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Square Enix Insists on Integrating Blockchain Elements Into Its Games
21.4.2022
Square Enix, the Japanese gaming company, is pressing on with its vision of integrating blockchain elements into its games. In a recent interview, president Yosuke Matsuda talked about the importance of user-generated content and the advantages that allowing this kind of development, as well...
Blizzard Boss Tries To Shut Down Player Speculation After NFT Survey
18.4.2022
While some companies are doubling down on the lucrative scam behind NFTs, others are trying to head off any association right from the start. After an Activision Blizzard survey went out polling players on their interest in the blockchain technology, Blizzard boss Mike Ybarra was quick to shoot...
Square Enix President Still Insists Future Of Gaming Features Blockchain Tech
18.4.2022
Remember back in January when Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda published that terrible letter hyping up a future where video games would feature NFTs and blockchain tech? Well, even though a lot of players and devs criticized the letter, Matsuda ain’t backing down. And in a new interview,...
Hikaru Utada Performed Some Certified Kingdom Hearts Bangers At Coachella
18.4.2022
Coachella was in full swing over the weekend and while people were fawning over Harry Styles and discovering what Danny Elfman actually looks like, Hikaru Utada graced the stage and performed some certified Kingdom Hearts bangers.Read more
Kingdom Hearts 4 Sleuthers Find Sora’s Apartment IRL, And It Ain’t Cheap
15.4.2022
Kingdom Hearts stans are tearing all the meat off the bones from the recent Kingdom Hearts IV announcement trailer, picking it apart for any and all possible details about Sora’s upcoming adventure. There’s a bit of disappointment to go with the hype, like the painful revelation that our big-shoed...
Nomura Explains What's Up With Sora's Realistic Kingdom Hearts 4 Look
14.4.2022
When Square Enix revealed Kingdom Hearts IV over the weekend, it looked…different. Hero Sora was looking realistically emo with nerfed kicks while hanging out in a Shibuya apartment that actually exists. But fans were quick to point out that there were likely lore reasons explaining the...
The Giant Gaming Leak That Keeps Getting Vindicated
11.4.2022
Last September, a massive list of potential PC games leaked through Nvidia’s GeForce Now video game streaming service and was posted online. At the time, no one quite knew what to make of it. Was it insider info or speculative placeholders? Now evidence is mounting that at least some of the leak...
RIP Sora's Big-Ass Clown Shoes, 2002-2022
10.4.2022
Big news! Kingdom Hearts IV was just announced today. We don’t know much about the game’s plot, when it will be released, or how it connects to other games, but we do know one thing: Series protagonist Sora no longer has his big clown shoes anymore. And the internet isn’t taking it very well. Read...
Kingdom Hearts IV Has Been Announced
10.4.2022
As part of the series’ 20th anniversary celebrations, Square Enix just used a Sunday evening presentation in Japan to unveil two new Kingdom Hearts games, one of them being Kingdom Hearts IV.Read more
Next Tomb Raider Game Will Use Unreal Engine 5
5.4.2022
Development on the next Tomb Raider game was announced on today’s “The State of Unreal” livestream. The general manager at Crystal Dynamics, Dallas Dickinson, confirmed that the studio has started developing Lara Croft’s next adventure in Unreal Engine 5.Read more
The Chrono Cross ‘Remaster’ Is Another Barebones Square Enix Port
5.4.2022
It’s 2022 and you can once again play one of the best JRPGs from Square Enix’s golden age on a modern handheld. But even enjoying it as I have been on Switch, it’s hard not to feel like the Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition remaster is another missed opportunity by a publisher intent...
Marvel's Avengers Has An Avengers-Level 'Workaround' For A PS5 Crash
31.3.2022
Anyone still playing Marvel’s Avengers on PS5 over the last few days may have run into an issue where the game crashes. If that’s you, as of today there is a “workaround”. It’s just a rather drastic one.Read more
Kingdom Hearts Celebrates 20 Years With Tamagotchi
29.3.2022
What better way to celebrate twenty years of Kingdom Hearts than with Tamagotchi. You remember those virtual pets, right? Sure you do. And this fall, they’re teaming up with Square Enix’s Disney-themed RPG.I remember first writing about Tamagotchi for Wired Magazine back in 2004, when infrared...
Japanese Software Giant Line Plans to Launch NFT Market Next Month
24.3.2022
The Japanese social media and messenger software firm Line Corporation has announced the company is introducing a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace on April 13. Line detailed on Wednesday that the market will be called “LINE NFT” and it will showcase “more than 100 types...
My Most Grueling Triangle Strategy Battle Was Kind of An Accident
23.3.2022
Triangle Strategy drops one of its most difficult maps very early on in its story campaign. To be fair, it’s not meant to be one of the most grueling encounters in the game. I made the fight much more difficult than it had to be because the alternative was becoming an arsonist.Read more
Babylon’s Fall, As Told By Steam Reviews
22.3.2022
Babylon’s Fall doesn’t have far to fall. The loot game, developed by the makers of such hall-of-fame action games as Nier: Automata and Astral Chain, is getting widely panned, referred to by some as the “worst” game currently out on PS5. But it’s also playable on PC. Let’s check in and see...
Babylon's Fall Bombed, But Square Enix Swears It's Not Dead
18.3.2022
Babylon’s Fall came out earlier this month, and already it feels like it’s on life support. The only reason it seemed to make any splash at all amidst the current release calendar onslaught was because of just how bad it is. Now publisher Square Enix is trying to reassure fans the new worst...
Square Enix Apologizes For Chocobo GP Grind Following Backlash
16.3.2022
Launch week was not kind to the $50 Final Fantasy kart racer Chocobo GP. Players were furious with the game’s microtransaction nickel-and-diming and grindy season pass. Posts warning about issues blew up on Twitter and Reddit, and now, Square Enix says it’s listening to the feedback and working...
How To Win Votes And Influence People In Triangle Strategy
15.3.2022
It’s probably happened to you. You thought you’d made a great appeal in Triangle Strategy, only for your entire party to vote against the story route that you wanted to take. Don’t worry. It’s not you, it’s literally them. The characters in Square Enix’s new strategy game each have their...
The PS5's New Worst Game Is Here
15.3.2022
Some games surprise you. Others give you exactly what you expect. There are games that are really good at being completely mediocre, and ones that are so bad they’re great. It takes all kinds. Which kind is Square Enix’s aRPG Babylon’s Fall? The kind everyone tells you is bad, but you play anyway...