For decades, fans of Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi novel Dune could only get their tabletop kicks from one game, also called Dune. But it was some game: released in 1979 it was years ahead of its time and encouraged players to recreate the Machiavellian scheming of the novel. However, it needed six players to shine and had a wildly variable play time.Now there’s a new pretender to the throne in Dune: Imperium. It’s a very different beast, eschewing the classic territorial conquest setup of the old game for a mishmash of modern strategic design ideas. But with the Dune name…

EA has temporarily banned over 30,000 players in FIFA 22 for seven days. These bans were the results of the players taking advantage of a “no loss” glitch in the game’s Ultimate Team mode last week.As reported by Eurogamer an exploit appeared where, if abused, players could obtain a 20-0 perfect win record. All players had to do is click on the “home” button on their PlayStation or Xbox controllers to go back to the console’s home screen. Then simply wait for the match to time out. If players were losing a match, they could use this exploit and the…

Facebook is reportedly planning to change its name in an effort to reflect its work building the “metaverse,” The Verge reports, citing a source familiar with the matter.Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly plans to announce the name change at the company’s Connect conference on October 28, if not sooner. The name change could signal Facebook’s intentions to grow further beyond a social media company and into more of a tech conglomerate. With Facebook owning Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus VR devices, and other brands, the name change will likely organize every group under one umbrella, similar to Google’s change to Alphabet in…

A chance meeting is part of the reason Sora from Kingdom Hearts joined Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as its final fighter.In the latest Masahiro Sakurai Famitsu column, translated by @PushDustIn and @KodyNOKOLO on Twitter, the Smash director pulled back the curtain on Sora’s inclusion.According to the translation, Sakurai reiterated that getting Sora in the game was much more difficult than other fighters. However, Sakurai managed to bump into a Disney representative at an awards show, which seemed to kickstart the discussions that made Sora in Smash a reality.Sora’s inclusion was finalized later than the rest of Ultimate’s DLC roster. Sakurai…

Far Cry 6 is the latest in Ubisoft’s open-world franchise, building on the base-clearing, first-person shooting, and definitions of insanity of the past while simultaneously introducing some smart new ideas that could help pave the way for where Far Cry goes next. For sixteen years now, this series has been known for unleashing players in massive, alluring worlds both familiar and unfamiliar across vastly different continents, time periods, and sometimes even apocalypses while giving them total freedom to cause mischief and mayhem.That’s mostly been a winning formula, but the Far Cry franchise is as much about being experimental as it…

Square Enix has announced a new studio with a focus on developing mobile games.The studio, called Square Enix London Mobile, is currently developing games based on Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender and Tomb Raider. The Avatar game is in joint development with Navigator Games, another mobile games studio.We don’t yet know what the gameplay will look like for the Avatar game. However, Navigator Games’ last project, Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast, was a turn-based fantasy RPG.The Tomb Raider title in development is called Tomb Raider Reloaded, and it was announced in November of 2020. It was originally supposed to…