Final Fantasy I-VI Collection Anniversary Edition (Nintendo Switch) $50 (was $75) | $45 with extra coupon See at Amazon See at Target See at GameStop Final Fantasy I-VI Collection Anniversary Edition (PlayStation) $50 (was $75) at Amazon | $40 at Woot See at Amazon See at Walmart See at Woot Retro gamers and fans of turn-based RPGs can pick up a superb collection of them for a great price at Amazon and Woot. Final Fantasy I-VI Anniversary Collection is on sale for $50 for Nintendo Switch and PS4 at Amazon. This deal is also available at Target and GameStop. Amazon Customers who live in the Midwest can get an extra 10% off the Switch edition. Meanwhile, PlayStation users can snag a physical edition for only $40 at Woot. Overall, you're saving up to $35 off the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster Collection's $75 MSRP.Released last October for Switch and PlayStation, the Anniversary Edition comes with a sticker sheet of Final Fantasy character sprites. It's worth emphasizing that this is a true physical release, with all six Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters on the Switch cartridge or PS4 disc (fully compatible with PS5). Square Enix initially released the physical in 2023, but the small print run sold out extremely fast. Last fall's re-release brought the collection to major retailers for the first time as the Anniversary Edition.Continue Reading at GameSpot

Fans of cyberpunk manga can save 50% on the complete mainline run of Battle Angel Alita at Amazon. Originally priced at $180, the Battle Angel Alita Deluxe Edition Series Box Set is on sale for only $90 for a limited time. This is a terrific price for the premium collection, as you're getting nearly 2,400 pages of manga across six hardcover books. Created by Yukito Kishiro, Battle Angel Alita remains popular 35 years after its debut in 1990. The manga is widely regarded as a classic within the cyberpunk genre. Continue Reading at GameSpot

Todays New York Times Games Connections puzzle is back, and its ready to test your word-sorting skills. You will need to know a whole lot more than just how to play Connections; you'll need to know all the definitions for the words and have a good grasp of each of the categories.

Square Enix's Final Fantasy series may be nearing its fourth decade of life, but that doesn't mean gamers have had the chance to experience all or even one of its games. In light of that, such players might want to know what the best order is for playing through the Final Fantasy series, as that is key to maintaining their interest and to them getting the most out of the beloved franchise.

The main aim for week 4 was learning how to switch scenes (for the purpose of a house) and add more to the map in terms of nature. The first thing I did was to work on the switching scene mechanics. I started by placing the outside of the house on the map; then, I created a new scene for the interior of that house. I took some time and many YouTube tutorials, but I was eventually able to get the triggers to switch scenes working with the player so that when the hitbox of the trigger

Sunrise on the Reaping, the highly-anticipated Hunger Games prequel book, comes out tomorrow. Itll tell the story of the Second Quarter Quell, the Hunger Games that Katnisss gruff mentor Haymitch won. Considering the success of the previous Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which was all about the dark origin of despotic President Snow, its likely that Sunrise on the Reaping will be just as popular. Theres already a movie in development, coming out next November.Naturally, were all wondering if Suzanne Collins will pen another Hunger Games book. Theres a whole world to explore and years of history before Katnisss story.But one things for certain: Suzanne Collins longtime editor David Leviathan told Variety that while hes not certain what stories Collins will want to explore next, shes probably not going to do a sequel.I believe the ending of Mockingjay is the ending of the series, he said.Collins is very specific about what she writes and only revisits the world of the Hunger Games when she has something to say.Suzanne always starts with the philosophical point she wants to explore, explained Leviathan. And I think Haymitch and the 50th Hunger Games were the perfect grounds on which she could make readers think about the nature of authority and questions of when we obey and when we rebel. One of the genius things about the prequel is that suddenly readers understand that history is made as much by the long game as it is by the immediate battles.Its comforting to know that if Collins returns once more to Panem, itll draw from the past and leave Katnisss story with its satisfying finality. Sunrise on the Reaping comes out on March 18, with the movie adaptation set to hit theaters on Nov. 20, 2026.

Announced at The Mix + Kinda FunnySpring Game Showcase Monday, Atari is bringing back 80s arcade defense game Missile Command. Titled Missile Command Delta, the new game comes from from 13AM Games and Mighty Yell and looks to be a more elaborate reimagining than were used to from Ataris revivals.This isnt the first time modern Atari has revived the Missile Command series back in 2020, it released Missile Command: Recharged, a mobile 2D remake of the classic that made its way to other platforms a couple years later. That came as part of the Recharged series, which has also brought classics like Asteroids and Centipede back in updated but generally straightforward releases.Delta, on the other hand, looks to be a new take on the franchise, with the trailer showing a 3D environments set in an underground bunker, and the player interacting with a hex-based grid. Ataris official description calls it a turn-based mystery and promises a twisting, narrative thriller as well as exploration and puzzles.Exactly how all that fits together, we dont know quite yet, but theres already more going on here than were used to from Missile Command. Atari hasnt yet announced a release date, and the game is heading to PC, PlayStation 5, and Switch.

My Korean languagejourneyIn 2023, coming out of the doldrums of the pandemic, I was rediscovering my love for type design. At the beginning of that year I dusted off an old type project, Peasy, and worked diligently to get it ready for release. I spent a lot of nights and weekends, and even though the later stages of finishing a font can be tedious, it was a great learningprocess.Later that year, my dad, feeling lonely since my mom passed in 2022, said he might want to move to Korea to live in a Silvertown. This is the name they give to pricey senior apartments where they provide three meals a day, health and fitness facilities, various activities, and opportunities to socialize. While at first my brother and I were against it, we came around to the idea, and my dad ended up moving in November of last year. But when he first mentioned the possibility of returning to Korea, I decided I should start trying to learn Korean so I could help him if he were to move. I signed up for an online class with the SF Korean Center and got placed at the Intermediate 1level.As a Korean-American, Ive often felt shame that I couldnt speak Korean better. When we were little, my parents thoughtlike many other immigrant parents at the timespeaking English with us would help us succeed in this country. So the Korean I did know was from basic things I happened to pick up from my parents and five weeks of language study I did in Seoul after my freshman year of college. Starting in on learning Korean again after so many years, I quickly found myself getting drawn inwatching dramas, following Korean accounts, joining apps to chat with natives who want to improve their English, trying lots of methods to learn and improve. It has been a mix of fun and frustrating, knowing Im improving but still feeling my language skills are poor. I know every sentence I say or write has a mistake or two in it. After a year and half of serious study, I can generally communicate what I want to say, but Im a long way fromfluent.During this time, my time for type design has regrettably fallen away. While Ive been curious what it would be like to design a Korean font, I havent looked into it seriously. But last month, a design professor I know, Yeohyun Ahn, reached out to invite me to show work in a group exhibition at the ISEA electronic art festival being held this May in Seoul. I replied with an immediate yes, but I had to think hard about what I could make for the show. I remembered an old interactive animated sketch I made, where letters of the alphabet could transition into each other by moving the negative space shapes, or counters, inside a rectangle container.I wondered, could this work for the Korean alphabet, Hangul, too? Hangul is a phonetic writing system for the Korean language, invented by King Sejong in the 15th century to promote literacy among the Korean people. Prior to the creation of Hangul, Korean was written using thousands of Chinese characters that took years of schooling to learn, so only the noble class had the privilege of literacy.In Hangul, consonants and vowel shapes are combined to form each syllable. In Korean typefaces, this involves a lot of inner adjustment to make each combined syllable feel balanced. Before I started looking at Korean type closely, I naively thought Korean might be easier to design than Latin. (No kerning pairs!) But its actually another beast altogetherlike kerning in two dimensions.With the sketch of the animating letters in mind, I set out to draw my first ever set of Hangul characters, using the same concept from the Latinletting the negative space define the form of eachletter.My process has been to design these characters first in Robofont, export the paths with a Python script, then import them into Processing to manipulate them with code. Then, inspired by surprising overlaps between the two languages that have stuck out to me on my language learning journey, I have been creating some animations of Korean and English words, where the words transition between eachother.Here are some of the results so far. In this first animation, the morphing words and life are a metaphor for the flow of our everydaylives.I was surprised by how the word for stain, , sounds like someone pointing it out (oh, look) inEnglish.In this animation, the words for push and pull in both languages make for a fun play on words. means to push and means topull.Finally, the everyday words and many sound very similar and mean almost the samething.The concept for this project is to explore unexpected connections between the two languages using custom letterforms that can transition from one writing system to the other. Working across and between these two languages has been a process of discovery.I hope to make something that could only come from my unique vantage point as a type designer, creative coder, and Korean heritage language learner. Its been a surprising twist, being able to combine my interest in type design and learning Korean in this newway. If you happen to be in Korea in 2025, my work will be shown (at high res and frame rate!) at Seoul Arts Center at the end of May and GMAP in Gwangju in JulyAugust. Ill be sharing more on the project installation on Instagram: follow me at @pcho and @typotopo.Type, between two languages was originally published in UX Collective on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

I try to write about emerging trends in this column, but this week I'm flipping the script, as they say, and taking a look at the end of four popular things: Neo-medievalism, Kendrick Lamar, memes, and movies are all in the process of being thrown into the garbage heap by young people. Lady Gaga and the death of neo-medievalism If you watched Lady Gaga's appearance on Saturday Night Live on March 8, you might not have known you were witnessing the end of a youth trend, the moment when neo-medievalism went from cool to commodity.Along with hosting, Gaga played her new single "Abracadabra" for the SNL audience, and she was doing a lot. The song's pure pop hooks mixed with hard dance beats would have been at home on Gaga's 2008 release The Fame, so this is Lady Gaga reheating her own nachos. But there are much older nachos being reheated too: From the Gregorian chants of the background singers to Gaga's dancers rocking corpse paint and plague-doctor outfits, Gaga is dabbling in neo-medievalism, an aesthetic born in cutting-edge art and fashion circles that has been slowly oozing toward the mainstream over the last few years. Maybe in response to the world devolving from globalism to warring regional powers, just like the Middle Ages, fashion designers like Hedi Slimane started dressing models in ren-faire style outfits made of leather to make them look like "moody princes." Meanwhile, outside-of-the-mainstream musicians like Dandelion Wine began adding drum machines and synths to Middle Ages-style melodies. The neo-medieval style is based on people's ideas of history, not the real article (I doubt a 13th century peasant from Hungary would know what to make of "Abracadabra") so it owes a debt to RPG video games, fantasy movies, and Dungeons and Dragons. Over the last few years, neo-medievalism has become a whole thing. But the 1990s swing revival was a whole thing too, and all whole things die the way Big Bad Voodoo Daddy did: Too many people started paying attention, and what was once cool and underground becomes ridiculous and embarrassing. You could see the cracks forming when Chappell Roan showed up at the Grammys looking like this: But Roan is at least in her 20s. Lady Gaga is nearly 40 years old. She's still great, but she's a last-gen artist for moms driving small SUVs now, and her copping the neo-medieval style on a stage big enough for you and I to see it is a death knell for the movement. For a historical pop-culture equivalent, ask yourself who was "voguing" or dressing in a neo-Renaissance style after Madonna appeared on the VMAs in 1990. So look for the mass-market-friendly version of the Middle Ages to hit the back-to-school clothing racks at Target this summer, for "Abracadbra" to be played at weddings, and for the cool kids to ditch the fairy wings and clown makeup for whatever the next thing is. Has Kendrick Lamar jumped the shark?Speaking of things that were once cool... Kendrick Lamar! Drake didn't have many good bars during the famous Drake vs. Kendrick rap war, but he had one punchline that ended up landing hard. On "Family Matters," Drake raps, "Kendrick just opened his mouth; somebody hand him a Grammy right now," a line that plays on the oversized adulation Kendrick had started receiving. Since then, Kendrick performed at the Super Bowl, guested on Playboi Carti's album, and has been handed five Grammys. It wouldn't be weird to hear "Not Like Us" played in the same small SUV that just bumped "Abracadabra." As Drake's line suggests: You can't get this popular without the hardcore saying, "Wait, is this guy actually corny?" Case-in-point: the T-shirts. On Lamar's "TV off," he shouts out the name of producer Mustard in a way that seemed designed to be meme-ified. As you could have predicted, people started making and selling T-shirts of the moment, like this early and popular version featuring Kendrick as a Peanuts character saying "Mustarddddddd!" Or this one from Etsy, that plays on Heinz logo: Credit: Etsy Then other people started noticing how cornball all this gear is and posting responses like this: And this: Whether it's normal or brain-rot, the question is the same: "Who is buying this shit?" The answer: Lame people. It's not Kendrick's fault that Etsy entrepreneurs are making a quick buck off his work, but in the pitiless court of public pop culture opinion, K.Dot seems to be strapping on the water skis and heading for the ramp. What is the great meme drought of 2025?For my third "thing that might be over," I'm looking at memes themselves. TikToker @goofangel started the ball rolling by proclaiming that there were no new, original memes in March of 2025. Others picked up on the trend and started posting picture of the Great Depression to illustrate the supposed lack of memes: Or expressing how the meme depression makes them feel: Others have pointed out that the Great Meme Depression is an original meme that was created in March, identifying an important paradox in the meme-verse: Still others looked to the future with a sense of hope: The "death of memes" is mostly ironic, but maybe memes themselves have reached their logical conclusion and younger people will start doing something else with their time. It's a pipe dream, sure, but you never know. Viral video of the week: I accidentally got way too invested in this TikTok movie My final entry in the list of dead culture things: cinema. That kids don't really care about movies any more isn't a new thing, but in this week's viral video, YouTuber Danny Gonzalez takes a look at what's replacing traditional films for more and more young people: long-form stories designed to be watched like TikToks or Instagram reels. Movies like "True Heiress vs. Fake Queen Bee," an 85-part(!) series that tells the story of a high school heiress's feud with a popular girl.Gonzalez wonders at one point whether the "movie" was actually written by AI. So, as an experiment, I asked ChatGPT to write a movie with a similar idea, and I think it did at least as good a job as the actual "True Heiress vs. Fake Queen Bee" script. Here's part of the first scene:Lily walks past a group of students who pause and stare at her. One whispers to another.Student 1: Wait, who is that?Student 2: I think... shes, like, an heiress or something. Some big family with loads of money.Student 3 (skeptical): An heiress? To what, like... a candy store?Lily (overhearing, with a smile): Actually, its a global luxury fashion brand. Just inherited a stake last month. But thank you for noticing.

Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday update is an important one, patching 57 security vulnerabilities (including seven zero-day flaws). It's an update I'd encourage all Windows users to install as soon as possible, especially as those zero-day vulnerabilities pose a serious security risk to anyone using a PC.As it happens, this update comes with an extra patch that Microsoft didn't initially disclose, or, for that matter, intend: removing Copilot from Windows. Copilot disappears in the latest Windows updateSome users, after installing KB5053598 (Windows 11) or KB5053606 (Windows 10) on their PCs, will notice the update not only unpinned Copilot from the taskbar, but uninstalled the Copilot app as well. Microsoft hasn't disclosed why this issue is present in the latest Windows updates, but says it hasn't seen the bug in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, the version of Copilot directly integrated into Microsoft's office suite. The company says it is working on a new update to fix the problem, and, presumably, restore Copilot access to affected Windows users. If you're missing Copilot and want it back before Microsoft issues a new update, you can reinstall the app from the Microsoft Store and pin it back to your taskbar yourself.However, it's possible you don't want to reinstall Copilot. After all, there are a number of users out there who are searching for ways to disable Copilot, and there are even tools out there that help you remove it from Windows. Perhaps Microsoft actually did you a favor here. There is an irony to the situation, that the company pushing its AI tools so hardwhether you want them or notjust removed them on your behalf as part of a software patch. That's not to say Copilot is useless: There are a number of potential benefits the AI tool offers Windows users (and, now, even Mac users). But if you haven't found any benefits to these tools in your work or personal life in the two-and-a-half years since ChatGPT launched this generative AI revolution, you might be content with Microsoft's inadvertent decision to remove its flagship assistant.