Face? Rocked off. Heart? Still beating. Final Fantasycomposer Nobuo Uematsu and his band,Earthbound Papas, headlined the concert Saturday night at the 10thMAGFest(Music and Gaming Festival), held this year at National Harbor, MD. The crew traveled directly from Japan to the Washington D.C. area to bring live prog rock versions of gaming’s best songs to the show’s main stage, includingFinal Fantasy VII‘s “Still More Fighting,”Final Fantasy V‘s “Clash on the Bridge” and the ultimate version ofFinal Fantasy VI‘s boss battle, “Dancing Mad....

Watch out, boys. This cat’s got claws. NVIDIA’s looking to make more graphical waves in themobile and tablet marketwith the unveiling of the Tegra 4i LTE mobile processor. The company has also released the new specs on its i500 LTE modem, which will be integrated with the Tegra 4i. The Tegra 4i, formerly known as “Project Grey,” is boasting 60 custom NVIDIA GPU cores in a package half the size of its competition....

Blizzard announces a new CCG ‘for everyone’ Blizzard has today lifted the lid onHearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, “a fast-paced strategy card game for everyone.” You hear that, gay people who want to get married? You too can join in on the fun! Hearthstone hopes to jump on the free-to-play market. It’ll cost nothing to boot up a game on Battle.net and use some pre-built decks, but you can pony up the dough in order to obtain new cards — or spend time crafting or claiming them....

Developer Straynus has announced that its next game,Cronela’s Mansion, inspired byManiac Mansion, will launch for PC, Nintendo Switch, SNES, and Game Boy systems, with physical cartridges to run it on retro hardware right out of the box. Straynus is bringingCronela’s Mansionto Kickstarter and offering a slew of possible rewards for backers who pledge their financial support. Among these rewards are physical versions of the game for the SNES and Game Boy that will run on each piece of hardware, provided you own one....

Wanted: fainted or paralyzed [And check out community memberInquisitve Ravenclaw! He helped with the wanted posters. I hear he’s a commissionable artist!] As most people went out of their way to stay spoiler-free for the newPokémon SunandMoon, I went in the opposite direction. I checked outSmogonin the days leading up to their release, not to spoil the story but to see how the new Pokémon would stack up and shape the meta against the existing Pokémon universe....

The Chronicle update launched forPhasmophobiaon June 24, and it’s by far one of the most game-changing content expansions we’ve seen since it first launched back in 2020. It reworked key gameplay systems, and I’m wondering how everyone is feeling about these changes. At first glance, the Chronicle update doesn’t seem like it has much new content outside of the Sound Recorder, but as soon as you start investigating, you’ll find that everything feels different and new....

Aside frommaking a spectacular jokeout of the Vita’s PSOne compatibility, Vita firmware 1.80 has done something else that isn’t pleasing users — it’s quietly tied memory cards to a single PSN account. Before, Vita users were able to store data from multiple accounts onto one card — now they can’t. If you try switching accounts, you’ll receive a message telling you to format the memory card, which users didn’t have to do before....

Daniel Goldman of Kinjin Storylab, the creator of a number of award-winning stories, has announced that what he considers to be the best comic work of his career is making a comeback.Red Light Properties: Unfinished Businessis an omnibus of the series and a fresh start for what’s to come. Red Light Properties: Unfinished Businessis a collection of everything from the originalRed Light Propertiesgraphic novel in a hardcover book with a slipcase to keep it nice and secure....

End of an era! Last week we found out thatPlayStation 2s had stopped shipping in Japan. Sony has now officially announced that PlayStation 2 production has stopped worldwide, according toThe Guardian. Yes, it’s truly an end of an era. Hard to believe it’s been 12 years since the PlayStation 2 was brought to life. In that time Sony sold 150 million units worldwide, and there were over 10,000 games created for Sony’s dominating system....

Remaster of a remake re-releasing in 2022 Square Enix has unveiledRomancing SaGa: Minstrel Song Remastered,a newly revamped edition of the cult PlayStation 2 fantasy JRPG. It will launch on PC, console, and mobile platforms in winter 2022 The story of a malevolent force’s return and the quest to prevent the ensuing destruction,Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Songlaunched on PS2 in 2005, and is itself a remake of the original SNESRomancing SaGaadventure, which launched way back in 1992....

It’s all high waters and deep player counts forSea of Thieves. That’s probably a good sign when you’re trying to keep a giant ship afloat. Xbox recently revealed thatSea of Thieveshas surpassed 15 million looting, plundering buccaneers. June saw 3.3 million active players, which is the biggest month in the game’s history. The Steam release at the beginning of June has resulted in another 1 million sales. WhenSea of Thieveslaunched in Spring 2018,it was a shallow game with a strong foundation....

‘Dirty Barry’ is out for blood If you own a physical copy of dull beat-em-upShaq Fu: A Legend Rebornon PS4, Xbox One or Nintendo Switch, then you might find new content waiting for you when you next decide to play. Barack Fu: The Adventures of Dirty Barry, continues in the vein of the standardShaq Funarrative by taking topics that were hot for satire a decade ago and making them the basis of 2018 comedy....

Monsters Sometimes Always Monsters Somet Vagabond Dog has announced a follow up to its 2014 drama gameAlways Sometimes Monsters. Confusingly titledSometimes Always Monsters, the game appears to be a second attempt at tackling real-life problems such as racism, police brutality, and mental health. As with the first game,Sometimes Always Monsterswill be presented through a branching narrative with an emphasis on “consequence, circumstance, [and] choice.” The first game went to some really dark places, exploring the likes of homophobia, child abuse, and drug addiction....