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Final Fantasy VII Remade As A Huge Snow Sculpture 

TheSapporo Snow Festival is now underway in Japan’s northern most prefecture Hokkaido. One of this year’s main sculptures is Final Fantasy VII themed, featuring Cloud and Sephiroth. Impressive, no? Each year, theJapanese military moves all this snow to make these huge sculptures.  Lots of detail if you get closer. These TV news images might give…

The Director Of Dissidia Final Fantasy Thinks It Could Be An Esport

Dissidia Final Fantasy came out over a year ago in Japan as an arcade game, but a console version is apparently still in the works. In a recent interview with Weekly Famitsu the game’s producer, Ichirou Hazama, and director, Takeo Kujiraoka, said that the only reason a console version of Dissidia Final Fantasy wasn’t shown…

Square Enix Is Fixing FFXV Costumes Because Of The Power Rangers

During Square Enix’s big Final Fantasy anniversary event, the Tokyo-based game maker revealed “muteki suits” (invincible suits) as an upcoming free Final Fantasy XV download. If you thought the outfits (above) looked like Power Ranger costumes, you were not alone.  The costumes were slated for a February 21 release and would give players invincibility for…

Square Enix Is Treating Final Fantasy XV Like A Live Game 

Final Fantasy XV just won’t stop changing. We already knew that Square Enix was adding new cutscenes and overhauling Chapter 13, and now, director Hajime Tabata says they’re adding a free-drive mode for the car, among other things. In an Active Time Report video presentation last night, as translated by Gematsu (which you can watch…

Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Celebration Has No FF7 News, But Pretty Art

In case you were wondering how the Final Fantasy VII remake was coming along, here’s the only bit of the game shown at the Final Fantasy 30th anniversary event in Japan earlier today. Looks like the key art department is on point.

A Final Fantasy Wine Set For Only $950

Forget about Final Fantasy VII Remake! Square Enix has something else for you: wine and crystal wine glasses. Please be excited. Tonight in Tokyo, Square Enix revealedthe “Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Ultimate Wine Crystal Edition.” It includes a thirty year-old bottle of Chateau Meyney red wine and two Final Fantasy inscribed glasses with Swarovski. Isn’t…

Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, the HD remaster of FFXII, will be released on July 11 in North America and Europe, Square Enix announced today. The game will also be out on July 13 in Japan and elsewhere in Asia.

Square Enix Is Making The Avengers And More Marvel Games

Marvel’s move back into console gaming takes a huge step today, as the comic book company announces a multi-year, multi-game partnership with Square Enix, beginning with The Avengers Project Developed by Crystal Dynamics in collaboration with Eidos Montreal, The Avengers Project is the working title for the first game to come from the newly-announced partnership.…

Square Enix just announced Lord of Vermilion IV, the next entry in its long-running card-based arcade series. The game will be shown at next month’s Japan Amusement Expo.

Poll: The Top Five Most Popular Final Fantasy Heroines In Japan

Everybody has his or her favorite Final Fantasy heroine. But which ones are the most popular in Japan? A new poll tries to answer that question. According to Nico Nico News (via My Game News Flash), two hundred men and women in Japan were asked this month to list their fav female character in the…

I Went To Final Fantasy XV‘s Moogle Chocobo Carnival So You Don’t Have To

I don’t know if the Moogle Chocobo Carnival, a limited time special event in Final Fantasy XV, is good. I don’t even know if I enjoyed it. All I know was that last night, I was determined to win a prize, god dammit. The Moogle Chocobo Carnival is a lot like a county fair, and…

How To Get Ariana Grande in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, Because You Can Do That Now

As promised earlier this month, singer Ariana Grande is now a playable character in Final Fantasy mobile game Brave Exvius. Here’s how to add the bunny-eared performer to your pixel party. First off, you have to have a copy of the free-to-play game installed on your iOS or Android device. Just search the store for…

Final Fantasy XV Player Glitches Out Of Bounds, Explores Second Half Of The Game

The second half of Final Fantasy XV ditches the open world road trip in favor of a series of linear areas connected by train, which raises an obvious question: How much of that was meant to be bigger? One player did some digging to try to find out. Using an out-of-bounds glitch to escape the…

Square Enix Europe’s Twitter Account Was Hacked

Today, it appears Square Enix Europe found itself the victim of a Twitter hack. The account’s bio was changed to #cyberwolfgang, and it began tweeting out messages such as this:  Just Cause’s official account was also hacked, it seems. Which is, of course, published by Square Enix. After tweeting for nearly thirty minutes, the Square…

YouTuber Beats Final Fantasy XV At Level One With No Items

A determined player has beaten Final Fantasy XV without gaining a single level or using items. YouTuber BOYvsVIDEOGAME played through the entire game with nothing other than his skills and obsessive perseverance to sustain him. This isn’t the first time that BOYvsVIDEOGAME has completed a game under extreme conditions. He’scleared Dragon Age: Inquisition solo on…

The Nier: Automata Demo Lets Players Kill Themselves By Unequipping An Item

The demo for Nier: Automata released last week. Playing as a super fashionable android, players slice and dice their way through waves of robot enemies. But un-equipping one essential item gives an instant game over. The item in question is the OS Chip. In Nier: Automata, players can equip various skill chips to enable or…

The 31 Most Important Japanese Games Ever Made

Over the decades, Japanese developers have churned out a mind-boggling number of video games. Some are good, and some are bad. These are the thirty-one most important ones. This piece originally appeared 7/1/16. Deciding which ones are the most important is tricky and subjective. I’ve tried to include games that have influenced Japanese gaming, worldwide…

Final Fantasy V Retrospective: Wildly Underrated

Final Fantasy V, a video game about four warriors who get together and beat up a giant tree, doesn’t try particularly hard to be innovative. In fact, it doesn’t try at all. Final Fantasy V is essentially an enhanced version of Final Fantasy III, proving rather definitively that Final Fantasy games don’t have to be…

The Nier: Automata PS4 Demo Is Live, And It’s Awesome

Christmas comes a couple days early for PlayStation 4 owners with a playable demo of Nier: Automata. It’s a half-hour packed with slick hack and slash action, novel camera angles, a little drama and massive boss battles, and it’s so good. Platinum Games’ hack-and-slash follow-up to 2010’s Nier, follows combat android 2B, her companion 9S…

Final Fantasy XIV May Let You Pay To Catch Up 

The biggest barrier for entry in Final Fantasy XIV, a tremendous video game, is that you have to catch up with the entire story to play each new expansion pack, which can take dozens and dozens of hours if you’re behind. Square Enix wants to change that. Over the weekend, FFXIV director Naoki Yoshida published…