Final Fantasy VII Remake PC Requirements Released Ahead Of Launch

Final Fantasy VII Remake is making its way to PC, with the Intergrade version including both the base game and the additional Intermission DLC. It's a visual stunner that might not need as much graphical horsepower behind it according to the official specifications.

Square Enix doesn't make it clear what performance to expect from both its minimum and recommended PC requirements for the game, but at the very least you can rest assured you won't need something cutting-edge to get things running. And Nvidia GTX 780 is over eight years old at this point, while both the Intel Core i5-3330 and AMD FX-8350 are even older.

What you will need is a lot of hard drive space, with Final Fantasy VII Remake commanding a full 100GB on PC regardless of the settings you use. You can expect an SSD to speed up loading times and visual pop-in, too, so only resort to an older HDD if you don't have another choice.

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PlayStation 5 Console Covers Officially Announced, Coming January 2022

Sony has officially announced a new series of PS5 console covers priced at $55, which will come in Nova Pink, Starlight Blue, and Galactic Purple color schemes. Sony says that these "galaxy-inspired" colors will launch globally starting in January 2022 at participating retailers, and can easily be applied to existing PS5 consoles and its disc-free Digital Edition. Simply pop the current white cover off, click the new one of your choice into place, and you'll be good to go.

In addition to that, new color variants of the DualSense controller are also on the way, joining the previously released Midnight Black and Cosmic Red versions. Similar to the PS5 covers, these controllers will also be available in Nova Pink, Starlight Blue, and Galactic Purple.

Back in November, a patent filed by Sony implied that replacement faceplates were on the way, as the company registered documents for an "ornamental design for a cover for an electronic device," with diagrams of the PS5 faceplates being used for illustrative purposes.

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Scorn Sets An October 2022 Release Date For Its Biological Horror Adventure

Ebb Software's Scorn, an upcoming first-person horror game with some highly suggestive imagery, now has a release date of October 2022 for its PC and Xbox Series X|S launch. The announcement came from the studio's Kickstarter page and was confirmed in a new trailer which you can see below.

In another update on its Kickstarter, Ebb Software's CEO Ljubomir Peklar said, "December has been a pretty huge month for us at Ebb Software. Not only have we been able to share our new release date, but we've also reached a significant milestone in our development, 75% content completion! I'd just like to give my deepest thanks to our community for your patience and our team here at Ebb who have been working incredibly hard to pull everything together."

The studio plans to spend the rest of 2022 completing the final 25% of the game's content, polishing the gameplay, and ironing out any lingering bugs. In case you missed it when it was originally revealed, Scorn looks and plays like a fusion of BioShock and HR Giger art, although the studio has mentioned in previous interviews that different art forms from painting, sculpture, architecture, and music have played an influential role in the game's design.

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Sniper Elite 5 Takes The War To France, Launching In 2022

Developer Rebellion Entertainment has revealed Sniper Elite 5, the next chapter in its World War 2 marksmanship series. Once again starring sniper Karl Fairburne--who's now sporting a trendy tactical turtleneck--Sniper Elite 5 moves the action from the Italian front to behind enemy lines in France circa 1944. Fairburne has been tasked with investigating and destroying Operation Kraken, a secret Nazi project that threatens to end the war before the Allies can even invade Europe.

In typical Sniper Elite style, this means that you can expect a lot of Nazi heads and various other vital organs to be gruesomely shredded, with the game regularly slowing down to provide a kill-cam view inside of every unlucky soldier that walks into Fairburne's line of sight.

According to Rebellion, some of the new features of Sniper Elite 5 include real-world locations from France in 1944, a new traversal system that includes ziplines and shimmying along edges, and new multiplayer options. You'll be able to play the game in co-op with a friend, which allows a team to share ammo and items, give orders, and heal each other. On a more adversarial note, you can invade another player’s campaign as an Axis sniper for a game of cat and mouse.

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I Have Misgivings About Forspoken And Its Protagonist

My first impression of Forspoken upon watching its reveal trailer was genuine glee. Seeing a Japanese-developed role-playing game with a dark-skinned person of color as the main protagonist is rare. Seeing such a game starring a Black woman is exceptionally rare. Learning later that a vast majority of the principal cast are women is practically unheard of.

So I went into this latest hands-off press preview of Forspoken with hopeful expectations. And, at first, it seemed like developer Luminous Productions and publisher Square Enix knew their stuff. Going into this game, Forspoken creative producer Raio Mitsuno wanted this to be an experience that primarily featured a female cast and starred a protagonist that broke free of conventional fantasy hero tropes--everything else about the game was built around that concept "from the beginning of the project."

"That was really one of the core concepts that we had from the very beginning of the game--we wanted to create a world with a bunch of strong female characters, and we wanted a world of magic," Mitsuno told me. "And we wanted to use those as our pillars when we started the project. We were impressed with the increasing number of female leads in the industry, but we wanted to really take it a step further and go with a female-centric world. We also wanted--with our main character Frey--to portray a character who was really down-to-earth and a realistic portrayal of a modern-day young woman, who just so happens to then get thrown into this world with a bunch of powerful women, a sort of matriarchal society."

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The Best PC Exclusive Games Of 2021

New gaming consoles come and go every few years, but PC gaming endures with some of the best hardware and software that's exclusive to that platform. This year was no exception, as PC gamers had access to imaginative and genre-bending titles, games that pushed the flexible nature of those systems in wild new directions.

While PC gaming shared many a hit game with its console brethren, for this list we're looking at the games that could only be found on this platform...with one exception. That means no Resident Evil Village and its incredibly tall ladies, no Deathloop and its masterful approach to Groundhog Day gunplay, and no Halo Infinite reviving the beloved FPS franchise. For a look at those, check out GameSpot's Top 10 Games of 2021.

In this list, it's the efforts of small studios and indie developers that took the top spots, bringing about an exciting selection of games in 2021.

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How Games Get Shotguns Wrong - Loadout

From DOOM’s iconic Super Shotgun through to Gears of War’s Gnasher, the shotgun is one of the most popular and versatile weapons in video games - a trusty firearm that packs a devastating punch, particularly in close encounters. But the gaming shotgun that we’ve come to know and love takes a fair few liberties from its real world counterpart.