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Finally Exploring Final Fantasy Explorers. Is It Fantastic?

Square Enix offered a playable demo of the new Final Fantasy Explorers at this year’s Tokyo Game Show and I got a chance to give it a whirl. It’s a solid game. It’s a Final Fantasy game. But I’m not sure it’s a solid Final Fantasy game. The basic game format is your standard mission-based…

Behold, Final Fantasy XV‘s First Live Gameplay Footage

Today, Square Enix showed off the first live gameplay footage of the eagerly awaited Final Fantasy XV. There’s also a look at the fancy tech that powers the game and a cute frog in the rain. FFXV director Hajime Tabata said he wanted to show off live gameplay, because some people online seemed to think…

First Details about the Final Fantasy XV Demo

When Final Fantasy Type-0 HD goes on sale next year, it will include a demo voucher code for Final Fantasy XV. Today at the Tokyo Game Show, director Hajime Tabata explained what players can expect. The demo’s title is Final Fantasy XV: Episode Duscae with “Duscae” referring to an area within the world. Online in…

The Latest Final Fantasy Music Game Is Totally Rad

Above: some hands-on impressions of Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call, the bizarrely-titled music game that Square Enix released for 3DS this week. If you don’t have the time or energy to watch the video, here’s the gist of it: Curtain Call, a sequel to 2012’s Theatrhythm, adds more songs, characters, and other goodies to an…

Square Enix’s New ‘Cloud’ Gaming Service Is Called ‘Shinra’

This is pretty much perfect. Last night Square Enix announced a cloud-gaming service called Shinra Technologies. They’re working with Avalanche Studios on the deal. The actual details of Shinra Technologies remain vague for now, though the tech seems pretty promising: Shinra Technologies, Inc. is a cloud gaming company whose business is based on its unique,…

Wow, Look At All The Final Fantasy Spinoffs

This week’s biggest Tokyo Game Show news was Final Fantasy XV—hey, it’s alive!—but while we were all gawking at bromantic road trips, Square Enix showed off a bunch of other Final Fantasy spinoffs that are worth at least a little attention. Let’s go through them all. Above: a new look at the Monster Hunter-ish Final…

Hands On with Square Enix’s New Streaming Service

Dive In is an up coming game streaming service for some of Square Enix’s most popular games to iOS and Android devices. Today at the Tokyo Game Show, I tried out the service on an Android pad. Let’s see how that went. For my time with Dive In I had the choice of playing Final…

This is Shinra Technologies. It’s Square Enix’s new venture into cloud gaming, headed up by former Square Enix honcho Yochi Wada. You can read more about it on the company’s official site.

Final Fantasy XV‘s Combat, Broken Down

Final Fantasy XV is actually a video game that is actually happening, and new footage released by Square Enix last night shows that it’s looking damn good, too. The one big question—other than “why is the steering wheel on the right?”—is “just how does that combat work?” We don’t have the answers to that question…

Smartphone game Final Fantasy Agito is coming to the PS Vita in Japan as Final Fantasy Agito Plus on January 15, 2015. No word on a Western release.

Tetsuya Nomura Is No Longer Directing Final Fantasy XV

Today, Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy XV has a new director. Originally announced in 2006 as Final Fantasy Versus XIII, the game was rebranded as Final Fantasy XV last year. The game is being directed by Hajime Tabata, the director of Final Fantasy Type-0 and Final Fantasy Type-0 HD “This move allows Tetsuya Nomura…

The same Game Informer report detailinga Final Fantasy XV demo for 2015 also gives a North American release date for Final Fantasy Type-0: March 17.

Final Fantasy XIV‘s Eorzea might not have Chemical X, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have their own version of The Powerpuff Girls, Professor Utonium… and some others trying to photobomb. via r/ffxiv Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can…

There’s a New Final Fantasy Coming. It’s a Typing Game.

For their next Final Fantasy game, Square Enix is adding a bit, or a whole lot of word play. Revealed in Weekly Famitsu, coming next week to iOS and Android platforms is Final Fantasy World Wide Words. The game uses the chibi-style character designs from the Theatrhythm series for an RPG that progresses through typing…

No, I Really Don’t Want Blue Slime Curry

Ungh. Knock it off with the blue food, will ya? Recently, we’ve seen blue hamburgers and blue ramen. And now, here’s some blue curry. This is actually “Slime Curry.” It’s going on sale in Japan this month. Obviously, it is supposed to evoke a Slime from Dragon Quest. Don’t believe me? Well, check out this…

Square Enix Will Stream Final Fantasy for Smartphones in Japan

Tokyo-based game maker Square Enix is rolling out its own cloud-based streaming service called Dive In. According to 4Gamer, Dive In is slated for iOS and Android and will kick off next month by offering three games: Final Fantasy VII International, Final Fantasy XIII, and murder mystery game Season of Mystery：The Cherry Blossom Murders In…

Moon Hunters, one of the neater Kickstarter projects I’ve seen in a while, is funded to the tune of $100k. Described as a mixture between Zelda and Starbound, Moon Hunters is one of the first participants in Square Enix’s Indie Collective program

The Final Fantasy XV Problem

On Sunday, when I asked Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi what he thinks of the current state of the franchise he built, his answer was short and blunt. “Final Fantasy XV is taking too long.” Is it? Well, when The Game Now Called Final Fantasy XV was first announced back in May 2006, the president…

Square Enix just launched its Tokyo Game Show website. Many games are listed on the site as appearing at this year’s TGS in either demo or trailer form. Two of them are not on it: Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts III. Maybe they’ll be surprises?

Things Are Very Different For The Creator Of Final Fantasy

When you create one of the most treasured franchises in video game history, what do you do next? When you work on that franchise for 20 years, can you ever really move on? For Hironobu Sakaguchi, the man who created Final Fantasy back in 1987, these have been easy questions to answer. (1. Move to…