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Giuseppe Nelva

Former News Editor

About Giuseppe Nelva

Started as News Editor at TechRaptor in January 2023, following over 20 years of professional experience in gaming journalism both on print media and on the web.

Giuseppe is a veteran of the industry and a proud weeb and gamer since the era of the Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. RPGs, MMORPGs, visual novels, and Microsoft Flight Simulator are his daily bread, but he enjoys almost every other genre, prominently strategy, sandbox, simulation, and survival games. 

Articles by Giuseppe Nelva


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Brian Cox tells the Story of Tekken
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Brian Cox Helps You Get Ready for Tekken 8 By Telling The Story So Far, and It's Highly Entertaining

The story of the Tekken series is fairly convoluted, so many may be wondering whether they'll enjoy Tekken 8. Don't worry, as Brian Cox is here to help.

January 9, 2024 | 09:53 EST

Street Fighter 6 Spy X Family Crossover Art
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Street Fighter 6 Spy × Family Crossover Released and It's the Stuff of Nightmares

Capcom has finally released and detailed the collaboration with the Spy × Family Code: White movie in Street Fighter 6, but it may not be as sweet as you thought.

January 8, 2024 | 10:14 EST

Sony PlayStation's Best Place to Play Slide at CES 2024
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PlayStation Boasts Record 123 Million Monthly Active Users, Shows Glimpse of Gravity Rush Movie

Sony is hosting its traditional conference just before the 2024 International CES in Las Vegas. Of course, PlayStation played a part in the celebrations. 

January 8, 2024 | 08:51 EST

The heroines of Winter Memories
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Adult Pixel Art RPG Winter Memories Released on Steam Following Highly-Rated Summer Memories

One of the most appreciated adult games of the past few years is Dojin Otome's Summer Memories, and now a sequel titled Winter Memories has just been released.

January 8, 2024 | 03:09 EST

Dragon's Dogma 2 and Geforce RTXX 4080 Super
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Dragon's Dogma 2 and More Support DLSS and Ray Tracing as Nvidia Announces RTX 40 Super Series

Nvidia hosted its press conference at CES 2024 and had a few announcements including new graphics card models and more games supporting its core technologies.

January 8, 2024 | 01:21 EST

Naoki Yoshida at Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival in Tokyo
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Naoki Yoshida Hypothetically Discusses What Would Happen to Final Fantasy XIV Without Him

Final Fantasy XIV producer and director Naoki Yoshida discussed hypothetically what would happen if he wasn't around to lead the development team. 

January 8, 2024 | 02:23 EST

Microsoft Flight Simulator Embraer Phenom 100
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Microsoft Flight Simulator Embraer Phenom 100 Released; Boeing 777 Gets Update on Beta Testing

Third-party developers have provided news about upcoming add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator and released airports and a relevant aircraft.

January 7, 2024 | 02:04 EST

Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail Femake Hrothgars
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Final Fantasy XIV Reveals Dawntrail Footage and Details: Female Hrothgar, Locations, and Much More

During the keynote of the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival in Tokyo, Square Enix introduced plenty of new elements and footage of the next expansion Danwtrail.

January 7, 2024 | 01:08 EST

Krile portraying the Pictomancer, the new job of Final Fantasy XIV
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Final Fantasy XIV Expansion Dawntrail Reveals New Job Pictomancer With Spectacular Trailer

Square Enix is hosting the first day of the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival in Tokyo, and the initial keynote presentation started strong with a new trailer.

January 6, 2024 | 08:23 EST

Granblue Fantasy Relink Screenshots and Anime Artwork
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Cygames Invites Fans to Get Ready for Granblue Fantasy: Relink by Watching the Anime for Free

Cygames announced that it's making the first seven episodes of the Granblue Fantasy anime available for free to help fans get ready for Granblue Fantasy: Relink.

January 6, 2024 | 12:41 EST

Hunter X Hunter Nen X Impact Screenshot
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Hunter X Hunter, Danmachi, and More: Bushiroad Unleashes a Storm of Anime Games and Visual Novels

Bushiroad hosted a big event at the Tokyo Dome, and it had many reveals to share, alongside new footage and details about previously announced games.

January 6, 2024 | 10:54 EST

Microsoft and Sony battle in court represented by Ace Attorney characters
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Sony Rejects Microsoft's Accusation of Cherry-Picking Documents to Help FTC in Activision Deal Case

Shots have been exchanged between Microsoft and the FTC in the legal battle for the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, with Sony trying to avoid further involvement.

January 5, 2024 | 11:18 EST

Logos of Bossa Studios and Archiact
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Bossa Studios and Archiact Hit by Layoffs as The Gaming Industry Continues to Bleed Jobs

The storm of layoffs that has been hitting the gaming industry continues, as two more studios are forced to downsize, Bossa Studios and Archiact.

January 5, 2024 | 03:21 EST

Baldur's Gate 3 Bare-chested Halsin Censored and Xbox Logo
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Xbox Lifting Bans on Baldur's Gate 3 Users Banned for Clips With Adult Content

Earlier this week, reports started to surface about Xbox users getting banned due to uploading clips of Baldur's Gate 3 including mature content.

January 5, 2024 | 01:21 EST

DCS World Mig-29 Fulcrum A
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DCS World Reveals Upcoming Content Including "Full Fidelity" Mig-29A Fulcrum, Iraq Map, and More

Today DCS World developer Eagle Dynamics shared its annual tease of upcoming content including aircraft and maps that will arrive in 2024 and beyond.

January 5, 2024 | 12:22 EST

The key artwork of Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising
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Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising's Success Pushes Tournament Organizer to Enforce Cap on Participants

Cygames and Arc System Works' new fighting game Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising appears to be drawing a lot of attention among the fighting game community. 

January 5, 2024 | 01:16 EST

Art of Chevreuse in Genshin Impact
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Genshin Impact Showcases New Character Chevreuse Ahead of Her Gacha Debut

A new set of Event Wish gachas will soon appear in HoYoverse's popular RPG Genshin Impact, and the new character Chevreuse will be featured in both. 

January 5, 2024 | 12:01 EST

City of Heroes Art and City of Heroes Homecoming Logo
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NCSoft Grants Official License to City of Heroes: Homecoming Private Server

When a beloved MMORPG closes, often private servers take over, but these survive in a precarious legal grey area. For City of Heroes, things have radically changed.

January 4, 2024 | 02:59 EST

Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty 5 Million Copies Celebratory Image
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Cyberpunk 2077 Expansion Phantom Liberty Has Sold Over 5 Million Copies

Today CD Projekt RED announced that Cyberpunk 2077's popular expansion Phantom Liberty has sold over 5 million copies by the end of 2023.

January 4, 2024 | 12:46 EST

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Event Apex Legends
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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Crossover Invades Apex Legends Next Week

Square Enix and Respawn Entertainment announced a crossover coming to Apex Legends to celebrate the upcoming release of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

January 4, 2024 | 11:54 EST

Genshin Impact Event Wish "Reign oif Serenity"
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Beloved Raiden Shogun Coming Back To Genshin Impact's Gacha Next Week

Today HoYoverse announced the date and the full details for the next Event Wish gachas coming to Genshin Impact, featuring the beloved Raiden Shogun.

January 4, 2024 | 10:12 EST

Goddess of Victory: Nikke Scarlet: Black Shadow Art
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Goddess of Victory: Nikke Celebrates The New Year With Beautiful Theme Song

Today Shift Up, developer of the popular mobile and PC game Goddess of Victory: Nikke treated fans with a lovely music video.

January 4, 2024 | 03:00 EST

3D Realms Logo
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Embracer Strikes Again as Layoffs are Reported at 3D Realms [UPDATED]

More layoffs have hit the gaming industry under the severely leaking Embracer umbrella, with more layoffs reported at Danish publisher and developer 3D Realms. 

January 3, 2024 | 02:25 EST

Artwork from MapleStory showing a crying character with Nexon Logo
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Nexon Apologizes After Regulator Imposes $9 Million Fine for Violations in MapleStory

The South Korean Fair Trade Commission has fined Nexon over violations of the Electronic Commerce Act in its popular games MapleStory and Bubble Fighter.

January 3, 2024 | 01:53 EST