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Square Enix Doesn’t Know Where Some Of Its Old Games Are

Square Enix, one of the largest video game publishers on the planet, is interested in getting its entire back catalogue of games together so it can sell/stream them to you online. But there’s just this one tiny problem: some of the older games are missing. In an interview with Game Informer this week at E3,…

Collection Of Mana Is 3 Amazing Games With Not Enough Extra Features

One of the first Switch games I bought, way back in the spring of 2017, was the Japanese version of Collection of Mana. It was a very simple package: emulated versions of the first three games in the Mana series, and little else. Two years later, the U.S. version is out, and not much has…

Trials Of Mana Looks Much Better Than The Secret Of Mana Remake

Disappointed by last year’s 3D remake of Secret of Mana? Well, Trials of Mana, the upcoming remake of its sequel, looks nothing like it. Nintendo and Square Enix showed off the Switch game on today’s Treehouse Live stream, and it looks like a completely new, modern game design based on the Super NES original. The…

Final Fantasy VII Remake Renders Provide A Good Look At Cloud’s Pores

“Remaking Final Fantasy VII has allowed us to dive much deeper into the world and its characters than ever before,” producer Yoshinori Kitase said at E3. He wasn’t kidding! Check out the characters’ pores. Via website Hachima, the level of detail is staggering: Instead of smooth porcelain skin, the is real flesh, with little blemishes…

Look At This Dragon Quest Slime Controller For The Switch

Just like they did with the PS4 back in 2017, Square Enix is releasing a Dragon Quest slime controller for the Nintendo Switch, and everything about it is perfect. Due out in September, it’s a fully-functioning Switch Pro controller, with triggers, thumbsticks, motion controls, the works. Only it’s also a giant rubber-coated blue slime from…

Final Fantasy VII Remake Feels Great To Play, But The Project Might Not Be Finished For A While

This afternoon at E3 in Los Angeles, I watched an extended demo of the Final Fantasy VII remake and got my hands on a build for about 15 minutes. Here’s the good news: It could be really special. The bad news: We have no idea when the whole project will be completed. “We can’t reveal…

Collection Of Mana Comes To Switch, Including An English Seiken Densetsu 3, And It’s Out Today

Twenty-four years after its release, Seiken Densetsu 3 is coming to the U.S. for the first time, as part of a new Switch package called the Collection of Mana. This newly localized version of the Super Nintendo role-playing game will be called Trials of Mana. And, surprise—the collection is out today Also in the package…

Final Fantasy VII Remake Watches, Yours For Only $2,500 Each

To mark Final Fantasy VII Remake’s release date, Square Enix is releasing limited edition Cloud and Sephiroth chronographs. Each is priced at $2,499 and in North America, limited to 77 pieces. The individually numbered stainless steel watches feature a Seiko-made movement as well as all sorts of nice Final Fantasy VII details. The timepieces will…

Everything Square Enix Announced At E3 2019

The first details on how Final Fantasy VII Remake will actually, you know, play, plus the first look at Avengers, were the highlights of Square Enix’s E3 briefing on Monday night. Lots of smaller announcements, including the long-awaited Western releases of some classic Japanese RPGs, followed. Here’s all the new news. Crystal Dynamics’ long-awaited Avengers…

Our First Look At The New Avengers Video Game

You know what’s weird: how we haven’t had big blockbuster video games based on The Avengers. That’s changing now, though, with the reveal tonight of…Avengers While Marvel and Square Enix first announced their deal back in 2017, it’s taken until now to get our first look at Avengers, which is being developed by Crystal Dynamics…

Outriders is a new 1-3 player drop-in, drop-out co-op shooter by People Can Fly (Bulletstorm, Gears of War: Judgment). It’s coming next year on PS4, Xbox One and PC.

Final Fantasy VII Remake’s Action-RPG Combat Detailed

Today during its E3 press conference, Square Enix showed off new gameplay footage of the Final Fantasy VII remake and reaffirmed that it’ll be released as a series of episodes. The Midgar portion of FFVII will be its own game, with subsequent episodes to presumably follow. “Remaking Final Fantasy VII has allowed us to dive…

We’re Liveblogging Square Enix’s E3 2019 Presentation [Update: We’re Done!]

Heather Alexandra and Gita Jackson are bringing you all the latest from Square Enix’s E3 press conference. We’re sure to see lots of Final Fantasy, The Avengers, and more. Watch the presentation here or follow along with us below.

Watch Square Enix’s E3 2019 Presentation Live, Right Here [Update: It’s Over!]

Can you believe there’s more E3? We’ve got Square Enix’s press conference at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. Expect more from the Final Fantasy VII Remake, Marvel’s The Avengers, and Dying Light 2 Watch the presentation at YouTube, below, or on Twitch. Or you can read our recap here

There’s A Whole Lot Of Final Fantasy Music On Spotify Now

Streaming music service Spotify is generally hit-or-miss for video game soundtracks. That’s not so for Final Fantasy anymore, as official soundtracks for all the main games and many of its spin-offs are now available for your listening pleasure. There’s been Final Fantasy music on Spotify previously, but not to this extent. Noticed yesterday by Twitter…

All I Want To Do Is Play 16-Bit Action RPGs

It was about two months ago when, reading the latest updates on the Sega Genesis Mini, I thought to myself: “Wouldn’t it be cool if the classic 16-bit action role-playing game Crusader of Centy was on this? That’s what I’d probably play first.” The next thing I thought was: “Idiot, you have a Mega SG!…

Square Enix Announces Dragon Quest Walk, Its Version Of Pokémon Go

Today, Square Enix announced Dragon Quest Walk, an augmented-reality game based on Dragon Quest that encourages players to get out and about. The Pokémon Go comparisons are inevitable. In Dragon Quest Walk, you walk through an in-game field, which is filled with real-world Japanese landmarks like Tokyo Tower, and battle monsters. There is also customized…

How Dragon Quest XI Tells An Entire Story With Haikus

The wind blew you here. Surely it was not by chance. Will you hear my tale? These are the words spoken by Miko, the leader of the village of Hotto in the role-playing game Dragon Quest XI, which came out last year for PC and PS4. Like most of the other villagers, Miko speaks almost…

The first Star Ocean game is coming to PS4 and Switch. Square Enix announced Star Ocean First Departure R on Twitter today, which definitely sounds like either a remake or remaster of the 2008 PSP game, which was itself a remake of the original SNES JRPG which never released in the US. 

The Real-World Final Fantasy XIV Wedding Plan Sure Is Incredible

Square Enix previously announced that there would be a real-world Final Fantasy XIV-themed wedding plan offered in Japan. Now, we have a better look at the ceremony and wow, is it something. According to Famitsu, reservations are now being taken for couples to get hitched Final Fantasy style. As Kotaku reported earlier this year, the ceremony…