We got a brief taste of Final Fantasy 16 today, in the form of a 19-second clip that was meant to show off Torgal, the game’s canine companion. But poor Torgal’s been overshadowed, and instead, we’re all focused on something far more controversial. Rather than concentrating on our furry friend, players are only interested in one thing: That squeeze hole.

For the love of god, don’t Google that. I’ll just tell you what it means. Apparently, at some point in the recent past, ‘squeeze hole’ became the accepted nomenclature for those times when you have to shimmy through a gap in a videogame in a way that conveniently masks a loading screen. I’m pretty unhappy about such terminology, but this is the world we’ve made and now we have to live in it. 

Regardless, you’d …

You know what game was actually alright? Immortals Fenyx Rising. Ubisoft’s Breath of the Wild-like didn’t burn up the charts—we scored it a respectable but not astounding 72% in our Immortals review—but it was a solid game with some funny moments and memorable characters. Characters who will have to remain in our memory forever, I guess, because a new report from VGC says Ubisoft has quietly cancelled a sequel.

According to anonymous dev sources spoken to by both VGC and Kotaku, Ubisoft has killed off a sequel to Immortals Fenyx Rising at an early stage of development, apparently because company brass felt that the first game had struggled to establish itself as an IP, which I think is MBA-speak for ‘people stopped talking about this game about a week after it came out…

The one thing Morrowind had too much of was Morrowind, and now, thanks to CaffeineSnake over on NexusMods, that problem is solved. First spotted by Elder Scrolls YouTuber Micky D, Morrowind Removed gets rid of the island of Vvardenfell entirely, leaving just open ocean (and the island of Solstheim, if you’ve got Bloodmoon installed). To quote the mod’s author, “Vvardenfell removed because y’all can’t behave.”

But it wasn’t enough to just yuck it up at this meme mod and call it a day, I had to experience a Morrowind-free Morrowind. I had to feel it in my very bones. I just dropped the .esp into my Data Files folder like with any other mod and launched the retail version from GOG so I could use the character I made at the beginning of the pandemic.

“Unable to find Region ‘DELE…

I was immediately intrigued by It Comes In Waves on seeing its screenshots and early gameplay on developer Antonio Freyre’s Twitter. It has a dusty, analogue, desert sci-fi setting reminiscent of Dune and Star Wars’ iconic ripping-off of Dune. After playing it, I’m happy to say I can heartily recommend this brief, creative exercise in tension and dread.

Freyre’s previous outing was last year’s Undetected, a retro revival take on Metal Gear Solid. I found the two share a similar philosophy on interrogating videogame violence, as well as a throwback presentation halfway between the first two PlayStations, but otherwise It Comes In Waves is its own beast.

You play as an unnamed wanderer who has done something… unspeakable. The game begins in an Anchorhead-style …