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Final Fantasy XIV’s Newest Raid Is Blowing Everyone’s Minds
28.4.2022
Final Fantasy XIV’s latest update saw Square Enix give serious players a new “ultimate” raid to conquer. The last few days have been a whirlwind as groups try to be the first to complete the raid, known as Dragonsong’s Reprise, and new developments concerning the potential revival of a dearly...
Final Fantasy XIV's Director Is Asking You Not To Be Jerks
28.4.2022
Final Fantasy XIV recently introduced a new 5v5 player-vs-player mode called Crystalline Conflict. And while for the most part it seems to be going just fine, and folks are happy with it, the team behind the game aren’t as happy with some people’s behaviour in the mode, and so have taken the time...
Sony Requiring Some Game Devs To Provide Free Trials To PS Plus Subscribers
27.4.2022
When Sony combines PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now in June, its new most expensive tier will be $18 a month and include time-limited game trials. But most games don’t currently have such demos. To fix that moving forward, Game Developer now reports Sony will require all developers of games...
Final Fantasy Creator Balks At Square Enix’s $11,000 FF6 Statue
26.4.2022
If you were blown away by the expensive Final Fantasy statue Square Enix unveiled over the weekend, you’re not alone: Series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi couldn’t help but express his own shock at the more than $11,000 price tag.Read more
Elden Ring Gets Game Boy Demake In New Fan Project
25.4.2022
Elden Ring is a colossal open-world game full of unique bosses, esoteric quests, and mysterious secrets. What would the Game Boy version of that play like? One fan is determined to find out.Read more
Japanese Square Enix to Bring Blockchain to Its Games
21.4.2022
GameFi would easily be at the top of the list of thriving blockchain businesses. Aspects like autonomy, decentralization, and Play-to-Earn have forced blockchain gaming to the forefront in the last couple of years. So much so that even the leading developers have Instituted their blockchain wings...
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
Algorand Rents Times Square Billboard to Tout Green Cred Ahead of Earth Day
18.4.2022
The ad buy comes with a “dark” twist
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...
Bitcoin and Ethereum Investment Outflows Accelerate, No 'Significant Stress Among Investors' + More News
11.4.2022
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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
Cash App Introduces Paid in Bitcoin, BTC Roundup and Lightning Network Services
7.4.2022
At the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami, Block, Inc., formerly Square, Inc., announced three new bitcoin services for the company’s mobile payment platform. The mobile payment platform Cash App will feature a “paid in bitcoin” service that allows users to auto-invest their work...
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...