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A black and white image of Naoki Hamaguchi over a three-way split image of Cloud in his 3DBrawler form, Cloud holding a Queen's Blood Card, and key art of the game.

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Gears & Gambits | “I want to add a different twist” Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 will rethink how it implements mini-games, says director Naoki Hamaguchi

The as-yet-untitled Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth sequel is going to change things up a bit, as Hamaguchi vows to “rearrange things slightly”.

Nov. 21, 2024 Dom Peppiatt

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Final Flushtasy | Final Fantasy 14 Mobile is a thing, so you'll soon be able to "make Eorzea a better place through the bonds of friendship" while sitting on the toilet

Don't worry, stuff like fishing and chocobo racing is making the jump across to the small screen.

Nov. 20, 2024 Mark Warren

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

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Keep 'Em Coming | Are you a fan of Dragon Quest 3 and Square Enix's HD-2D look? You better let the developer know, as the JRPG's producer is worried you'll all get "bored" of them

Though with all the trouble it's been having, I can only imagine it'll be slowing down anyway.

Nov. 18, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Aerith looking at the Highwind, a large airship floating in the sky, in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth key art.

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Making Progress | There's still no word on a release date for Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 yet, but Square Enix has already finished writing the plot at least

It's sounding like development is already underway too.

Nov. 17, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Lara Croft is diving, legs in a kicking position, dual wielding pistols pointing in the direction of her kick in Tomb Raider.

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Croft Cast? | Tomb Raider Prime Video series looks to be locking in its Lara, with a Game of Thrones star reportedly in talks to plunder some burial places

Look, we're not judging, we know it's all about the archeology and not the priceless swag.

Nov. 15, 2024 Mark Warren

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Sight for Sora Eyes | Everybody likes to rag on Kingdom Hearts' weirdest entry, but even 20 years later, it might be one of my favourites

A strange little spin-off on the GBA might just be one of the shiniest pearls in a long, complicated back catalogue of games. Here's why.

Nov. 11, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Aerith is on her knees praying on a blue, ocean, crystalline area in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

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Pinky Promise? | Don't worry Final Fantasy fans on Xbox, Yoshi-P says Square Enix intends to have simultaneous multiplatform releases "more and more"

Maybe Final Fantasy 17 will be available day one on the Xbox 720...

Nov. 3, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Multiple horror game characters are shown. From left to right, there is: Fatal Frame Project Zero's Ose Kurosawa, Alien Isolation's Xenomorph, Resident Evil 7's Jack Baker, the chef from Little Nightmares, and Pyramid Head from Silent Hill 2

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DOUBLE JUMP SCARES | The best horror games to play in 2024

From founding fathers of horror to underrated gems, here are some of the best horror games to sink your teeth into.

Nov. 1, 2024 Kelsey Raynor

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TOP OF THE DROPS | The best PlayStation Plus games on PS4 and PS5 in 2024

Our top picks for Sony's money-saving subscription service!

Oct. 31, 2024 Connor Makar

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PASS THE GAMES | The best Game Pass games on Xbox and PC in 2024

Our top picks of the greatest games on gaming's best subscription service.

Oct. 31, 2024 James Billcliffe

Lara Croft is stood at the entrance of a cave, it's snowing heavily outside, she has a flare in her hand in key art for Rise of the Tomb Raider.

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Getting There | Amazon's Tomb Raider is narrowing in on its Lara Croft, with a Game of Thrones star currently testing for the role

The show was greenlit earlier this year.

Oct. 30, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Twin Mirror | Life is Strange: Double Exposure review - the most satisfyingly speculative, but least intimate, entry into the franchise yet

Max Caulfield returns to headline a follow-up that hints at an exciting new direction for the series — but doesn't quite manage to answer all of its own questions.

Oct. 29, 2024 Rebecca Jones

Sephiroth, a man with long grey hair and a black leather suit, is falling, plunging a long sword downwards.

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Pick A Card | Magic the Gathering is getting a Final Fantasy crossover, and yes of course that Sephiroth x Aerith moment is getting a card

What else could they have made a card of?

Oct. 27, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Agent 47 in Hitman 2 walking down a street.

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A Bald Move | Boxer Oleksandr Usyk rocks up to presser in Hitman's Agent 47 cosplay, so I assume his fight strategy will involve nicking clothes and three hours of accident setup

He had a briefcase and everything, though it didn't include a poison that'd help him drown Tyson Fury in a toilet.

Oct. 25, 2024 Mark Warren

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White Noiz | The best video game soundtracks to revisit in 2024

From classical symphonies and industrial noise to acid jazz and synthwave, these game soundtracks leave no stone left unturned.

Oct. 24, 2024 Kelsey Raynor

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Tell Me A Good One | The best story games to play in 2024

If you're looking for a game with a story that will captivate you, check some of these out.

Oct. 23, 2024 Kelsey Raynor

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Feeling Blue | Netflix shuts down its “Team Blue” triple-A game studio, losing big ex-Halo, Overwatch, and God of War devs in the process

What could this mean for the streaming giant's gaming efforts? We'll have to see.

Oct. 22, 2024 Mark Warren

Nobuo Uematsu in front of some characters from Final Fantasy and Fantasian.

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Mic Not Dropped | No, Nobuo Uematsu is not retiring from making banging video game tunes, thank you very much

"Wait, wait, wait! Everybody calm down!"

Oct. 16, 2024 Mark Warren

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Looking Back | Dragon Quest 3 2D-HD is getting its own dedicated development documentary courtesy of Square Enix

One of the most legendary franchises in video games is getting a historical deep dive.

Oct. 14, 2024 Connor Makar

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Big Mood | Turns out that Discord exists because the chat service's co-creator wanted somewhere he could chat about Final Fantasy 11

Maybe a bit too relatable...

Oct. 13, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

A second of the Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion map showing the entrance to the Shivering Isles

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PODCAST | Which expansions are better than the main game?

From The Shivering Isles to Toussaint: some downloadable content is worth every penny twice.

Oct. 7, 2024 Jim Trinca

Turns out the voice of Sora himself Haley Joel Osment didn't even know Kingdom Hearts 4 is in development, so we can probably expect to wait a while longer for it

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A Bit Goofy | Turns out the voice of Sora himself Haley Joel Osment didn't even know Kingdom Hearts 4 is in development, so we can probably expect to wait a while longer for it

"I'm always the last to know, because I'm the last step in the process."

Oct. 6, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

On the left, a Final Fantasy 14 Lalafell with a large paintbrush in its hand. On the right, a Hippo Calf minion from Final Fantasy 14 stood doing nothing.

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What A Calf-uffle | Moo Deng is an angel sent from heaven, but she's going to absolutely bankrupt Final Fantasy 14 players thanks to how much one minion now costs

Some players are breaking the hippocratic oath.

Sept. 30, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Tracer, Reinhardt, and Mei in Overwatch 2

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Just Corp Things | Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft adaptations were reportedly in the works at Blizzard and Netflix, before, whoops, the former ended up suing the latter

You know how things go, sometimes you're doing a group project, then someone files a lawsuit against someone else, and by the end nobody knows if you've passed.

Sept. 30, 2024 Mark Warren

Astro Bot has a robot chicken on his back, fighting a giant robot snake.

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Missing Person | Wondering why Final Fantasy 7's Cloud is oddly absent from Astro Bot? "It's difficult to comment on that" says Team Asobi's head

I'm sure he'll be there in the Astro Bot remake.

Sept. 29, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Not So Pure Magic | Reynatis review - an imperfect, but fascinating, reality based on a fantasy

This one's for the shorter games with worse graphics crowd.

Sept. 26, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

A character yeeting some flowers off a balcony in the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster.

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Mana-ging Priorities | Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster headlines a bunch of classic Square Enix RPGs hitting Xbox today, because your backlog isn't already big enough

It's ok, you can probably shuffle some other stuff back, you need things to ultimately end up not finding time to play at Christmas.

Sept. 26, 2024 Mark Warren

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Video Games | Xbox folks, here are the games from PlayStation's September State of Play that're confirmed to be coming to Microsoft consoles

Also, here's a quick recap of pretty much everything else we saw, delivered as though a stranger's stopped you in the street to tell you about it.

Sept. 25, 2024 Mark Warren

Screenshot from Soul Reaver 1 + 2 remaster from Sony State of Play

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Premaster Arrival! | The Soul Reaver 1 + 2 remaster has been revealed at the Sony State of Play, following a leak earlier today

A confirmation for the remaster at last, with a new trailer to boot!

Sept. 24, 2024 Mark Warren

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Clive Alive | It’s official: the Final Fantasy 16 PC launch is somehow even worse than Final Fantasy 15’s (at least according to Steam)

Final Fantasy 16 has finally arrived on PC, and it seems no one really cared to buy it.

Sept. 18, 2024 Sherif Saed

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Nom Nom Nom | As Final Fantasy 16 players battle being eaten by the graphical hiccup abyss on PS5, Square Enix and Sony say they’re on the case

The latest firmware update to the console looks to be causing some issues.

Sept. 17, 2024 Mark Warren

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NO HORNINESS | Final Fantasy 16 producer is begging, pleading with fans not to get freaky with mods in lead-up to PC release

Hey you, yes you, no naughty behavior. You'll make Naoki Yoshida sad!

Sept. 17, 2024 Connor Makar

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth screenshot showing Zack, a man with big, pushed back spiky hair, dirt and scratches on his face, carrying Cloud, a man with shorter, equally spiky blonde hair, unconscious.

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Re... What Now? | Stay calm, OG Final Fantasy 7 fans, Remake Part 3 won't "betray" you, but like the first two, don't expect everything to go the way you think

"There are these things that we feel we can only do now in the remake project that can bring a new happiness."

Sept. 15, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Model Behaviour | Cut free of Apple Arcade, Fantasian shows off the revolutionary spirit that helped Hironobu Sakaguchi create Final Fantasy in the first place - interview

With Fantasian, Sakaguchi has a different kind of revolution in mind; one that is rooted in art, and puts aesthetic first.

Sept. 4, 2024 Alex Donaldson

Key art for Kingdom Hearts Union X all in various poses on a black background.

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Locked Away | With zero fanfare, the future of Kingdom Hearts gets a little messy as one of its most important games has been delisted

In a series as long-running as Kingdom Hearts, where every game is important, what happens when one disappears?

Sept. 1, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Some characters facing giant turtle lads in Visions of Mana.

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Layoffs, Reportedly | Visions of Mana only came out yesterday, but its studio is reportedly already set to be shuttered, following a long string of cuts

NetEase scaling back its Japanese presence looks to be the reason for the impending closure.

Aug. 30, 2024 Mark Warren

Some characters encountering a creature in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

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Region Locked | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is reminding me of the greatest Lord of the Rings game

Expedition 33 unexpectedly channels one of the greatest and most unexpected licensed games of all time - and I’m here for it.

Aug. 28, 2024 Alex Donaldson

Cleaning Shrek's Swamp in Powerwash Simulator.

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It's Ogre | Wahey, PowerWash Simulator's getting a Shrek DLC pack about getting the stains outta his swamp

What a Shrock!

Aug. 27, 2024 Mark Warren

A regular moon buggy and a modded one in Starfield.

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Spacerunner | Starfield's moon buggy can do sick jumps, but it can't outrun the inevitable - modders swapping it for Halo's Warthog, a Star Wars speeder, and, er, a van

See, I told you it wasn't a totally pointless thing.

Aug. 22, 2024 Mark Warren

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Big Things Coming | Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's producer promises that the final game will be "exactly what the fans are looking for" thanks to feedback Square Enix received for the first two

"We will definitely expand on and make the world of Final Fantasy 7 even bigger than it is now."

Aug. 18, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

Steph and Alex from the Life is Strange series, against an abstract background of red, purple, and yellow.

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Hot And Heavy | Life is Strange: Heatwaves proves that the franchise is still willing to experiment, and has me more excited than ever for Double Exposure

The second prose novel tie-in to Square Enix's coming of age superhero drama series is more interesting than Steph's Story, but not quite as satisfying.

Aug. 11, 2024 Rebecca Jones