Final Fantasy

Terra Battle 2 Coming From Final Fantasy‘s Creator

Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of Final Fantasy and founder of game studio Mistwalker, announced that he’s currently working on another Terra Battle role-playing game. It’s called Terra Battle 2 Sakaguchi discusses the sequel in the upcoming issue of Famitsu, which won’t be officially published until later this week. Reportedly, Sakaguchi said that he’s created a larger…

How To Unlock Red Mage And Samurai Jobs In Final Fantasy XIV

The Stormblood expansion for Final Fantasy XIV introduces two new jobs to the massively multiplayer RPG—Red Mage and Samurai. To access them you don’t have to rush through days of story quests and journey to new lands. You just have to be level 50 and talk to the right people. Rather than lock the new…

The Makers Of Final Fantasy XIV Are Still Deciding How To Add Blitzball

Blitzball is coming to Final Fantasy XIV, but director Naoki Yoshida doesn’t know how to make it happen. He’s torn between two options, he says, and both of them sound pretty good. Blitzball, which is sort of like underwater soccer except players can poison one another, is both a minigame and significant plot point in…

The long-dreamt dream of virtual reality was leading to this: Monster of the Deep: Final Fantasy XV. It’s a first-person fishing game starring the bros from FFXV. Because the game title “Ridiculous Fishing” was already taken.

Final Fantasy Comes To Life On A Japanese Hotel 

To mark Final Fantasy’s 30th anniversary, the side of a Yokohama hotel was turned into a FF spectacular thanks to projection mapping. This was how the InterContinental Yokohama Grand Hotel looked over the weekend during the special two-day event. Cool, huh?  Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking…

Square Enix Gave Sweet, Fake SNES Carts To King’s Tale Staff

Square Enix gave a pretty nifty thank-you gift to the developers of A King’s Tale: Final Fantasy XV—a replica Super Nintendo cartridge with the game’s art and logo. It even includes the box. It’s a thematically appropriate gift, since A King’s Tale is a (free) game for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 that’s styled after…

Secret of Mana Collection Proves Switch Is Awesome For Retro Gaming

I’ve been playing Super Nintendo games on my Switch all week, and it is a glorious thing. Virtual Console might be MIA on Switch thus far, possibly due to Nintendo wanting to roll out a Netflix-type catalog alongside its paid online service in 2018. But Square Enix ain’t got time for that, and has rolled…

Team Ninja’s Final Fantasy Fighting Game Comes To PS4 Early Next Year

Fighting Final Fantasy fans eagerly awaiting the console port of Team Ninja’s arcade brawler now have a better idea of how long they’ll be waiting, as Square Enix announces Dissidia Final Fantasy NT for early 2018 release on PlayStation 4. Japanese arcade goers have been enjoying three-on-three free-roaming battles between popular Final Fantasy characters since…

The Amazing World of Gumball‘s Wacky Tribute To Final Fantasy Is Glorious

The Amazing World of Gumball is no stranger to videogame, anime, and pop culture references. These are common story beats used in other past and current shows. But for the love of everything, please watch the episode, “The Console.” It’s a Final Fantasy and RPG tribute that’s too brilliant to be ignored. Creator Ben Bocquelet’s…

Japanese Trains Get Final Fantasy Music 

As part of Final Fantasy’s 30th anniversary, a Yokohama subway station is playing FF music when trains leave. At Minatomirai Station, a “Victory Fanfare” plays as the “departure melody” (発車メロディ) for trains heading towards Motomachi Park. (If you’ve forgotten what that tune sounds like, have a listen to eight minutes of Victory Fanfares.) For trains…

Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood‘s New Zones Are So Pretty

Final Fantasy XIV is one of the prettiest massively multiplayer online role-playing games going, and with next month’s Stormblood expansion it’s only getting prettier. Here’s a video tour of some of the new lands (and waters) players will be able to explore come June 20. There are plenty of fresh sights in the Eastern lands of…

Square Enix Moves Final Fantasy VII Remake Development In-House

Previously, Square Enix was working with external studio CyberConnect2 to develop Final Fantasy VII Remake. But now, Square Enix will be making the game in-house. Third party studio CyberConnect2 is perhaps best known for its Naruto and .hack games. Back in 2015, it was revealed that Square Enix was working with the studio on the…

How A Man Born Without Eyes Plays Video Games

Toby Ott is 27 years old. He’s been playing video games since he was five, when he first tried out Mortal Kombat in an arcade. Which sounds like a fairly common gaming past, until you learn that Toby has bilateral anophthalmia, a rare condition which means he was born without eyeballs. While this obviously presents…

Oh Hey, It’s Tifa Lockhart

This is Russian cosplayer Shade Cramer with a damn good Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII Photos by B.Y. Photo+

Square Enix Had “Record-High” Sales Last Year 

Even though things might sound grim with the IO Interactive split, Square Enix proper is doing well. Really well, it seems. “For this fiscal year,” Square Enix stated in an official release, “the Company reported record-high net sales, operating income, ordinary income and profit attributable to owners of parent, respectively.” Year on year, Square Enix…

My Final Fantasy Keyboard Has Quina Instead Of A Q

Along with giving folks a comfortable means of typing for hours on end, a decorated mechanical keyboard can also reflect the passions of the user. Since no existing keysets adequately reflected my love of Final Fantasy, I made my own. A nice set of keycaps can completely change the look and feel of a mechanical…

Tokyo Tower Turned Into A Final Fantasy Dungeon

Last Friday, Tokyo Tower was turned into level 50 dungeonCrystal Tower. Typically, it appears an orange-red when lit up, but on April 28, it also illuminated blue to mark Final Fantasy’s 30th anniversary.  Below are images of Tokyo’s one-night only Crystal Tower: A special Final Fantasy 30th Premium Store also opened at the foot of…

How Three Kids With No Experience Beat Square And Translated Final Fantasy V Into English

One day in the late 1990s, Myria walked into the Irvine High School computer room and spotted a boy playing Final Fantasy V. There were two unusual things about this. The first was that Final Fantasy V had not actually come out in the United States. To play the 1992 Japanese game in English, you’d…

Some Excellent Final Fantasy XV Cosplay

Narcisse, the master of Final Fantasy cosplay, returns with this Noctis outfit from Final Fantasy XV The costume was a joint effort between Narcisseand his girlfriend Lady Zero And in case you’re looking at this and thinking “well, it’s a dude in a lotta leather”, check out the detail work that went into making sure…

Real Life Should Have JRPG Victory Music

JRPG victory music is one of the best types of video game music. Every time you emerge from battle victorious, a familiar, stirring theme plays. I want that music to play in my everyday life. This post originally ran on 4/26/2012. Five years later, I’ve bumped it up and made a few edits, because Persona…