Announced earlier today on IGN's Gamescon stream, Nier: Automata is coming to PC via Steam. While published by Square Enix this action oriented title is being developed by Platinum Games, makers of Bayonetta and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. The team also consists of producer Yosuke Saito (DRAGON QUEST® X / NIER), director YOKO TARO (Drakengard® / NIER ), character designer Akihiko Yoshida from CyDesignation, Inc. (FINAL FANTASY® XIV / BRAVELY DEFAULT®), game designer Takahisa Taura from PlatinumGames Inc. (Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance), and composer Keiichi Okabe from MONACA, Inc. (TEKKEN / Drakengard 3 / NIER ).


During E3, an impressive video of a boss battle was shown exhibiting the fast paced action and the enemy design. Nier: Automata will also be coming to PlayStation 4 and is scheduled to release in 2017. ...

During a livestream today, Square Enix released two new trailers today emphasizing on the game's aesthetics with a stage trailer and a costumes trailer.


Each of the revealed characters alternates costumes are shown and most of them carry on the same ones seen in Duodecim, but notably Lightning wears her Lightning Returns outfit, newcomer Y'sholta sports a white robe, and Ramza dons his mercenary armor.



The stage trailer reveals Final Fantasy XIV's first stage for the series, Porta Decumana. Porta Decumana is the arena where the final battle takes place in the 2.0 version of A Realm Reborn.

The villain side in this game has been relatively sparse, but we're sure to see more until the release of the game for PlayStation 4, which at this moment, the date is still undisclosed. ...

According to financial statements released by Official Gazette, Square Enix's new studio Tokyo RPG Factory, the developers of I Am Setsuna have sees a 224 Million Yen loss this year which is roughly 2.4 million US dollars. Their first game, I Am Setsuna, released in Japan back in February of this year for PlayStation 4 and Vita. In Japan I Am Setsuna sold 33,629 copies on PlayStation 4 and 27,994 copies on PlayStation Vita in its first week. That is not awful for a new IP, but it wasn't good in regards to Square Enix and the deficit makes it clearly apparent.

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Announced via the official Final Fantasy Twitter page, World of Final Fantasy is receiving a new trailer tomorrow and in addition the game will also be getting a Collector's Edition.

World of Final Fantasy was announced last year during Sony's E3 conference and it made a reappearance at the convention last year showing story details and gameplay. We're still a few months away from the game's release date on October 25 of this year, but we'll be keeping an eye out for the trailer tomorrow and any details for the game. ...

World of Final Fantasy will be out this October just a month after Final Fantasy XV and Square Enix has some more footage and details about this upcoming spinoff.



PlayStation Access has managed to play a new demo of the game focusing on the game's battle system. In this footage we can see familiar enemies such as Bombs, Tonberries, and Mandragoras. You can catch monsters ala Pokemon by wittling their health to a certain point and imprisoning them. Monsters or mirages as they're called in this game, can be stacked on your character's head to grant them abilities in battle like two fire monsters can grant you access to the Firaja spell. These mirages can even evolve just like Pokemon and have their own skill tree.

Summons in this game seem to have been replaced by the medal system in which you can summon characters from the mainline series to perform an attack. In this demo we can see Tidus from Final Fantasy X being called forth to perform his best Overdrive Blitz Ace. The animation can be quite ...

In a recent Mistwalker broadcast, Hironobu Sakaguchi announced that he's planning on opening a new development studio. For right now he's thinking about Dawnwalker as the name and plans to open the studio in the Roppongi section of Tokyo, Japan. He went on to state that his studio are going to recruit a lot of staff for this new development studio. Hironobu Sakaguchi was a former employee of Square Enix and created the Final Fantasy series. He made a recent appearance at Square's Final Fantasy XV Uncovered Event back in March.


You can watch the broadcast below. Thanks to Siliconera for the translation.

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Final Fantasy XV has been getting a lot of attention at this year's E3 and today we take another look at the game's airship. The game's airship was first revealed at the Uncovered event back in March, very briefly at the end of a trailer. Now, we have an extensive look at this transforming, flying car.



What's notable about this car is that it's different from the Regalia that's been shown in all the other videos. The carship has a more rounded build with sharp edges. Either the Regalia will be upgraded to fly through the game's campaign (likely by Cid) or the player will obtain a new version of the Regalia through the journey. We can see that the transition from ground to air is seamless and that the Regalia has parts that extends further when going airborne. The flight speed doesn't seem as fast compared to other FF games, but the other games were on a world map where the airship was larger than many structures on the map while this game has a more realistic scale by being open ...

Final Fantasy XV made an appearance at this year's Microsoft press conference today and the demonstration this time around is a boss fight against the summon Titan. This demo honestly made the game look very rough. The battle looked negatively chaotic with camera jump and angles that obscured your vision, not to mention the stream repeatedly took third person shots of the gameplay. When Noctis was clearly visible on screen, Ignus, and the others weren't. There wasn't indication of damage infliction either. This demo was not impressive and hopefully Square Enix has something better to show for the game this week.

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Dragon Quest Builders is a new game entering the Dragon Quest series long list of spinoffs and today, Square Enix dropped a new trailer announcing the North American and Europe release dates. Dragon Quest Builders will be arriving physically and digitally this October exclusively for PlayStation 4 and Vita.

Dragon Quest Builders is a Minecraft-esque game set in Alfegard, the world of the original Dragon Quest with the series known RPG elements. The premise of the game's story is that the world must be rebuilt after the first game's protagonist becomes victim to evil. Dragon Quest Builders first released in Japan back on January 28 and now the US will join in on the fun this fall.

Dragon Quest Builders will also be joining Dragon Quest Heroes II and Dragon Quest VII 3DS as one of the games celebrating the series 30th anniversary.

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I Am Setsuna is due for release in two months and today Square Enix drops a new trailer. This new E3 trailer infers that we'll be seeing this game at the electronic expo in a few weeks. This RPG developed from Tokyo RPG Factory harkens back to the era of 16-bit JRPGs and specifically draws its battle system from Chrono Trigger. This trailer gives an overview of the game's story with some brief instances of gameplay. The game is also up for pre-order on Steam where it's priced at $39.99 I Am Setsuna releases digitally on July 19 for Steam and PlayStation 4.

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In 2005 or perhaps early 2006, I played my first Dragon Quest game. I had previously played the demo of Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King and the classic JRPG gameplay entertained me enough so when Square Enix announced the American release and that it was coming with a demo of Final Fantasy XII, it was without question that I was going to buy it.


DQVIII was a bit different from what I used to primarily playing the Final Fantasy series with its slower paced battles, faith themes, and game overs resulting in loss of currency, but also familiar with its vast over-world, silliness, and charm. This was also my first experience with Akira Toriyama's art outside of the Dragonball series. I found the game massively enjoyable and it had remained my only experience with Dragon Quest until now.

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I have been exclusively playing older games over the past year so when the memory of the release of Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly for the Nintendo ...

Steam dropped a surprise announcement today when Final Fantasy X and X-2 were added to its games section. Square Enix is releasing both Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 to Steam on May 12. These PC ports are the HD remasters that were made for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita back in 2013, which were later re-released for PlayStation 4 exactly a year ago. These HD remasters include the content from the International versions of the PS2 games while also providing updated HD models and a remastered soundtrack. The specs for the game are as follows.

System Requirements

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  • OS: Windows Vista or later
  • Processor: 2GHz Dual Core CPU
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce 9600GT VRAM 512MB or later / ATI Radeon HD 2600XT VRAM 512MB or later
  • Storage: 37 GB available space
  • Sound

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26 years ago today, the third entry in the Final Fantasy series released for the Famicom. It had some shoes to fill as it was following the highly praised original Final Fantasy and the less than praised sequel Final Fantasy II. Final Fantasy III is one of the less talked about entries. It's not as adored as other games in the series, but it's not actively disliked like Final Fantasy II or the XIII trilogy.



Final Fantasy III's story is a simple and familiar tale. An impeding force of darkness threatens the world and four Warriors of Light must come to save the world by gathering the crystals. The four playable characters were nameless silent Onion Knights leaving the personality to the game's NPCs. The story of Final Fantasy III I found pretty forgettable. It was just a premise to set the actual game. The one unique thing regarding it was that occasionally you would get a guest party member, but they served only in the narrative sense and would not join you in battles. You ...

Square Enix announced that they will be hosting a Twitch stream for I am Setsuna tomorrow April 22. I am Setsuna was first revealed in 2015 at E3 where it was originally called Project Setsuna. I am Setsuna is a traditional turn-based role playing game with a battle system similar to that of Chrono Trigger.
The stream will begin on 10:00 AM /1:00 PM PT tomorrow. You can watch the stream here. Tokyo RPG Factory's I am Setsuna is scheduled for a summer 2016 release in North America for PlayStation 4 and PC. ...