You won’t have to wait much longer to skip servers in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. Square Enix today announced that the World Transfer Service will open Oct. 15–and just to make sure everybody can group up with their friends, transfers will be free through Oct. 21. Users will …
Read More »Theatrhythm Final Fantasy release date tuned for July
Do you love Final Fantasy? Have rhythm? Enjoy drawn-out intros? If you answered “kind of”, “I think”, and “would you get to the point already!?”, then you’ll be happy to hear Square Enix is releasing Theatrhythm Final Fantasy in North America on July 3. Appreciate music? Got speakers? On break? …
Read More »New trailer shows off Heroes of Ruins heroes and ruins
Here’s another look at Square Enix and n-Space’s upcoming 3DS action-adventure title, Heroes of Ruin. The game looks to fill the vacancy created by a lack of Diablo-style dungeon-crawlers on Nintendo’s device. From the looks of this trailer, it’ll be doing it with a good solid action-battler in the mold …
Read More »Final Fantasy XIII-2 debuts at #1 Japan, barely scratches FFXIIIs launch record
The sales stats are in for Final Fantasy XIII-2’s launch in Japan, and depending on how you skew it they’re either cause for celebration or a reason to doubt the franchise’s future. At least, on Xbox 360 anyway. According to a report issued by Japanese sales tracker Media Create, Square …
Read More »Unreal Engine 3 licensed by Square Enix for future titles
Square Enix has signed a deal with Epic Games allowing the Japanese company to develop multiple titles on Epic’s Unreal Engine 3. Square’s yet to go into details about which titles will use the engine, and whether it’ll be employing it for newer ventures or existing properties. Epic Games Japan’s …
Read More »The Top 7 Reasons the Super NES is Nintendos best console
Two decades ago this month, the Super NES was unleashed on an already Nintendo-obsessed North America. Since its 1991 arrival, the console has gone on to become one of the most enduringly popular machines in gaming history, and home to numerous classics that inspired many of the titles we love …
Read More »Deus Ex: Human Revolution-inspired art show starts in NY
The Deus Ex series has never been shy about presenting players with the weighty implications of its cyborgs-and-conspiracies milieu: arguably, the only other series to manifest a more outwardly “zomg this game has philosophies in it” tone is Bioshock. But whereas the latter’s attempts at transitioning those themes into another …
Read More »Fortune Street hands-on preview – Nintendo vs Square Enix, fight!
Known as Itadaki Street in Japan, Fortune Street is a strategic board game-style party game that’s basically like a beefed-up version of Monopoly. In fact, if you like Monopoly, it’s safe to say that you will absolutely love Fortune Street, because it takes the same concepts and adds a few …
Read More »Deus Ex: Human Revolution: How Eidos made the world of 2027 today
In the future of Deus Ex, dissidents will raise their fists for a new kind of revolution in human rights. The debate over whether or not citizens should be allowed to augment their bodies with nanotech will be a major theme in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. As Adam Jensen, a …
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