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Hello! Let’s all tread together the treacherous path of the final day of the work week joined by some great music!

Happy Black Friday, everyone! And I also hope you enjoyed Thanksgiving! If you live in a place where such things are celebrated, of course!

Down here we don't "celebrate" either of them, but my mom does like to have a family turkey dinner. And while it's not a holiday, many stores are adopting a Black Friday motif, with discounts that are never as deep as those seen in the US b…

When I was in highschool I frequently played games on NewGrounds, and at the time they had a series of dating simulators that were up there. While it may not be the most appropriate type of game for my age I enjoyed the narratives and how I was able to build the character’s skills throughout the game. So learning that there was a more appropriate game in the same vein, created in Ren’Py no less – I couldn’t pass up giving it a shot.

The game has the player guiding the queen along a week at a …

My wife (a doctor) once told me music has some soft of positive effect on patients with Alzheimer's disease - the one where you slowly lose your memories and other terrible consequences - and she says it's because music reaches some special area of the brain, or something to that effect. That got me thinking on how important music is for our lives. Specifically: video game music.

Music is important because it elicits memories. Sure, every now and then there's a particular song that catches you…

Hello! Let’s all tread together the treacherous path of the final day of the work week joined by some great music!

Warning: Perhaps too late, but this post contains spoilers for the ending battle of the 3.0 patch - just in case you haven't finished that yet.

If there is one aspect of Heavensward that has not disappointed at all then it has got to be the music department. Today I wanted to feature a song from the ne…

After a bunch of months that felt like a special circle of hell where everything you see is Living Liquid (aka Jigglybutt) twerking at you, Final Fantasy XIV's first big patch of the expansion launched yesterday: As Goes Light, So Goes Darkness. And it feels awesome.

At the moment I've only cleared the main scenario quests and the new 24-man raid (which in XIV means a not-that-hard raid) called the Void Ark. I have opened both new dungeons and barely started the new Vanu Vanu quests. I haven…

We are pleased to announce that the patch notes for Patch 3.1 — As Goes Light, So Goes Dodo!
ABRIDGED EDITION!
Dare you to find the actual differences between the preliminary and these ones.

Patch 3.1 Notes


[3.0] New main scenario quests have been added. They involve a lalamiqote with a hoodie youll eventually get as a glamour because youll demand it and giving handies to the whiney elf guy who keeps giving you the wink.






[3.0] New Chronicles of a New Era quests have been a…

Considering we’re about to suffer many more painful adventures in the Duty Finder with the new 3.1 update I thought it was a good timing to comment on this.

Since World of Warcraft popularized the Dungeon Finder it seems to have become the standard way for any MMO nowadays to match up players. Of course this encourages a lot of people to act like complete idiots since they think they’re anonymous and have no reason to save their reputation considering all servers are mixed together for the mat…

Gaming:

• Fallout 4 (PC/PS4/XB1)
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• Rise of the Tomb Raider (XB1/360)
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• Rodea The Sky Soldier (WiiU/3DS)
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• Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void (PC/Mac)
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• Superbeat: Xonic (Vita)
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Bentertainment:

• In Theaters:
  • By the Sea
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  • Entertainment
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  • Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words
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  • James White
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  • Kilo Two Bravo
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  • Love the Coopers
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  • My All American
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  • Prem Ratan Dhan Payo
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  • The 33
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• In Stores:
  • Jimmy's Hall (MC: 63…

Hello! Let’s all tread together the treacherous path of the final day of the work week joined by some great music!

Greetings, friends! I give up! I couldn't help but make this Music Friday Warcraft themed. Unless you've been living under a rock, you have surely heard Blizzard released the intro cinematic for World of Warcraft's next expansion: Legion. As usual, Blizz's cinematic team did a fantastic job! Here's the video:
The best part? Of course, it would definitely be my Queen! Sylvanas…

I had a worrying thought the other day while reading the usual group of tweets or Reddit posts from people that are "quitting" Final Fantasy XIV because of this five-month gap we have right now between the launch of Heavensward (the game's first expansion) and the first main patch (3.1, coming next week). It's important to note that this gap breaks the traditional three-month separation between patches that XIV had during its first year (of A Realm Reborn at least) and it's a direct result of t…

FFXIV

1. FFXIV Random Complaint Thread II: DPS can't count to potato
2. The Official Forum fail thread: This game wasn't meant for alts.
3. Nikki Seven / LBR vs Reddit
4. Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXV - Patch 3.1 November 10
5. Void Ark Preview: 10/15/15
6. Alexander Discussion, Round 2: Wait is this the easy mode thread?
7. new player general thoughts/questions
8. How healthy is your server?
9. 20/10/2015 09:00 Reclamation of Inactive Housing
10. Random Fail: your words are false

Congrats to LBR for creating the f…

Gaming:

• Air Conflicts: Pacific Carriers (PS4)
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• Anno 2205 (PC)
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• Call of Duty: Black Ops III (PC/PS4/XB1/PS3/360)
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• The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut (PC)
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• Need for Speed (PS4/XB1)
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• Peanuts: Snoopy's Grand Adventure (PS4/XB1/PS3/360/WiiU/3DS)
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• Yo-Kai Watch (3DS)
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Bentertainment:

• In Theaters:
  • Brooklyn
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  • Miss You Already
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  • The Peanuts Movie
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  • Spectre
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  • Spotlight
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This month (week) saw the release of the latest entry in the Halo franchise, Halo 5: Guardians. For the first time since Halo: Combat Evolved, I find myself with no plans to play a new Halo game in the foreseeable future (although, check back with me after Black Friday..). While I’ve always been a Nintendo and (later) a PlayStation gamer, my best friend has continuously supported the Xbox, almost entirely because of the Halo franchise, and has provided me the requisite access to devote an unh…

Hello! Let’s all tread together the treacherous path of the final day of the work week joined by some great music!

Halloween Magic

The spooky season is happening everywhere! Final Fantasy XIV, Destiny, Wildstar and many more are having their annual events, bringing trick-or-treating fun to all gamers. The mobile game Final Fantasy Record Keeper is having a party of its own, with free high-level gifts and a small but very cool change: the "home" screen music has been changed from The Prelude…

Gaming:

• Rise of the Tomb Raider DLC trailer.
• Dark Souls 3 Beta gameplay.
• Ubisoft's UPlay reward program becomes Ubisoft Club.
• Sega trademarks a new Valkyria Chronicles called "Valkyria of the Blue Revolution".
• Overkill adds microtransactions to Payday 2 although they said they never would. Then they add items that bypass the pay system due to overwhelming negative response.
• Pokken Tournament takes arcades with a whimper.
• Kojima has a farewell party. Konami denies this happened (despite photo pr…

Last night I decided to kill several birds with one stone: change my Final Fantasy XIV character in some way, try something different, and have some fun on Twitter. It all began with a tweet - a regular one since I can't do polls yet:
I'm not sure how many were aware that I was actually planning to use a Fantasia (I'm pretty certain XIV players figured it out right away), but while Lalafell female got some nice votes most ended up voting for Hyur Highlander female. Being one of the best mo…

Gaming:

• Albert & Otto - Episode One (PC)
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• The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth (PC)
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• Bulb Boy (PC/Mac)
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• Chaos Reborn (PC)
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• Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition (PS4/XB1)
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• Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition (PS4/XB1)
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• Galak-Z (PC)
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• Gladiators Online: Death Before Dishonor (PC)
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• Halo 5: Guardians - Peasant Edition (XB1)
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• Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;birth 3 V Generation (PC)
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• The Legend of …

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Hello! Let’s all tread together the treacherous path of the final day of the work week joined by some great music!

Heavy

Yeah, I short of cheated. This week it was all about Back to the Future, so I was this close to featuring the movie's soundtrack on the basis it's just a fun and legendary theme - but since I try to keep to music that appears/originated on games I went with the next best thing.

The Back to the F…

"Whoa! Saga, bro, are you on drugs again?"

Not at all, dear reader that is usually concerned with me doing bad stuff! I speak sincerely: I believe Final Fantasy XIV can look at Destiny and learn a couple of things. Yes, an established and traditional fantasy MMO RPG can take a couple of notes from a science-fiction I-am-but-don't-wanna-admit-I-am-a-MMO FPS.

CASE A: Surprise (hidden) stuff in daily missions

Destiny has the "Daily Heroic Story Mission" which asks you to replay one of the main …