seem small now, but will cast a bigger shadow as we approach the spooky season of October, which marks the end of support for Windows 10. “Final Fantasy 14 support for Windows 10 will end on October 14, 2025,” an official blog post says. “Microsoft will … Read more

Bungie promises to fix Destiny 2’s new metroid-style morph ball as it makes players sick and glitches out on ultrawide monitors

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Destiny 2’s new expansion, Edge of Fate, is not having an easy time winning over players, with fewer returning to check it out and controversial balance changes souring the mood. You can also add making players physically ill to the list, with the game’s new Matterspark prompting widespread complaints of motion sickness. Thankfully, Bungie is … Read more

‘We remain convinced that AI represents an incredible opportunity’: Netflix used AI special effects in original series instead of paying VFX artists

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“Using AI powered tools, they were able to achieve an amazing result with remarkable speed,” Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said in a July 17 earnings call. He was referring to the recent Argentinian Netflix original The Eternaut, which includes a scene with AI-generated visual effects showing a building in Buenos Aires collapsing. “The cost of … Read more

Destiny 2 dev denies accusations that The Edge of Fate introduced ‘stealth nerfs’ after players identify missing changes in the expansion’s massive changelog: ‘We would be completely out of our minds if we thought we could slip something under the rug’

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Destiny 2’s latest expansion The Edge of Fate is already facing an uphill battle, launching with the lowest concurrent player counts for a Destiny 2 expansion ever, while the community rail against a raft of controversial mechanical changes detailed in some of the longest patch notes Bungie has ever produced. Now, it turns out that … Read more

10 years ago, Obsidian made the only D&D-style Monk I’ve ever really loved⁠—all it took was a grounding him in harsh asceticism, mortification of the flesh, Aztec history, and stoner comedies

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I recently got in touch with former Obsidian writer Eric Fenstermaker to learn everything I could about one of my favorite bits of dialogue in RPG history from Pillars of Eternity’s first expansion, The White March Part 1. But this also entailed learning a lot more about Zahua, the character who delivered the line, and … Read more

The Sims 4’s rampant pregnancy bug was apparently caused by ‘performance optimizations’ and has now been fixed

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The baby boom is over. EA has neutered a bizarre bug recently introduced to The Sims 4 that erroneously marked Sims as being pregnant, irrespective of whether they were male or had previously engaged in ‘woo-hoo’. The bug initially appeared last week, slipping undetected into the game in a base game patch that coincided with … Read more