Square Enix’s revamped massively multiplayer online game, Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn, has reached more than 1.5 million registered users worldwide, Siliconera reports via Famitsu.

A Realm Reborn relaunched in August after Square Enix addressed a mountain of issues plaguing the title since its 2010 release. According to Siliconera, it’s unclear how many of those 1.5 million users are actively playing the game, as opposed to those who registered in its previous life.

Following its re-release, A Realm Reborn faced a rocky start due to clogged servers. Speaking with Polygon during PAX Prime 2013, director Naoki Yoshida said regaining player trust was the team’s greatest challenge.

The first action-packed trailer for Captain America: The Winter Soldier has arrived.

And it shows Cap in fine baddie-bashing form.

The story finds everyone’s favourite 1940s Avenger now well and truly transplanted into the modern day, and dealing with all the weird repercussions that come from a 70 year time hop. Throw in the return of his wartime partner as a robot-armed sleeper assassin, a co-starring role from fellow Avenger Black Widow, and a host of explosion-y action scenes, and we’re sold.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier hits UK cinemas from March 2014.

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Get ready for a visual delight. The latest X Rebirth trailer provides a montage of gameplay action that can’t help but touch the Sci-Fi fan in each of us.

The November 15th release is fast approaching!!

 

For 14 years studio Egosoft has been synonymous with space simulation games. Starting with the 1999 release of X: Beyond the Frontier to the 2011 release of X3: Albion Prelude (not to mention the numerous notable expansions, the most recent being the 2013 Shady Business expansion), Egosoft has pushed the boundaries of what a space simulation game can be.

 

But X Rebirth is Different.

 

All prior X Games before X Rebirth represent the layering upon layering of additional features, many of which were never part of the game’s original design. Responding to the large community of space simulation fans that flocked to X: Beyond the Frontier, the developers at Egosoft obliged the plea for more – more freedom, more ships, more realism, and more things to do. However, even before the 2005 release of X3: Reunion, it had become clear that this development methodology had made the series inherently complicated and unnecessarily impenetrable for any outsider who had not begun playing the X Series games from the very start.

 

The solution? To start anew.

 

X Rebirth represents the culmination of 7 years of work redefining what a space simulation can be.

So, onto the X Rebirth Limited Edition Box Version

The additional content for the Limited Edition Box Version of X Rebirth have been finalized!
– Updated Color X Encyclopedia (ebook)
– Art Book of Concept Art (printed)
– Player’s Manual (printed)
– Sountrack
– Bonus Videos

Pre-Orders for the X Rebirth Limited Edition Box Version is now available at the Tri Synergy Store

Definitely looks great and well worth preordering we think

The above tweets were the first many of us knew of the problems that TotalBiscuit had been having for the last few days with one of his videos on Day One: Garry’s Incident being copyright claimed.

Today, we got the full explanation from the man in video form.

TotalBiscuit of course is a very popular Youtuber and a respected game reviewer. A lot of people listen to him and his ‘WTF is…?’ series was set up for the express purpose of reviewing games so that people could avoid the pitfall of buying a game that might not be for them, or in some cases just plain bad. That was the series that reviewed the aforementioned game, a review that was very critical of the game, then became copyright claimed and taken down through Youtube’s copyright claim system, with claims being made from Wild Games Studio‘s CEO Stephane that TB didn’t have the right to place ads onto the video and make money from a video containing their content.

TotalBiscuit of course is licensed to monetise his videos through the network he is a part of: Polaris, formerly known as The Game Station. Agreements were reached that the networks would police their members to ensure copyright standards were met and in return game content could be fairly used for things such as commentaries and reviews. However copyright claims can still be made by companies which will result in videos instantly being taken down and a strike issued against the account unless they can successfully appeal or, as in TotalBiscuit’s case, have a network backing them up to help get the strikes removed (TB previously got two against his account for old Sega-based content about a year back which were removed).

In the video TB makes a number of points with aid of screencaps of e-mail messages and forums posts that show that Wild Games Studio had opportunity to check out TB’s other WTF is…? videos (all monetised) and had previously encouraged people to make Youtube videos of their game. He also notes that other, less popular critical video reviews had not been removed. Only his, which of course reaches many people because of his large audience.

Kotaku have since contacted Wild Game Studios for a comment on the video and have been told that “after seeing all the negative impact today we decided to withdraw our complaint to YouTube.”
Regardless, although people might not always agree with TotalBiscuit’s opinions, he is a man who backs up his views with evidence and in the video he makes a very good case against Wild Game Studios. The studio might just have messed with the wrong man by taking down the original review…

The latest title update for Grand Theft Auto V goes up today and it’s supposed to do away with one of the game’s most annoying bugs. Hopefully, players won’t have to worry about cars and other vehicles disappearing from garages.

Here’s the list of issues that Rockstar says should be resolved with the new update:

– Fixes numerous issues that were causing vehicle loss and/or loss of vehicle mods
– Fixes an issue where the incorrect car is replaced when choosing to replace a car in a full garage
– Fixes an exploit allowing players to sell the same vehicle multiple times
– Fixes an issue that caused personal vehicles to be duplicated
– Fixes an issue where some players were unable to pay utility bills on an owned apartment or house
– Fixes an issue where players were not getting Crew invites in-game
– Fixes an issue where the starting point for the tutorial race was not appearing
– Fixes issues with joining Jobs from within a player-owned garage
– Fixes issues with players getting stuck while using playlists
– Fixes additional issues causing black screens, long load times, and players getting stuck in the sky cam
– Adds details in the UI to clarify that characters created while Rockstar cloud is unavailable are temporary (non-saved)
– Adds changes to the character creator to make better-looking default characters with the “random” option
– Players now only lose a maximum of 500 GTA$ upon death in Freemode

This is presumably the update that preps for the in-game cash infusion that Rockstar’s giving players to apologize for GTA Online’s troubled launch. That $500,000 should be hitting soon. If you get a lot richer inside the multiplayer version of Los Santos, let us know.