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Final Fantasy Game Broken Due To Leap Day
29.2.2024
Folks trying to play Theatrhythm Final Bar Line--a Final Fantasy-themed rhythm game—were unable to due to a bug preventing the game from connecting to servers on February 29, aka a Leap Day. A similar bug happened in an EA racing game, too, forcing players to change the date on their consoles...
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...
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...
Some Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Discs Are Misprinted And Could Cause Problems
28.2.2024
Due to a manufacturing error, physical editions of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth in Japan contain discs that are misprinted. This could cause problems for folks trying to play the highly-anticipated Square Enix RPG as they will likely end up inserting the wrong disc into their console. Read more
PSA: A Final Fantasy VII Spin-Off You Didn't Play Matters In Rebirth
28.2.2024
Final Fantasy VII and its various spin-offs and extended media have gotten difficult to keep track of over the years. These days, each numbered Final Fantasy seems like an extended universe in its own right. Final Fantasy XV got a whole movie and anime mini-series before it was even out, both...
The Best Games of 2024 (So Far)
28.2.2024
This year has carried over two significant trends for the video game industry from 2023 into 2024: a lot of excellent games are coming out, and, unfortunately, the people who make them are suffering. It’s still early, but we’ve gotten some fantastic new games like Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and...
How To Get FF7 Rebirth’s Bonus Materia From A Remake Save File
27.2.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Square Enix’s upcoming RPG that continues the saga of 2020’s Final Fantasy VII Remake, is out in a matter of days. Hopefully you’ve requested time off from work, school, friends, and partners in order to indulge your FF7 desires. You’ll also need to free around 150 GB...
Here’s How Much Space You Need To Clear For Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
27.2.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, part two of the trilogy remaking one of the greatest RPGs of all time, arrives on PS5 on February 28, 2024. As is customary these days when it comes to large games, you can all but count on needing to make some space on that SSD of yours. Read on to find out just how...
Did Yoko Taro Just Tease Nier 3? Not Really
26.2.2024
It’s been just over seven years since the release of action RPG Nier: Automata took the world by storm and familiarized a wider audience with series creator Yoko Taro. Since its 2017 launch, Nier: Automata has remained a constant presence, from its 2022 anime adaptation, to a 2019 crossover with...
FF7 Rebirth's Pacing, The Starship Troopers Renaissance, And More Of The Week's Gaming Opinions
25.2.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is almost here, and while we still have to wait a few more days for the game itself, we can now start talking about how its excellent card game, Queen’s Blood, rivals even FF8's beloved Triple Triad, and how turning the original 1997 RPG into a trilogy may be messing with...
Kotaku’s Essential Guide To Persona 3 Reload
24.2.2024
Fans of sprawling RPGs with intricate plots and ensemble casts sure have been eating good the first couple months of 2024. Late January saw the release of RGG Studio’s bodacious Hawaiian-style adventure, Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth. The end of February brings with it the extravagant second...
FF7: Advent Children Paved The Way For Rebirth, For Better And Worse
23.2.2024
If you want to understand how the Final Fantasy VII universe got to where it is today, then you need not look any further than Advent Children. The 2005 animated movie that acts as a sequel to the original 1997 title is something of a flashpoint for the beloved characters. Advent Children paved...
Triple Triad Finally Has A Successor In FF7 Rebirth’s Queen’s Blood
22.2.2024
Though the Final Fantasy series is infamous for its minigames, it’s never delivered something better than the Final Fantasy VIII card game Triple Triad—until now. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is bursting with more mini-games than you can handle, and while many of them are forgettable, Queen’s Blood...
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Book Just Dropped A Revealing Clue About Cloud's Dad
22.2.2024
Cloud Strife, the broody protagonist of Final Fantasy VII and its remakes, has a pretty elaborate backstory. He grew up in Nibelheim, went on to become a SOLDIER, and got mixed up with Sephiroth along the way. But after almost 30 years, we still don’t know who his father is. However, as Square Enix...
Final Fantasy VII Was Never Meant To Be This Long
22.2.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth revels in all the extra time you can spend hanging out with the original game’s iconic cast. But it also falls victim to it in a way that not even Remake did four years ago. Square Enix’s plan to recreate Final Fantasy VII as three games seemed questionable when...
Surprise! 2024's Most Intriguing Tactics RPG Has A Demo Out Now
21.2.2024
Unicorn Overlord, the upcoming tactics RPG from developer Vanillaware, has a demo available right now on Nintendo Switch. The announcement came during today’s short Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase. Like other Nintendo Switch demos, players will be able to get a jump start on the game’s opening...
Unicorn Overlord’s Opening Hours Are Bursting With Style And Substance
15.2.2024
Ahead of my hands-on preview with Unicorn Overlord, the new tactics RPG from developer Vanillaware and published by Atlus, I was told that nobody had beaten the demo yet. So I made it my mission to see if I could change that. Cut to two-and-a-half hours later, and I can see why people were having...
Six Months On, Starfield's Player Count Shouldn't Matter
13.2.2024
2023 was a year of amazing games, but Starfield was not one of them. The spacefaring role-playing game from Bethesda was supposed to be the next Skyrim, but bigger. Garnering mixed reviews and player reactions, it quickly became clear that Starfield would not reach the heights of Bethesda’s best...
PSA: FF7 Rebirth Spoilers Leak On Tiktok, Reddit, And Twitter
12.2.2024
Watch out, Final Fantasy VII fans. It looks like clips and details about Final Fantasy VII Rebirth are starting to leak out onto the internet. If you’re looking forward to the game and want to go in without any spoilers beyond the incredibly spoiler-filled trailer Square put outat its PlayStation...
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Director Teases An Unexpected Ending
12.2.2024
If you’ve played the original Final Fantasy VII, you know the game ends on a bittersweet note. Sure, the day is saved by the remnants of the revolutionary group Avalanche, but as illustrated in the film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, the gang is left to deal with a lot of residual trauma from...