Electronic Arts has canceled its Black Panther game and closed down developer Cliffhanger Games. IGN, which first reported the news, cites an internal email in which EA Entertainment president Laura Miele notified staff about the changes made to “sharpen our focus and put our creative energy behind the most significant growth opportunities.” “These decisions are hard,” Miele wrote, per IGN. “They affect people we’ve worked with, learned from, and shared...

As part of FFXIV: Dawntrail’s Occult Crescent field operation, players can take on Phantom Jobs, which are mini-jobs that provide unique skills to help you out during combat. These jobs all level individually using EXP gained from the Occult Crescent, and as of patch 7.25, there are 13 of them. It should be noted that under the “Unlocking Phantom Jobs” section in the tutorial booklet, it does say “Soul shards...

Nearly 15 years after the previous movie in the Final Destination horror franchise, Freaks writer-directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein revived the series with Final Destination: Bloodlines, a modern update that instantly became the series’ number-one all-time box-office earner. The new movie — once again, about death as a vindictive force actively stalking people who survived a fated calamity — echoes the filmmaking of the older installments, while adding a...

Allied society quests are one of Final Fantasy 14’s more rewarding dailies. Formerly known as “beast tribe quests” or “tribal quests,” these quests involving helping out the other races of Eorzea by beating down baddies that might be giving them grief, or helping them rebuild an area using crafting and gathering. Below, we detail how allied society quests in FFXIV work, along with their rewards and how to unlock all...

In a Fortnite season filled with a variety of familiar Star Wars faces, it seems that Epic and Disney have kept one final character on lockdown. According to established Fortnite leaker iFireMonkey, a Sith-tainted Rey will be coming to the game on May 30 at 8pm ET for 1500 V-Bucks. We got a full glimpse of a Dark Side-loving Rey in Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, when she battled herself...

For gaming fans, a console release can be a stressful time. There are the fights against bots and DDoS levels of internet traffic to secure a pre-order at random and ungodly times, and/or the need to mentally prepare to camp outside a retailer. The experience has become rotten in large part due to scalpers, who purchase items with the intent to resell at a huge markup. While seasoned veterans are...

The first Switch might be one of Nintendo’s most successful consoles of all time, but from a marketing perspective, the portable console could be a nightmare. A year into the Switch’s lifespan saw the launch of the console’s first emulator, which opened the floodgates for piracy. From there on out, Nintendo lost control over the messaging of its products at launch. Marquee games like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of...