First reported by VGC, Square Enix announced that it plans on ousting company president Yosuke Matsuda. Following shareholder approval, Matsuda will be replaced with Takashi Kiryu, who came to the company from managing the Dentsu Innovation Initiative in 2020.
Matsuda’s run since taking over for Yoichi Wada in 2013 has been, what else, a mixed bag. His tenure saw an increased number of PC ports, some simultaneously launching with their console counterparts, but that timeliness is hardly a given—Final Fantasy 7 Remake took over a year to come to PC, while Final Fantasy 16 will likely take more than six months.
It’s also worth noting that the publisher has become synonymous with poor PC ports more broadly: Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origins, Forspok…
The world’s been drab and grey ever since we learned Henry Cavill—world’s most beautiful PC gamer—announced he’d be hanging up his silver sword and departing Netflix’s Witcher TV series. With The Witcher season 3 (Cavill’s last) about to air, we’ve got more questions than ever. Will Liam Hemsworth be a decent Geralt? Why is Cavill leaving? Is there even a point continuing the show without him?
Turns out that The Witcher’s creative leads had similar questions themselves. In a recent chat with Total Film magazine (via GamesRadar), showrunner Lauren Hissrich revealed that, in the aftermath of Cavill’s departure, staff “had the choice to have Geralt exit and to end the show,” but it ultimately proved to be something that they weren’t “willing to do”.
“There’s just to…
Activision’s bold new vision for unifying the Call of Duty experience is off to a bad start. With the early release of Modern Warfare 3’s campaign, players are discovering that launching Call of Duty HQ, the unified front end for current and future CoD titles, is required to access the new game. That might not be such a big deal if it wasn’t so slow, inelegant, and seemingly pointless. Call of Duty is now a launcher within a launcher, and it sucks.
I’ll explain: Before you can launch Modern Warfare 3, you have to launch Modern Warfare 2 first. Seriously. “Call of Duty HQ” is just the Modern Warfare 2/Warzone client under a new name.
Switching between Modern Warfares 2 and 3 from the HQ is not like switching modes. Once you’re on the main menu, you could jump immediately into…
Since World of Warcraft’s release, “twinks” have been a problem. For those familiar enough with gay culture to be scandalised, I promise that’s the actual MMORPG lingo. A twink in an MMO is a low-level character you pour a bunch of effort (and typically money) into, giving them absurdly powerful gear—proportionately, at least. Etymology lessons will come later.
It’s usually used to dunk on people in PvP. The twinks I know would grab an alt character, level them to 19, kit them out, and run rampant. This happened so often during my time with Vanilla WoW that I still get a fight or flight response when I see anyone with those freaking goggles on. If you know, you know.
Nowadays, though, some gamers are twinking for good. They can do so due to WoW’s expansion structure&md…
BioWare has revealed the voice talent it’s enlisted for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, including the performers who’ve provided the various voice options for Rook, the game’s customizable player character. As pointed out by Eurogamer, one of the voice actors has a particularly carnal credit in their recent history.
For Rook, BioWare wanted to offer potential voices in both American and British flavors, because some people have a hard time imagining their fantasy heroes without assistive accent work. Voice actors Erika Ishii and Jeff Berg are your American Rooks, while Bryony Corrigan and Alex Jordan are your Rooks from across the pond.
Like his peers in the Rook cohort, Alex Jordan’s got a lengthy list of videogame voice credits. You might recognize him from Cyberpunk 207…
Something that seems to have slipped past a lot of people’s notice when Larian announced the revised Baldur’s Gate 3 system requirements (and that it’s going to have J.K. Simmons in it) was a bit of good news for anyone who has already bought the RPG. Or anyone who plans to before its full release in August.
“You’re going to get a free upgrade to the Digital Deluxe edition on launch day!” Larian said Oprah-style in its blog post detailing the fancier versions of the RPG that will be available. And then on Twitter Larian clarified that, “If you already own Baldur’s Gate 3 on PC, or purchase it in Early Access before launch, you get a free upgrade to the Digital Deluxe Edition on launch day 🙏”
The Digital Deluxe version will come with a custom dice skin based on whethe…
When the market turned topsy-turvy in May due to the Lok Sabha elections, many retail investors stopped their systematic investment plans (SIPs), data from the Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi) showed. As a result, the SIP stoppage ratio shot up to a record high of 88.4% in May.
Interestingly, this is despite the number of overall SIP accounts hitting new highs and SIP inflows into the market continuing to climb new peaks month after month.
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Stock Market Budget 2024 Highlights: Markets closed on a negative note as the government increased short-term capital tax gains and long-term capital gains tax. However, to boost foreign investment the government announced that there’ll be no angel tax across any asset class. The Nifty 50 closed 33 points or 0.13% lower at 24,476.55, while the BSE Sensex closed 62 points or 0.08% lower at 80,440. The long-term capital gains tax was revised to 12.5% from 10%. The government revised the Security Transaction Tax to 0.02% from 0.01% for F&O. Bank Nifty closed 502 points or 0.96% lower at 51,778, while the Nifty Midcap 100 fell 339 points or 0.60% to settle at 56,285.25.
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The stock prices of the major sugar companies have not been impacted much by the recent government’s decision to restrict sugar exports beyond October 31, presumably because the decision was largely anticipated by the investors.
The stock prices of Triveni Engineering and Industries rose by 1.61% to Rs 387.97 on Friday against Rs 381.8 on October 6. However, shares of Balampur Chini, Shree Renuka Sugar and Dhampur Sugar, declined by 1.77%, 2.69% and 4.72% respectively in the last fortnight.
The Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) had earlier indicated a possible fall in output because of scanty rains in Maharashtra and Karnataka in August have likely hit yield.
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Interarch Building IPO Day 2: Interarch Building Services was subscribed to a total of 6.25 times more than the offered shares on the second day of the IPO. On the first day of the IPO, it was subscribed over 3 times. The retail segment was fully booked on the first day itself getting subscribed 2.8 times.
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The shares of Interarch Building were fetching a premium of almost 38% in the grey market. An illegal place where shares trade ahead of listing. Investors take cues from GMP to track listing gains.
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The company wanted to collect a total of Rs 600.29 crore through a combination of fresh shares worth Rs 200 crore. And an offer for sale of Rs 400.29 crore by offloading 4.4 million s…