Square Enix Archives

credit// Square Enix The wait is nearly over, folks! Okay, so it isn't the Final Fantasy VII Remake we've all been waiting for since E3 2015, but a version of FFVII is at least releasing this year This version of the game is the one you can pick up on nearly every current generation platform imaginable: PS4, PC, and[...]

Square Enix announced that, next month, Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon Every Buddy! will launch on both the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon is a rework of 2007's Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon with new unique dungeons, a new buddy system to recruit monsters and other characters as allies, and a local co-op system to play with[...]

Square Enix has released Final Fantasy IX on even more platforms, as the game has launched on both Nintendo Switch and Xbox one already The game was released in conjunction with a massive Nintendo Direct. Final Fantasy IX was originally released in 2000, making it just 19 years old, and like most games in the series it[...]

credit// Square Enix Final Fantasy XIV's Patch 4.55 is live today, and brings a new campaign to the 48-man PvP mode Rival Wings along with the final version of the Forbidden Lands of Eureka. The new Rival Wings map, "Hidden Gorge," sees two teams of 24 players compete to destroy the core in their opponent's base, however[...]

The official trailer for the DLC debuts at 9am PDT, which you can watch below, but the DLC is available now for $5 or can be downloaded if you have the season pass. credit//Square Enix While trying to crack the private codes of Trinity's leader, Lara must conquer a new single-player challenge tomb filled with poisonous traps, while[...]

Twenty years ago today, Final Fantasy VIII released in Japan. Within days of its release in the United States, FFVIII became the best selling game in the

Square Enix has opened pre-orders for survival shooter Left Alive today Additionally, the publisher revealed that fans who pre-order any edition of Left Alive from the North American Square Enix Store on or before March 4th, 2019 will have a chance to own an original hand-drawn artwork by famed illustrator and designer Yoji Shinkawa from Kojima Productions[...]

Square Enix has partnered with The Ad Council to include Kingdom Hearts III characters into the anti-bullying campaign Because of You The hope is that SE's hit game will inspire teens to build a more inclusive and welcoming community Since the overall plot of Kingdom Hearts can be summarized with "the power of friendship can save the world(s)," the[...]

credit// Square Enix [rwp_box_recap id="0"] Just Cause 4 is many things, hammy, addictive, and with far more open-world capacity than any single game needs It has a functioning physics model for most things a player will encounter: buoyancy, propulsion, wind, even combustion engines What it doesn't have is total graphic integrity Every now and again, you'll enter[...]

Ah, okay, that was a bad joke. While Square Enix is still in development on the Final Fantasy VII Remake, the continued expansion plans for Final Fantasy XV were dropped late last year when director Hajime Tabata left Square Enix to start his own studio, which means development on FFXVI could begin sooner than anticipated. So far, all of this[...]

credit// Square Enix Square Enix is hosting a special 2nd Anniversary stream for NieR: Automata, to celebrate the game's 2nd birthday as well as the launch of the Game of the YoRHa Edition The event will be broadcast at the Storia Cafe in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district and livestreamed via the Square Enix Presents YouTube channel on February 20th[...]

credit// Square Enix Square Enix released a new trailer featuring the music of Left Alive, which was recorded by industry giants at the famous Abbey Road Studios. Left Alive is a survival shooter currently in development by Square Enix, but like most games developed by the Japan branch of SE, the game is bolstered by an epic[...]

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[...]

This morning, Square Enix shared the news that Kingdom Hearts III has already shipped over five million units worldwide, becoming the fastest selling game in the franchise The number honestly doesn't come as much of a surprise considering it took them over a decade to make a proper ending to the trilogy, and that it[...]

credit//Square Enix   [rwp_box_recap id="0"] While most people didn't actually believe Kingdom Hearts III was releasing until they had a physical copy in their hands, we can't say the 13-year wait was entirely worth it Sure, the game is pretty much a copy of previous Kingdom Hearts titles with frenetic hack-and-slash gameplay, terrible camera controls, various appearances by beloved Disney[...]

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[...]

In case you needed something extra to go with your Kingdom Hearts 3 experience, Square Enix has decided to release a secret movie for the game The company released this Twitter post earlier today, letting players know they could download it as part of the game, but you'll need to complete the game at a[...]

credit//Square Enix   Kingdom Hearts is one of the ongoing Square Enix franchises that predates the Square and Enix merger as development started under Square Soft, which means we've had enough time to absolutely forget the storyline We've had two main games, five spin-off games that function as prequel, sequel, and in-between stories And now, over 10[...]

If you're a major online retailer like GameStop, and you decided to sell an exclusive item, maybe you should only sell what you have and not what you don't.

Square Enix has shared a brand new gameplay video for Kingdom Hearts III that shows off a little more from the story and what you'll be doing The video does its best to explain what you're actually doing in the game for those who have either never played a KH title, or those who haven't played[...]

Square Enix and DONTNOD have released a new trailer this week as they prep for the launch of Episode 2 of Life Is Strange 2. The latest episode picks up a few months after the events of the first, with Daniel and Sean on the run from the cops where your supernatural powers came into play[...]

Square Enix released a brand new DLC addition for Shadow of the Tomb Raider this week, as players will be able to plunge into "The Nightmare" Essentially, this is going to be the horror version of the storyline you've been experiencing with a lot more traps and puzzles that will probably give you more than a[...]

Two mobile games collide this week as Final Fantasy Brave Exvius launched their collaboration with Star Ocean: Anamnesis.

credit// Square Enix The launch of Kingdom Hearts III is just around the corner (though we know most of you won't believe it until you have the game in your hands), but Square Enix is ramping up the game's hypetrain by dropping the game's original track "Face My Fears" by artists Utada Hikaru and Skrillex. "Face My Fears" is the soundtrack[...]

credit//Square Enix Japanese-American singer-songwriter Utada Hikaru is best known stateside for her work with Square Enix on the opening and closing themes of the Kingdom Hearts series In Japan, she's a bit more famous, even earning herself some designations as "the most influential artist of the decade" by The Japan Times in the late 2000s and[...]

credit//Square Enix Square Enix and Disney have launched a social media campaign for fans of Kingdom Hearts III to fill the internet with positivity now that the game's launch is imminent There's also that whole thing about how pure hearts and unrelenting positivity are capable of beating back the darkness which drives the central plot of[...]

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 games.

credit//Square Enix Not only will Kingdom Hearts III be launching at the end of this month, but Square Enix has also unveiled their plans for updating the game post-launch So we'll keep getting more Kingdom Hearts content once we're done with the game, to make up for that lengthy wait between mainline games. The first update coming to Kingdom Hearts[...]

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[...]