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The director of Final Fantasy XIV has said he’d love to channel the chaos and freedom of nineties MMO godparent Ultima Online into his own game - but it couldn’t be FF14 itself, as the unbridled chaos would ‘break’ its players.

Square Enix has revealed several new announcements at the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival 2023 in London as part of a deeper look into its upcoming expansion, Dawntrail. This includes a new Viper job alongside a Final Fantasy XI crossover raid and a Final Fantasy XVI crossover called “The Path Infernal.” Additionally, an open beta test for the Xbox Series X|S version is scheduled for mid-January to February 2024.

Today at Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival in London, Square Enix revealed the upcoming job releasing with the next expansion, Dawntrail. Today's keynote also showcased more of the upcoming land of Tural, as well as dropped a new extended teaser trailer for the expansion.

Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi originally turned down the roleplaying game’s now-iconic soundtrack by Nobuo Uematsu - until the legendary composer simply changed the track order, that is.

Final Fantasy XIV has revealed the first of two new jobs coming to the MMO in next year’s expansion Dawntrail. The Viper is a fast-paced melee DPS armed with two swords that can transform, Bloodborne-style, into a single two-handed weapon. It’s brand new for the Final Fantasy series, too.

Final Fantasy 14’s crossover with Fall Guys looks as gloriously chaotic as the original mean bean gauntlet - and it’s out very soon. The incoming minigame playable inside the MMO will see 24 Warriors of Light race across Fall Guys courses given a Final Fantasy-themed twist.

Square Enix announced the “Viper” job, a Final Fantasy XI crossover alliance raid, and more for the Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail expansion at Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival 2023 in London. A Final Fantasy XVI crossover for the 6.x series was also announced, and an open beta test for the Xbox Series version of Final Fantasy XIV is planned for mid-January to February 2024.

A Final Fantasy 16 crossover is coming to Square Enix's MMORPG Final Fantasy 14.

Here's the next Job coming to Final Fantasy 14: Viper.

Square Enix has revealed during a keynote at Final Fantasy 14 Fan Festival in London that the newest job coming to Dawntrail is a duel-wielding class called Viper.

Square Enix has revealed at Final Fantasy 14 Fan Festival in London that an alliance raid based on Final Fantasy 11 called Echoes of Vana'diel is coming to the game at some point in the future.

At Maze Theory, we get excited about storytelling in virtual reality. We think about how VR feels –using your hands to interact with the world, looking characters in the eye, gazing up at vast buildings–and use those feelings to immerse players in a story.

UK  media and telecom firm Virgin Media O2 is offering its customers access to this weekend’s Tekken 8 closed beta test.

The United Kingdom is urging companies like Apple, Samsung, and Google to find a solution to prevent phone thefts in London. The idea is to make it harder for thieves to steal phones in the first place, so they can't easily sell them. This request was made by London Mayor Sadiq Khan and police chief Sir Mark Rowley during a recent meeting. They spoke to Apple and told them that they should find a viable solution that would stop making iPhones such a lucrative target for thieves.

Online lobbies you can run around in are all the rage in fighting games these days. There’s the Tower and Park from Guilty Gear Strive, the Battle Hub from Street Fighter 6, and so on. Tekken 8 joins the craze with the Tekken Fighting Lounge, and it’s got a little bit of everything. In fact, it might be the fighting game genre’s best online lobby yet.

Nintendo has never been above doing whatever it takes to promote one of their video games or offering fans a chance to win some cool prizes. In the case of Super Mario Bros Wonder, the company is going all out in London to help promote the game AND see if gamers can pay attention. You see, in London, a set of buses has a wrap of the game featuring Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad, and Yoshi. If you’re able to find one of those buses and follow the instructions in the tweet below, you’ll be able to win a prize pack.

This week is a choose-your-own-adventure for TV premieres: Are you interested in a new murder mystery, complete with a time-hopping twist? You’ll want to check out Netflix’s Bodies then. Do you want to continue rolling through spooky season with some haunted delights, either fictional (The Burning Girls) or real-life (Living for the Dead)?

A number of panelists who took part in a community manager talk during EGX 2023 have been calling on event organizers to increase security at future panels after sexist and derogatory comments were allegedly shouted out while they were speaking. 

Environmental activist group Just Stop Oil interrupted a Tekken 7 tournament at the UK gaming event EGX in London yesterday (October 15). It covered a large screen and two monitors with orange paint. 

The UK’s biggest gaming event has been interrupted by protestors from Just Stop Oil.

Environmental activist group Just Stop Oil has protested EGX 2023 in London today, disrupting Tekken 7 finals by storming the stage during a match. The protestors fire orange paint from a water gun over the gaming equipment, preventing the players from finishing the match.

“I hold no truck with such superstition,” said David Tennant on stage during his spotlight panel at New York Comic Con, moderated by Popverse’s Tiffany Babb. He’s about to start rehearsals of The Scottish Play at the Donmar Warehouse in London and was happy to share his “Shakespeare geek point of view” with the crowd at NYCC. “I think we should say the word Macbeth,” he said. “Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth!”

Loki season 2 episode 2 is all about actor Brad Wolfe and his movie, Zaniac. And while we won't spoil exactly what goes down in the episode, the story of Brad Wolfe and the cursed film Zaniac are inspired directly from Marvel Comics in one of the MCU's most obscure adaptations to date.

It’s official — you’ll soon be able to experience the music of Stardew Valley in live orchestral form, as a real-life concert tour is set to kick off next year across the globe.

Final Fantasy has been such a massive franchise that spanned across decades and across multiple console generations. There’s been some truly standout installments from this long-running series as well. One of the more beloved games of the series was Final Fantasy VII, a title that blew up in multiple markets when it initially launched in 1997 for the Sony PlayStation. Since then, fans worldwide have pleaded for Square Enix to return and bring out a remake for this JRPG installment. Fortunately, in 2020, we finally got the first part of this remake. Since this game installment was so massive, the developers could only deliver the game in parts. We’re going to receive Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the second installment to this trilogy remake, in 2024. 

Prolific voice actor Troy Baker will host The Golden Joysticks 2023, with guest appearances from some of the biggest video game stars in the world.

Lockwood Publishing, the British metaverse game company behind Avakin Life, is sponsoring the New Codes digital fashion summit. That comes just after Lockwood‘s support for PlanetPlay, which in turn is supporting projects such as eco-friendly stoves for the developing world.

A new has been given by the Marvel Cinematic Universe film’s director, Matt Shakman.

The custom controller space returns to EGX next week, offering a variety of strange, wonderful and one-of-a-kind ways of playing games - including cranks, wheels, a firelighter, a morse code tapper, and dozens of big, glowing buttons. Many of these games and controllers are only available to play at the show, so grab your ticket for EGX now.

Tourists at the Acropolis this holiday season can witness the resolution of one of the world's most heated debates on cultural heritage.

Another somewhat worryingly warm week is coming to a close, so it’s time to check in on the video games that we’ve been playing. First and foremost in my own gaming time has been Forza Motorsport, which toes the line between reinvention and continuation for Turn 10’s Xbox counterpart to Gran Turismo. It’s a game that I’m looking forward to seeing grow over time, that’s for sure.

Final Fantasy 14 players have been analysing a pair of legs in a bid to work out the next playable race to be added to the game.

Assassin's Creed Mirage is prepping to release this week, and before that, we've received global launch timings for the same. Ubisoft tweeted an infographic listing different timezones that point toward a staggered release — meaning the game unlocks at different times across the world. On console, the ninth-century Baghdad-set title goes live at midnight local time on October 5, which means the more impatient players can try changing their system's location to New Zealand to try and get in early. So far, the release schedule is straightforward, with preloading already live across PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. However, the PC unlock is a tad confusing, with some regions getting a headstart by as much as a day.

The Golden Joystick Award nominations have been announced and it's time to get voting. Now in its 41st year, The Golden Joysticks hold a special place in the awards calendar as the show where the biggest honours are decided by public vote and, with 17 categories representing a wide variation of games, studios, and hardware, the shortlisted nominees reflect what a monumental year 2023 has been in videogames. The Golden Joystick Awards are run by PC Gamer's parent company Future.

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Activision Blizzard’s King division is celebrating 20 years of as a company, and it noted that Candy Crush Saga now has 15,000 levels for the match-3 game.

Striking Hollywood screenwriters reached a tentative new labor agreement with studios including Walt Disney Co. and Netflix Inc., settling one of two walkouts that have shut down film and TV production.

We're thrilled to announce the return of GamesBeat Next, hosted in San Francisco this October, where we will explore the theme of «Playing the Edge.» Apply to speak here and learn more about sponsorship opportunities here. At the event, we will also announce 25 top game startups as the 2024 Game Changers. Apply or nominate today!

Final Fantasy 14's next patch, titled Growing Light, will release on 3rd October.

Publisher Plaion marked the release of Payday 3 earlier this week by giving away «a month's average salary» to one lucky Londoner.

The finalists for the special awards at the UK GamesIndustry.biz Best Places To Work Awards 2023 have been announced.

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We're thrilled to announce the return of GamesBeat Next, hosted in San Francisco this October, where we will explore the theme of «Playing the Edge.» Apply to speak here and learn more about sponsorship opportunities here. At the event, we will also announce 25 top game startups as the 2024 Game Changers. Apply or nominate today!

Slow Horses rides again. The first look at the third season of the spy thriller is here, courtesy of Apple – and we’ve even got a return date for those eager for a return to Slough House.

Spider-Man 2's narrative director Jon Paquette has confirmed that Gwen Stacy won't be appearing in the game at all, noting that she's not "part of our story".

Whether it’s the Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck, or even your phone, it’s never been easier to carry an entire library of games while on the go. With Apple’s recent announcement that the iPhone 15 Pro will be able to natively play games like Assassin’s Creed Mirage and Death Stranding, it’s safe to say the mobile gaming space is about to receive a major upgrade.

Ubisoft plans to close its Ubisoft London studio.

Ubisoft plans to close its London mobile studio, best known for the Hungry Shark series.

Insomniac Games is working through its next major release, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. Fans highly anticipate the video game, and we know that next month, we’ll finally get to websling our way through New York City again. However, we will get some new details regarding the game and its mechanics this week. The development studio had recently posted on their official X account that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 was shown off to select members of the press and content creators.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is less than a month and a half away from release, and though Insomniac and Sony have already shown off quite a bit of the game in recent months, with its launch not far away now, there’s plenty of appetite out there for more new details to be shared. And more new details will indeed be coming soon.

For reasons I won't get into here because it may constitute a little bit of a spoiler, the planet Earth in Starfield is a bit of a wasteland. But what if it was The Wasteland—that is, the post-nuclear hellscape of Bethesda's other big sci-fi-ish game series, Fallout? In an interview with The Washington Post, creative director Todd Howard said developers actually gave thought to the idea.

We've seen a lot of The Sims-likes lately, but this might just be the cutest one yet.

Final Fantasy series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi digs the MMO entries, so much so he’s got Final Fantasy XIV’s Fan Festival on his schedule. Next month, Square Enix heads to London for its second FFXIV Fan Fest, and Sakaguchi’s on the special guest list.

visual effects production supervisor Stephane Ceretti has spoken about filming Rocket’s intense flashbacks from the Marvel Studios sequel.

Following on from Barbie bringing the Dream House into the real world earlier this year, John Wick is now inviting fans to stay at The Continental. To coincide with the launch of the spin-off series all about the hotel, Prime Video has launched its own version of the safe haven for assassins for free.

The full game line-up for WASD x IGN, the upcoming gaming event at the Truman Brewery in London that will take place from September 14 - 16, has been revealed and it includes playable demos of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, Tekken 8, Pacific Drive, Ultros, and more.

A brand new gaming event called WASD x IGN will take place next week in the heart of London, and we've partnered with the organizers to give away ten tickets to the lucky winners of our competition.

Bethesda UK have planned something quite interesting for the Starfield launch event over at their neck of the woods.

CM Punk is no longer a member of the All Elite Wrestling roster following a backstage incident with Jack Perry at AEW‘s All In pay-per-view event in London.

While Starfield aims for a grounded, "NASA-punk" aesthetic, it has its share of fantastical sci-fi contrivances. But it does have one extremely believable prediction about the future: in 307 years, the Earth will be a barren husk.

Starfield‘s launch is closer than ever, and Bethesda has been doing its best to ensure hype levels stay as high as possible. At Gamescom, a new live-action trailer was revealed to get fans into the space exploration mood. You can also be an explorer here on Earth by locating the 1,001 unique ads Bethesda has hidden all over the world.

Poirot is back. And no, we’re not talking about the upcoming Kenneth Branagh movie.

Blizzard has released a new blog post highlighting fun events and giveaways from partners within their Community Discords Program! Complete expansion based challenges on retail, or share your best Classic Hardcore death and you just might win a prize.

Driverless cars reportedly can't detect children and darker-skinned pedestrians as well as they can lighter-skinned adults.

The Animal Crossing: New Horizons fan that traveled across 3 continents to see all of Redd's artwork in real life has revealed it started out as a joke. 

At 9 pm on September 22 last year, a group of City of London police officers waited outside room M15 at the Travelodge Bicester, a one-star budget hotel in Oxfordshire, England, for the right moment to bust in. On the other side of the door was someone they believed to be behind two serious data hacks: one on Uber Technologies and the other an unprecedented leak of code for Rockstar Games's unreleased Grand Theft Auto sequel.

This weekend, All Elite Wrestling will be hosting not only their largest event ever, but what will likely go down as one of the largest events in pro wrestling history: All In at Wembley Stadium in London.

Revolution Software is not a big developer. Right now, it’s six people, based in the historic English city of York, plus freelance contractors. It was a bit bigger in the mid-1990s, when Charles Cecil’s team released its biggest hit, Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars, a point-and-click adventure game about a lawyer and a journalist stumbling upon an ancient religious conspiracy, and a close cousin to LucasArts classics like Monkey Island. But the genre fell out of fashion, publishers lost interest, and at one point, Cecil had to let everyone go.

As we noted yesterday, we’re in the midst of one of the biggest weeks in All Elite Wrestling history. Tonight is the final AEW Dynamite show before their biggest PPV ever via All In London, and the head of the company, Tony Khan, has been making all sorts of statements to hype up the event. For example, yesterday, he held a press conference breaking down the event and showcasing how excited the company was about what was about to happen. But then, just before the new day dawned, he dropped another announcement about AEW Fight Forever that fans will want to hear.

We’re a few days away from the start of one of the most important weeks in the history of All Elite Wrestling. We say that because the wrestling company is about to have its biggest wrestling show ever, and then a week later, they will have another big event on a separate continent. AEW All In London will host over 82,000 people, making it the largest paid attendance event in wrestling history. To celebrate that event, AEW President Tony Khan did a press event this morning, and in it, he talked about AEW Fight Forever and how it was doing.

Many UK gamers have fond memories of Segaworld, a massive arcade billed as the largest in Europe during the 1990s. Greeting visitors at the entrance was a huge status of Sonic the Hedgehog spinning a globe on his finger. It was the most exciting entrance to an arcade a '90s teen could ever imagine.

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was announced a little over a week ago, offering a back-to-back sequel for the first time in Call Of Duty's history. Now we have a release date of November 10th and a proper first trailer.

We review Get On Board, a flip and write board game published by IELLO. In Get On Board, players are trying to make bus line routes to get people where they need to go.

Dungeons & Dragons is rife with horrors—shapeshifting doppelgangers, mind flayers, Shadowheart's sub-optimised starting ability scores, the list goes on. You'd think, at this point, that any denizen of the Sword Coast would be used to them. As it stands, however, NPCs in Baldur's Gate 3 can be startled by something as pedestrian as a ranger's bear.

The Pokémon Company has revealed the location of the 2024 Pokémon World Championships.

We have seen the sun! And it was good! It’s going away now though so you can all retreat into the safety of your gaming rooms again. We’ve also been looking at our Gamescom appointments for a couple of week’s time, and things are looking very exciting! You can be sure that we’ll have a ton of coverage from the conference, so that’s something to look forward to as well.

Everybody’s favorite blue hedgehog has been having a good few years thanks to the success of the Sonic the Hedgehog films and the excitement surrounding the upcoming Sonic Superstars game. Sega recently launched a campaign, called Fast Friends Forever, to celebrate the millions of fans the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise has amassed over the decades.

We now know where Greta Gerwig's Barbie Land would be located in the real world – and science says it wouldn't be California.