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Cloud Strife’s muscle mass on PS5: a very important investigation

Square Enix just announced Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, a PS5-enhanced version of FF7 Remake that includes graphical improvements like “improved textures, lighting, and background environments.” But some users on ResetEra noticed one other potentially huge graphical upgrade: Cloud’s famously skinny arms may have gotten a bit beefier. Did Cloud get more swole for next-gen,… Read more

Final Fantasy VII Remake’s amazing soundtrack hits Spotify and Apple Music tomorrow

Final Fantasy VII Remake’s soundtrack will be available to stream on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music Unlimited, and other music subscription services tomorrow, February 26th, Square Enix announced on Thursday. It will have an eye-popping (ear-popping?) 156 tracks, according to a press release. The game’s soundtrack was an excellent reimagining of the original game’s iconic… Read more

Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis compiles the entire FFVII timeline into one mobile game

Square Enix announced two mobile games set in the Final Fantasy VII universe today. One is a battle royale game aiming for a 2021 release, and the other is Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis, a compilation of all the games and stories set in the Final Fantasy VII universe (Final Fantasy VII, Advent Children, Before… Read more

Final Fantasy VII is getting a prequel that’s also a mobile battle royale

The enhanced version of Final Fantasy VII Remake for the PS5 wasn’t the only Midgar-related news today. Square Enix also revealed an even bigger surprise: a battle royale for mobile devices that’s set three decades before the original game. It’s called Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier, and it’s slated to come to both Android… Read more

Final Fantasy VII Remake is getting a huge PS5 update with a new Yuffie episode

The world of Final Fantasy VII Remake is getting bigger with a new episode featuring new characters — like Yuffie Kisaragi — and big quality-of-life changes for the PlayStation 5, called Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade. The PS5 version of the game will include a “brand-new episode” that has players play as ninja Yuffie Kisaragi… Read more

Hulu’s animated MODOK series looks like Robot Chicken meets Marvel

Hulu has released the first trailer for MODOK, its upcoming animated show that will see Patton Oswalt voice the titular Marvel villain in a more light-hearted, Robot Chicken-style take on the franchise’s usual portentous superhero dramas. The show also got a release date: it’ll debut on May 21st on the streaming service. MODOK (Mental Organism… Read more

Bravely Default is a classic RPG series designed for lapsed fans

When Masashi Takahashi, a producer at Square Enix, started working on Bravely Default, he had a very specific audience in mind. Takahashi had grown up playing classic turn-based roleplaying games — he distinctly remembers watching his older brother play Final Fantasy III while he was still in kindergarten — and felt that many modern RPGs… Read more

The 20 biggest announcements from today’s Nintendo Direct

For the first time in over a year, Nintendo hosted a full-fledged Direct presentation. The latest presentation was focused mostly on games slated to hit Nintendo’s hybrid gaming console, the Switch, sometime during the first half of 2021, though there were a few announcements for games that will hit later than that. The nearly hour-long… Read more

The Kingdom Hearts series comes to PC as an Epic Store exclusive

Kingdom Hearts, Square Enix’s action roleplaying mashup of Square Enix, Disney, and Pixar characters, is coming to PC for the first time. The series will be available as an Epic Store exclusive on March 30th, the company announced today. Titles include Kingdom Hearts 1.5 + 2.5 Remix — enhanced versions of Kingdom Hearts 1 and… Read more

Upcoming Final Fantasy concert to reveal new FFVIIR content

Mustafa Mahmoud 19 hours ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming Later this week at the Tokyo International Forum Hall, fans will gather to experience a live orchestral performance of the music of Final Fantasy VII Remake. In a surprise announcement, it was revealed that the concert will include information on some new Final Fantasy… Read more

Final Fantasy XIV will be getting a free PS5 patch

Mustafa Mahmoud 21 hours ago Console, Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming As more and more people get their hands on the latest consoles, developers and publishers have begun to upgrade many of their live service titles to offer higher performance modes, taking advantage of this new hardware. The latest title to receive a PS5… Read more

Final Fantasy XIV Patch 5.5 will ‘pave the way’ for Endwalker expansion

Matthew Wilson 1 day ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming Last week, Square Enix officially announced ‘Endwalker’, the next expansion for Final Fantasy 14. Now, the development team’s pre-expansion patch plans are beginning to come to light, with the first arriving in April. Final Fantasy XIV Patch 5.5 is coming on the 13th of… Read more

Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker expansion announced for 2021

Matthew Wilson 3 days ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming This week, Square Enix announced the next expansion for Final Fantasy XIV. The new expansion will be called ‘Endwalker’ and it is coming out later this year. The Shadowbringers story was wrapped up in late 2020, leaving this year wide open for new content…. Read more

Many PlayStation exclusives get updated release windows

CES 2021 is currently underway, and while the video games industry tends to stay away from the consumer electronics show, Sony often makes its presence known in order to showcase its many other products. Despite this, some PlayStation news did in fact come out of the show, as b-roll footage for its new range of… Read more

PS5 Games: Details on Scheduled Release Dates

Even if many players currently have to wait for their next-gen console from Sony, all gamers who already own a PlayStation 5, look forward to future games. So that the wait is over soon, Sony has now announced various release dates. On the occasion of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2021 the Japanese published a… Read more