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Final Fantasy Action Spin-Off In Development By Team Ninja
13.6.2021
Square Enix closed out its E3 2021 presentation with a first look at Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, an action game in development by Team Ninja. It’s coming to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC in 2022, with a PS5 demo scheduled for June 24.Read more
E3's Best Show Already Happened
11.6.2021
Look, I get it. Y’all saw Elden Ring and promptly lost your shit so hard that you accidentally closed the stream and missed the whole-ass presentation going on afterwards. But the most awesome part about Summer Game Fest happened immediately after Geoff Keighley dropped the mic on Elden Ring’s...
Overwatch Adds Crossplay
9.6.2021
Where once Overwatch players were divided along the lines of both platform and whether or not they’d push the damn payload, now they can at least not push the payload together.Read more
Hearthstone Grandmaster Ragequits During Grand Finals Match
8.6.2021
The grand final in the Hearthstone European Grandmasters tournament ended dramatically when France’s Zakarya “xBlyzes” Hailintentionally disconnected from the match against Spain’s David “Frenetic” Neila.Read more
BlizzCon Is Skipping 2021 Due To Continuing Covid-19 Concerns
26.5.2021
Citing the complicated nature of coordinating a live event for thousands of people, evolving California in-person event guidelines, and the fluctuating status of the global covid-19 pandemic, Blizzard has announced BlizzCon will be skipping another year. Read more
Please Enjoy Epic's Tim Sweeney Apologising Profusely To Ubisoft For Screwing Up
5.5.2021
While the documents and emails being released as part of the Epic v Apple case are often important and full of detailed information, I am very much enjoying the ones—like this—where billionaire executives are forced into embarrassing apologies when their company fucks up.Read more
Japanese Popstar Teams Up With Square Enix For Some Fancy CG
27.4.2021
Koichi Domoto, one half of the Japanese boy band Kinki Kids, has roped in Square Enix for his upcoming solo album Playful. Read more
Square Enix Launches A Photobook Service In Japan For Final Fantasy XIV
21.4.2021
If photo books are good enough to revive your digital pics, then surely the same goes for your life in Final Fantasy XIV.Read more
Square Enix Denies Report The Company Is Up For Sale
16.4.2021
There was an unconfirmed report that multiple buyers were looking at acquiring Square Enix. This evening in Japan, the Tokyo-based game maker released a statement denying it.Read more
Satoru Iwata Seemed Like A Truly Good Dude
13.4.2021
Former Nintendo president Satoru Iwata made a huge impact on gaming. The exec had the rare combination of technical knowledge and business savvy. He also seemed like a really good dude. Read more
Oops, Activision Forgot About The Streisand Effect
1.4.2021
I can’t fully express how little I care about Call of Duty: Warzone or any leaks thereof. What I do love, however, is giant gaming conglomerates making fools of themselves, and Activision Blizzard really stepped in it this morning when it used draconian copyright law to try to cover up a trivial...
Nexon Is Investing $1.5 Billion In Konami, Sega, Namco Bandai, And More
30.3.2021
This week, Nexon announced that last year the company greenlit up to $1.5 billion worth of investments in Konami Holdings, Bandai Namco Holdings, Sega Sammy Holdings, and Hasbro.Read more
Activision Blizzard Hires Former Trump Administration Member Once Decried As ‘Bully’
30.3.2021
Today, Activision Blizzard announced the promotion of Blizzard chief commercial officer and the chief operating officer Armin Zerza to CFO of the whole company. What it did not announce to the public is that it has also hired a new chief administrative officer: former Donald Trump administration...
Oh Yeah? Well EA Is Making Its Own Damn Golf Game Again
29.3.2021
Two weeks ago 2K announced it signed Tiger Woods, the long-time face of EA’s defunct PGA Tour series, to an exclusive long-term contract for its PGA Tour 2K series. Now EA announces it’s bringing back EA Sports PGA Tour for its first new installment since 2015. We got us a good old-fashioned video...
Final Fantasy XI Reboot Cancelled After Six Years Of Nothingness
24.3.2021
You will probably not remember this, but back in 2015, Nexon and Square Enix announced a mobile version of Final Fantasy XI that was due for release in 2016. It did not come out in 2016, or 2017, or 2018, or 2019, or 2020, and now will never be coming out, since it’s finally been put out of...
Report: More Layoffs Loom As Activision Blizzard Moves To Close European Publishing Offices
19.3.2021
Activision Blizzard is planning to close its publishing offices in Europe and lay off even more employees in the process, according to a new report by GamesIndustry.biz.Read more
Square Enix's Project Athia Is Now Called Forspoken, Coming In 2022
18.3.2021
As part of today’s Square Enix showcase, the publisher showed another snippet of its “narrative-driven adventure set in a beautiful yet cruel world,” Project Athia. Only it’s not called Project Athia anymore. Now it’s, uh, Forspoken, a name that, if nothing else, was not previously spoken for.Read...
Activision Blizzard CEO To Get Even Bigger Bonuses While Others Get Laid Off
17.3.2021
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick routinely gets millions in stock bonuses every year based on how the company is doing. Now he’s set to get even more, for a total payout of nearly $200 million according to CtW Investment Group, a union pension fund advocacy organization. And it’s all thanks...
Even Square Enix Is Getting Into NFTs
17.3.2021
Square Enix is joining the NFTs fray with one-of-a-kind digital assets for their Million Arthur franchise. Please be excited.Read more
Gordon Hall, Rockstar Leeds Founder, Dies At 51
11.3.2021
Gordon Hall, one of the founders of Rockstar Leeds, has died, Game Industry reports. He was 51. Read more