Square Enix released a new Final Fantasy 7 Remake trailer today, and if you also got extremely distracted by how handsome all the Turks are in their new, re-rendered glory, there are a few other details in the trailer that we’re seeing for the first time. Getting turned into a toad is a Final Fantasy franchise favorite. When Cloud gets turned into a toad, he gets to keep his Buster Sword on his slimy back, which is a great touch. We don’t know much about him, but he is definitely carrying a SOLD

Nintendo of America has filed a lawsuit on Sept. 10 against the owner of ROM website RomUniverse. Nintendo says that the pirated games display “counterfeit copies of Nintendo’s trademarks” when the games are played, as well as infringing the copyright of the works themselves. The company says in the lawsuit that RomUniverse is “among the most visited and notorious online hubs for pirated Nintendo video games,” with nearly 300,000 downloads for the offered Nintendo Switch games and “more than 500

Control’s stunning Brutalist architecture, all concrete and angles in the Oldest House, are especially primed for an artistic eye using the upcoming Photo Mode. The “challenging new end-game mode” will put players in the Formation as they take on “some of the greatest challenges” that the Oldest House has to offer. The expansions are The Foundation and AWE, both of which are expected to have “new story missions, enemies, and game mechanics,” and each of which will “take place in new locations wi

GameStop will close as many 200 stores before the end of 2019 following another quarter of sharply declining sales and a $32 million loss, the company stated. For the quarter ending March 2019, GameStop reported a 13.3 sales decline and the company’s stock price plunged 40 percent in one day, recovering only slightly since then. James Bell, GameStop’s chief financial officer, told investors that the closures will affect between 180 and 200 “underperforming” stores between now and the end of 2019

Square Enix showed off the latest Final Fantasy 7 Remake trailer at the Tokyo Game Show, and it gave us another look at the game’s heroes, as well as showing off some more nefarious characters. The trailer mostly focuses on introducing us to the game’s characters. We see Cloud fighting alongside Tifa, and get a brief scene of their backstory. The Turks play a big role; Reno shows up and picks a fight with Cloud more than once and Rude takes on Cloud and Aerith. The Final Fantasy 7 remake will be

Method, the current top guild in the world, partnered with the World Showdown of Esports to put on a Race to World First. The Classic Race to World First was both anticlimactic — Ragnaros was downed in just a few days, as opposed to a few months — and an interesting prototype for Method’s further experiments in World of Warcraft content. Method returns homeFor Scott “Sco” McMillan, the Classic Race to World First was a trip through memory lane. That didn’t mean they were ready for the Classic ra

Sea of Thieves developer Rare is continuing to roll out monthly updates to the game, this time with September’s free Smuggler’s Fortune patch. Both monkeys and parrots have been added to Sea of Thieves with the Smuggler’s Fortune update. Ancient Coins can be bought on the Xbox store or in Sea of Thieves using real money, but you can also earn them in-game. In September, players are able to purchase Sea of Thieve’s Fearless Bone Crusher set, which was previously available last year. Smuggler’s Fo

The problem is with the recent Atomic Shop updates … and the lack of updates behind an in-game paywall or grind. The Atomic Shop items can be purchased with Atomic Points, which can either be earned in game … or purchased much more efficiency with real world money. The Atomic Shop was originally meant to be a way to unlock cosmetic items. The final straw came in the most recent update, which sells a refrigerator and scrap collector robot in the store for 700 atomic points and 500 atomic poin

The U.S. PlayStation YouTube account uploaded, then quickly removed, a Nioh 2 trailer for Tokyo Game Show that promises an “early 2020” launch for Team Ninja’s action RPG. Screenshots released last month showed that Nioh 2’s main character will be able to transform into yokai as well. That transformation carries the player character into the yokai’s Dark Realm, and the boss battles there will pack more punch. The first Nioh, a challenging “masocore” hack-and-slash, launched in February 2017 and

Pax Pamir: Second Edition was created by Cole Wehrle, the designer of John Company and Root. Tactile and pleasingFrom the moment I open Pax Pamir: Second Edition’s box, I know I’m dealing with a special board game. I also manipulate player pieces to populate different regions of the map with loyal tribes, armies and roads. Domination movesPieces called “spies” can be placed in rival players’ cards, affecting or negating their power. Pax Pamir: Second Edition costs $85 and comes four years after

NASCAR Heat 4 is, in many ways, the same game it was last year. Trying to, once again, solve Pocono Raceway’s inscrutable banking and scalene layout, I googled a setup from NASCAR Heat 3 and punched that in. NASCAR Heat 4, like its predecessors, still assumes a lot of knowledge on the part of its players. But dirt racing is also significantly improved … or maybe I was just racing it wrong when it debuted last year? NASCAR Heat 4 may not look different, at first, but it doesn’t take long before

Frogger in Toy Town, a brand new Frogger game, is coming exclusively to Apple Arcade, Apple announced during its September Special Event. Frogger in Toy Town is being developed by cult-indie studio Q-Games, the developer behind the PixelJunk series. The game looks about how you’d expect a Frogger game to look in 2019. Frogger in Toy Town is set to launch along with Apple Arcade on Sept. 19. Apple Arcade games will be playable on most Apple devices iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple TVs.

Apple revealed its 2019 line-up of iPhones during a live event today, introducing the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max. The iPhone 11 is a rebranding of the iPhone XR line. Apple claims that the iPhone 11 will offer an hour of additional battery life on a single charge, compared to the iPhone XR. Apple also introduced its high-end smart phone offering with the iPhone 11 Pro ($999) and iPhone 11 Pro Max ($1099). Pre-orders for the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max begin on Friday

Apple Arcade, the company’s new subscription games service, is launching on Sept. 19 on iOS 13. But following the event, Apple revealed more of the games that’ll debut on Apple Arcade — and it’s a pretty exciting list. Alongside the three games shown on stage, Apple announced new games from Sega, Square Enix, Devolver, and Ubisoft. A subscription to Apple Arcade will cost $4.99 per month, offering unlimited access to more than 100 games on offer. Apple Arcade is available on Sept. 19 on iPhone,

After playing Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Discovery Tour for a while, I went for a long walk and I began to daydream. I wondered what it would be like if our society decided to dedicate a tiny proportion of its wealth to creating more and better products like Discovery Tour. But games like Discovery Tour aren’t merely picturesque diversions about the ways of people who are long dead. Discovery Tour melds together solid research with a Hollywood sense of the spectacular, and of engaging storytelli

Today’s Apple event will announce the company’s newest slate of iPhones. It’s also expected to add details — including launch dates — for two new subscription services, called Apple TV Plus and Apple Arcade. You can watch the livestream today on Apple’s events page beginning at 10 a.m. PDT, or watch it below. Apple TV Plus will be going up against Disney Plus, the media giant’s own streaming service with everything from Mickey Mouse to Marvel superheroes, Star Wars, and more. It’s a tough act to

While critics and players alike have praised Control for its excellent gameplay and daring story, many owners are having serious technical issues with the game across every platform. The first big update for the game is out now for PlayStation 4, and will be arriving soon for players on Windows PC and Xbox One. Overall, these changes are expected to smooth out the experience for many players, especially those working with older hardware. Remedy says it has improved the loading times, so that it

The support will come from Nvidia’s G-Sync Compatible program, through which the company certifies select AMD FreeSync displays as providing a comparable experience to G-Sync. LG’s 2019 TVs already supported variable refresh rate (VRR) technology through their HDMI 2.1 ports; VRR is built into the HDMI 2.1 specification. Nvidia noted that the GeForce driver update will enable VRR over HDMI in general, and said “you can try enabling HDMI VRR” on displays that aren’t these five LG TVs. FreeSync is