Dang it. Sleeping Dogs - a very good game about an undercover cop infitrating Hong Kong's triads by lying and backing that lying up by kicking half the population of the special administrative region right in the face - is no longer set to be getting a film adaptation starring Donnie Yen.
]]>Do you like classical music? Is your life set to a beautiful symphony invoving violins, pianos, and the occasional tuba? Do you yearn for the surreal event that will be tunes from the Elder Scrolls being played on a radio station that your grandparents might listen to?
]]>A very, very good JRPG is back on the Nintendo Switch e-shop after a brief absence. That means you, yes you at home with a nice pocket of Christmas cash, can grab it right now and have a blast during this depressing January.
]]>Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth might not have met Square Enix's sales expectations, but the game's producer still says they're satisfied with them.
]]>The Nier series is hitting its 15th anniversary next year, and while a new game hasn't been confirmed just yet, the games' producer might have teased something for 2025.
]]>Final Fantasy 7 Remake, not Rebirth, has a new patch, and it should help you speed through it ahead of the sequel's arrival on PC.
]]>Great news, Final Fantasy 7 fans that have been waiting for Rebirth to come to other platforms, as the JRPG just got a PC release date at The Game Awards.
]]>Unlike Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Rebirth won't be getting any DLC, but it's not like the director isn't doing it just because.
]]>Final Fantasy 14 Mobile will bring players back to the beginning of the popular MMO, just not the beginning some of you might be after.
]]>There sure were a lot of mini-games in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, huh? By my count, there are 21 different activities you can experience as Cloud and his company venture out from Kalm and across the planet.
]]>Good news, Final Fantasy 14 is coming to mobile, meaning you'll be able to play the big RPG/MMO thing on the loo without having to haul your bulky setup in there, or do some trickery with keeping doors open so you can still see the screen.
]]>Square Enix has pumped out a lot of HD-2D games over the past few years, and the producer of the Dragon Quest 3 remake is worried you might get "bored" of them.
]]>We still don't know what Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 will be called, but Square Enix has at least wrapped up its story.
]]>There are about a million video game adaptations in the works right now, and one of them, the Tomb Raider TV series from Amazon Prime Video, is reportedly in the process to formally locking in an actress best known for Game of Thrones as its Lara Croft.
]]>It's kind of impossible to separate the Kingdom Hearts series from the word 'weird', because fundamentally it just is.
]]>Naoki "Yoshi-P" Yoshida has shared that Square Enix does still plan to release its games on multiple platforms simultaneously "more and more."
]]>Things are clearly moving along for Amazon's Tomb Raider series, as cast testing is apparently under way at the moment.
]]>Something I've always appreciated about Life is Strange as a franchise is its quiet versatility. The elevator pitch would describe it as a choose-your-own-adventure series about superheroes in modern America, sure, but there's room within that brief outline to tell all sorts of different stories. Every Life is Strange game typically contains some greater or lesser degree of mystery, thriller, sci-fi, and romance; but every new entry adjusts the balance to create something subtly unlike what's come before.
]]>The Magic the Gathering collab train is showing no signs of stopping, as Final Fantasy is the next stop, with some pretty good looking cards coming aboard.
]]>How do you intimdate your opponent as a boxing pre-fight press conference that'll inevitably involve two very large people staring into each others' eyes like long-lost lovers at some point? Well, if you're Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, the answer apparently is to dress up as Agent 47 from the Hitman series, complete with bald head and handy briefcase.
]]>Netflix has reportedly closed its in-house triple-A game studio known as "Team Blue", with a number of high profile developers it'd hired to be part of that studio, as part of its efforts to expand into the video game sphere, having left the company.
]]>Remember that time in the 90s when Michael Jordan retired and then un-retired from ruining the lives of his fellow NBA players' lives? Well, it seems we've just had a sort of video game composer analogue of that, with legendary Final Fantasy songsmith Nobuo Uematsu now having said that he's not planning on retiring from making game music following his work on Fantasian Neo Dimension.
]]>Are you excited for Dragon Quest 3 2D-HD, and are curious to learn how it's been made? You're in luck, as Square Enix will be releasing a series of videos looking back at the evolution of the game. As such, if you're interesting in how a game like Dragon Quest 3 2D-HD actually gets put together, then it'll make for an interesting watch throughout this week.
]]>Discord is obviously the de facto service to use for gamers that want to talk with their friends, and as it turned out, its origin story is quite similar in nature.
]]>There's now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber - check out our Support Us page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don't worry if that's not for you, the main show will always be free.
]]>Kingdom Hearts 4 was announced over two years ago, but apparently no one took the time to tell Sora's English voice Haley Joel Osment.
]]>I would do anything for Moo Deng, but her popularity has astronomically raised the price of a Hippo Calf minion in Final Fantasy 14.
]]>Blizzard reportedly had adaptations of Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft in the works with Netflix prior to it filing a lawsuit against the streaming giant in 2020.
]]>Astro Bot has more cameos than you probably realised there were PlayStation games, but there's one game that feels conspicuously absent: Final Fantasy 7.
]]>After all these years of waiting, the game you've all been eagerly anticipating is here: Final Fantasy Versus 13. It's been stuck in development hell for so long now, everyone thought it was never going to be released, but it's very real, and...wait, hang on, I think I'm getting a bit mixed up here.
]]>Good news, people who own an Xbox, like a good JRPG, and have all the time in the world. Xbox has announced during its Tokyo Game Show broadcast that four classic Square Enix titles that're technically actually nine classic Square Enix titles are dropping on the platform today and in the near future.
]]>You there. Have you got a minute? Did you stay up for September 24's State of Play broadcast from Playstation - the one that took place last night UK time? Well, Xbox has now let everyone know which of the games we saw at it are currently pencielled in to also be dropping on its platform, and if you'll just stop trying to walk through me, I can give you a quick roundup of the other big news from the show too.
]]>It looks like the leaks earlier today were legit. The Soul Reaver 1 + 2 remaster is real, and it's coming out December 10.
]]>The somewhat-awaited launch of Final Fantasy 16 on PC is here, nearly 15 months after the game’s initial release on PS5. The PC version arrived on Tuesday, available for purchase on Steam and the Epic Games Store.
]]>I don't mean to alarm you, but some Final Fantasy 16 players on PS5 have recently found their nice little playthroughs invaded by large black blobs or boxes that threaten to ruin poor Clive's day. No, this isn't some DLC, it looks to be part of some graphical issues that've followed a recent update to the console's firmware, which Sony and Square Enix have said they're looking into.
Taking a glance at Reddit or Twitter, you'll find a number of posts with players showing off or talking about problems they've run into. My personal favorite is the clip I've embedded below of someone having to outrun a void that's seemingly decided to chase them around a bit and momentarily swallow Mr Rosfield whole.
"The PS5 system update yesterday is causing major graphical bugs in FFXVI during some cutscenes and portions of game play," one player wrote of this particular issue in a tweet, "Bug progresses to blacking out the screen, temporarily receded by opening the active time lore menu."
]]>Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida has asked fans to not create any "offensive or inappropriate" mods for the game prior to its PC release later today. That means you, yes you reading this right now, have been asked not to create anything vulgar or naughty. It doesn't matter how handsome Clive is!
This plea stems from a PC Gamer interview, in which Yoshida refused to name any specifics as to avoid goading cheeky modders into creating exactly what he and Square Enix wouldn't want to see. However, it doesn't take a mind reader to know the kind of stuff he's talking about. No cocks, fellas. It'll probably make Yoshida very sad to see a naked Clive pop up on his Twitter feed.
This may seem like an odd thing to specifically ask for, but the Final Fantasy PC community has a rich and storied history of taking their creative skills and horniness to the lab to conduct various sexy experiments. Like all games, these are typically among the more popular mods, however it's also worth noting that more composed creators have a history of making some pretty nice stuff. Just look at Nexusmods for a variety of cosmetic changes and so on.
]]>It's still a bit unclear how Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 will end, and the game's producer hasn't made that much clearer in a recent interview.
]]>Make no mistake. Fantasian is an old-school game. The game was conceived when Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi was called upon to replay Final Fantasy 6 for some promotional live stream or another - and Sakaguchi realised ‘hey, this is actually pretty good’. A new project was born.
]]>Without any kind of announcement from Square Enix, mobile game Kingdom Hearts Union X Dark Road has been delisted.
]]>Visions of Mana only released yesterday, August 29, but according to a new report, plans to cut back at and eventually close the JRPG’s developer - Ouka Studios - have been in the works for a good while, with the current situation being that NetEase has cut "all but a handful of jobs".
]]>Xbox’s Summer Games Fest showcase was a banger that brought back the classic E3 vibes - but of all the games featured in the broadcast, one new title caught my eye - the slick-looking role-playing game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
]]>PowerWash Simulator, that game about cleaning stuff, is getting an official Shrek DLC pack later this year. Yes, you read that right.
]]>Starfield finally got its first land vehicle this week, via a free update Bethesda revealed at Gamescom Opening Night Live alongside the Shattered Space DLC’s release date. While it almost definitely won’t convert you if you weren’t already interested in playing more of the game, it is at least spawning an inevitable array of interesting vehicle mods.
]]>In a recent interview with the devs behind the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy, the game's director expressed some bold feelings about the third and final part.
]]>The 10th anniversary of Life is Strange is fast approaching: in January next year it'll have been a full decade since Max, Chloe, and co. first entered our lives and, in many cases, won our hearts. For many of us who really loved Life is Strange upon first encountering it, it's fair to say that we're still just as besotted with the world and its characters all these years down the line as we were back in the day.
]]>Are you a Final Fantasy 7 fan? Have you played a little too much of the Final Fantasy 7 remake, but still hunger to experience the ups and downs of Square Enix's beloved RPG one more time? I have some good news for you! A solo developer has recreated much of the remake in Little Big Planet 2.
]]>If you've been glued to the Paris Olympics as of late, and consider yourself a keen fan of action RPGs from the past few years, you ears probably perked up during the artistic swimming last night. That's because that the Japanese team competing in that event decided to pair their performance with a certain song from Nier Automata of all things.
]]>There's now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber - check out our Support Us page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don't worry if that's not for you, the main show will always be free.
]]>Couldn't put Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's excellent card game Queens Blood down? Bad news, as it's coming back "even better" in the next entry.
]]>The Sephiroth boss fight in the first Kingdom Hearts is still one of the series' toughest, and it turns out his voice actor hasn't managed to beat it.
]]>It looks like that rumoured mobile version of Final Fantasy 14 is on the way, as one has just been approved for release in China.
]]>With Kingdom Hearts 4 MIA, Disney Pixel RPG, a new mobile gacha game featuring Mickey Mouse and more, is here to tide you over.
]]>You might soon be able to play Final Fantasy 14 from the palm of your hand, if a recent report is accurate.
]]>Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail is finally here, but to the surprise of no one, it has launched with a few issues - luckily producer Naoki "Yoshi-P" Yoshida has promised some fixes.
]]>Don't Nod, the studio that created the Life is Strange franchise in partnership with Square Enix, has announced that it will be delaying its upcoming self-published title Lost Records: Bloom & Rage into 2025. Lost Records was initially announced at The Game Awards last year, with the release window at the time given as "late 2024".
]]>If you're planning to play Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail in early access, Square Enix has a small request to make of you.
]]>Team Asano, the studio behind the Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake, has admittated that it regrets announcing the game all the way back in 2021, leaving fans to yearn for a release date reveal that only arrived via this week's Nintendo Direct. November 14 is the date, by the way, in case you were busy washing your hair on the afternoon of June 18.
]]>Hi. There's an expansion coming out this week. It's called Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree and you probably haven't heard much about it. Anyway, within a day of the reviews of it coming out ahead of its arrival on June 21, it's casually become the highest rated game of 2024 and the highest rated DLC ever among critics on Metacritic.
]]>While in the western world we pay more attention to Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest remains one of Japan’s most important video gaming exports. The truth is, we probably wouldn’t have many of today’s modern Japanese-made RPG tropes without Dragon Quest; it is the game that defined the parameters of the genre as we know it today.
]]>Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake got a release date today during the latest Nintendo Direct, along with an announcement that the first two games are getting the same treatment.
]]>Playing MMOs solo can often be a difficult thing, but Blizzard is considering making it easier to play some of World of Warcraft's legacy raids alone.
]]>As rumours about a Final Fantasy 9 remake continue to swirl, Final Fantasy 14's Naoki "Yoshi-P" Yoshida says one thing's for sure: he's not making it.
]]>If you're a Final Fantasy fan and you've been worried about what might be in store when you go to jump into Final Fantasy 14's Dawntrail expansion, then here's some news - Naoki Yoshida wants you to chill out. This is because the game's developers have been busy doing a lot of prep to make sure the Endwalker expansion's server issues don't happen this time around.
]]>Surprise! Octopath Traveler 2 has made a sudden arrival on Xbox. You can also grab the game on PC via Game Pass too , if you're so inclined.
]]>There's now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber - check out our Support Us page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don't worry if that's not for you, the main show will always be free.
]]>Summer Game Fest is set to air later this week, and ahead of that host and organiser Geoff Keighley made it clear what games won't make an appearance.
]]>A new look at the upcoming Tomb Raider anime is here, and Netflix has even confirmed when you can finally watch it.
]]>The long-running Just Cause series has been out of the picture for quite a while now, so excuse us if we didn't expect a movie announcement to come before the reveal of Just Cause 5.
]]>Nier: Automata Ver 1.1a, the anime adaptation of the beloved Square Enix game, is finally coming back this July.
]]>It's been three years since Square Enix revealed its Dragon Quest 3 remake, and the developer has (probably) finally offered a small, odd update for it.
]]>The PlayStation first shipped in 1994 and very quickly made its way into the homes of gamers worldwide. It’s a console that - alongside the PlayStation 2 - many hold near and dear, for good reason. The console was home to a multitude of RPG’s, action games, and highly successful series that were finding their footing at the time, garnering Sony plenty of power that it’s since held on to and grown…for the most part.
]]>It feels somewhat hard to believe that it's been seven years since Nier: Automata released, and yet somehow that time has gone by in the blink of an eye. I think the more confusing thing is the fact that Square Enix somehow hasn't let Yoko Taro and co make a fully fledged sequel, despite the fact it's managed to sell 8,000,000 copies to date, even resulting in an amped-up remaster of the original game. Sure, there's the mobile game, but that's dead now, so I can't help but feel that there's a bit of a Nier-shaped hole in my heart at the moment.
]]>Ok. So, Yoko Taro and a couple of the other key people behind the NieR games have cheekily teased a new project that they're working on together, very much leaving it up in the air as to whether the thing is related to NieR or not. Seriously, the quote even has the word 'laughs' in it in brackets, who knows what they're cooking.
]]>The rumor mill is churning, and one of its latest suggestions is one of those concepts so obvious it’s difficult to believe that it hasn’t happened before: a Kingdom Hearts movie.
]]>Square Enix has released its financial report for the 2023 fiscal year, and it looks like all of its major games have fallen below sales expectations. Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth, Final Fantasy 16, and Foamstars didn't meet established sales targets - with few sales figures shared across the board. Alongside this the company is shifting to focus away from mobile, pushing to bring games to Xbox, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation and PC.
]]>Another massive video game company has been hit by layoffs in what is proving to be one of - if not the - toughest period for those working in the industry in recent memory. This time it's Square Enix up to the cutting board, as the company has announced layoffs in both its European and American departments. Square Enix itself has yet to offer an official announcement.
]]>The days of Square Enix making loads of medium-budget games might be over, as it outlines its new medium-term business plan.
]]>As they do, every once in a while, there are some rumours floating around at the moment about a Kingdom Hearts movie. Both The DisInsider, who generally typically shares details about behind-the-scenes go-ons at Disney, and Daniel Richtman, a supposed industry insider, have claimed a film adaptation of Kingdom Hearts is potentially in the works, though nothing has been greenlit just yet. I've not heard of The DisInsider before this, though I had heard of Richtman, and it seems like in both cases their records are spotty at best, so I'm not placing any bets just yet.
]]>Square Enix has announced it will "recognize extraordinary losses" during its fiscal year report ending March 2024, as it pertains to several canceled games.
]]>Microsoft has announced upcoming titles coming to
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As recent player numbers for the series have shown, Amazon's Fallout TV show has a whole bunch of us playing and thinking about Fallout right now. In the case of one fan, Fallout 3's been the title they've decided to take a trip down memory lane to - having decided to start working a cool demake of it for the Gameboy.
]]>Embracer Group is no more, as the company has made the decision to split into three separate entities, with various developers divided up amongst them.
]]>With the release of Rising Tide, the world of Final Fantasy 16 is now complete. A game about elemental gods that in the past have been known as Espers, Summons, Eidolons and more, one element was mysteriously missing from FF16’s narrative. Now, with Rising Tide, the Eikon of Water joins Clive’s fight.
]]>Ever since Final Fantasy 7 Remake came out, and it became clear that the project was less of a beat-for-beat remake and more of a reimagining/ pseudo-sequel, there's been one question on everyone's mind, about a particularly important moment from the original: will they dress up Red XIII in a Shinra uniform still? Sorry, what's that - the big thing everyone was wondering about was whether Aerith would die or not? Yeah, sure, I guess I was wondering that too.
]]>Hello there, a whole bunch of games are set to leave Playstation Plus next month. There are 25 of them, to be exact, and some pretty big names are on that list. A smorgasbord of Final Fantasy titles, for example. Though, that's not what you should be most concerned about. Monster Jam Steel Titans 2 is leaving too, and to be honest, I don't think the service will ever recover from that.
]]>Square Enix's Final Fantasy 7 Remake project has one more entry on the way, and it might not take as long to make as you might think.
]]>Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has received a small patch fixing the menu for the final boss' death screen, and I am overwhelmed with joy and jealousy.
]]>You're not alone in wanting a new Final Fantasy Tactics game, as it turns out Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki "Yoshi-P" Yoshida wants one too.
]]>When you look at everything that came after it, the original Kingdom Hearts sits in a bit of a weird place compared to the rest of the series. It's the first game in a long-running series that didn't entirely know what was coming next, and from its sequel Chain of Memories onwards the vibes were completely different. I still love it a lot, it's as equally charming as it is frustrating, and because it's so different from the rest of them it feels special.
]]>If you kidnapped me, drove me to an underground broker far away from civilization, put a gun to my head and forced me into choosing the greatest manga/ anime of all time, first of all, please don't do this, and secondly, I probably wouldn't have much of a hard time saying Fullmetal Alchemist. Yeah, yeah, I know what you're going to say, "but what about *insert manga name*" and maybe you're right, but let's be honest; there are very few series that can hold a candle to the highs and lows of FMA.
]]>Yu Miyake, a member of Square Enix who has overseen the development of a number of Dragon Quest games since joining the publisher all the way back in 1992, is reportedly set to step down from his position as a producer on the series, after some delays in the creation of the next entry in it.
]]>Final Fantasy 14 is finally on Xbox, except it seems like some players are being banned for a bit of a strange reason.
]]>Struggling to get that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth platinum trophy? You're not the only one, as a bug is preventing a particular trophy from registering.
]]>For the most part, I do generally like it when video games are good, a statement that I don't think is particularly controversial. Good games equals a good time! What's there to lose! But these days, I feel like there are a lot of "good" games, rather than good. Do you know what I mean? No, of course not, that's nonsense, so let me explain. Let's take a game like Marvel's Spider-Man. It's a "good" game, the quotation marks there because by all accounts, it's competent in what it does, the swinging feels tight, and the combat can occasionally even be fun. The problem is that it feels a touch too polished - there's nothing overly wrong with it, but there's nothing exceptionally right either.
]]>Big Western style open-world RPGs from beloved Japanese studios who tend to be known for other things (inhale) are like buses: there's none for ages, and then two come along at once! See also: Clinton-era disaster movies about Earth getting clobbered by an asteroid. See also: Clinton-era disaster movies about America getting clobbered by volcanoes. See also: those ones about the White House (former home of Bill Clinton) getting clobbered by some guys with guns. I dunno. You don't read this anyway.
]]>Look there's no way of sugar-coating this. A mod has recently hit the Final Fantasy 14 scene and it's hard to look away from. Courtesy of Grym , the Epic of Alexander raid has been changed forever. Whether that's for better or for worse is up to you to decide.
]]>Final Fantasy 16: The Rising Tide - the game's second DLC - takes place before the ending of the main game. Square Enix has revealed that fans will be able to play the DLC from April 18, bought on its own or as part of the existing Expansion Pass. Either way, you'll need to also own the original game.
]]>Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail is launching exactly a week after Elden Ring's DLC, and yes, it does sound like producer Naoki Yoshida did that on purpose.
]]>Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail finally has a release date, but some Final Fantasy 9-themed items are raising some eyebrows.
]]>Square Enix has announced a release date for the Final Fantasy 14 Online expansion, Dawntrail.
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