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Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles is a cult classic, but it was infamously obtuse. It required such a specialized combination of hardware that building a full squad required a hefty investment from each player. For the Remastered version, coming next month to PS4, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices, Square Enix is taking a remarkably more accessible approach, even by modern standards.

The original Crystal Chronicles was built around multiplayer. Though you could complete it as a single-player experience, the story centered around a caravan protected by a band of warriors from different magical races, each with their own combat specialty. But that multiplayer relied on a GameCube link cable, connected to up to four GameBoy Advance systems. The conceit allowed each player to have their own personalized menu, but the requirement made the sticker price remarkably high. If your friends didn’t happen to already own a GBA, they needed to buy one to join in.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered, on the other hand, looks to make a full 180 on that barrier-laden design philosophy. The advent of connected consoles and smartphones makes it easy for players to connect and retain their own individual menus like any other online game. Rather than lock players into a single console with a very narrow control scheme, it features cross-play so that players can join up regardless of platform preference.

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Riot has announced in a statement that it will end its partnership with the Saudi city of NEOM “effective immediately” following community outcry.

You can read Riot’s full statement below:

“As a company and as a league, we know that it’s important to recognize when we make mistakes and quickly work to correct them. After further reflection, while we remain steadfastly committed to all of our players and fans worldwide including those living in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, the LEC has ended its partnership with NEOM, effective immediately. In an effort to expand our esports ecosystem, we moved too quickly to cement this partnership and caused rifts in the very community we seek to grow. While we missed our own expectations in this instance, we’re committed to reexamining our internal structures to ensure this doesn’t happen again.”

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Original Story: Riot Games is facing criticism after announcing that the League of Legends European Championship (LEC) will partner with Neom, a $500 billion, smart-city founded by Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Muhammad bin Salman.

Although touted as a city of the future in a press release announcing news of the partnership, Neom has been reportedly built atop forced evictions. This is on top of existing criticism against the Saudi Arabian government in regards to its treatment of LGBT peoples, as well as bin Salman’s links to the assassination of a Washington Post journalist.

All of this has led to the swift condemnation of the sponsorship from high-profile voices in the League of Legends community, as well as from Riot employees.

This is disappointing because this is the LEC. It’s my team, my product, my managers, my office.

My family. My home.

This isn’t someone far away in HQ that I don’t know. This is devastating because I know who made these choices and I feel silenced.

— Froskurinn (@Froskurinn) July 29, 2020

“Incredibly disappointed in Riot today and am baffled at how we could possibly support this,” tweeted Alex Shahmiri, brand lead for Arcane, Riot’s upcoming animated series. “[The partnership] does not reflect the company that I started at six years ago and goes against so much of the progress we’ve been trying to make in the last few years.”

Incredibly disappointed in Riot today and am baffled at how we could support this, does not reflect the company that I started at six years ago and goes against so much of the progress that we’ve been trying to make in the last few years. https://t.co/R9N7d09NnS

— alex shahmiri (@RiotAstryx) July 29, 2020

The Rioters Against Forced Arbitration group, which was started following the allegations that Riot fostered a toxic and sexist workplace, also tweeted out against the partnership.

Riot’s decision to partner with NEOM flies in the face of all the progress that Rioters have worked hard to make over the past few years. Please join us in voicing your support for ending this partnership at #NoToNEOM #RiotGames

— Rioters Against Forced Arbitration (@RiotersAFA) July 29, 2020

IGN has reached out to Riot for a comment.

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Matt T.M. Kim is a reporter for IGN.

STALKER 2 is coming to Xbox Series X in 2021 as a console exclusive, and it’s aiming to do things that would not be possible on current console hardware. According to the game’s Xbox store page, it’s going to aim for a very high frame rate.

The page promises that STALKER 2, which will skip Xbox One, was designed to take advantage of the Series X. The text on the page hints at what’s possible on the system, and specifically mentions a 120 FPS goal.

“Games built using the Xbox Series X development kit are designed to take advantage of the unique capabilities of the Xbox Series X,” the page reads. “They will showcase unparalleled load-times, visuals, responsiveness, and frame rates up to 120 FPS.”

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Star Wars: A Solo Story director Ron Howard has confirmed there are no plans for a sequel, while he also cleared up some confusion about his potential involvement in The Phantom Menace.

Appearing on the Radio Andy show, Howard bluntly said, “There is no sequel planned now” for Solo.

He also reflected on his journey with the movie. Less than a year before release, Howard was brought in to direct Solo after Disney fired the original directors, Phil Lord and Chris Miller.

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Vampire: the Masquerade – Shadows of New York is the second Vampire: The Masquerade visual novel, following on from 2019’s Coteries of New York, and it’s coming to Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC soon. Developer Draw Distance has released some new details about the game, giving us some insight into what to expect and what it’ll do differently from its predecessor.

Players will be cast as Julia, a member of the Lasombra vampire clan, and part of the Camarilla faction. She’s looking for a way to rise up the ranks in vampire society, and finds it when the Anarch Baron of New York reaches his “final death”–which plunges Julia into trying to solve a crime that the game’s Steam page describes as “unsolvable”.

The game will feature two different endings depending on the choices the player makes, and is promising a “more personal, and darker story” than what Coteries offered. It will also feature more illustrations than that game did, complete with animations. The soundtrack is being composed by the Polish artist Resina.

Shadows of New York is a standalone game, although there is some crossover with characters from the previous game. The press release specifically mentions Agathon, D’Angelo, Hope, and Tamika returning, along with Sheriff Qadir Al-Asmai.

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2K’s soon-to-release golf game, PGA Tour 2K21, will feature a total of 15 real-life courses, and now all of them have been confirmed.

The list includes some very famous real-world courses, including TPC Scottsdale, which is the site of the fan-favorite Waste Management Phoenix Open every year. TPC River Highlands is also on the list, and it’s one of the more popular courses among golfers. Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California is also included in PGA Tour 2K21, alongside TPC Boston, TPC Deere Run, and TPC Louisiana, among others. You can see the full list below.

Developer HB Studios worked with Terra Imaging to create the courses and make them as true-to-life as possible. HB Studios had access to drone footage and other datapoints that helped the studio create courses that are accurate “down to one centimetre of accuracy,” 2K said.

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