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Spice up your Final Fantasy Tactics with some XCOM and that wonderful Square Enix flair. The DioField Chronicle is Square Enix’s latest strategy RPG experience for console and PC gamers, announced back on March 9, 2022, for Sony’s State of Play presentation. The game promises to be a new type of tactical experience from the developers, whose previous achievements of course include the stellar Final Fantasy Tactics and Triangle Strategy. It looks enticing to longtime fans of the Square Enix formula, as well as those seeking something different, and perhaps even some who have yet to give these games a try....

You would think that the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim would offer nothing but possibilities when it comes to expansion content for the massive RPG. Since it’s release in 2011, Bethesda Game Studios has only released a handful of new premium content to expand on the game. Instead, the developers have been finely tuning the Skyrim experience across all of its platforms, but the Xbox 360 version has seen things like Kinect functionality alongside the laundry list of fixes and patches since launch....

This story is part of Gamepur’s Best of 2021 round-up. As ever, the PC is home to the most robust and diverse offerings of games. From massive triple-A releases to indie titles made by a single person, this platform’s catalog rises like a mountain over its console compatriots. And with the world still reeling from 2020, those indie games were given the opportunity to take up the banner and prove themselves to be just as rich as games boasting thousands of devs and a massive budget....

On today of all days, the unofficial Star Wars Day of May the Fourth, there has been some new DLC revealed for the LEGO Skywalker Saga, and with it, a lovely new trailer to parade all these new additions. LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is the latest game in the LEGO Star Wars series, and these new packs are called “The Mandalorian – Season 2” and “Star Wars: The Bad Batch....

91.6 million unit sales worldwide as of Dec. 31. The PlayStation 4 has been out for more than five years now, and it doesn’t look like sales will slow down anytime soon. In fact, Sony’s current home console is steadily approaching the 100 million mark, with the console having now sold through more than 91.6 million units worldwide. The latest figure comes to us from Sony itself, who took note of a strong holiday season where the PS4 sold more than 5....

Good news to PlayStation fans, Sony has officially announced the PS5 shortage is over! The company’s gaming boss, Jim Ryan, said the good news on Wednesday is that Sony has now sold 30 million PS5s worldwide and that December 2022 was the “biggest month ever” for sales on the consoles. The PS5 Shortage Is Officially Over! Time To Buy! The console was first released in November 2020. Still, hardly anyone was able to get it due to the product being overbought, and then a semiconductor ship shortage happened due to the many shortages of 2020....

A new stuff pack is coming to The Sims 4 on PC next week. Laundry Day is finally here. Who would have guessed we’d be uttering those words? The new stuff pack will launch on Jan. 16 for PC and Mac players. Laundry Day is a special pack, as EA tapped The Sims 4 community to help pick out the theme, gameplay, items, and name. The gameplay in Laundry Day is focused on doing laundry....

There is one thing that is coming, and we’ve all been waiting for it. No, it isn’t the Dead Space Remake just yet. We’re talking about the Steam Winter Sale of 2022. Valve has launched a video showing most of the games that’ll be on sale during the season. Steam is the biggest PC gaming platform of all and people are just preparing their wallets to buy their favorite titles. The sale isn’t far away either....

Skybound Games announced on Tuesday The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series bundle, set to be released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on September 10. The new bundle will include all four seasons of the game series, the DLCs The Walking Dead: Michonne and 400 Days, together with bonus features and graphic enhancements. As part of the announcement, Skybound has also released the following trailer. Skybound Games also said it will rerelease the second and third seasons of the series – The Walking Dead: Season Two and The Walking Dead: A New Frontier – on Nintendo Switch via the Nintendo eShop on September 10....

We haven’t heard much out of David Jaffe and the Twisted Metal camp since it was revealed that the game would see a delay into 2012. But a new trailer for the upcoming game has been released, and reveals an unseen portion of gameplay, titled “The Grimm Trailer”. Twisted Metal is an over-the-top, vehicular combat game exclusively for play on PlayStation 3. Gameplay revolves around demolition derby style action set across multiple maps in which last contestant alive receives virtually whatever they desire....

Pokémon Legends: Arceus is a very different experience compared to the usual generational Pokémon games. The battles, exploration, and crafting mechanics shown in the trailers alone are enough to tell you this. Therefore, know that there are a number of things you need to keep in mind before starting the game. Below are the important ones: This is an action game While Pokémon encounters are still turn-based, this game is mostly an action game....

The 12.17b update will arrive for Teamfight Tactics (TFT), and here is the complete list of changes and fixes added to this patch. Uncharted Realms has finally been released, and players are already getting used to the new TFT Set 7.5 meta. TFT patch 12.17b is forthcoming to assist in calming the meta after the release of Set 7.5. Aphelios and Xayah arrived in Uncharted Realms too strongly, and Riot is also reducing some of the crowd control....

Tabletop board games come in a variety of flavors, catering to a wide audience of gamers. They vary in complexity, type, genre, length, and much more. Strategy board games are some of the most popular ones and represent the oldest type of board game out there. Who doesn’t know about the obvious classic examples such as Chess, Go, Mahjong, Ur, and others? Over the years, strategic board games have developed and expanded, and in this article, we’ll list our top 10 suggestions for you to try out with your gaming group....

When basking in the warm glow of a well-made video game, it can be easy to forget the ones that fell by the wayside. These are the games that seemed at one point so full of promise, but which utterly failed to stick the landing. It’s a tale as old as time — or at least as old as video games — but it still stings when it happens. Here are the biggest flops to (dis)grace our consoles over the years....

When it comes to gaming chairs, the first word that typically pops into mind isn’t “cute.” But you might change your way of thinking after looking at this list. Gamers often buy accessories and hardware that they like or that fits their look, so it should come as no surprise that cute gaming chairs are on the rise. While most manufacturers look at the word cute and think pink, another trend that matches cute is animal-themed chairs....

Over the past week, SGDQ 2018 provided hundreds of fantastic speedruns for fans to watch and enjoy. All of the speedruns are already up on Twitch and YouTube so fans can relive any of their favorite moments. Some fans might even discover a few speedruns they missed during the week-long event. To celebrate this week of record-breaking moments and great speedrunning action, we looked back at all of the speedruns that were completed at SGDQ 2018 and picked some of our favorites—for better or worse....

Ring of the Tryhard Lord Fire Emblem Engage is one of the most accommodating games in the franchise for players looking to max out their characters’ potential. The game achieves something unusual among JRPGs in how it makes level grinding fun, provided you know where to look. But whatever your goals are, be they to survive the campaign on high-difficulty settings, or just do some classic power gaming, you’ll want to know good ways to level up fast in Fire Emblem Engage....

Before Ubisoft’s press conference, Ubisoft Forward, it was announced Watch Dogs would come free to PC players, without any mention of gifts to console players. In consolation, however, Xbox One users will be able to buy some of the publisher’s best titles for dirt-cheap, thanks to a new Ubisoft flash sale on the marketplace. With Ubisoft delivering a swath of upcoming sequels to Xbox Series X, here are the most inexpensive, quality titles that will bring you up to speed before the next installments release....

This story is part of Gamepur’s Best of 2021 round-up. It’s been something of a rocky year for gaming. The ongoing pandemic made it tough to keep content flowing and games releasing on time, while many major companies were caught up in a quagmire of their own making. Exposes about toxic workplaces, sexual harassment, and bullying continued to cast shadows across studios like Ubisoft, Riot Games, Blizzard, and Bungie. That said, many studios and development teams made it through the year without public scrutiny....

The Clown Princess of Gotham, Harley Quinn brings a healthy dose of chaos and mayhem to MultiVersus’ battlefields. With her trusty gadgets and eponymous mallet, all this assassin needs is a few good perks to really lock this down. Let’s dive in and find out what Harley Quinn’s best perks are before your next match. Harley’s Leveling Perks While leveling, Harley can pick up several perks, which include: Up, Up, and A-Slay!...