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Project Prelude Rune has been officially shut down by Square Enix, with its development team, Studio Istolia, split up and moving to other projects. Many players were looking forward to the game, which early press releases and concept art revealed as featuring vast landscapes full of life, dense forests, and high above the ground, floating islands with flying dragons. The project had initially been announced in February of 2017, and little news exists of trouble or a hint at the cancellation....

Square Enix is releasing a new Final Fantasy-like RPG, Knights of the Crystals, on the mobile GREE platform. GREE is both a social networking service and a free casual gaming platform, and is one of the largest social networks in Japan. Seven million registered users use GREE Mobile to play free games and connect with friends. Square Enix’s new original RPG gives major support to the platform. In Knights of the Crystals, you are on a mission to collect treasure through questing and building your character’s money and experience....

What’s the difference between SSDs and HDDs? Solid state drives and hard disk drives are similar in their physical specifications, but they store data very differently. There are advantages and disadvantages to each type of drive, and deciding on which type is right for you comes down to how you use your computer. Our guide to HDD vs. SSD shows you how each type of storage drive works and what it means for you....

Block with his lightsaber, Yoda can now. Following an update to Star Wars: Battlefront II, the legendary Jedi is now able to block attacks with his lightsaber, and so will Darth Maul. The game released in November of 2017. Until now, Yoda was unable to fend off attacks with his lightsaber. Considering Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi were both able to block from inception, it was quite ridiculous that the Jedi master who trained them couldn’t....

This review contains spoilers. 2.1 Into The Unknown Welcome back, Star Wars Resistance, and welcome back to the Star Wars Resistance reviews! This second season is the show’s final season, a truncated, 14-episode run that’s aiming to wrap up the narratives to ultimately tie it to The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker. Really though, ending the show like this feels twofold: one, with Disney putting so much emphasis on content for Disney+, particularly with Star Wars shows, the company is more or less is moving on from it, changing its overall focus in regards to this specific IP....

As if Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest wasn’t enough Fest to be getting on with, Valve has starting cranking the hype handle for its own Fest, Steam Next Fest, which returns for another demo-packed seven days starting Monday, 13th June. This latest tumble into demo-land was confirmed by Valve back in March, when it promised “hundreds” of “cool demos” throughout the week, alongside developer livestreams, chats, and other assorted activities....

Successful Street Fighter 5 beta candidates will receive their beta key tomorrow at around 3pm BST, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe community manager Chris Owen has confirmed on Twitter. “SCEE Street Fighter V Beta invites will be going out to successful candidates at 3pm BST Tomorrow!” he tweeted. PS4 gamers were given the chance to sign up to take part in the beta earlier this month, but if you haven’t already done so you’re out of luck: Entry closed on July 15....

Street Fighter 6 has apparently been delayed because developers and testers weren’t too keen on it (via Wccftech). DuskGolem, an industry insider who has been on the money in the past, claimed that producer Yoshinoro Ono has been demoted from his role on Street Fighter 6. This is because his vision for the next game focused too much on a team mechanic, which wasn’t received well by testers, internally and externally....

Cellar Door Games has delayed the early access period for Rogue Legacy 2 to August, because development has been affected by “minor setbacks.” The team likened game development to football in the post to Twitter. “It’s weird, unpredictable, and we don’t know the rules. And just like football, when you get the ball, sometimes you’ve just gotta run with it,” it explained. Rogue Legacy drew from games like Demon’s Souls, Spelunky, and The Binding of Isaac to produce a dungeon crawler with its own funky flair....

Originating as a spin-off of the Story of Seasons - formally called Harvest Moon - franchise, the Rune Factory series marries traditional farming simulator mechanics with dungeon crawling RPG gameplay. One day you may be carefully cultivating your growing form, only to spend the next cutting down monsters with your sword and possibly taming a few to work in your fields. Fans of the series have waited nine years, only broken by a part of Rune Factory 4 in 2019, for Rune Factory 5, which was released in Japan during May 2021 and in March of this year outside of Japan....

Michael ‘Shroud’ Grzesiek’s addition to Sentinel’s professional Valorant team last month was a move few saw coming, and given the player’s enormous following on Twitch has a lot of fans excited. A large part of the intrigue is, of course, how he’ll perform after so many years away from the competitive scene, and how long his tenure with Sentinels will last. Well, Shroud spoke about the matter himself during stream from the team’s bootcamp yesterday evening, and it turns out that he’s potentially in it for the long haul....

There are a lot of skills you can unlock in Sifu, so it’s hard to figure out which are the best early on. Many are useful, but you’ll no doubt feel overwhelmed when starting to choose. I got the chance to play the game ahead of release, and found a handful of skills that I felt are must-haves for starting out. For the most part, there aren’t really any ineffective skills in the game....

Slack vs. Microsoft Teams; the battle of the messaging apps rages on. If you have used Slack and Microsoft Teams, it’s natural to wonder which is better for your needs. Both apps have a lot in common, but they also have unique features that set them apart. © rafapress/Shutterstock.com As the debate between the two apps has grown fierce, both apps have continued to improve and innovate. If one app has a feature lacking in the other, there’s a good chance it will be added in a future update....

Sony has announced that it is slashing the price off the PlayStation VR Starter Pack in Europe from tomorrow, March 29. The virtual reality headset currently retails for 399 euros, but thanks to the impending price drop it’ll instead set you back 299 euros. If you’re in the UK, you’ll save a tidy 100 quid, with PSVR dropping from £349 to £249. The Starter Pack includes the headset itself alongside a few other bits and bobs, such as the PlayStation Camera plus a download code for PlayStation VR Worlds....

SoulCalibur VI publisher Bandai Namco Games has released the official launch trailer for its weapons-based brawler. The trailer pretty much does exactly what it says on the tin: There’s lots of footage of the game’s extensive roster battering each other with flashy combos, including a look at the cinematic Critical Edge and Reversal Edge attacks. All your favourites are back again, including a guest appearance by The Witcher’s Geralt of Rivia....

Sony has revealed the various features for the upcoming PC port of Spider-Man Remastered, ahead of its release next month. There are, as you would expect, a number of nifty graphical improvements. Check out the trailer below: The description runs down some of the technical improvement: “PC Optimized Graphics Enjoy a variety of graphics quality options to tailor to a wide range of devices, unlocked framerates, and support for other technologies including performance boosting NVIDIA DLSS and image quality enhancing NVIDIA DLAA....

Splatoon 3 is the third installment in the Splatoon series. While in the Splatlands, you will join forces either with fellow Inklings or Octolings depending on your choice. Although you can enjoy this multiplayer even on your own, having one or two of your friends will make you enjoy the game. While exploring the Splatlands, the need for a locker will be important. And while getting a locker is not that difficult, you will need much bigger lockers as you progress in the game....

The movie Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life was released in 2003, and since then the Tomb Raider franchise has been floundering. Successes like Tomb Raider: Legend have been offset by missteps such as The Angel of Darkness. The latest Tomb Raider release, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, was well taken by the gaming community, but due to its downloadable nature likely didn’t find the profits of its retail counterparts....

The Stadia continues to stumble out of the gate, as Google just recently ended a 40 day news drought in regards to the console and new titles. GYLT, the Stadia’s first timed exclusive from Tequila Works, and the standard edition of Metro Exodus were just recently announced as the next set of Stadia Pro games to be released in February. It has been a rocky road for the Stadia since its November release....

In an interview with director Jon Favreau, a question about George Lucas’ pioneering special effects turned into a description of The Mandalorian’s ethos. According to Favreau, the first live-action Star Wars television show is meant to look like “not just the first film but the first act of the first film.” Now that the show has begun, the results of that ethos are clearly visible. Going back to the source had been a common refrain of modern Star Wars stories that want to capture the magic of the Original Trilogy without copying from it too closely (as the Sequel Trilogy sometimes does) or diverting from it too far (as the Prequel Trilogy sometimes did)....