Final Fantasy IX's Steam page went live today and, among other noteworthy items, it briefly listed a release window of January 2016. Steam has since updated the page to reflect a more ambiguous "Early 2016" release window but still sheds some light on the upcoming re-release of the ninth Final Fantasy. The game will require 20GB of free space, but...
Brendan 2016-01-06 0 comments
In September 2014 developer and publisher Square Enix unveiled a new cloud platform subsidiary, Shinra Technologies, and has today announced that company's dissolution. The stated objective of Shinra Technologies was to develop and deliver games through an innovative cloud-based service. Despite having some big name studios behind it, the venture produced little in the way of tangible results to anyone...
Brendan 2016-01-03 0 comments
During Square Enix’s 2015 end of year media blitz, the company let slip yet another glimpse of Kingdom Hearts III, the other half of E3 2013’s knockout announcement. The company posted a new trailer for Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue—the upcoming bridge between Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD and the next installment in the main series, Kingdom Hearts III. Kingdom...
Brendan 2016-01-03 0 comments
Final Fantasy Explorers is by no means a new game. Released in Japan a little over a year ago, this quirky hybrid of Final Fantasy and Monster Hunter has drawn the curiosity of western gamers since the title's announcement. In just a few short weeks Final Fantasy Explorers will launch for the Nintendo 3DS in the United States on January...
Brendan 2016-01-03 2 comments
In his new year message to fans eagerly awaiting the release of Final Fantasy XV, the game's director Hajime Tabata took to Square Enix's official blog to deliver his new year's resolution: "to create an experience we are incredibly proud of and one that you will enjoy and treasure." Tabata, who has been in a near-constant limelight since the 2013...
Brendan 2016-01-03 2 comments
Final Fantasy IX, the last PS-One era entry in the series, is set to debut on Android, iOS, and PC "soon" in 2016 according to Square Enix. The rerelease of the ninth Final Fantasy will feature a variety of updates that were first seen in the Final Fantasy VII and VIII PC releases, including but not limited to improved gameplay...
kula shakerz 2015-12-07 2 comments
Square Enix has announced that the Final Fantasy VII remake will be "told across a multi-part series, with each entry providing its own unique experience". Yoshinori Kitase said that they from the beginning considered it impossible to remake Final Fantasy VII into one single game and that they are unable to give any more details about the splitting at the...
kula shakerz 2015-12-05 2 comments
Square Enix announced the Final Fantasy VII Remake a few months ago during Sony's E3 press conference. Today they showed off the first gameplay at the PlayStation Experience keynote. Oh and the PC port of Final Fantasy VII that they trolled us with last year is available on the PlayStation 4 today!
kula shakerz 2015-12-01 0 comments
The physical limited edition of Life is Strange was announced for PAL territories a couple of weeks ago, but yesterday Square Enix confirmed that they'll be releasing it in North America as well. Both versions will be sold exclusively through the Square Enix Store. They have also confirmed the contents of the limited edition box: Game disc (the PC version...
kula shakerz 2015-08-27 0 comments
Rise of the Tomb Raider is only a few months away from hitting the shelves and the team over at Crystal Dynamics has just revealed the contents of the collector's edition for the Xbox One. The collector's edition will include the following: Full retail copy of Rise of the Tomb Raider for Xbox One. An exclusive 12"-tall statue of Lara...
Brendan 2015-08-19 0 comments
The iOS port of the PC port of Final Fantasy VII has begun its debut on the iOS App Store. Primed for iPad and iPhone, this edition is very much the same as previous PC releases in the last few months. While the game has yet to hit the North American iOS App Store it has already launched on the...
Xin 2015-08-17 0 comments
Announced earlier today at Disney's D23 event, Kingdom Hearts III will feature Big Hero 6 as one of it's major story points. That portion of the game will actually be a continuation of the film's events, picking up on and expanding on the ending from the feature. Check out the announcement trailer below, and we'll see you in the skies...
kula shakerz 2015-08-10 0 comments
The Final Fantasy XV team held a special live on-stage Active Time Report at this years gamescom. Director Hajime Tabata and Marketing Manager Akio Ofuji discusses the development status of the game and show of a bit of new gameplay in this one hour segment (jump straight to the gameplay part of the video).
kula shakerz 2015-08-10 0 comments
Square Enix released a new trailer for Final Fantasy XV at this year's gamescom event. The trailer is titled "dawn" and in it we get to see a young Noctis with is fater King Regis and a few knights with machine guns. The games still doesn't have a release date but it seems like Square Enix is aiming for a...
Xin 2015-08-02 5 comments
A little slip of the tongue may just have been the confirmation Final Fantasy XII fans have been waiting for. At tonight's Distant Worlds concert in Pittsburgh, Composer Arnie Roth announced that work had begun on a remake of FFXII, much to the delight and confusion of the live crowd. Now, given that Arnie Roth isn't a developer, I would...