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Over the moon for you Final Fantasy XIVregularly adds new content for its millions of players. One of the most popular pieces of content for crafters are the tribal quests. The latest addition is the Loporrits tribe quests inFFXIV. Here’s how to unlock this new tribe and complete their quests. How to unlock the Loporrits tribe quests inFFXIV As you might expect if you’ve completed crafting tribe quests in the past, there are some obscure requirements you must meet before you can start the Loporrits tribe quests inpatch 6....

After what felt like a hundred different screenings, all of which I manged to somehow miss,Indie Game: The Moviefinally became available digitally last month. It was an emotional, compelling, and even motivating look at what life can be like for creative people who wholly invest themselves in their work. For a limited time, you’re able to grab the documentary for a very reasonable $4.99 eitherdirectly as a stream or download, or onSteam....

Smarty-pants games A new bundle is now available fromIndie Royale. The “Thoughtful Bundle” consists of “clever” games, proving that it can get really difficult to come up with consistently good themes for bundle products over time. Which is not to say these games won’t make you think. The rather challenging puzzle/platformerSnapshotis in there, along with the tower defense strategy ofFieldrunners.Aaaaa! A Reckless Disregard for GravityandSnuggle Truckare there to satisfy your need for physics puzzles....

Frontier has announcedJurassic World Evolution 3as the third chapter of the dino-park sim saga, and there’s plenty of exciting news for the fans. AJurassic Parksimulator needs to have ample monsters, andJurassic World Evolution 3will have 80 prehistoric species. Frontier has also confirmed some key features we can expect from the gameplay, so let’s get down to that. Jurassic World Evolution 3 will offer you complete freedom when it comes to park management Of the 80 species confirmed forJurassic World Evolution 3, 70 can be bred, managed, and turned into a long chain of dinosaurs across multiple generations....

Sorry, what do you want to do? Today sees the launch of Foam Sword’s super-stylised adventure gameKnights and Bikes, now available on PS4 and PC. Publisher Double Fine has released a punk-as-fuck new trailer, featuring a montage of the game’s co-op action. Set in a fantasy version of 1980’s Britain,Knights and Bikesis a coming-of-age tale of two friends, Ness and Demelza, as they embark on a treasure-hunting quest around the coastal town of Penfurzy....

Life is…? Dontnod Entertainment, developer behindLife is StrangeandVampyr,has announced that its next game will be the story-driven mystery thrillerTwin Mirror. Published by Bandai Namco Entertainment and releasing on PC, PS4, and Xbox One next year, the game has a cliched setup that sees its protagonist (named Sam) return home after some tragic event strikes his hometown. That is where the generic plotting ends, asTwin Mirrorlooks to be channeling a lot ofAlan WakeandFahrenheitfrom the setting....

Yes, it definitely shows a lot of technical features a lot of us won’t care about. But it looks pretty! Directional light shafts, high quality depth-of-field, color grading, cascaded shadow maps, seamless time of day transistion, weather effects, point light shafts, material layer blending and improved foliage rendering are all happening. And they are things I’d like to turn off in the advanced settings, just so I can actually play a game that uses it....

Switch Pro? We’re only months removed from Nintendo refreshing the Switch’s lineup with the introduction of two new models: The handheld-onlySwitch Liteand another that marked an improvement over the original’s battery life. Mere days into 2020 and there are whispers that Nintendo has another Switch on the way. A new report from Taiwanese newspaperDigiTimesindicates that Nintendo is ramping up production on a new model of Switch. It begins manufacturing sometime in the first quarter of the year, and it’s planned to launch mid-2020....

Wildly impressive for this series NieRis the little series that could, fueled by the pure passion of Yoko Taro. It was always an outlier, a spinoff of theDrakengardfranchise that became something more, untilNieR: Automatacatapulted it to fame. Unlike its predecessor it was well received critically, and as of this week, commercially. Square Enix has announced thatAutomata, if you include both digital sales and shipments, has reached the two million unit mark....

Also, Sonic Boom The big name this week is definitelySonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, but with late review copies I wouldn’t make haste to pick it up. Also on the Wii U there’sXavier, A World of Keflings, Tengami, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, andLEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham.Mario Kart 8is also getting that glorious first DLC pack. The 3DS offerings are less exciting but they are plentiful, withFlowerworks HD: Follie’s Adventure, Castle Conqueror Defender, European Conqueror 3D, I’ve Got to Run: Complete Edition, Picross e5, Scarygirl Illustration Kit, Winx Club Saving Alfea, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Danger of the Ooze, Sonic Boom, Tetris Ultimate,and thePokemon Trading Card Game(VC)....

Register a system, one of the upcoming Pok?mon remakes, and Smash Bros. In Europe, Nintendo is running a “Nintendo 3DS Winter 2014 Bonus Game Promotion” in which folks who register a 2DS, 3DS, or 3DS XL as well as a copy ofSuper Smash Bros.andPokémon Omega RubyorAlpha Sapphirecan claim a free 3DS game via download: Something to keep in mind for the holidays. You’ll have until January 12 to register all of the necessary purchases through Club Nintendo before you may request a code for one of those titles....

Like game hereos, some are forced to do difficult things for the greater good Videogames were reportedly the inspiration behind what’s been billed the most significant leak of classified information in US History. In an interview withThe Advocate, Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald spoke to the motivations behind former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s controversial actions. Snowden confided in Greenwald during a backstairs meeting in Hong Kong, where it was revealed games and comics galvanized the infamous exile to “do the right thing....

Because now every game, legally, has to crossover with Persona Only yesterday we reported that costumes related toVirtua Fighter, Yakuza and Sonic the Hedgehogwere coming to Atlus’Persona 3: Dancing Moon NightandPersona 5: Dancing Star Nightgames.Now it seems thePhantasy Star Online 2will be receiving somePersonaitems of its own. Announced this weekend as part of Sega’s Fes 2018 event, the Japanese MMORPG will receive a bundle of fun accessories based on the rhythm-action games....