Excitement for the surprise Steam release of Chrono Trigger quickly turned into dread today as fans realized that…
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Revisit one of the best role-playing games of all time with the Chrono Trigger Holiday Challenge. It runs from now through March and the rules are simple: register, get assigned three characters, and then go beat the game with them and upload a pic of your victory. More details can be found at the Four Job Fiesta site Read more
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You can now battle Takashi Tokita’s party in the Switch version of I Am Setsuna’s Temporal Battle Arena. Tokita, a Square Enix veteran, was one of the directors on Chrono Trigger and until August 10 you can actually snag I Am Setsuna for 33% off on the eShop.
How would you feel if your son had died trying to save the world and his best friends never told you?
Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey, who last year spent a lot of money helping Donald Trump get elected, has since…
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All of this freedom to explore in No Man’s Sky is giving me a headache.
Late last month, game developer Manabu Daishima passed away while diving off the coast of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Daishima worked on an array of classic titles, doing monster designs for Romancing SaGa, field graphics for Chrono Trigger, and background design for Final Fantasy XII. He was 45 years old.
What’s this? Chrono Trigger cosplay? Oh, what a lovely day.
The name “Tokyo RPG Factory” conjures a dreary image. An assembly line for role-playing games, perhaps, where dozens…
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In the last couple of years, I’ve developed a strange relationship with JRPGs. I found myself tiring of their…
Current games! Retro games! Terrible games! Gaming podcasts are nothing new, but you’ll be hard pressed to find one…
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It’s not clear why Square Enix isn’t making new Chrono games, but hey, at least there’s I Am Setsuna, which will be…
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Recently, Square-Enix released its new RPG I Am Setsuna in Japan. Its most interesting feature? The return of Chrono…
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Chrono Trigger started out with a boy and a girl running into each other at a fair. Only, the fair I remember was…