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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Oct 1, 2026
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24-Year-Old Final Fantasy MMORPG Finally Gets A Generous Free Trial (opens the original)
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Final Fantasy XIFinal Fantasy XIVSquare Enix Final Fantasy XI rarely gets any updates these days, but fans still have a ton of love for Square Enix’s first attempt at turning its hit RPG franchise into an online behemoth. Now the game that began life on the PlayStation 2 is getting a more generous free trial nearly a quarter century later. The 2002 release of Final Fantasy XI aimed to exploit the then-booming MMO craze alongside hits like World of Warcraft. Final Fantasy XIV, while not quite as
Giving Sonic A Gun In Fortnite Has Been A Huge Success, With Players Killing Dr. Eggman 14 Million Times - Kotaku (opens the original)
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The current gaming-themed season of Fortnite has been an opportunity for Epic Games to put assault rifles into the hands of a wide variety of iconic characters. While his rival Shadow isn’t a stranger to packing heat, Sonic the Hedgehog typically sports a far more family-friendly persona than the one you can currently find running and gunning in the hit battle royale. Sega has been justifying this deviant behavior by arguing that the Sonic in Fortnite is not the real Sonic but an android Sonic.
Over 85 Percent Of Japanese Game Developers Are Using AI - Kotaku (opens the original)
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Ahead of the release of the full report in December, Japan’s Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association (CESA) released a preliminary summary of its recent key findings about the state of game development earlier this month. It includes one especially notable figure suggesting that 85.8 percent of Japanese game developers are actively using generative AI in their work. These figures come from a survey of game developers conducted at the Japanese game developers conference CEDEC and are a sign
The Sekiro: No Defeat Anime Gets Crunchyroll Streaming Date, But It Won't Be A Movie - Kotaku (opens the original)
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Activision BlizzardFromSoftwareSekiro: Shadows Die Twice Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is now an anime, and this new rendition of the FromSoftware game recently played in movie theaters in Japan. For everyone else, the anime won’t be available until January 2027 when it comes to Crunchyroll. It won’t be the movie version, however. The anime’s producer even recently apologized for the apparent confusion. Though the Sekiro: No Defeat anime has come and gone in its special limited-time early Japanese t
Disconnected - Kotaku (opens the original)
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What if your largest audience became witnesses to your own death? In Disconnected, you play as Robex, a successful streamer who gets trapped in a supposedly deserted property during a live Urbex exploration. The connection drops, the doors lock, and your only window to the outside world is your smartphone screen. To get out, you’ll need to do more than just solve puzzles; you’ll have to manage a chaotic chat and survive a presence that doesn’t take kindly to trespassers. An early demo at Tokyo G
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