Final Fantasy 16 was first announced during Sony’s PlayStation 5 showcase event back in 2020. We saw a trailer, which seemed to confirm an additional platform, though Square Enix has walked that back somewhat since then. What we do know is that Final Fantasy 16 looks set to carry forward the action-focused combat of FF15,…
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– Main image: clubbers enjoying Party For No Reason at The Standard. Credit: Kyann-Sian Williams London’s underground club scene has long fostered some of Britain’s most underrated talent when it comes to creating banging parties with big cult followings. Depending on your interests – whether you love jazz and want to vibe out every Monday…
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Kang Daniel has done a lot of things. He wants to do a lot of things. Mostly, though, he wants to be happy. Everything else will eventually fall into place. Happiness is the most important thing, more than anything in life. ” he says. One might find this simple, yet profound aphorism in any self-help…
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Rock The Spacebar is a twice-monthly column investigating the great music that underpins your favorite games. This week, Dom Peppiatt reflects on Florence + The Machine’s soaring, incomparable cover of Ben E. King’s iconic track ‘Stand By Me’, and dives into the peculiar presence a real-world licensed track has in the roadtrip-friendly world of Final…
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“WI’ve always been a band who want to do things differently, “says Bastille’s Dan Smith. For their second album ‘Wild World’, they used an AI chat bot to communicate with fans, while their ‘ReOrchestrated’ project saw them collaborate with classical musicians to celebrate live music and the people who create it. Since then, the band…
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Phoebe Green is a bit dizzy. Such is the life of a painfully self-aware artist and human being who builds their life around a soft, vulnerable core which then must be presented to the world like battle armor. She’s about to release her debut album, ‘Lucky Me’ (due August 19), and dreads to think she…
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When Liam Gallagher first announced his return to Knebworth, he described the gigs as “history – part two”. It was a bold step even by his bullish standards. Going toe-to-toe with his former band’s legendary 1996 super-gigs could have easily resulted in career suicide, with the astronomical expectation placed on the younger Gallagher’s shoulders –…
MOnster Hunter is what I call, in the best possible way, a Ronseal game – the RPG does exactly what it says on the tin. Since its global breakthrough with 2018’s WorldCapcom has done even better with cutting down the faff and getting players straight into the main event, while Monster Hunter Rise streamlined it…
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Tthe Amiga 500 wasn’t just a gaming machine. At least, that’s what so many of us told our parents or guardians as we tried to convince them that we absolutely needed one. I mean, sure thing mum; It had a tremendously good game library and helped foster a remarkable, prolific game development scene that served…
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Unfinished Business is NME’s weekly column about the weird and wonderful world of Early Access games. This week, Rick Lane joins the Army for the sightseeing in Arma Reforger. Let me start off by saying that I’m not going to tell you if you should buy Arma Reforger. The latest entry in the Arma The…
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