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credit//SquareEnix During a fan Q&A segment at the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival in Paris earlier this month, FFXIV Game Director and Producer Naoki Yoshida was asked about the next game in the mainline series While Final Fantasy XVI is hardly official yet, that hasn't stopped the fan hype train from spinning theories on what the game could be[...]

credit// Square Enix The next expansion for Final Fantasy XIV, called Shadowbringers, will be releasing this summer and pre-orders for the expansion pack will go live today at 11am PT This is the third major expansion for the award-winning MMO and will be available on July 2, 2019 both physically and digitally with Collector's and Standard Editions. Players may[...]

Those of you who have been patiently waiting for Final Fantasy VII to make its way to the Nintendo Switch, the wait may soon be over Ever since a number of Final Fantasy titles were announced last year as getting a Switch port, people have been wondering when we'll start seeing them appear Nintendo has released[...]

credit// Square Enix The Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest Paris is going on this weekend, and this morning's keynote from Executive Producer Naoki Yoshida included several bits of new information about the upcoming Shadowbringers expansion that players have been waiting on The keynote kicked off with an extended teaser trailer and moved on to reveal the gunblade using[...]

Two mobile games collide this week as Final Fantasy Brave Exvius launched their collaboration with Star Ocean: Anamnesis The event will run for the next couple weeks bringing in new summonable characters, limited-time events, and a slew of other additions We have a list fo everything you can now do in the game along with a trailer[...]

credit// Square Enix Blue Mage is the first Limited Job available in Final Fantasy XIV, which means there are some odd restrictions on what players can and cannot do with it While players can enter instanced dungeons, they can only do so through pre-formed or undersized parties Because of the way Blue Mage works, dropping BLU players[...]

The alliance raid series for Final Fantasy XIV's Stormblood cycle was titled "Return to Ivalice" and took us to some iconic locations from previous Final Fantasy games While Ivalice is a fictional country (or set of countries) in the Final Fantasy series, it is the location of only a handful of games: Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy XII, and Final Fantasy Vagrant[...]

Square Enix will be giving Nintendo Switch and Xbox One owners a chance to explore two remastered Final Fantasy titles Both Final Fantasy X / X-2 Remaster and Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age will be released on Switch and Xbox One this April. FF X / X-2 will release on April 16th, 2019 for both platforms while FFXII will[...]

If you'd like to score some new Kingdom Hearts items on your mobile devices, Final Fantasy Brave Exvius has got you covered Starting now until January 11th, Square Enix is throwing an in-game event that will bring Sora and the KH version of Cloud to the game, where you can earn magical prizes during the Guard Armor[...]

While in-game weddings have been a thing in Final Fantasy XIV for years now, fans haven't been able to faithfully recreate the experience IRL Until now. Square Enix has partnered with a wedding hall in Kobe, Japan to create FFXIV weddings in the real world. From Twinfinite: Final Fantasy XIV features a quite advanced wedding feature, allowing players to[...]

Most of the sale games are Square Enix's classic RPGs including much of the Final Fantasy series, as well as Chrono Trigger, Adventures of Mana, Secret of Mana, and even Chaos Rings II The games are 50% off, so if you've been tempted to pick up any classic SE game on iOS, Android, or through the Amazon AppStore, now[...]

Square Enix has announced the release date for Final Fantasy XIV's Patch 4.5 The two-part patch update will finish the Stormblood storyline and set up the 5.0 Shadowbringers plotline ahead of its launch in Summer 2019 The first part of Patch 4.5 will hit on January 8th, while the second half will follow in late[...]

Every holiday season, Final Fantasy XIV celebrates in-game with the Starlight Celebration, which is a thinly veiled Christmas stand-in complete with snowmen, presents, carols, evergreen trees lined with lights and ornaments, and even flying bears in Santa suits. This year's version of the event will be available for players through Monday, December 31st The storyline this year[...]

The original story of Mobius Final Fantasy continues today with the start of the second "Warrior of Despair" content season The first chapter of Season 2, titled "Chapter 1: A World Adrift" is now available for players on all platforms In addition to the new content, Season 2 also allows players to obtain Sophie's job as[...]

Square Enix and Koei Tecmo released some awesome news this week for Dissidia Final Fantasy NT as Yuna joins in on the battles Straight out of Final Fantasy X, along with being one of the most powerful magic users in the game, she will come with Valefor, her trusty companion, who can both attack and defend depending[...]

Final Fantasy XIV has hosted collaboration events with a number of other games in the series, though it tends to draw most from Final Fantasy XI However, a crossover between Final Fantasy XV and the MMO was announced back in June, and it is finally here While most would expect the crossover to be hosted in Final Fantasy[...]

Announced back during PAX East 2018, Final Fantasy XV's Comrades expansion has finally launched as a standalone game Square Enix announced the news on Twitter earlier today. Comrades launched at the end of last year as a multiplayer expansion to the lengthy road trip RPG, but the new version of Comrades no longer requires players to own the base[...]

During the Final Fantasy Brave Exvius fan event this past weekend in LA, Square Enix announced the latest FFBE collaboration, which is with pop star Katy Perry They also announced a limited time Kingdom Hearts event to coincide with the launch of KH3. A summary of all the announcements is below: Katy Perry Collaboration: Music icon Katy Perry[...]

credit//Square Enix Square Enix is celebrating the holiday season early with events in its mobile games, with a focus on Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia and Star Ocean: Anamnesis Running from today through January, players can enjoy some special events, holiday bonuses, limited-edition items, and special tokens. In Dissidia FF Opera Omnia, the Holiday event is running through December 30th[...]

credit//SquareEnix Square Enix's Luminous Productions is the studio that developed Final Fantasy XV and recently saw some major organizational shakeups Studio head and FFXV Game Director Hajime Tabata left the studio back in October and recently opened his own studio, JP Games In the wake of Tabata's departure, we learned that the ambitious plans for Final Fantasy XV's post-launch development[...]

Hajime Tabata, former Game Director for Square Enix's Final Fantasy XV, announced his new studio today Tabata left his position as studio head of Square Enix's Luminous Production on October 31, 2018 in order to establish JP Games He made the announcement on Facebook (via Gematsu) From Gematsu: Hajime Tabata, who directed Final Fantasy XV and left his position as studio head of Square[...]

We still aren't at the end of Final Fantasy XIV's Stormblood lifecycle, but that doesn't matter, because you don't ever need to play another game ever again Seriously This game has pretty much everything PvP, racing, crafting, in-depth lore, immersive story, live service updates, solid customer service, classy vanity items on the mog station, a companion chat[...]

One of the most requested jobs for future Final Fantasy XIV expansions has been Blue Mage, because FFXIV players just cannot get over their obsession with FFXI job classes And to be fair to them, Blue Mage is a pretty sweet job Unlike other mage classes, Blue Mages were defined by the sheer ridiculous number of spells they[...]

Square Enix revealed the latest details on the next expansion on the way for Final Fantasy XIV as we dive into the world of Shadowbringers Along with a very dark trailer and what appears to be a new brand of evil on the land that you'll need to vanquish, you will essentially become Warriors of Darkness in[...]

Three Final Fantasy games were announced at XO18 this weekend as being added to the backward compatible library for Xbox One However, they may or may not be the ones you were hoping for depending on the kind of Final Fantasy fan you are The three games in question, which were confirmed by the game's official Twitter[...]

A little bit of interesting news from Square Enix as the company will be releasing Dissidia Final Fantasy NT free to PS4 owners in Japan Before you get angry about the decision, there is one small hiccup, it's not a complete version According to Monthly Shonen Gangan, players will be getting a stripped-down version of the game[...]

If you happen to be one of the many who once played Final Fantasy XI back in the day, Square Enix is launching something new to help you get back in The company has launched a new app called FFXI ReFriender, which is designed to help you reconnect with old players you may have run[...]

World of Final Fantasy Maxima has launched today on the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Steam Which naturally means we have a launch trailer for you. World of Final Fantasy Maxima takes players to the magical world of Grymoire where they'll encounter heroes from their favorite Final Fantasy games including Final Fantasy XV, Final Fantasy VII, and Final[...]

We're coming to the end of the Stormblood story cycle now that Patch 4.45 of Final Fantasy XIV has launched in-game Today's patch introduces the next chapter in The Forbidden Land of Eureka line along with more Hildibrand adventures, because we can never get enough of the Inspector's hijinks. The new version of The Forbidden Land is Eureka[...]

Square Enix has released the seventh expansion to the Final Fantasy Trading Card Game this week with the introduction of Opus VII The expansion includes a total of 138 cards and includes characters like Noctis and Lasswell into the fray A lot of the artwork for this particular set was handled by Toshitaka Matsuda, Toshiyuki Itahana, Akira[...]