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The Week In Games: Tactical RPGs, Creepy Circuses & More New Releases
4.3.2024
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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Performance Mode Will Be Improved In New Patch
4.3.2024
Everyone is smitten by Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, the second entry in Square Enix’s ongoing remake of the beloved and critically acclaimed JRPG. While folks are all heart-eyes for the PS5 exclusive role-playing game, director Naoki Hamaguchi is aware of the complaints levied at Rebirth’s Performance...
Helldivers 2 Advice And Our Hottest Final Fantasy VII Takes Of The Week
3.3.2024
It was a rather big week in gaming, this last one in February—mostly because we got Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth, and everyone came out of the woodwork to spout their hottest take and spiciest opinion about the Square Enix RPG. Is Cid redeemed? Is Aerith a goat lady? Is jank good?Read more
FF7 Rebirth, Helldivers 2, And More Of The Week's Essential Tips
2.3.2024
Everyone’s favorite moody, broody prettyboy Cloud Strife is back to steal our hearts again after four long years. And Final Fantasy VII Rebirth lives up to the monumental hype with its more-is-more approach to one of the most popular and influential games ever made. If you’re spending this weekend...
Kotaku’s Essential Guide to Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
2.3.2024
2024's most anticipated game is finally here, and the further adventures of Cloud Strife and his besties has launched on PS5. Final Fantasy VII Rebirthexpands and enhances the middle section of the 1997 classic, and there’s a big, beautiful world to see. If you’re looking to spend a few dozen hours...
Everything We Know About Metaphor: ReFantazio
1.3.2024
Metaphor: ReFantazio is one of our most anticipated games of the year, and the next RPG from the creative team that brought the world Persona 5. After leaving Persona development team P-Studio in 2016, director Katsura Hashino founded a new internal team at Atlus named Zero Studio. Soon after...
Fallout TV Show Is ‘Almost’ Fallout 5, Creators Say
1.3.2024
Jonathan Nolan, executive producer of Amazon’s upcoming Fallout TV show, is pretty hopeful that the series will live up to the games. More than that, he seems to think that the series is a continuation of the games, if not an outright sequel. In a recent interview with Total Film, Nolan says it’s...
Kotaku Asks: What Is The Best Final Fantasy For Newcomers?
1.3.2024
Most of the Kotaku staff is spending their time playing, replaying, and just constantly thinking about Final Fantasy VII Rebirth right now in the wake of its release. For those of us who are avid fans of Square Enix’s long-running franchise, it’s a great time. But there is one particular staffer...
Does FF7 Rebirth Imply Chocobos Can Be Milked? A Kotaku Investigation
1.3.2024
There is a woman in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s opening town of Kalm that I cannot stop thinking about. She isn’t particularly special. She doesn’t sell weapons. She doesn’t have a side quest for you to undertake. You can’t even play the amazing minigame Queen’s Blood against her. She is simply...
Every FF7 Rebirth Town Ranked By Vibes, From Rancid To Immaculate
1.3.2024
There’s a whole lotta world out there to see. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth reimagines the map of the original 1997 game on a massive scale, breathing new life into iconic locations. While the world itself has plenty to offer, the real highlight of the journey is the towns, with each one given...
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Looked At Cid And Said ‘I Can Fix Him’
29.2.2024
My toxic trait is that I am a colossal simp for Final Fantasy VII’s foul-mouthed, chain-smoking, dragoon pilot Cid. My love for this man spans decades, from when he was a series of blobs stacked on top of each other in the original PlayStation game to when he was a voiceless shopkeeper in the first...
Pokémon Card Fervor Has An Artist Scared For His Safety
29.2.2024
Some Pokémon cards are highly sought, especially by collectors and by resellers looking to make a quick buck off of rare cards, or cards with distinguishing characteristics that make them more valuable. For example, a card signed by illustrator Naoki Saito reportedly sold for over $100,000 in July...
Yuffie Is Better Than Ever In FF7 Rebirth
29.2.2024
Choosing which party members to take into combat is always an important part of a Final Fantasy game, and that’s especially true in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. The just-released RPG offers intense, action-packed combat and gives every character their own signature fighting style. While you may have...
FF7 Rebirth Materia Basics And Recommended Loadouts
29.2.2024
As a fantasy RPG, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth provides characters with all sorts of unique abilities. One of the main ways you gain new powers in Rebirth is through materia, magical orbs found throughout the game’s world that grant characters with spells, new powers, stat boosts, and the ability...
FF7 Rebirth’s Character Folios, Explained
29.2.2024
As a massive RPG, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has an extraordinary number of ways to grow and customize your characters. One of Rebirth’s newest additions to character building is the Character Folio, a network of abilities and stat boosts that make your characters even more powerful as you invest...
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Keeps The Janky Spirit Of The Original
29.2.2024
Final Fantasy VII has always been an extremely weird game, from the impromptu snowboarding excursion to fighting a Triceratops fused with a truck. That sense of weirdness seeps into every aspect of the game and often rears its head as a strange—and, more often than not, janky—minigame. The 1997...
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: Should You Focus On Just The Main Story?
29.2.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has finally arrived. The second installment of Square Enix’s attempt to remake one of the most celebrated video games of all time is here for PlayStation 5. The massive RPG offers damn near close to (if not more) than 100 hours of gameplay. Now you might be asking...
Does Aerith Die In Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Explained
29.2.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is out today. If you’re a big fan, you’re probably already playing it and aren’t looking at this article. If you’re a casual fan or onlooker who is mainly just interested in how it handles certain events of the original game, you’re probably wondering what happens...
16 Things To Know Before Starting Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
29.2.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Square Enix’s latest RPG, is an enormous game. And like any huge adventure, there are dozens of subsystems, features, and layers to navigate. If you’ve played the first game in the new trilogy, Final Fantasy VII Remake, you already have a good handle on the basics...
I Thought This Final Fantasy VII Character Had Big Goat Ears For Decades
28.2.2024
Let me be clear: I have never played a Final Fantasy game. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth may be out very soon, and the series may be one of the most influential in the history of video games, but I have never touched one. Aside from tangential knowledge gleaned against my will via the internet...