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The Best RPGs Of 2022
14.12.2022
It was another banner year for role-playing games. Even as the genre beloved for dialogue choices, skill trees, and making the numbers go up gets slowly subsumed into every major blockbuster from Dying Light 2 to God of War Ragnarök, there were still plenty of standouts, both big and small.Read more
Final Fantasy Remake Has A Painting With A Getty Watermark
14.12.2022
Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - Reunion was released today and is a solid remastering/remake of a beloved PSP title. But at least one painting in the new game contains a li’l something extra: a Getty Images watermark implying that the in-game painting was created using an image preview seemingly...
Classic Final Fantasy ‘Pixel Remasters’ Likely To Hit Switch, PS4
13.12.2022
New ESRB ratings for Final Fantasy I through VI heavily suggest that Square Enix is bringing its Pixel Remaster line of classic Final Fantasy remakes to the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.Read more
New Final Fantasy XVI Trailer Reveals Massive Massive Kaiju Summon Fights
9.12.2022
Square Enix premiered a brand new trailer for Final Fantasy XVI, its upcoming PS5-exclusive roleplaying game, during Thursday’s Game Awards 2022 livestream. What we saw looked intense, including giant fights between the series’ classic eidolon summons. We also finally got a release date of June...
The Biggest Gaming Disappointments Of 2022
8.12.2022
Congrats everyone, you all made it through another awful pandemic year! 2022 is nearly at an end, meaning that it’s a good time to look back at all the terrible and disappointing shit that happened over the last 12 months. It’s enough to make me crave a distraction from it all, maybe even hop into...
Report: Sonic Creator Arrested Again, This Time Over Final Fantasy
7.12.2022
It was only three weeks ago that we reported the astonishing news that Yuji Naka, the creator of Sonic The Hedgehog, had been arrested over allegations of insider training in relation to Dragon Quest. Now, it’s being reported that he’s been arrested again for similar charges, this time allegedly...
2022 Was The Year The Video Game Industry Ate Itself
6.12.2022
The video game industry went on a shopping spree in 2021. Epic Games bought Mediatonic (Fall Guys), Sony bought Housemarque (Returnal), and Embracer bought Gearbox (Borderlands). It seemed like things might slow down in 2022, but instead they ramped up even more into an acquisition free-for-all....
Final Fantasy XVI Rated Mature For Sex Scenes and Hate Crimes
1.12.2022
Turns out the upcoming Final Fantasy XVI, isn’t just leaning heavily on its Game of Thrones medieval aesthetic in jest. According to its MSRB rating in Brazil, FFXVI is rated mature for its sex scenes, drug use, and fantasy hate crimes.Read more
The Biggest Game Delays Of 2022
1.12.2022
Games get delayed all the time, but this year had more than its fair share of companies posting wall-of-text screenshots telling fans they’ll have to wait a little bit longer to play their most anticipated release or review bomb it on Steam. 2022 was supposed to be the year we got Starfield, Breath...
Front Mission 1st: Remake Isn’t The Reimaged Mech Shootout I Hoped For
30.11.2022
Front Mission is an excellent strategy RPG series that deserves to make a comeback. It’s Final Fantasy Tactics’ grittier, grimier, futuristic cousin that swaps out swords and magic wands for submachine guns and giant, half-obliterated mechs slugging it out in a jungle ditch. Some of that charm...
One Of The Best Deus Ex Games Is Disappearing
23.11.2022
For a while there, Square Enix Montreal (later rebranded to Onoma) were making some of the best mobile puzzle games of all time. Hitman Go, Lara Croft Go and Deus Ex Go were three of the slickest, most challenging games you could play on your phone, and all have gone down as classics of the genre....
Report: Big Game Companies Like Square Enix And Roblox Are Ignoring Climate Change
23.11.2022
AfterClimate, a research and consultancy business “on a mission to decarbonise the games industry”, have this week published the results of their “game industry net zero 2022 snapshot”, a report that takes a detailed look at how most of the world’s biggest video game companies are responding to...
Report: Legendary Sonic Designer Yuji Naka Arrested In Japan
18.11.2022
Over the past 24 hours a number of people in Japan—including a Square Enix employee—have been arrested on insider trading charges related to a Dragon Quest game announcement. Legendary Sega designer Yuji Naka is reportedly among them.Read more
The Year Is Nearly Over, But You Still Have 10 Game Releases To Look Forward To
11.11.2022
I know Elden Ring is out, and God of War Ragnarök is out, and Elon Musk’s dead-on-arrival Twitter shenanigans are making it feel like we’ve lived a couple thousand years. But no, you’re still here in 2022, and we have two more months of it. What could happen in that time? Read more
We Need To Start Holding Japanese RPGs To Higher Standards
9.11.2022
I had one hell of a weekend. After I published my piece on Final Fantasy producer Naoki Yoshida’s misguided comments about the next game’s overwhelming whiteness, the fans completely lost their minds. Sure, I saw the usual slurs and petty insults. But those weren’t the comments that stuck to...
Final Fantasy XVI PS5 Exclusivity Only Runs Six Months
7.11.2022
Following the latest series of info dumps and interviews, Sony may have just let slip the biggest news of all: Final Fantasy XVI will only be a PlayStation 5 exclusive for six months. PC owners rejoice.Read more
Square Enix’s New Farming Game Lets You Choose Non-Binary Pronouns
5.11.2022
It shouldn’t be a big ask from gamers to have more gender-inclusive pronoun options in a video game, especially in RPGs. One producer at Square Enix thinks helping gamers feel welcome by including non-binary pronouns is such a small ask that it was a no-brainer to have it be a part of his...
Final Fantasy XVI Dev Has A Terrible Answer For Why The Game Is So White
4.11.2022
Two weeks ago, Square Enix released a new story trailer for its upcoming RPG, Final Fantasy XVI. There’s just one noticeable problem—there doesn’t seem to be a single non-white character in it. So IGN asked producer Naoki Yoshida about whether or not the game would feature any Black people or other...
Hyped Mystery Square Enix Game Turns Out To Be NFT Junk
3.11.2022
While several big gaming companies have flirted with the idea of non-fungible tokens, none has embraced the crypto scam with as much blind confidence as Square Enix. Now the Final Fantasy maker has finally revealed its first NFT stunt, Symbiogenesis, crushing fan hopes that the previously leaked...
Video Game Studio Goes Through Expensive Rebrand, Is Then Immediately Shut Down
1.11.2022
Embracer Group is hitting both gamers and its developers with a one-two punch today with the announcement that it is shutting down Onoma. Read more