After decades, Yuji Naka and Naoto Ohshima, the creators of Sonic the Hedgehog, are now working together once again on a brand new project at Square Enix’s Balan Company. Balan Wonderworld is a 3D platforming that will receive a demo next week on January 28th. Revealed by the game’s official Twitter account, Balan Wonderworld will
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If Final Fantasy XV is one of the important titles in your backlog that you are planning to start on Xbox Game Pass, then you would better start playing it as soon as you can. According to the official page of Xbox Game Pass, Final Fantasy XV leaves the service by the beginning of February.
Square Enix cancelled the Tokyo performances of the Final Fantasy VII Remake Orchestra World Tour, planned for February 12 and 13, 2021, due to the new Covid state of emergency in Japan. Prime minister Suga, after a rising number of cases these past weeks, declared a new state of emergency in early January, lasting at
On January 12, 2021, Square Enix, through patent information platform J-PlatPat, published information on several trademarks applications: The Japanese Shinra Company logo, “The First Soldier”, and “Ever Crisis” – these are all terms related to Final Fantasy VII (PC, PS5, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Mobile) (Thanks, Gematsu). Now, Square Enix didn’t make
Sony’s gaming branch has had a small share of this year’s CES expo, including a brief statement from Jim Ryan, the CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, around PS5’s ground-breaking launch sales, and the announcement of new release dates for some PS5 titles such as Pragmata, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, and more. Originally revealed during PS5’s
Square Enix continues the retro-collection train with the Collection of SaGA Final Fantasy Legend on the Nintendo Switch. The SaGa collection brings together a series of decades-old games to give new players a look at the roots of the historic mobile franchise. After spending time completing this collection, I’m pleased to say that the experiences
Leading up to the release of the original Xbox console, Microsoft tried to gaming as we know it. Bloomberg recently published a piece regarding the 20th anniversary of Xbox and the history to come with it. In the article, several Microsoft and Xbox staff members of present and past talk about their ventures on creating
As one of the standout games of the past generation, NieR: Automata was memorable to most players for its unconventional narrative structure that had players discovering new endings and ways to “beat” the game. Yoko Taro’s action RPG was especially known for having tons of hidden secrets to find, with one secret eluding the vast majority
The latest Archipel Caravan interview features veteran Final Fantasy art director Isamu Kamikokuryo as he discusses his love for art and how he got into the gaming industry. Interestingly enough, he had a fairly late start, as he started working with videogames right before he turned 30 years old. Beforehand he had spent years as
As the month, and ultimately the year draws to a close, Sony has blessed us with a new batch of PS Plus titles for both the PS4 and PS5, and there are some good ones. The first title included in January’s list of games is the PS5 version of ShaRkPG, Maneater. Playing as a growing
Yoko Taro announced he’s working on two new games with Square Enix producer Yosuke Saito, as pointed out by Japanese blog Game’s Talk alongside several Japanese Twitter users. V Jump and Famitsu is currently holding a “Game industry end of the year party 2020” special talk show stream on Niconico. With several developers appearing. In
As 2020 (thankfully) comes to a close, the DualShockers staff is coming together to share their personal favorite games throughout the year. Unlike our official Game of the Year Awards, each of these lists is meant to reflect which games stood out personally to each of our staff members. Additionally, any game — not just
Yosuke Saito, producer of the NieR series at Square Enix, teased he’s working on a brand new game, alongside Babylon’s Fall, NieR Reincarnation, and Nier v1.22. Famitsu published its traditional end of the year messages from members of the Japanese game industry. In total over a hundred of producers, directors and the like shared their
Famitsu recently published a collection of special end of the year creator aspirations for 2021 from 110 developers, including one from Final Fantasy VII Remake Producer Yoshinori Kitase (translation by Audrey): Yoshinori Kitase also has a comment in the Famitsu special 110 creator aspirations for 2021 interview. He mentions "the new world of FF7 has
Asuka Yoshikawa, Aerith’s mocap actress in Final Fantasy VII Remake, revealed some really interesting news on her official Twitter account. According to the translated version by Twitter user Audrey, Yoshikawa and Sephiroth’s mocap actor recently completed a four hour long session together: FF7R Aerith's mocap actress did a 4 hour shoot w/ Sephiroth's mocap actor.
Square Enix held on December 24 a special NieR Series 10th anniversary Christmas stream, with new details on NieR Replicant ver.1.22. Often called a remaster, note Ver 1.22 is more akin to a different game with its new battle system, additional voiced dialogues scenes, etc. Read all the details with our past coverage here, here. and
The presentation of Sephiroth in Super Smash Bros Ultimate happened this December 17, and with it, the reveal for new Mii costumes – Geno is coming to Super Smash Bros Ultimate, not as a real character, but as a Mii Costume. The reveal also included Tifa, Barret, and a Chocobo cap. This is a new
For the second year in recent memory, Nintendo revealed an upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC character at The Game Awards. Following Persona 5’s Joker in 2018, Nintendo revealed Sephiroth, Final Fantasy VII’s main antagonist, as a character at this year’s ceremony. Following the reveal, Nintendo shared that the one-winged angel would be getting a full
During The Game Awards this week, we saw the big reveal of Final Fantasy VII’s Sephiroth being the next DLC character coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Sephiroth now joins Min Min from Arms and Steve & Alex from Minecraft in the game’s second Fighters Pass. Luckily, fans of the One-Winged Angel won’t have to
Nintendo took to its Twitter with the announcement that two very recent installments in Square Enix’s massively popular Dragon Quest franchise will be receiving price cuts this week. Dragon Quest Builders 2 and Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definitive Edition will both see price drops on the Nintendo Switch versions
A new trailer for PS5 that shows off all the upcoming games to the console, revealed that Square Enix’s Project Athia will be exclusive to PS5 and PC for two years. Project Athia was one of the many games that announced during the very first digital showcase of PS5 back in Summer this year. Despite
The next interview in the Archipel Caravan stars Final Fantasy XIV producer and director Naoki Yoshida, who helmed the successful reboot of the title after its disastrous initial release and continues to lead it to this day. In the interview he discusses the process of redoing the MMORPG in detail, which is always a fascinating
Square Enix has delisted Dragon Quest 11: Echoes of an Elusive Age from many different digital storefronts now that the new S version is out in the wild. There is a note on the Steam page for the game that reveals that it was delisted “at the request of the publisher” and will not appear
Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia held on December 2 the PlayStation Partner Awards 2020 Japan Asia, rewarding in particular Final Fantasy VII Remake as one of its Grand Awards. In the ceremony, the Grand Award is an award given to the top three works by games makers developing in Japan and Asia from October 2019
According to Asahi Shimbun, Dragon Quest V novel author Saori Kumi filled a lawsuit against Square Enix and Toho on November 24. The lawsuit is in relation to the movie Dragon Quest Your Story, released in Japan on August 2, 2019. The CG anime movie, created by the staff who also handled the Stand By
People Can Fly is hard at work on wrapping up Outriders for its early February release. However, the team doesn’t look to be taking much of a rest once it ships. They’re currently working on two new AAA projects; one of which we learned about earlier this year. While not much is known about what
The official Final Fantasy XIV Twitter account posted a status update that has fans already excited for next year: on February 5th, 2021 at 5:30pm PST (February 6th, 2021 at 1:30 GMT) will be an Announcement Showcase. According to the tweet below, they’ll be “announcing cool things”: We've got something else in store… Introducing the
The Kingdom Hearts franchise is famous for its fantastic music and narrative — if you’re willing to devote yourself to it. While Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory has very little new in terms of story for returning fans, it is a perfect nostalgia trip–sending you back to most of the whimsical worlds that veterans of the series experienced
On November 23, the official Twitter account for The World Ends With You Anime revealed a new trailer, the OP theme song and a new key visual. The new key visual shows the Reaper characters (Shinigami in Japanese). With Uzuki Yashiro, Koki Kariya, Yodai Higashizawa, Mitsuki Konishi, Sho Minamimoto, and Megumi Kitaniji. 【新ビジュアル解禁】 死神たちが描かれた新たなビジュアルを解禁しました#すばせかアニメ #TWEWY
As you already know Square Enix Creative Business Unit I opened a teaser site for something related to JRPG The World Ends With You, possibly a sequel. Throughout the days, the countdown page has been showing the trailers of the past iterations of TWEWY. Each day once trailer was shown once, for a few minutes.
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