Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is the second chapter of the planned Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy and tells the story of what happens after the main characters leave the dark, oppressive city of Midgar and set off into a gorgeous world. While there's still plenty more to come in the final entry, there's a monstrous amount of the 1997 original's tale to cover in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and players should expect to spend quite a lot of time uncovering it all. Read on to find out exactly how long it'll take you to beat Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

How long to beat Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

According to the developers of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the main story of this outing of Cloud and friends should take an average of 40 hours for most players to complete. That's a substantial amount of content for those just looking for a streamlined, story-focused experience and doesn't account for the bevy of side quests, collectibles, and mini-games the game has to offer. Instead, completionists can expect to spend over double that amount of time doing everything.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth contains nearly 100 hours worth of content.

You read that right: Those looking to complete the entirety of what comes packed in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth may be shocked to hear that the developers have also promised nearly 100 hours worth of total content. Certainly, there's no shortage of optional experiences for players to discover as they explore every nook and cranny of this pseudo-open-world chapter in the trilogy.

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Now that January is almost over, Hulu has released its schedule of all the new shows/movies coming to the streaming platform during February 2024. Starting on February 1, you can look forward to a lineup of content, both new and old.

To kick off February, you can watch FX's Feud: Capote vs. The Swans: Limited Series Premiere. The show is based on a book titled Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era. The series will follow a young writer named Truman Capote, played by Tom Hollander, who's surrounded by "society's most elite women" and ends up betraying their trust when he writes a book based on their lives.

But if you're looking for something more lighthearted, don't worry. Starting on February 8, you'll be able to watch the premiere of Season 3 of Abbott Elementary. Or you can watch people sing their hearts away in American Idol's 22nd season premiere on February 19.

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John Boyega is set to star and executive produce a television series prequel to the 2010 post-apocalyptic action film The Book of Eli, which originally featured Denzel Washington in the title role. The details were first reported by Deadline.

The upcoming series, currently in development, will explore the backstory of Washington's character in the original film. Boyega (Attack the Block, the Star Wars sequel trilogy) is slated to portray a younger Eli, collaborating with Gary Whitta (the original film's writer) and the directing duo Albert and Allen Hughes. Set 30 years before the original movie, the series will take place during or roughly around the immediate aftermath of a nuclear catastrophe. If you need your memory jogged, check out the original film's trailer below.

The original film followed Eli, a nomad navigating a post-apocalyptic America, safeguarding a sacred book crucial to humanity's salvation. The film, which also starred Gary Oldman and Mila Kunis, received mixed reviews but was a box-office success, earning $157.1 million worldwide on an $80 million budget.

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Disney Dreamlight Valley's A Rift in Time expansion features plenty of fresh ways to interact with your valley and its inhabitants, including an entirely new tool, the Royal Hourglass, which lets you find special materials for crafting various items at timebending tables. Among these materials are rare resources known as fragments that you'll have to round up if you want to make some of the expansion's most sought-after pieces of furniture. Here's everything you need to know about finding and using fragments.

How to get timebending fragments in Disney Dreamlight Valley and how they work

Timebending fragments can be found anywhere in the game while using your Royal Hourglass, but only one type of fragment can spawn per day. Unfortunately, there's no set schedule for these spawns, meaning getting the ones you want is entirely luck-based.

Your best course of action is to log in daily and check to see which timebending fragment is available that day. You can do this by going to Menu > Collection > Eternity Isle > Timebending and then scrolling down to Fragments. The one that is spawning that day will say "Available today" at the bottom of the screen when selected.

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There are a lot of additional materials and resources to find in Disney Dreamlight Valley's A Rift in Time expansion, including various timebending items that are used in crafting furniture and such at timebending tables. One of the rarest resource of all, however, is known as Glimmer. This special material can only be found in specific places in limited quantities, so let's dive in and help you understand how to get as much of it as possible each day.

Where to get Glimmer in Disney Dreamlight Valley

Glimmer can only be found within Realms after getting your Royal Hourglass to Level 2. This means you'll need to fast travel to the realms you have unlocked each day to find some. But there's some bad news about farming for Glimmer.

You'll need to fast travel to Realms to find Glimmer.

While it's clear that you'll need plenty of this resource, there's a daily limit on how much you can find. Smaller Realms like WALL-E's will generally only provide you with a single piece of Glimmer per day, while you can score between twoto three in larger Realms like Frozen's. Once you've exhausted each Realm's daily allotment, you'll need to check back in the following day to keep the grind going.

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Palworld presents numerous challenges that you need to tackle as you progress further into its sandbox campaign. One, in particular, serves as the conclusion of the game's tutorial stage. Here's our guide on how to find and beat the Rayne Syndicate's Tower boss in Palworld. This particular battle pits you against Zoey and Grizzbolt.

How to find and beat the Rayne Syndicate's Tower boss in Palworld

The Palworld Rayne Syndicate's Tower boss is located due northwest of your starting location. The coordinates are X: 107, Y: -437.

If you're just starting out, look northeast and you'll see a lone structure with a high-tech design in the distance. Its eerie bluish light is also visible even when it's late at night.

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Wrestling fans don't have to wait much longer for the latest edition of the 2K's annual series. WWE 2K24 releases on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC via Steam on March 8. There are multiple versions of WWE 2K24 available on all consoles, each with its own unique box art featuring different WWE Superstars. This includes special deluxe and Wrestlemania editions that come with tons of bonus content and let you play the full game a few days early. Some versions even include a free digital copy of last year's game, WWE 2K23, as a bonus.

All versions of WWE 2K24 are available for preorder at various online retailers. Let's go over each version, their unique preorder bonuses and add-on content, and links to preorder.

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Palworld sees your character exploring distant lands and vast expanses. Thankfully, you won't always need to do the whole endeavor on foot. Here's our guide on how to ride Pals in Palworld.

How to ride Pals in Palworld

You can ride Pals by crafting their respective harnesses. Here's a quick summary:

• Certain Pals that you catch might have a unique feature in that you can craft harnesses or collars for them. You can see what's available by browsing the Technology menu. You may then unlock this particular blueprint by spending Technology Points.
• Some Pal-related items provide additional functions, like holding Foxspark to turn the creature into a makeshift flamethrower. Others, meanwhile, allow you to ride them.
• A few examples of Pals that can be ridden include Eikthyrdeer, Nitewing, and Dinossom. Remember that you must first catch at least one of these Pals to see if they have this particular function.

The Pal Gear Workbench lets you craft a bunch of stuff for creatures that you've captured.How to craft Pal saddles

The saddles that you craft to ride Pals in Palworld come from the Pal Gear Workbench, a level 6 tech blueprint. Once unlocked, select it from the Build menu (i.e. "B" key). You need 10x Paldium Fragment, 30x Wood, and 2x Cloth to construct this workbench.

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Avowed, the upcoming RPG by developer Obsidian, is set to feature open-zone areas comparable in size to the ones in the studio's previous game, The Outer Worlds. In an interview for the Official Xbox Podcast, republished by Xbox Wire, game director Carrie Patel and gameplay director Gabe Paramo shared details about scope, combat features, and how quests will work.

"It’s open-zone, size comparable to The Outer Worlds areas on the larger side, and [with] multiple paths essentially to tackle combat situations, or avoid them," Paramo said. In case you're unfamiliar with the term, open-zone refers to independent maps that are interconnected with each other, but don't make up for a single open-world to traverse through seamlessly.

Breaking down the gameplay shown during the Xbox Developer Direct on January 18, Paramo takes the segment about the quest in Shatterscarp, which shares a glimpse of dialogue-based choices, as an example of the nature of missions in Avowed. The quest in question is "entirely discoverable, which means it's also entirely missable," he added.

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Universal Pictures is working on a new film in the Jurassic World franchise, with veteran screenwriter David Koepp on board. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Koepp, known for his contributions to the original Jurassic Park and its 1997 sequel, will be writing the script for this project.

Unnamed sources indicate that the project and screenplay are both already "far enough along… in a well-liked shape" that there is the potential of a possible 2025 release.

No director has been appointed yet. However, reports suggest that Frank Marshall, the experienced producer of the Jurassic World trilogy, will be returning as a producer, alongside Patrick Crowley. Steven Spielberg, the mastermind behind the original Jurassic Park, will serve as executive producer through his Amblin Entertainment banner.

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It was only a matter of time before Palworld, the wildly popular monster-collecting survival game the internet has come to refer to as "Pokemon with guns," received a mod to turn it into actual Pokemon with guns. That time is now here, just days after release, and it's for that reason the game's modding community is attempting to get ahead of any potential legal action from Pokemon parent company Nintendo by distancing itself from the mod ahead of time.

In a post on the Palworld Modding Community Discord server (accessible via a link on the PalworldMods subreddit), server admin Archery 100 announced that links and files related to Pokemon mods would be banned on the Discord, and anyone caught posting such material would be immediately banned. However, players can still engage in "casual discussion" of the mod.

"Hey y'all, I'm sure many of you have been seeing all the content regarding the Pokemon mod for Palworld," Archery 100 writes. "While the memes and such are hilarious, the mod alone hosts a giant risk to the community and we'll need to take precautions so that Nintendo's lawyers don't nuke all of us with litigious actions. The mod is highly likely using ripped assets and is very illegal in Nintendo's eyes."

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Two decades after it was first released, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is finally getting a sequel. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is a choice-driven first-person action RPG built within the same world as the World of Darkness tabletop game series--sort of how Baldur's Gate 3 is a video game built within the framework of Dungeons & Dragons and Cyberpunk 2077 is based on Cyberpunk Red. Below, we go over everything we know about Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2.

Originally being developed by Hardsuit Labs, Bloodlines 2 was eventually handed off to The Chinese Room in 2021. In response to the lengthy development cycle--which would only be longer now that the game would be handed off to another studio--publisher Paradox Interactive announced refunds for all physical and digital editions of Bloodlines 2.

In a June 2023 blog post, Paradox wrote: "We are proactively refunding all preorders of physical products, including the Collector's Edition. The digital versions of the First Blood Edition, Unsanctioned Edition, and Blood Moon Edition remain, but can be refunded if you choose."

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Call of Duty's latest DLC operator is available now, and it's unlike anything that's come before it. The newest operator is called Bath Time, and it turns your soldier into a rubber ducky.

Available for 1,800 COD Points, or about $18, the bundle comes with the rubber ducky head for your soldier, as well as weapons called The Ducky and Rubber Rampage. You also get the "What the Duck" weapon sticker, the "Duck This" calling card, and the "Bath Time" emblem. There is also a weapon charm in the bundle called "Quack'n Up."

The Bath Time operator doesn't have its own unique finishing move, however, as it recycles the "Stick 'N Move" finisher that other operators already have.

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It's no secret that Palworld is heavily influenced by Pokemon, specifically regarding the creatures that reside in the game's world. So one modder decided to just go ahead and add Pikachu, Torchic, and Piplup to the survival game.

YouTuber ToastedShoes teased a Pokemon mod for Palworld on X (formerly known as Twitter) with a short trailer seen below. The main character becomes Ash instead of custom created, with Pikachu seen mining resources as one point. There is also Misty wielding a gun, with Ash rocking a bow and arrow.

Palworld already has a Pokemon mod
Full video on my YouTube tomorrow! pic.twitter.com/X1ohT6mJiT

— Toasted (@ToastedShoes) January 22, 2024

ToastedShoes is no stranger to modding big-name games. In fact, earlier this month the Australian added Disney characters to Mortal Kombat 1. Toy Story's Woody rips apart Monsters, Inc.'s Sulley at one point, and it's as disturbingly hilarious as it sounds.

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MrBeast, or James "Jimmy" Donaldson, is reportedly on the verge of finalizing a deal with Prime Video, estimated at around $100 million. Puck News has disclosed that the YouTube personality plans to launch a competition series on the streaming platform, although the specific focus of the show remains undisclosed.

This move aligns with the ongoing trend of digital influencers exploring opportunities beyond their online origins. In a departure from conventional release strategies, the initial episode of MrBeast's competition series is anticipated to debut on his YouTube channel before becoming available on Prime Video. This approach underscores the evolving dynamics between online platforms and streaming services, enabling content creators to leverage their existing fan base while also venturing into mainstream entertainment.

MrBeast is closing a deal to have a TV show greenlit for Prime Video.

The deal is worth nearly $100M & the first episode will air on his YouTube channel before going on Prime Video.

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— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) January 22, 2024

The reported agreement marks a significant step for MrBeast, recognized as the most-subscribed individual on YouTube with 233 million subscribers. MrBeast, known for philanthropic efforts and attention-grabbing stunts, has recently expanded his portfolio by making cameos in three animated films in 2023, including titles like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Under the Boardwalk, and Migration.

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Rocksteady has revealed the first look at the Joker in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Detailing the post-launch plans for the action shooter, developer Rocksteady showed off Mista J as a new playable character. He will be available to unlock in Season 1 of the game, which will take place in March.

If you've played the Batman Arkham series, then you might be wondering--spoilers for a 9 year old game forthcoming--how is the Joker alive. And, well , looking like a teenage version of the character. The answer is Elseworlds, which are stories that occur in alternate realities and deviate from the established continuity of DC's comics.

According to Rocksteady, this new Joker used to be part of the Suicide Squad in the Elseworld he comes from. "I think we've taken him back to the kind of more vaudeville roots of Joker," Rocksteady's advanced scriptwriter Kate Watson says in the trailer. "He's masking insecurities with traditional Joker behavior. But deep down, he's not sure who he is yet."

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Halo Season 2 will have a darker story with better dialogue. In an interview with SFX magazine, with an extract republished in GamesRadar, actor Pablo Schreiber said the upcoming season will have more intense action sequences. Moreover, Master Chief John-117's writing is seemingly getting stronger.

"I think [David Wiener, Halo's new showrunner] is just a more gifted writer, to be quite frank," Schreiber told SFX. "I think his dialogue is better. He puts words in the mouth that feel more appropriate for the character."

The actor emphasizes that Halo Season 2 is stronger than the first. The new art director, James Foster, plays a part in this, creating "a visual world that just makes a lot more sense," with a focus on a cinematic feeling. "It's just a better season, period," Schreiber added.

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Piranha Bytes, the studio behind franchises like Gothic, Risen, and Elex, has addressed rumors that the studio may be facing closure.

"Yes, it's true. We, Piranha Bytes, are in a difficult situation. There are a lot of news about us circulating right now and this is our answer: Don't write us off yet! We do everything to continue creating worlds in which you can lose yourself. This is what our hearts have always beaten for," Piranha Bytes said in a statement.

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— Piranha Bytes (@Piranha_Bytes) January 22, 2024

The studio also explained it is still looking for a partner on its next project and will provide an update as soon as it can. Piranha Bytes was founded in 1997 and bought by Phenomedia in 1999. Phenomedia went bankrupt in 2002 and Piranha Bytes management bought out the studio. It was independent until 2019 when it was acquired by THQ and Embracer Group.

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The Office star Rain Wilson, who played Dwight on the workplace comedy series, has shared a nice story about a flight attendant who left him a handwritten note on a napkin telling him how much they loved the series and what it meant to them.

A flight attendant named Melanie from Alaska Airlines dropped the note onto Wilson's lap, apparently without him seeing it happen, and he shared the message on social media. In it, Melanie wrote, "The Office got me through some of the darkest days of my life. I can't thank you enough for that."

Wilson said he is "so humbled" to have starred on The Office, a show that "affected, touched, comforted, and inspired. And continues to do so!"

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It's official, RoboCop: Rogue City will allow you to clean the streets of Old Detroit--again--as it's receiving a New Game Plus mode. Developer Teyon detailed the fan-requested addition, as well as a new difficulty mode, and several other tweaks being introduced to the game this week.

On its Steam blog, Teyon added that players will be able to relive the full "invincible robotic law enforcement officer" experience once RoboCop: Rogue City has been updated. When the original game launched last year, one of the criticisms for an otherwise fun RoboCop game was that it was easy to miss out on optional one-time-only quests and Auto-9 upgrades, and the game was also stingy with how many points players could earn to help upgrade OCP's high-tech cop.

Teyon says that once the patch has been installed, a new save file will be created for players who have completed the game and New Game Plus mode will be unlocked. As an extra reward, a Golden Auto-9 skin will be unlocked as soon as you beat the game.

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