Final Fantasy

One Of The Best Final Fantasy Games Turns 14 Today

Happy birthday, Final Fantasy IX! You’re fourteen years old now, and still just as lovely as you were back in 2000, though you could stand to take it easier on the random encounters. FFIX, a story about an interspecies romance and a wizard child who learns how to have feelings, first came out in Japan…

Final Fantasy‘s Creator Almost Made a Ballet Dancing Game

The father of Final Fantasy, Hironobu Sakaguchi, is working on a new smartphone game called Terra Battle. It’s an RPG. It could have been a ballet dancing game. Sakaguchi revealed some vague details about his new game, Terra Battle, in this week’s Weekly Famitsu. He’s got a lotta good talent working on it, with several…

Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi is working on a new role-playing game. Called Terra Battle, it is slated for smartphones. Details are currently scant, but Sakaguchi reveals more about the game in the upcoming issue of Famitsu.

Time For A Final Fantasy VI Speedrun

This is it: Summer Games Done Quick is nearly complete. It’s time for the final (and hopefully most exciting) run: Final Fantasy VI I’m gonna (try to) stay up all night watching—join me, will you? I’ll be chatting in the comments below, and you can watch the stream live right here: (And check out the…

Artist Flavio Bolla did a pretty neat paint of Kalm and its mini-reactor, which is the first town we visit in Final Fantasy VII, once leaving Midgar. This was the town where nothing really happened besides gearing up and watching Cloud’s extra-long, 30-minute flashback. Final Fantasy VII – Kalm by flaviobolla [DeviantART, via TheCyberWolf] Dayshot…

Tears for Yuna: I’ve always loved reading and talking with critic Leigh Alexander about Final Fantasy games, and her terrific new article about replaying Final Fantasy X is no exception.

Final Fantasy-Inspired Bookmark

Final Fantasy-inspired bookmark. Print out one for yourself: Via R/Gaming, but if memory serves, Olly Moss designed it. You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Final Fantasy VIII PC Update Brings Fresh Cheats, High Speed Mode

Want to experience Final Fantasy VIII without struggling against enemies or waiting on super-long cutscenes and dialog sessions? An update for the PC version of Square Enix’s 15-year-old RPG makes it so, so easy. When Final Fantasy VIII showed up on Steam late last year, it came complete with a “Magic Booster” cheat, which granted…

Even The NSA Likes Final Fantasy

Spies are people just like the rest of us, and just like the rest of us, some of them probably like video games. Which games? Well, according to some new documents that have surfaced online, at least a few NSA employees appear to be Final Fantasy fans. Documents published earlier this week by German magazine…

I Want to Look Forward to Final Fantasy Explorers

I have to admit, I was rather skeptical about Final Fantasy Explorers when I first heard the game’s description, but after hearing the game director’s initial pitch… I’m actually even more skeptical. Final Fantasy Explorers is described as an action RPG with mutli-player capabilities. Players band in parties of up to four characters and fight…

Square Enix Cannot Quit Final Fantasy XIII

With Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Square Enix has closed the Final Fantasy XIII chapter and is moving on. Just kidding, of course it isn’t. Hope you like reading and words and stuff! Much like with the Final Fantasy X series that got a 30 minute audio drama after-story, the Final Fantasy XIII series now…

Final Fantasy III Art Keeps Insects Away

Twitter user Rurue0111 recreated the Final Fantasy III job classes in miniature on a screen door. 8-bit has never been so good at not letting mosquitos in the house! Each square on the screen represented one pixel, and Rurue0111 used stain glass window paint, using a toothpick to color in the characters. Via Togech and…

Are you a Final Fantasy V fan? Want to support charity? The annual Final Fantasy V Job Fiesta—in which players are assigned random jobs for each of the game’s four characters and play for charity—started this week. Check out the website to join or donate

Blizzard & Final Fantasy’s Awesome Cutscenes Have One Thing In Common

Takuya Suzuki, formerly of Square Enix, has worked at Blizzard since 2009 on the company’s famous cinematics team. Currently Cinematic Senior Modeling Artist, he’s done a lot of the background work on the trailers for games like StarCraft II, Diablo III, World of Warcraft and the upcoming Heroes of the Storm. While at Square, he…

$600 Chocobo Looks Like Something A Fox Would Eat

At the right angle, this replica Final Fantasy chocobo looks real. For over $600, though, it had want to! Built by MiraCrafts in Germany, each chocobo is made entirely by hand out of stuff like fur, felt and glass. They’re also “Size fitting for actionfigures!”, which is about where I start reaching for my McFarlane…

The Final Boss of Final Fantasy VI In Its Full Glory

8-Bit Artist spent more than 200 hours on this painting, just to prove how insanely huge and incredible Kefka, the final boss of Final Fantasy VI, is. Here’s the full, 9 feet tall acrylic painting with all of its 111,747 pixels. Terra, Locke, Sabin and all the others would be so tiny compared to this…

Report: The Next 3DS Final Fantasy Sounds Like Monster Hunter [UPDATE]

According to a Japanese Shonen Jump scan obtained by Siliconera, it’s called Final Fantasy Explorers, and it’s a multiplayer action-RPG. The game will focus on searching for crystals and battling Summons, Monster Hunter-style, in parties of four. Multiple jobs will be available in-game—four of which, the Knight, the Monk, the White Mage, and the Black…

The Honest Final Fantasy VII Trailer Wants An HD Remake, Too

C’mon, who wouldn’t want to see these heaving, panting examples of manhood rendered with high resolution HD graphics? Though I’m pretty sure every Final Fantasy game mentioned in Smosh’s honest trailer for Cloud and Pals is far beyond the statute of spoilers, I’ll be nice and warn you all ahead of time — they mention…

Vita Fans Are Pissed About Final Fantasy Type-0

Earlier this week, just after press conference day, Square Enix dropped one of E3’s biggest bombshells—that they’re remaking the PSP game Final Fantasy Type-0 and bringing it to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One here in North America. This was exciting news for fans desperate to play one of the few Final Fantasy games that never…

Final Fantasy VII Bike Game Could Pave the Path to a Full Remake

Ever since seeing the intro to Final Fantasy VII remade in HD in that PS3 tech demo back in 2005, I’ve been silently, yet skeptically, hoping for an upgraded remake of the game. Well, it looks like the reality of such a remake may or may not hinge on Square Enix’s upcoming mobile game. Final…