Naoki "Yoshi-P" Yoshida has shared that Square Enix does still plan to release its games on multiple platforms simultaneously "more and more."
]]>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.
]]>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.
]]>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.
]]>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.
]]>Square Enix has announced that the upcoming DLC for Final Fantasy 16, titled The Rising Tide, will be released on April 18, following the launch of the first paid DLC, Echoes of the Fallen.
]]>Those of you hoping to play Final Fantasy 16 on PC will have to wait a little bit longer, though producer Naoki Yoshida doesn't think it's too far away.
]]>Final Fantasy 16 has another bit of DLC still yet to come, though it sounds like there could be more after that (you just shouldn't hold out much hope).
]]>If Xbox insider Shpeshal_Nick is to be believed, Final Fantasy 16 could be coming to the Series X/S in the future.
]]>You know those JRPGs like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest that Square Enix is pretty well-known for making, especially since it sold off a whole bunch of its other IPs and the studios that work on them? Well, the publisher doesn’t want to have to rely on them as much going forwards.
]]>Don't expect Final Fantasy 14 and 16 producer Naoki Yoshida to return for 17, as he thinks a younger team should take over.
]]>The thing about Final Fantasy, is that there's a lot of them. Not counting the countless spin offs and sequels, there's roughly 16 of them (in the mainline series, at least), and with that many games not all of them can be bangers – even if a lot of them are. You all have a favourite, that one entry you swear is the best one, warts and all, but it seems that since Final Fantasy 13, the beloved series has been a bit rough around the edges. Only thing is, I'm a Final Fantasy 13 defender, and as you might have guessed I'm the same when it comes to 15 too - so much so that I truly do think it's better than Square Enix's latest, Final Fantasy 16.
]]>In a New Year's letter released to the public, president of Square Enix Takashi Kiryu has pledged that the company will be "aggressive in applying AI and other cutting-edge technologies to both our content development and our publishing functions".
]]>Those of you considering playing Final Fantasy 16 on PC whenever it launches will want to make sure you have an SSD in your rig.
]]>It sounds like after its DLC is out, we shouldn't expect a sequel to or spin-off of Final Fantasy 16 in the future.
]]>Another year of the video games, another three hour long event just before Christmas that tells us all about the video games, The Game Awards 2023 has officially finished washing over us all.
]]>If you couldn’t get enough of Clive’s story in Final Fantasy 16, good news: more of it is on the way in the form of single-player story DLC for his adventure. After selling over 3 million copies in three days and becoming one of the most well-loved modern Final Fantasy games in a matter of weeks, FFXVI is back to play with our hearts once again.
]]>Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida shared a message today announcing that the game will in fact be getting some DLC, and there's a new update out now too.
]]>Whether you were a fan or not, it seems that Final Fantasy 16 has gone down pretty well with the creator of the series Hironobu Sakaguchi.
]]>Despite previous comments, it now seems that Final Fantasy 16 didn't actually hit Square Enix's high expectations.
]]>I was awake at 4AM this morning. I had work to do and a bag to pack, but it was Baldur's Gate 3 that keeping me up. Eyes hurting, slouched back and mid-yawn, I couldn't help but shake the idea that 2023 may very well be the best year for RPGs in ages. Not because Baldur's Gate 3 is an industry-shattering epic, but because regardless of what kind of RPG you fancy, there's a juggernaut release for you this year.
]]>Square Enix has revealed that it's not at all concerned about the sales of Final Fantasy 16 so far. The game, released exclusively on PS5 on June 22, shipped and digitally sold a combined 3 million units in its first week.
]]>There are a lot of intense moments in Final Fantasy 16; even from the very start of the game, where you’re engaged in a massive-scale chase scene involving a pair of broiling Eikons, Square Enix keeps the adrenaline high in 2023’s biggest RPG hit. But one of the most standout moments involved one of the game’s big bads – Hugo Kupka – and the god that resides within him, Titan.
]]>The structure of Final Fantasy 16 becomes quite familiar once you spend a few hours with the game. Following an Eikon fight, a major story event happens, and you're then sent back to your hideout to do some side quests, fetch quests, and some filler story quests without the spectacle.
]]>If you thought that Final Fantasy 16 should have been a bit more theatrical, the news that a stage play adaptation is on the way should be music to your ears.
]]>Final Fantasy 16 may not have needed a big day one patch like most games (only a small one), but it launched with a host of annoying settings turned on by default, with no way to turn them off.
]]>The weeks following the release of a new Final Fantasy game are always fraught with endless, grating debate and social media in-fighting. And Final Fantasy 16, naturally, is no different. But I’d argue that this time around, people are asking the wrong questions.
]]>We're halfway through the year now, and to mark the occasion Metacritic has highlighted the highest-rated games of 2023 so far.
]]>Be careful while you're playing through Final Fantasy 16, as a particular moment in the game seems to be shutting down PS5s due to overheating.
]]>Square Enix has announced the first sales milestone for Final Fantasy 16.
]]>There sure have been a lot of low points for Final Fantasy as a series since the halcyon days of the PS1 Final Fantasy era. As soon as FF12 was out the door, the series began to stumble – weighed down by its own legacy, so desperate to reinvent and re-establish its place as an industry leader that it continually made promises it couldn’t keep.
]]>Final Fantasy 16 is a rather different game to previous entries in the series, breaking with tradition in many ways. But one tradition isn’t just maintained, but is in fact the backbone of the games: Eikons, the iconic ‘summon monsters’ the FF series is well known for.
]]>As I sit down to write this article we’re precisely one week from the release of Final Fantasy 16, a little under a week from the review embargo (which will have passed and our FF16 review published by the time you read this), and the game is trending on Twitter. Click the trend and what do you find, though? A bunch of bloody nonsense about if it’s a Final Fantasy game or not.
]]>Have you heard about Final Fantasy 14’s grapes? Once upon a time, they were the talk of Eorzea – repurposed crystal shapes with a nice, lush grape texture pasted over the top. Introduced in the Endwalker expansion, these low-poly prolate spheroids quickly became an internet sensation.
]]>Final Fantasy 16 might be taking inspiration from some darker and more grounded versions of fantasy worlds, but that doesn’t mean that series traditions haven’t been kept lovingly intact. Case in point: you’ll still be riding a Chocobo rather than a horse!
]]>Final Fantasy 16 is basically two games in one. First of all, you have an excellent, best-in-class 20-hour action game with a truly brilliant story. Bolted to it, however, you have a deeply flawed role-playing game – which makes up the other 25 hours of the experience.
]]>With the release of Final Fantasy 16 just one day away, Square Enix has been doing the rounds to promote the upcoming RPG, and discuss its controversial decision to abandon turn-based and ATB combat in favour of an action, spectacle fighter style.
]]>Final Fantasy 16 is going to have a New Game+ mode called "Final Fantasy Mode," that ups the difficulty, alongside a few additions.
]]>Beware: Final Fantasy 16 spoilers are cropping up online thanks to folks who have acquired the game early and are being rather inconsiderate about it.
]]>Square Enix has announced it will release a day-one update for Final Fantasy 16, despite stating earlier this year the game wouldn't need one.
]]>It turns out that Final Fantasy 16 got a helping hand from both PlatinumGames and the studio behind Kingdom Hearts during its development.
]]>Fantastic news for fans of Final Fantasy today. Not only does Final Fantasy 16 launch in approximately two weeks time on June 22, but eager fans will be able to jump into a demo of the game from today, June 12.
]]>If you're a moogle lover, you got lucky, because the loveable creatures almost didn't make it into Final Fantasy 16.
]]>Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida has said Square Enix will start working "carefully" on a PC version of the game after it debuts on PS5.
]]>While it's obvious that Devil May Cry has had a big influence on Final Fantasy 16, it seems that Marvel vs. Capcom 2 was a source of inspiration too.
]]>Final Fantasy 16 is coming. Soon. The game is less than a month away at the time of writing, and so it stands to reason that the Square Enix marketing machine is in full swing. Today, at the PlayStation Showcase for May 2023, the publisher and developer debuted a new trailer for the game – and you'd have to be made of stone not to get excited on what's on offer.
]]>Final Fantasy 16 looks pretty good, ey? Our own Alex Donaldson had some massive glowing praise for the game in his preview that went live yesterday, and (in an earlier preview) I also didn’t have a bad word to say about it. By all accounts, this is going to be a stunner. A proper PlayStation 5 tour de force. And the developers seem equally as confident in the game, too.
]]>At a recent hands-on for Final Fantasy 16, we got to play a good six hours of content from across the game. Though all from a work-in-progress build that Square Enix was careful to note had been specifically designed for the media tour, much of what we played appeared to be pretty much the final version of the game.
]]>Final Fantasy 16 is going to make use of the PS5's DualSense haptic features and adaptive triggers to help you feel things "like the movements of air."
]]>Square Enix has released a new Final Fantasy 16 trailer focused on showing off its incredibly gorgeous looking landscapes and locales.
]]>If you're wondering how long you'll need to set aside for Final Fantasy 16, a new interview confirmed it will take about 35 hours.
]]>Probably the most interesting thing to come out of Final Fantasy 16 previews yesterday wasn’t anything to do with the game. It was a single off-the-cuff remark from the game’s producer, Naoki Yoshida – a comment inspired by a single word from an interviewer that has triggered some intense debate online.
]]>Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki ‘Yoshi-P’ Yoshida has said a PC version of the game will not release within six months of the PS5 version.
]]>Alongside review scores, whether Game Pass is good or bad for the industry, and the ethics of crunch (it’s bad), difficulty options are one part of the games discourse that just won’t go away. It’s a cycle; on the launch of a game like Elden Ring, or Demon’s Souls, or Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty – look forward to that later this week – the inevitable back-and-forth about games difficulty will arise. Some people think that games like Elden Ring are pure examples of difficulty in games; that there should be no easy mode, that it would eat away at the integrity of the experience and somehow ‘ruin it for everyone else’.
]]>Final Fantasy 16 is very British. It’s very much the sort of game that comes after the blockbuster TV success of Game of Thrones; everything is bleak, there are lots of big battles, your main character has a direwolf-type pet that’s bound to him by blood, and there are p**sed off Yorkshiremen everywhere. The developers, in an interview with VG247, were candid about the inspiration Game of Thrones had on the title – it’s popular fantasy fiction that dealt with its political and interpersonal themes adeptly, of course it was going to be impactful.
]]>Let’s be honest, the setup of Final Fantasy 15 hasn’t aged that well. The semi-open world setup of the game’s main area – Duscae – provided some cool opportunities for Noctis and his pals to fart around as the world literally fell apart around them, but the meat of the game existed solely within the middle America-inspired region, with only some very on-rails (literally) story beats following up the initial area.
]]>There are two types of people that read that headline: the sickos that see it and go ‘yes, ha ha, yes!’ and the weary, jaded folk that go ‘oh, please, no’. But I’m here to tell you that, actually, it’s not as bad as it sounds. Final Fantasy 16 has made a real effort to make sure its narrative is tight, exciting, and interesting – even if you’ll sometimes be sat there with your hands off the pad for minutes and minutes and minutes at a time.
]]>It’s been a lethargic start to the generation. Years into the lifespan of both the Xbox Series X/S and the PS5, it feels like there hasn’t really been any one game that’s juiced the hardware for all it’s worth – that’s really put the pedal to the metal and gotten drunk on the power of all the SSDs and GPUs crammed into these waiting machines. Demon’s Souls, Horizon Forbidden West, Forza Horizon 5, Halo: Infinite, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart… they’re all good, decent games in their own right, but none really feel like the proper watershed moment for new-gen gaming.
]]>Final Fantasy 16 has a lot going for it. As well as a return to a more traditional fantasy world – eschewing the apocalyptic boyband aesthetic of the previous game – the game seems to have a more serious tone, a world packed with political intrigue, and a core cast of characters with grizzly backstories, potent motivations, and suitably unlikely names. By remembering what made the series great, Square Enix’s next blockbuster RPG could right the recent wrongs of the series.
]]>For a five-year stretch at the turn of millennium, the Final Fantasy series released an unprecedented run of indisputable JRPG bangers. Four games in a row – Final Fantasy 7 to Final Fantasy 10 – each its own contained adventure with a bespoke world of a particular aesthetic and vision. Uniting them all was the sheer bombast of their productions, massive disc-spanning epics filled with bleeding edge graphics and sweeping narratives.
]]>Put on the Barry White and dim the lights, Final Fantasy is getting sexy. Not that it wasn't always a bit sexy, to be fair, what with its domme-flavoured fantasy PlayBoy bunnies and absurdly-chested goth girlfriends. But per a new ESRB rating that's come up for the game, the latest title is going to have at least a little bit of "partial nudity" and some "sexual themes".
]]>We know the game is set in the land of Valisthea where six factions are almost to the point of conflict due to a spreading disease called the Blight, in which crystals lie at the center of the problem.
]]>A brand new Final Fantasy 16 trailer has just been released showing off a bunch of new story details as well as what the deal is with the crystals in this new entry into Square's legendary RPG franchise. For those eager to learn more about the world, as well as what the different factions and kingdoms are like, it's a must watch.
]]>In a recent interview, Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida said that the reason the game doesn't have turn-based combat is to appeal to a younger generation.
]]>We're only about a year out from Final Fantasy 16 releasing – but the full game is actually playable from back to front, right now.
]]>Square Enix's next big Final Fantasy game is finally coming, and by the crystals it's been a while. Final Fantasy 16 was announced back in September 2020 for PlayStation 5, and developer and publisher Square Enix has been keeping its mouth shut about the game for fear of giving too much away, or setting unrealistic expectations.
]]>We've been waiting a while, now, for Square Enix's next big Final Fantasy game. Despite having been in development for a while, Final Fantasy 16 was announced back in September 2020 for PlayStation 5 only. Since then, Square Enix has intentionally been staying quiet about the game so that it doesn't "say something that’s half baked and cause speculation on the title." Smart move.
]]>Final Fantasy 14's now iconic producer Naoki Yoshida has recently detailed how his first game ended up getting cancelled.
]]>Some of the lead developers behind Final Fantasy 16 apparently previously worked on a Bloodborne-like, asymmetrical multiplayer game that was ultimately cancelled.
]]>Development on Final Fantasy 16 seems to be going well. So well in fact, it is in the final stages of development.
]]>What are the most anticipated games of 2022? The answer to that question is going to be different for everyone. Even looking ahead to the immediate future, it’s clear to see that 2022 is absolutely stacked with games. With Pokemon Legends Arceus, Horizon Forbidden West, Elden Ring and Dying Light 2 all set for release before the daylight hours start getting a bit more generous, it’s going to be an explosive start to a jam-packed year.
]]>Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida recently took to Twitter to inform fans that the game would be delayed by a half a year due to COVID-related difficulties. He previously stated that we’d have more solid info in the back half of 2021 but given that we’re already preparing to ring in 2022, that ship appears to have sailed, and for good reason.
]]>Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida provided a small update during about the game's developmnet during a Tokyo Game Show live stream this weekend, and noted that the game is perhaps closer to completion that people may have thought.
]]>Final Fantasy 16 producer, Naoki Yoshida, has clarified that the game is prioritizing British English as its primary language, and Japanese dub will be dealt with later in development.
]]>If you were hoping to see Final Fantasy 16 at Tokyo Game Show later this year, we've got some bad news for you: it looks like Square Enix won't be ready to show it off.
]]>It looks like this version of the upcoming RPG might be released slightly later, if at all.
]]>We've heard very little about Square Enix's upcoming blockbuster RPG since the reveal of Final Fantasy 16 back in September 2020, and that's all part of the publisher's plan.
]]>More information about Final Fantasy 16 has been revealed thanks to an official update from the game's website that shows off more information about the game's characters, setting and story.
]]>Final Fantasy 16 was officially announced for PS5 back at the PlayStation 5 showcase, and fans very quickly started to criticize the game's graphics.
]]>The mess of broken promises and unclear messaging continues in the wake of PS5's big event.
]]>Final Fantasy 16 has been officially announced for PS5.
]]>A placeholder account for Final Fantasy 16 recently surfaced on Twitter, implying that Square Enix could be looking at locking down a username for the next instalment in its illustrious series of JRPGs.
]]>Final Fantasy 16 will not be directed by Naoki Yoshida despite rumors to the contrary.
]]>Has Square Enix posted an anonymous job ad looking for staff to work on a "Super-Famous RPG Series"?
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