With the recent announcement of Banjo-Kazooie joining Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, fans were quick to come up with a dream list of characters across the gaming spectrum. However, with Microsoft teaming up with Nintendo on future business ventures, the arrival of some well-known Xbox mascots might not be far-fetched. We're not quite at the point where Halo protagonist Master Chief can join in on the fight, but thanks to the power of mods, someone has already made that dream come true. Created by Demonslayerx8, the Master Chief mod in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is extremely detailed and fitting of the legendary Spartan. However, the mod was built on the foundation of Solid Snake's framework, meaning you'll see plenty of his movesets in the gameplay - and probably the closest we'll get to Master Chief combat-wise. Nonetheless, it's quite impressive what the mod has managed to achieve. Now that the door has been opened for other modders to flex their creative muscles, we can't wait to see what creations come to light in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate next. Master Chief appearing in the game is only a piece of that pie, and there's potential for plenty of creative ideas to flourish. Perhaps we'll start seeing more mods introduce the likes of the long-demanded Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII, or if we're being extra saucy, some PlayStation mascots such as Uncharted's Nathan Drake or Ratchet & Clank. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is now available exclusively for Nintendo Switch.

Last week, we reported about an interview from Famitsu in which Final Fantasy 7 Remake director Tetsuya Nomura apparently had to "restrict" Tifa's chest to fit a more modern design. As it turns out, this was all a mistranslation. According to some new information presented by Twinfinite, Tifa's chest was not restricted in size after all, but rather Nomura's comment was simply an error of translating Japanese to English. The editor's note on Twinfinite stated that "the context and wording indicted clearly that this refers to the tightness and design of Tifa’s clothing, not to her chest size." It's easy to see why some (admittedly including us) might've misinterpreted it as a restriction of her chest size, but due to the connotation of the word in a Japanese context, the "restrict" aspect was actually in relation to "restricting" her clothing, adding a more believable, proper bra in the new design. Monster Hunter content creator Gaijinhunter also took to Twitter to clarify the translation error: I am annoyed by bad translations so here is mine. SQEX didn’t tell them to shrink her [censored], they asked that they didn’t use a clothing design that made them flop all over during action sequences to the point of being unnatural, considering she is an active/sporty type. pic.twitter.com/J3le5Q2pe1— Gaijinhunter (@aevanko) June 20, 2019 Gaijinhunter's description is actually more apt. This should be good news for those who initially believed that Square Enix were shrinking her chest size, when in actuality, the Japanese translation simply referred to giving her more fitting attire since she is an agile, active fighter after all. She performs fast attacks, jumps, and leaps, so it's within reason that the designers felt that a proper sports bra was in order. In the original game, discounting the low-res designs of all the characters, it was never made clear exactly what attire Tifa actually wore, but we imagine it came with a bit of impracticality in battle since she didn't tout a sports bra. This has seemingly been fixed in the Remake. Final Fantasy 7 Remake releases on March 3, 2020 exclusively for PlayStation 4.

Borderlands 3, and games of its caliber, are no walks in the park. The looter-shooter RPG's by Gearbox Software take up a considerable amount of gameplay time, easily stretching into the dozens of hours marks. We now know that Borderlands 3 will be no different, as the game's length was recently revealed - and as it turns out, it's also the longest Borderlands game to date. In an interview with VentureBeat, the game's creative director, Paul Sage, talked about the length of the main story. According to Sage, the main story should take players around 35 hours to beat. This is excluding side quests and optional activities in the sprawling open worlds, which now take you to different planets entirely - no longer locked down to Pandora. In comparison (and according to HowLongtoBeat), the first Borderlands game's story took players around 22.5 hours to beat, with Borderlands 2 clocking in at 30.5 hours. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, on the other hand, is the shortest of the bunch, taking only 17.5 hours to beat. For completionists, most Borderlands games can last upwards of 80+ hours. This is also taking into consideration the multitude of side quests which can easily encompass several story-driven games on their own. Borderlands 3 is shaping up to be our biggest adventure yet in the series. With the main quest clocking in at 35 hours, there's no telling just how much content will be crammed into the other aspects of the game. I, for one, will be playing Borderlands 3 for months after its launch. Borderlands 3 releases on September 13, 2019 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Epic Games Store.

We've all fallen in love with video games at some point in our lives - usually at points where a single game could make all the difference in your life. Let's accept the truth: video games are art, there's no denying that. And with art comes being emotionally invested in the experience, being moved by the wonderful stories they tell us, and generally changing our lives for the better. Today, I asked the Nexus team which game had the biggest impact on their lives - a difficult question to answer, but one that provided plenty of self-reflection. Sam Shadow of the Colossus Gaming always played an important part in my development as a child. Since I got my hands on thematically challenging games like Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy VII, gaming opened the door for me to interactive, sprawling worlds and stories with levels of maturity rarely found in the entertainment industry. It wasn't until I played Shadow of the Colossus (currently my favourite game of all time) that I realized just how powerful gaming as a medium was. Apart from being absorbed in a beautifully desolate world, Shadow of the Colossus captured my imagination on a scale that no other piece of entertainment has. The fairy tale-esque nature of the story - a simple tale of a lone wanderer facing insurmountable odds to give life back to his lover - hit home for me. It resonated with my life, not only that I once had someone dearest to me that I would give anything to bring back (even for just a moment), it was also the challenge of overcoming the colossi, these larger than life creatures, that imposed and mirrored the obstacles of life itself. It taught me patience, the importance of love, and the lengths anyone would go to for fleeting happiness. Shadow of the Colossus remains the most emotionally powerful video game ever made, in my opinion, and a major milestone in my gaming career. Shelly Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice The game that that had the biggest impact on me personally was Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. The thing with this game is that it is based around the main character's mental illness - Senua's psychosis. You rely on this very deeply to progress through the game, but at the same time, it shows one how strong people with mental illnesses are. For me, the greatest impact was that I identified strongly with Senua and her struggles with her illness. The game as a whole made it very difficult to play in long stretches, as my anxiety grew each time I did play. But Senua showed me it was okay to tell people I had anxiety, and that my strength to defeat it is my own challenge but that I can overcome it as long as I keep getting right back up again. If you struggle with mental illness, I would recommend you spend some time with Senua, to remind yourself just how strong you can be. If you don't struggle with mental illness, I would also recommend you spend some time with Senua, so that you can understand better the challenges those who do suffer go through - and that you can help them with just a little faith. Andrew Links This is a tough one. A dozen potential options rattle through my mind: playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the arcade is definitely my first gaming memory; playing Battle City on the NES with a mate was my first true couch-coop experience; spending hours hunkered down, ignoring friends and family, while travelling throughout the region of Amn in Baldur's Gate II is what got me hooked on RPGs. However, it was probably Microsoft Golf (now Links), which came pre-installed on a Windows 3.1 laptop my mom once brought home for work, that triggered an expansion of my interests beyond simple entertainment. As a golf game, it's fine; sharing the same basic framework with every golf game since. Pick your club, adjust your aim based on the wind speed and direction, tap once to start a swing-meter, tap again to hit the sweet spot (whenever I spend too much time giving Ubisoft crap for making games that are structurally identical, I'm reminded it could be worse, and I could be playing a sports game). The real draw was a robust course editor, something I spent hours fiddling with (initially making courses that required pinpoint accuracy to land on tiny patches of fairway amongst trees and lakes), and was swiftly educated in the importance of level designers. From the beginning of high school - when I first got a gaming-capable PC - I'd spend ages with any title that offered some form of built-in development tool. Real-time strategy games like StarCraft and Red Alert 2 were a treat, with increasingly user-friendly map-making tools, while the arrival of Neverwinter Nights gave me access to both map-building and scripting tools that allowed me to design my own RPG modules. I still recall several LAN sessions I spent staying up late - or getting up early - to try thrash out an interesting new map for us to play on. This experience generated an interest in level design, scripting, and an appreciation of the technical limitations developers have to work with; aspects I still consider in every game I play today. Rob Assassin's Creed Honestly, it would be the Assassin's Creed games (the first, and Ezio Trilogy) purely because that was the first time I have ever felt so attached to a game and its character. Don't get me wrong, there are tonnes of hours spent on Crash Bash, Hercules (PS1), and GTA San Andreas (still my favourite GTA title to date). AC Trilogy was just a complete masterpiece for me, and it's also the first game I immediately played again just after finishing it. Something about the way it all came together, the soundtrack, the character development, the charisma, just everything about it was a hook, line, and sinker for me. On the other hand though, there is also The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Say what you want about Bethesda now, but they used to be the pinnacle of first-person RPG's, and Oblivion set my standards for what a good RPG should be. It was also the second game I ever started just after finishing and when I finished it, I was left feeling empty inside, just as the AC trilogy mentioned above. Honourable mentions include The Godfather and Fable 3 - yes, I know everyone hated it, but it was my first Fable game, actually, and I fell in love with the series from there, that I went back and played the others. Lois Pokemon Red I think OG Pokémon Red had the biggest impact on me. I've always been someone who would rather live in a fantasy world and as a kid, that was the first explorable world I got my hands on. Anything before that was just side scrolling platformers and NES quick-play titles. It's a large part why I'm so into story-driven games (the more fleshed out, the better). Red holds a hearty portion of the passion I have for gaming in general and probably always will. Sahil Sonic the Hedgehog The game that had the biggest impact on my life would probably be Sonic the Hedgehog. Why? Well that's because it was literally the first video game I ever played. If it wasn't for Sonic the Hedgehog, I wouldn't be playing video games right now and thus it had the biggest impact on my life. Douw World of Warcraft What a question from our editor in chief! Many games lept forward for consideration. The Legacy of Kaine series for changing how I felt about fatalism, Knights of the Old Republic for the lessons and stories contained within, or even just Pharaoh for feeding my fascination with Egypt when I was younger, my brief flirt with competitive League Of Legends? But the more I thought about it the more the only answer I could give pushed itself more and more to the fore. It has to be World of Warcraft, a game that I started playing all the way back in my third year of university and that has stuck with me to this day. Whether it has been the excitement of getting hold of the broken hilt, managing to solo a raid boss as a tank at the last 3% of health or the many times spent with friends (met both in game and outside) playing the game we all enjoyed, and let's not even get started on how much I must have paid in subscription fees by now... World of Warcraft has been there through it all and been the game that I go back to in both bad and good times, now if you excuse me I have a new patch to get ready for. Gregg The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind The game that had the biggest impact on my life has to be The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. Being the first ever massively open world Roleplaying game I'd ever encountered as a young lad, I was completely sucked into the world and my youthful heart was filled with adventure and wonder. The ability to simply "Go anywhere" in the massive spanning continent of Morrowind and find level appropriate adventure astounded me and my younger days dedicated what modern day me would now consider an absolutely ludicrous amount of time - dedicated to exploring the wonders of the game from the lowliest mudcrab to the tallest red spire. It was at that stage I discovered the game was mod-able and the rest is history. Perhaps it's because I've grown jaded with age, or maybe even present day Gregg's expectation of an RPG is so much higher, but never again have I spent so long crossing empty fields in a game and enjoyed it so thoroughly. Lynley Dragonlance Chronicles *What Lynley was asking for has existed long before the internet knew how to render an image. I didn't have one game that impacted my future gaming hobby, it was rather a series - SSI's Goldboc Games based on the AD&D second edition ruleset. About the time these facts came out I had just about discovered the various novels that TSR were publishing based on their popular tabletop role playing sets and in particular I was hip deep into the Dragonlance Chronicles series. Not having much opportunity to play the tabletop version, getting my hands on your floppy discs and chunky manuals and journals enabled me to live out these fantasy epics. Taking on goblins, kobolds and eventually dragons and beholders brought the narratives laid out on the Journal to life. This was a way for all to exit AD&D without having to buy rulebooks, dice and find a group of players who could regularly meet. Honestly without this series I may never have been as interested in games as I am today. Darren God of War Since a young age I have been obsessed with ancient history and Gods of the past who had these amazing abilities. I would love to include Assassin's Creed into this conversation but God of War opened my imagination since the first game back in 2005. Kratos and Santa Monica Studio further shaped my passion and love for something in books and lore into a fully action packed game of chaos and history. Back then in grade 5 all the way to now and I still have that passion and love since the latest game left me on an absolute cliffhanger of emotion and prediction. God of War developed from blood and gore into an emotional storyline... with blood and gore, which somehow works perfectly. I judge games by storylines and captivation during and after I am done playing, I never raged with God of War but rather embraced the experience of playing it even when I struggled. I owe a big part of my imaginary world to God of War and I hope the franchise continues to grow from strength to strength. Kratos was a strong lead character who hid his weaknesses. I learnt a lot from him growing up about how to internalise and move on to fight another day but show compassion as his character developed into future games. He may not exactly be the ideal gaming role model for obvious reasons but he gets the job done at the end of the day. Gods, Demi-Gods, monsters of lore, God killing, deep history and a banger storyline. What’s not to love? Vincent Dance Dance Revolution (Vincent did not submit his response this week, so I've taken it upon myself to guess what he would've said. Same rule applies to everyone below). "Dance Dance Revolution changed my life. I've always kept my secret desire to dance hidden since I watched Step Up 2 The Streets. I needed an avenue to express my passion for dancing. Before playing Dance Dance Revolution, I used to be shy, but now I always bust a move at all my friend's weddings. Forget 1v1 in Rust, I challenge anyone to a dance-off. I'll even wear my Michael Jackson sparkling gloves to show you I mean business." Keegan Anthem "Anthem was a game-changer for me. I immediately fell in love with the menu screen, because it taught me patience. Then, the loading screens taught me to be even more patient. Then, after the fifteenth time my game crashed, I was given another life lesson in patience. I've never actually played the game longer than five minutes without it crashing, but it has taught me to hold back; to reconsider my decision to throw my expensive console out the window; to get up and keep trying over and over, hoping that one day, I may finally play Anthem. With so much lessons in patience, I'm a damn Zen master." Adam FIFA "No one is a bigger fan of FIFA on this planet than me. I've been hooked on FIFA since I was a wee lad, and felt a strong emotional connection to the joys and wonders of 22 men kicking a ball on an abnormally large field. Year after year, I never missed my opportunity to buy the ultra-deluxe edition of every FIFA game. And every year, I'm more than happy to throw money at EA because they really appreciate and love me." Thanks to everyone who did (and didn't) submit! I open the question to everyone else in the comments below!