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Square Enix Gets Into Crowd-Funded Gaming, With a Tantalizing Twist

Square Enix, international conglomerate behind everything from Final Fantasy to Tomb Raider would like to help your best game ideas get some crowd-funding. Oh, and they might let your game star some of their characters. Whoa. Slow down there. Eidos characters. You ain’t going to be remaking Final Fantasy VII Consider this today’s least and…

Dragon Quest is coming to smartphones in a big way. Square Enix is bringing Dragon Quest I to Dragon Quest VIII to iOS and Android. Look forward for the onslaught to start this winter when Dragon Quest I is re-released in Japan. Subsequent sequels to follow. No word about a Western release.

Get ready to go back to Hong Kong. United Front Games—the dev studio behind last year’s Sleeping Dogs—has announced Triad Wars, another game set in the universe of the open-world undercover cop drama. All right, who wants to lay odds that it’s a mobile tie-in or a free-to-play multiplayer title?

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn: The Kotaku Review

Final Fantasy XIV Online, massively multiplayer online role-playing game — an MMO barely alive. Square Enix rebuilt it. They had the technology. They had the capability to build the world’s first relaunched FF title. A Realm Reborn is that game. Better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster. Unlike 1970’s action heroes, video games don’t…

Your First Look At Next-Gen Deus Ex

Deus Ex is going next-gen, and although the next game in Eidos’s popular sci-fi series won’t be here for a while, at least we’ve got some concept art. You can see a 16:9 version above, or the whole thing in high resolution right here “Deus Ex is coming to next-gen,” writes Eidos Montreal boss David…

You Want Old-School Final Fantasy? Get This Game.

This is Bravely Default, a role-playing game for 3DS that will be out for North America in the first quarter of 2014. It’s Final Fantasy with a different name. Check out a new trailer above.

A cloud version of Dragon Quest X is coming to Japanese smartphones and tablets. It will be released between December 2013 and February 2014. Subscription fees are TBA.

Old-School Final Fantasy Is Back With A New Name

Here’s the first English trailer for Bravely Default, an upcoming Square Enix role-playing game for 3DS that seems like old-school Final Fantasy in everything but name. I mean, just look at that intro Four crystals! White mages! Sweet music! Note that this is a trailer for the UK version, but presumably the North American release…

Thief Has An Old-School Homage Mission. Which Is DLC. Sigh.

Hey, here’s where there should be some good news! The upcoming Thief game, which already has people a little worried, thought it was doing the right thing by including a mission that was a straight homage to Thief II’s bank heist. Which it immediately spoils by making it pre-order DLC. I’ve said before how awful…

You’ve Got Lightning Returns In My Final Fantasy XIV

There is no greater power in the realm of Eorzea than cross-promotion, be it with Dragon Quest or the upcoming Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. The pink-haired paladin of justice makes a trip to MMO-land to drop off clothes in a special event. They’re called Fates, public quests that spawn all over the open-world areas…

Let’s Watch The Opening Of Lightning Returns And Make Oooo Noises

Square Enix has lost a substantial amount of mojo over the years, their ability to create spectacular cinematic game openings remains intact. Watch them open the hell out of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. It’s not in English, but you don’t really need to know Japanese to get what’s going on here. Lightning has returned,…

One Of Gaming’s Most Iconic Swords Got A Massive Steampunk Replica

No wonder there’s no one in these pictures wielding the massive 6.5 feet tall Buster Sword, Cloud’s iconic weapon from Final Fantasy VII. It probably weighs a ton! More specifically it’s a slightly modified steampunk version of the weapon, made by the folks at Brick Replicas There’s a cog-wheel and an indicator attached, so we…

Final Fantasy XIV MMO Log Three: Play Us Out, PlayStation 3

Welcome to the third and final MMO Log before we slap a review on Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn and call it the better part of a month. This week I’m taking a look at the PlayStation 3 version of the game, which is just like the PC version after three or four beers.…

Final Fantasy XV Sounds Different, But Traditional

Final Fantasy XV looks to be a different-style entry for the series. That was originally the point when the game was still Final Fantasy Versus XIII Even designer Tetsuya Nomura acknowledges that “Final Fantasy XV is the first action RPG in the series’ numbered titles,” but that doesn’t mean it’s not Final Fantasy In a…

Here, Have Two New Final Fantasy Trailers

Ladies and gentlemen, for your viewing convenience, two brand new Final Fantasy trailers. Exhibit A: Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, a dress-up sim with RPG elements that’s out for PS3 and 360 in February. I’m psyched about this one—what I’ve played so far seems quite promising Exhibit B: Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2,…

Have A Few Seconds’ Worth Of Final Fantasy XV

Yeah, just a few seconds. But it’s still Final Fantasy XV! The Tokyo Game Show brings us a “new” (there’s lots of re-used footage) three-minute trailer for the upcoming PS4/XBO title Final Fantasy XV, wherein the hero faces Leviathan and smashes an armored soldier into a police car What a rascal!

Maybe Final Fantasy Type-0 Really Will Come Out In English

One of the only Final Fantasy games to never make it to North America could actually be headed our way. Final Fantasy Type-0, released for PSP in Japan way back in 2011, came at the worst possible time for American RPG fans. Thanks to Square Enix’s financial issues and the PSP’s lifecycle coming to an…

Watch Lightning Cosplay As Other Final Fantasy Characters

Not since Final Fantasy X-2 have there been this many wardrobe changes in one Final Fantasy game. And Lightning has taken the opportunity to show her fandom for the series that preceded her in the latest trailer for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. It looks like she loves Final Fantasy VII almost as much as…

Final Fantasy XIV MMO Log Two: A Few Cents Short Of A Dragoon

I really wanted this week’s video MMO log for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn to show you my ascension from Lancer to Dragoon at level 30, but I fell short. That I’m bummed about it says a lot about how I feel about the game. First off, let me just thank all of the…

Is this teaser site counting down to a Kingdom Hearts game? As noted by Japanese site Amaebi, the “Project Destati” teaser site has the word “Kingdom Hearts” in the page’s source code. As of posting, the countdown ends in three days. Make of it what you will.