Here's your weekly JRPG discussion thread. No column this week, but chat about JRPGs right here. Playing anything good these days?
Every once in a while, someone must stand up and ask the Essential Question Of Our Time: are JRPGs dead?
Last weekend at PAX East, I moderated a panel called "The Golden Age Of RPGs." This was quite fun, mostly because we…
Earlier this week, Square Enix boss Yosuke Matsuda said some things that left a whole lot of RPG fans scratching…
Once upon a time ago, a Japanese company named Squaresoft made lots and lots of RPGs that people really really…
Oculus VR, the company purchased by Facebook this week for $2 billion, brings to life a childhood fantasy, if your…
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Over the past couple of decades, Final Fantasy has done many things very well: stories, characters, art direction,…
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There was a point in South Park: The Stick of Truth—somewhere between performing an abortion and farting on Nazi…
Nintendo announced last night that Bravely Default, the excellent role-playing game released last month for 3DS,…
The JRPG-styled Earthlock: Festival of Magic—formerly just called Festival of Magic—is back on Kickstarter after a failed campaign last year. Now they're asking for $150,000 in an attempt to bring the colorful RPG to PC and consoles next year.
When I was a kid, I sometimes took weekend trips to my grandparents' house in Queens. I told my parents it was to…
Hey music/JRPG geeks: Hiroki Kikuta, the composer for Secret of Mana, is doing an AMA over on Reddit right now. "I wanted the song of whales to be almost like a crying voice for the undying mana tree."
That's Phil Spencer, one of Microsoft's top gaming executives. Sakaguchi, of course, is Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator…
For as long as there have been RPGs, there have been people making fun of RPG tropes. The Internet is sprinkled with…
I've been playing a lot of Threes lately—to the point where every time I close my eyes I just see numbers sliding…
Bravely Default is out in North America today, and if you've just picked it up, we've got a whole bunch of tips to…
There's an old saying: if it looks like a Final Fantasy, feels like a Final Fantasy, and sounds like a Final Fantasy,…
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Ubisoft's JRPG-inspired Child of Light is out April 30. It'll be $15, and available digitally just about everywhere—PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and even Wii U.
In 2003, two companies named Square and Enix merged, and everything went crazy. It was one of those Transformative…