Yes! For years, a commonFinal Fantasy XIV(and by extension, PS4) “hack” has to been to install an SSD drive in your PS4 just to lessen the load times for hardcoreXIVplayers. Given that the whole process won’t be necessary on PS5, it stands to reason that the in-house SSD will provide some sort of benefit. Square Enix confirmed today that this is indeed the case. Revealed onthe Letter from the Producer LIVE stream, Square Enix says that by the time patch 5....

The prodigal gazebo returns! Fire Emblem Three Housesmade use of amiibo figuresthrough the hilariously named “amiibo Gazebo” location, and the same concept is back forFire Emblem Engage. Here’s where to find the new amiibo Gazebo, and what you can actually earn from it. Spoiler alert: for the most part, its function is once again cosmetic and/or menial. You’ll unlock the amiibo Gazebo at the start of Chapter 6: it’s located in the orchard Like many locations in the Somniel hub area, you’ll need to gradually unlock the amiibo Gazebo....

Well, there go all my orbs… Nintendo has been going in pretty hard on its mobile battlerFire Emblem Heroeslately, with a slew of characters and events added to the free-to-play title on an almost weekly basis. This week is no different, with the arrival of four new characters from Switch releaseFire Emblem: Three Houses, one of which is very much my jam.* Joining the expansive Fire Emblem Heroes roster are Three Houses powerful Thunder Knight, Catherine, magical cutie-patootie Flayn, chief aide of the Church of Seiros, Seteth, and finally, the Officer Academy’s master archer, Shamir....

On June 17, Blitz Royale was unveiled as a new temporary game mode forFortnite. This fast-paced, unique take on the classic Battle Royale format is a fresh mode I can’t get enough of, so much so that I think this LTM should stay as a permanent addition to the roster. Although it was designed with a mobile audience in mind, Blitz Royale’s quick, 32-player round, packed with returning old items and loads of powerful loot, is so good that I’ve been playing it more than classic Battle Royale....

Poking around the GameStop webpage we found that a page for the GameStop exclusiveForza 3limited edition packagehas been added, and we thought you might like to see what it comes with. Aside from the sexy new racer,Forza Motorsport 3, you’ll also get: Get this exclusive pack for $79.99, set to ship on October 12. There’s also a pre-order bonus for both online and in-store customers that gives players the 2010 Audi R8 V10 as a downloadable car....

Devs assure us they haven’t frozen to death It’s certainly been a long time since we’ve heard from the people at 11 bit studios regardingFrostpunk.The last time I delved into their world, I went in with aspirations of destruction – and found myself almost instantly protective of my freezing little citizens. Only reluctantly did I harden my heart and enact policies that would let them survive the terrible cold and rampant starvation, even as I threw their bodies into a big hole in the ground and watered down their soup....

What’s a Fami-Card? You’re looking at one, ladies and maybe-gentlemen. What you see above is the master work of a French modder namedKotomi. He actually took anNOAC(NES in a chip) and modded it into a copy ofSuper Mario Bros, resulting in a fully functioning finished product. If you check out the gallery pics you can get a better look at the cartridge slot, power and reset buttons and other details....

Social survival RPG goodness! I love the forest. And the woods. In fact, I’m huge on going out to a very remote spot near where I live and plopping down in the middle of the wilderness, a good 30 minutes away (at least) from any type of reception on my cell phone. It’s peaceful, relaxing, and refreshes me every time I go out. I’ve got a feeling that if I had to gather supplies all day to prepare for the nightly attacks from monsters, I wouldn’t enjoy it nearly as much, though....

Scheduled for late next month Thehalf-minute teaser videofor single-player inGod of War: Ascensionlooked good, but there wasn’t a whole lot of substance to be found in the footage. Thankfully, the powers that be are gearing up to put multiplayer on the backburner and start promoting the single-player campaign. “We have more single-player details to unravel and showcase as we rage towards our launch on March 12th,” writes Santa Monica Studio community strategist Aaron Kaufman on thePlayStation Blog....

Gun*Nac is a worthwhile trip to Iota Synthetica The NES wasn’t particularly well suited for vertical shoot-’em-ups with its sprite limits and slow processor, but somehow a lot of notable titles landed on it.Life Force, Crisis Force, 1943; the games worked better than they had any right to. The one that intrigues me the most is a more obscure title calledZanac. Developed by Compile, I absolutely suck at it. It was slick and used a scaling difficulty system that you had to carefully manage lest you become overwhelmed....

In 2020, theYakuzaseries took a bit of a leap with its seventh entry,Yakuza: Like a Dragon. The lens shifted away from longtime series protagonist Kazuma Kiryu to newcomer Kasuga Ichiban, swapping out its real-time action for turn-based RPG combat in the process. It was, by most accounts, a rousing success. But there was still room to grow. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, then, seems like even more like a passing of the torch than its predecessor....

A week and a half ago,Helldivers 2dropped on PC and PS5, and it’s been gaining quite a reputation. While studio Arrowhead Games recently said it needed tocap servers at 450,000 players, it looks as though the game is close to reaching that limit. According to the latest figures fromSteamDB, the game reached 409,367 concurrent players yesterday, with around 180,000 playing at the time of writing. To put that into perspective,Starfieldreached 330,723 when it was released a few months back, soHelldivers 2is already doing better than Bethesda’s newest IP....

TheSoulsseries didn’t invent difficult bosses Many complain about theSoulsseries being the hardest games of all time, and most of that implied difficulty comes fromits boss battles.But obviously, this series didn’t really invent the concept of impossible bosses. In fact, one thing the series deserves a lot of praise for is for coming up with bosses that put up a tough challenge, but a fair one. Below is a list of some in-game bosses that are so unfair that they makemost of theDark Soulsrosterfeel like a walk in the park....