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Former CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment and PlayStation worldwide Shawn Layden has spoken about the importance of platform-exclusive games. The discussion around platform-exclusives has heated up in recent months after Microsoft confirmed a number of Xbox-exclusives would be made available on “rival” consoles. Both Grounded and Pentiment are due to come to Nintendo Switch while Hi-Fi Rush and Sea Of Thieves are coming to the PS5. Speaking on the What’s Up PlayStation podcast, Layden said (via VGC): “Exclusivity…

Square Enix Among its many highlights, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth makes simple sidequests a lot more engaging than I had expected. Take an early-game sidequest called When Words Won’t Do. On a surface level, it’s a simple escort mission where players must get a dog from Under Junon to Crow’s Nest unscathed. I did not initially have high hopes for this sidequest due to the poor reputation of escort missions; thankfully, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth defied that fate. To make this optional content more worthwhile, Square…

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is out now, and with Black History Month wrapping up today, Barret Wallace voice actor John Eric Bentley has spoken about his FF7 character, Black History Month, and the hopes he has for the video game industry.In an interview published by Square Enix, Bentley emphasized the real-life Black heroes he is inspired by, such as his parents and other family members who were educators with their involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Viola Davis, Denzel Washington, Martin Luther King…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Global warming is real and climate change is worsening day-by-day with raging forest fires, unseasonably warm winters and flooding disasters taking place across Canada. Meanwhile, the carbon-zero transition required to move away from such a dire future is hampered by a key weakness—"critical minerals." The energy transition…

Everyone loves a promotion, right? A little extra compensation for all that hard work. Well, training and promotions aren’t just key to the modern capitalist landscape of 2024; they’re also crucial to the battlefields of Unicorn Overlord. The latest in Atlus and Vanillaware’s series of videos detailing Unicorn Overlord‘s many systems dives into training. Specifically, we get some idea of what it means to level up a unit, promote them, and how to keep everyone up-to-snuff for the coming engagements.…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When a teacher refers a student to the principal's office or a principal suspends a student, parents might first receive a phone call and then have a conference with administrators and teachers. But what role do prior interactions and the relationships between families and school personnel play in successfully minimizing these instances of exclusionary discipline? …

Curated By: Shahrukh ShahLast Updated: January 13, 2024, 18:25 ISTRepresentational image. (File photo)To clear all the confusion about the different colours of registration plates in India, we have created a list, mentioning their significance and need in the country. As the auto industry in India started flourishing after a long COVID-19 break, the numbers of cars and sales began surpassing all the prior records lately. Nowadays, the country is witnessing a sudden spike of moving cars on roads, flaunting different…

Credit: Keira Burton from Pexels Witnesses to anti-social behavior must speak up to support the lone voices of people who confront it to reduce the risk of such behavior becoming tolerated in society, according to research from the Universities of Bath, Groningen and Western Australia. "The sound of silence: The importance of bystander support for…

Credit: RDNE Stock project from Pexels In a recent article published in the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Anjan Thakor, the John E. Simon Professor of Finance at Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, explains how having a strong culture and a sense of higher purpose influences banking performance and discusses a framework to diagnose an organization's current culture and identify its preferred…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain We've known for a decade that political affiliation increasingly affects Americans' everyday lives, including where they live, whom they befriend, and whom they welcome as in-laws. A recent Cato Institute survey revealed that nearly a third of Americans worry that voicing their political views could even harm their…