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Final Fantasy 16 Devs Say Only PS5 Can Handle The Game’s Combat
13.3.2023
Maybe you were wondering why Final Fantasy XVI, Square Enix’s highly anticipated action RPG, will only be available on PlayStation 5 when it launches on June 22. Well, according to Square Enix, it’s because of “the power of PlayStation 5" that lets the team achieve next-gen (when do we call...
Square Enix Boss Disappointed With Forspoken Sales But Still Excited For NFT Games
10.3.2023
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Square Enix is disappointed in the sales of one of its games. Tomb Raider, Hitman, Outriders, Guardians of the Galaxy—it’s a long list, and Forpsoken just got added to it. Current Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda said during the company’s most recent...
Here’s Every Single Video Game Remake You Can Play In 2023
9.3.2023
This year is completely stuffed with video game remakes and remasters, like the gaming world is an overgrown hermit crab stubbornly holding onto a little cone-shaped shell. While you might wish to be born again every month or so, video games aren’t afraid to rehash what they are again, and again....
Final Fantasy XIV Fans Are Melting Down Over This 'Insulting' Chair
9.3.2023
Final Fantasy XIV just dropped a new patch this week, which added new sidequests and a massive dungeon to the popular MMO. It also added quality of life features, one of which has made fans extremely upset. You’ll never guess what it is: A chair. Many FFXIV players are rioting in the Square Enix...
Square Enix CEO Who Constantly Pushed NFT Games To Be Replaced
3.3.2023
Square Enix is getting a new boss. Yosuke Matsuda has served as the Final Fantasy publisher’s CEO for 10 years, and spent the last couple of those hyping up NFTs and other blockchain scams. He’s now set to be replaced by a relative newcomer, pending shareholder approval in June.Read more
Sonic Creator Admits To Illegally Trading Over $1 Million
2.3.2023
Earlier today, Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator Yuji Naka admitted to doing insider trading while working at Square Enix. Read more
Forspoken Studio Being Absorbed Back Into Square Enix
1.3.2023
Yesterday, Luminous Productions, the developers behind the rocky fantasy parkour game Forspoken, announced that it will no longer exist as a separate game studio. On May 1, Luminous will be merged back into its parent company, Square Enix.Read more
Final Fantasy XVI Producer Doesn't Seem To Love The Term 'JRPG'
28.2.2023
Final Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida aka Yoshi-P revealed in a recent interview that he and other developers in Japan didn’t like the popular term JRPG (Japanese role-playing game) when it first popped up years ago, thinking it was “discriminatory” or being used to “make fun of” Japanese...
Hitman Devs Announce An Online Fantasy RPG
28.2.2023
Today, IO Interactive announced it is working on a new game, unrelated to Hitman or its past titles, codenamed “Project Fantasy.” And unlike Hitman, this upcoming game will be an online fantasy RPG with a focus on teamwork and comradery, with IO further confirming that, after Project Fantasy...
Chrono Cross' Wonky Port Finally Getting Some Fixes
21.2.2023
It was almost a year ago that Square Enix released Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition, a “remastered” version of the 1999 classic on the PC, Xbox One, PS4 and Switch that, as good as the original game was, was also a very bad port.Read more
Yoko Taro's New Game Turns Sega Classics Into Women
10.2.2023
Today, Sega revealed the trailer for its new mobile game collaboration with Nier and Drakengard series creator Yoko Taro. As is tradition for any collaboration with Taro, this game’s elevator pitch trades in the bizarre twists only Taro’s mind can concoct: a gacha game that transforms Sega classics...
Damn, There's A Lot Of JRPGs Coming To The Switch
10.2.2023
Nintendo’s 2023 Switch games lineup is looking somewhat light at the moment outside of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Pikmin 4. Naturally, one of the ways it’s plugging the holes is an onslaught of new and old JRPGs. Golden Sun is back! So is Baten Kaitos! Nintendo is digging deep...
Octopath Traveler 2 Has A Free Demo On Switch, And You Should Play It
8.2.2023
During today’s Nintendo Direct presentation, the company briefly talked about Square Enix’s upcoming turn-based RPG Octopath Traveler 2, which launches on February 24 for Nintendo Switch, PC, and PlayStation consoles. Nintendo also revealed that a free demo will be available later today. The best...
15 Games Have Already Been Killed, And 2023 Just Began
7.2.2023
We’re barely one-twelfth of the way through 2023 and a surprising number of games are already about to get killed off, as devs have announced their impending deaths. Normally, we’d reserve this list for the end-of-the-year round-up, but we’re ringing the death knell early because, with 15 games...
Apparently Video Game Characters Look Great In Drag
3.2.2023
There are many gifts to be found on self-proclaimed “video game siren” Velvet Caveat’s TikTok, like gay Team Rocket and, most recently, an electric blue Gyrados puppet holding down Ariana Grande’s part of “Rain On Me” during a lip-sync performance. Read more
Forspoken Actress Says She’s Isn’t Bothered By The Online Discourse, And More Power To Her
3.2.2023
Square Enix’s new fantasy parkour game Forspoken has had a bit of a rocky launch in terms of public perception among gamers, who found its Joss Whedon-esque dialogue in advertisements cringe-inducing. However, Forspoken’s lead actress says she isn’t bothered by all the discourse the game’s dialogue...
First Team To Clear Challenging New Final Fantasy XIV Raid Gets Caught Cheating
1.2.2023
A Final Fantasy XIV raid team had their world-record achievement revoked after they got caught using tools developer Square Enix considers a form of cheating. Read more
Everything Square Enix Announced For Final Fantasy VII’s Anniversary
31.1.2023
Final Fantasy VII first released in Japan 26 years ago today, on January 31, 1997. And in case you haven’t been doom-scrolling through Twitter all day, Square Enix has announced an assortment of stuff to mark the occasion. Square E’s announcements range from neat to niche in terms of their coolness...
Forspoken: The Kotaku Review
30.1.2023
Forspoken is a painfully flawed game. With a variety of rampant inconsistencies, its stilted presentation belies a gem of a story that centers women and feminine expression. In some ways that makes Forspoken a welcome breath of fresh air for fantasy games, as its 15 to 20 hour open-world campaign...
Amazon’s Tomb Raider Show Reportedly Being Written By Fleabag Creator
27.1.2023
If you, like me, are having trouble keeping track of all the video game adaptations coming to TV and film, you may have forgotten that a Tomb Raider series is in development over at Amazon. Well, friends, I will not be forgetting about this show any time soon, now that writer/actor/comedian Phoebe...