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21.12.2023 - 15:36 / pcgamer.com
Final Fantasy 14 had its 10th anniversary back in September—though the official website's been stacking up post after post to celebrate, including some very cute anniversary messages from voice actors, prominent figures, and the father of Final Fantasy himself Hironobu Sakaguchi.
The latest addition to the celebration is pretty incredible to look at. It's a mosaic of over 20,000 screenshots sent in by the FF14 community, complete with an enlarged version where you can really zoom in and get a good gander. They range from sweet, to gorgeous, to downright cursed—I do not want to know why this bunny boy maid is in an acid pit.
The mosaic itself is based on a piece by Yoshitaka Amano for the anniversary itself. Amano is an illustrator and artist who has been creating works for Final Fantasy since the series' first game—including its iconic logos.
Square Enix collected screenshots during a sweepstakes back in August—which does reveal that certain screenshots were adjusted with a «light-coloured overlay», but I figure if you're trying to recreate Amano's striking art style with 20,000 pictures of catboys, you gotta grease the wheels somehow.
Speaking of, winners also received prizes back in November—Cloud Strife's hair, a hat that's just a straight-up cat, barding for their chocobo that kinda makes it look like a mushroom, and an earring of a bird, likely the little one that tells you things.
If these winners actually want to find out where their screenshots are being used, though? Good luck. Square hasn't given winners any clues as to where in the 20,000-strong mosaic their character appears. Considering the digital paperwork that would be involved, I think that's fair enough, but 'congratulations on winning, you now get to play Where's Waldo with your own character!' is a very funny outcome.
The celebration also marks the end of a 10-year story arc that concluded with Endwalker—and the start of a new one going into Dawntrail, so it's nice to see the game celebrated so thoroughly. Dawntrail's scheduled to release sometime Summer 2024.
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Slay the Princess has become a surprise indie hit, spreading through word of mouth to reach a wider audience. In our review, Editor-in-Chief Stacey Henley gave it four out of five stars, and it even made it onto a couple of our Game of the Year lists. With all of the buzz going around, many are looking into trying it out themselves - and now the devs are urging them to do it properly.
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2023 was an absolute unit of a year for gaming. No one could possibly have played all the awesome titles that came out across platforms. I certainly didn’t. But that also means that you have options for grabbing a last-minute gift for that gamer in your life! I’ve gathered a few of the best titles that happen to be the type someone might have put off while playing the latest Final Fantasy or Call of Duty.
Fortnite has undergone a myriad of changes lately, and now it is not limited to just one game, but a combination of multiple ones. At the Big Bang event hosted earlier this month, Epic Games, the developer of Fortnite, ushered the game into a new era, making it more than just a battle royale game by announcing brand new modes - LEGO Fortnite, Rocket Racing, and Fortnite Festival. These modes joined existing ones like Zero Build and Battle Royale. Fortnite has announced yet another expansive update that brings massive improvements aimed at enhancing the player experience. Check out everything new in the latest Fortnite update.
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After seeing a few of The Day Before’s gameplay trailers, one indie dev decided to make a ‘parody’ trailer of their own to see how quickly they could whip up a video that captured a similar degree of promise. But when that project began, they couldn't have known what would eventually happen to The Day Before, and how much it would fail to live up to that promise.
The artificial intelligence (AI) wave has swept the world and the world's biggest tech companies are making efforts to incorporate this technology into their suite of products. Apps like Instagram and WhatsApp have benefitted from AI adoption, adding new and intuitive features. Over the past few months, Telegram has also been adding several features to enhance the user experience. Now, it is also set to get an AI boost. Voicemod has launched the VMgram, the “Ultimate Voicemod Telegram Mod”, for Android smartphones. Know all about VMgram.
In 2019, Nintendo released its classic Game Boy game The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening for Switch, and gave it the full remake treatment, with gorgeous, toylike 3D visuals replacing the minimal sprites of the 1993 original. But, as demonstrated by a new fan-made remaster, there’s another way to bring old games like this to modern hardware — one that retains the original look but is, in its way, just as impressive.
Games industry head honchos have all gotten into the same hobby recently: Refusing to say anything about the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake that got revealed at a PlayStation showcase all the way back in September 2021. It just seems that no one at any of the corporations supposedly involved—Sony, Disney, and Embracer Group—wants to talk about it ever since trouble cropped up at the remake's original developer Aspyr.