Enlarge / An artist’s interpretation of today’s gaming-studio acquisition news. (credit: Crystal Dynamics / Sam Machkovech) On Monday, Japanese game publisher Square-Enix confirmed that it was selling all three of its Western video game studios, along with many significant game series and IP attached to those studios, to the European game publisher Embracer. The sale […]
Enlarge / Exoprimal is a promising-looking new co-op battler from Capcom, and it’s not just coming to PlayStation consoles. (credit: Capcom) If you didn’t catch Sony’s latest State of Play video presentation, which concluded earlier today on YouTube, consider this a quick guide to the presentation’s best reveals of previously unknown games—along with mostly good […]
Enlarge / Which popular Sq . Enix franchises will be graced with a blockchain-based marketplace full of user-created items? Rectangular Enix President Yosuke Matsuda used a New Year’s message this weekend to telegraph the company’s interest in “blockchain gaming” and “decentralized games” as “a major strategic theme for us starting in 2022. ” Specifically, Matsuda […]
Enlarge / Cloud Strife is finally on PC again, and this image is taken directly from real-time rendering in the new PC port. (credit: Square Enix) Final Fantasy VII Remake‘s exclusivity on consoles ends today. Nineteen months after its launch on PS4 and seven months after its PS5 update, Square Enix’s ambitious return to Midgar breaks […]
Kingdom Hearts ‘ Sora is the final fighter to be added in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate ‘s Challenger Pack 11 DLC. Square Enix’s beloved action RPG series is a mashup of Final Fantasy and Disney worlds. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate came out along with a bang Tuesday, with Manufacturers revealing that Kingdom Hearts ‘ Sora […]
Life is Strange: True Colors wears its heart on its sleeve as Alex Chen strums a plaintive rendition of Radiohead’s “Creep” on the guitar. [credit: Square Enix ] This preview is based on limited impressions tested on PS5 and made available by Square Enix ahead of the game’s September 10 launch. With four games released […]
I mean, all the packaging required for a game spanning three CDs might help inspire some environmental mindfulness on its own. In September of 1997, Final Fantasy VII was released for the original Playstation in North America. The watershed game swapped the series’ swords-and-sorcery-and-sun-dappled-forests motif for bombs and machine guns in a dark, rainy futuristic […]
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