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The four leads of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage face the camera, washed in an eerie pink light.

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We Like Both | Don't Nod is delaying its spiritual successor to Life is Strange and being refreshingly honest about the reason

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage has been delayed to early 2025, to avoid splitting fan attention with the new Life is Strange sequel.

June 28, 2024 Rebecca Jones

Square Enix would really like it if early access Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail players would hold off on spoiler talk, though it won't do anything to stop it

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Keep It Quiet | Square Enix would really like it if early access Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail players would hold off on spoiler talk, though it won't do anything to stop it

You can hold off posting your funny tweet, can't you?

June 24, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Some characters in a throne room in Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake.

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Jumped The Gun | Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake developer says it regrets leaving folks hanging a bit via that early announcement

Team Asano's sorry you had to spend a couple of years yelling 'Where's the (bad word) release date?' into the void.

June 19, 2024 Mark Warren

Elden Ring's Tarnished between The Witcher 3's Geralt and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's cloud.

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Tarnished On Top | Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree beats all the bosses to become both highest rated game of 2024 so far, and the highest rated DLC ever

Bow down to the Elden Lord, the likes of The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

June 19, 2024 Mark Warren

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Blossoming Seeds | Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake is looking like a beautiful, faithful, and powerful history lesson - hands-on

As the Dragon Quest series approaches its 40th anniversary, Square Enix returns to the beginning with what's looking like a gorgeous and incredibly faithful remake.

June 18, 2024 Alex Donaldson

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Beautiful Pixels | Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake finally gets a release date, and the first two games are getting the remake treatment too

Big day for Dragon Quest fans!

June 18, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Two people, one wielding a sword, the other a bow, prepared to fight various enemies in some dark woods in key art for World of Warcraft: The War Within.

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Alone Time | Blizzard is considering following in Final Fantasy 14's footsteps and adding a story mode to legacy World of Warcraft raids

For all you solo players out there.

June 17, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Zidane and Garnet looking up to sky, scared of something in Final Fantasy 9.

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Take Your Turn | Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P isn't remaking FF9, but no matter what you think, he wouldn't turn it into an action game even if he was

So who is remaking it then, assuming it's real?

June 16, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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New Dawn | Don't worry, Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail's launch has "almost no chance" of repeating Endwalker's server issues

"Now, if we feel it is necessary, we can open up the new servers with a press of a button."

June 6, 2024 Mark Warren

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XBOX RPG | Surprise! Octopath Traveler 2 suddenly launches on Xbox and Game Pass

Out of nowhere, one of the better RPGs in recent years is out on Game Pass.

June 6, 2024 Connor Makar

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PODCAST | The Best Games Ever Show 100th Episode Quiz: PART TWO

Who wins? Who loses? Who kicks off about the rules? Find out in the second part of our enormous buzzer episode.

June 4, 2024 Jim Trinca

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NOT 'ROUND HERE | Kingdom Hearts 4? Metal Gear Solid Delta? Geoff Keighley sets the record straight on what won't be appearing at Summer Game Fest

"People are setting themselves up for failure."

June 3, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

A still from Netflix's Tomb Raider anime showing Lara Croft in stealthy gear holding a scimitar.

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THE LEGEND CONTINUES | While you wait for Crystal Dynamics' next Tomb Raider game, Netflix finally confirms its canon anime adaptation's release date

And there's a short new trailer, too.

June 2, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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RICO TIME | Just Cause is finally getting a movie, and it will be helmed by Blue Beetle's director

This one's a bit hard to mess up, right?

May 30, 2024 Fran Ruiz

A still from Nier: Automata Ver1.1a season 2 of 2B stood, the sky behind her, Pod 042 floating behind her.

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THIS CAN CONTINUE | The Nier: Automata anime is finally coming back this July, a whole year after its production-issue-plagued first part finished

Hope you're ready for more androids being sad about existing!

May 28, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

A still of the Dragon Quest 3 remake showing the protagonist walking over a bridge towards a castle.

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2D OR NOT 2D | Square Enix finally, seemingly, gives a Dragon Quest 3 remake update, but the teaser feels a bit suspicious

"The legend of Erdrick draws near."

May 27, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

A mixture of screenshots and key artwork from five different PS1 games are shown. From left to right: Silent Hill, Gran Turismo, Mega Man X3, Dino Crisis, and Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

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PLAY HAS NO LIMITS | The best PS1 games to play in 2024

Still have your PlayStation kicking about? Here are some of the best games you can still play on it today.

May 16, 2024 Kelsey Raynor

A menacing red and black figure with a halo of light stares at the viewer.

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BATTING 1000 | Got a Nier: Automata-shaped hole in your heart? You shouldn't resist picking up this ambitious sci-fi title for PC and Switch, then

1000xRESIST picks up the slack while you wait for the next Nier.

May 15, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

2B from NieR giving a little robot thing a cheeky pat on the head.

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NEW NIER NEAR? | Yoko Taro and other NieR devs tease new project that "might be NieR, it might not be NieR"

It's probably not NieR, but it could maybe be NieR. We'll probably learn NieR to release.

May 15, 2024 Mark Warren

Ncuti Gatwa's face sits in the middle of art from Kingdom Hearts: Sora and Cloud flank the latest Dr Who. In the background, a blurred Disney Plus tile screen.

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PLAYING MOUSE | If Disney wants a live action or animated Kingdom Hearts, the perfect template is already streaming on Disney Plus

Who? You know Who. And Disney should take a very British leaf out of the Doctor's book.

May 14, 2024 Alex Donaldson

Dyne, in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, looks at his hand in dismay.

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U-TURN | Final Fantasy 16, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, and Foamstars all fell below Square Enix's expectations, as the company eyes Xbox and PC

The Square Enix financial report is out, and sales across all major releases seem to have fallen short. Time for a change in strategy!

May 14, 2024 Connor Makar

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ANOTHER ONE | Report: Square Enix's American and European departments to be hit by layoffs

This comes after the company announced the cancellation of several unannounced games earlier today.

May 13, 2024 Connor Makar

Aerith, Tifa, and Yuffie are all looking out a cable car window at colourful flashing lights, Cloud is sat behind them in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

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TWO TO ONE | Love those mid-range Square Enix titles? You might want to prepare to say goodbye to them as the Final Fantasy dev shifts from "quantity to quality"

Plus, it'll be moving towards a multiplatform strategy.

May 13, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Sora sits on a throne, looking directly into the camera, in a Kingdom Hearts background that is slightly blurred.

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ONE AND DONE | I'm not sure I believe those Kingdom Hearts movie rumours, but if one does happen, I'm begging, keep it simple

And clean.

May 1, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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EGADS! | Square Enix absorbs $140 million hit as canceled games take significant financial toll; company revising approach to HD titles

Plans to be more selective and focused in the allocation of development resources in the future.

April 30, 2024 Stephany Nunneley-Jackson

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GET PURR-PARED | Little Kitty, Big City swats its way to Game Pass alongside Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition and more new and returning titles

Your May Game Pass line-up just got legen -wait for it - dary! (Old meme, so what?)

April 30, 2024 Stephany Nunneley-Jackson

A Vault Boy next to Fallout 3 on the Gameboy.

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VAULT BOY | Waiting for Fallout 4's next-gen update to drop? Here's a cool fan demake of Fallout 3's intro on the Gameboy to check out

It's a work-in-progress, but who'd pass up a chance to relive their childhood in Vault 101?

April 25, 2024 Mark Warren

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ONE BECOMES THREE | After laying off over 1000 people, Embracer Group makes itself some friends by splitting into three companies

Hopefully this is the beginning of the end for layoffs at the company.

April 22, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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HIGH WATERMARK | “We put everything into this expansion” - Final Fantasy 16’s DLC director speaks on the game’s final content drop

Final Fantasy 16 is finally complete, with its final DLC out now. We catch up with the director of the add-ons to talk about what's new for Rising Tide, and how to successfully close out Clive's adventures.

April 20, 2024 Alex Donaldson