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Share of the Week: Fireworks

Last week, we asked you to share fireworks bursting in games of your choice using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: clerence_1993 shares Cloud and Tifa sharing a moment with firework bursting in the sky behind them secondcapture shares sparks flying behind Ratchet in a way that ...
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The First Descendant Hotfix 1.0.1 Improves PS5 Performance, Makes Gameplay Tweaks, and More

Developer Nexon has released the first post-launch update for The First Descendant, which brings some much-needed improvements to the game after its rough launch.Hotfix 1.0.1, out now across PC, PlayStation and Xbox, improves performance on PlayStation 5 specifically (the PS5 version has significant frame-rate issues), makes gameplay tweaks and various ...
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Final Fantasy 14’s Dawntrail expansion has only been out a few days, and one of its new jobs is already being adjusted

Dawntrail, the latest expansion for Final Fantasy XIV, has officially been out just three days, arriving earlier this week after a brief early access release. Despite its story and extra 10 levels spanning dozens of hours of playtime, that’s apparently been ample time for players to complain loudly enough about ...
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Elden Ring Player Discovers Cut Dialogue From Shadow of the Erdtree’s Final Boss

Spoiler Warning: This article contains spoilers for the final boss of Elden Ring expansion Shadow of the Erdtree. Proceed with caution!Elden Ring expansion Shadow of the Erdtree comes with plenty of additional lore that ties up some of the base game's loose ends and threads many more, but its final ...
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Sci-fi coffee sipper Satisfactory gets a 1.0 release date, boasting its toilets will be fully flushable

The space industrialism of Satisfactory is distinct from other efficiency sims about making endless conveyor belts in two important ways. One: it's a mash-up with the first-person survival genre that sees you stranded on an alien planet, a la Subnautica. Two: there is a dedicated coffee cup item from which ...
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No new seasonal content planned for ailing dino shooter Exoprimal

Capcom have announced that there will be no further new live service content seasons for Exoprimal, the rad dino-slaying co-op shooter which everybody adored except for stinky RPS reviewer Edders, who branded it "dull repetition for most" and castigated the game for its "baffling disrespect for one's time". Are you ...
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Feature: Where Does ‘Echoes Of Wisdom’ Fit In The Zelda Timeline? Here Are 3 Theories

Let's do the timeline again.Much to our shame, it took approximately 30 seconds of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom reveal trailer for us to start thinking about the dreaded timeline.In the weeks since, we'd wager that a similar thought has appeared in the minds of most Zelda fans ...
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Next Week on Xbox: New Games for July 8 to 12

Next Week on Xbox: New Games for July 8 to 12 Published July 5, 2024 Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows, ...
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Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail Draws Most Players in Over a Decade Despite Launch Issues

Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail launched on July 2, 2024 with some technical issues but that didn't stop it from drawing the most players to the massively multiplayer online game in over a decade.In a blog post, Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida thanked players for their support of Dawntrail and ...
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IGN UK Podcast 756: The 2024 Halfway Point Check-In

Cardy, Matt, and Jesse are taking advantage of it being exactly the halfway point of the year to talk about some of their highlights of 2024 so far, as well as the games and movies they're most looking forward to in the remaining six months. Before that, though, they each ...
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