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Square Enix Logo 16×9 PAX East is in four days and Square Enix has finally announced their line-up for the show They'll be bringing demos for Final Fantasy XV: Episode Gladiolus, Final Fantasy XIV, Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age, Dragon Quest Heroes II, I Am Setsuna on the Nintendo Switch, Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX, NieR: Automata, Ride 2, and Deus Ex:[...]

Square Enix and PlatinumGame's action RPG NieR: Automata will indeed make it to PC starting March 17th Pre-orders are now live. From the press release, "Developed in collaboration with PlatinumGames Inc., NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S, and A2, and their ferocious battle to reclaim a machine-driven dystopia abandoned by humankind and overrun by[...]

Lara Croft Go has gotten it's Go Trilogy Stories series video much like Hitman Go did last week. Earlier this morning Square Enix Montreal announced that the expansion to Lara Croft Go titled Mirror of Spirits was free for PC players today in celebration of it's launch And now we've got the Go Trilogy Stories video for the[...]

Square Enix Montreal and KO_OP's latest story chapter for Lara Croft Go, Mirror of Spirits is now available on Steam for free The base game, Lara Croft Go is available for $9.99 / £7.99 / €9.99. To coincide with the Steam launch, the story expansion got a spiffy new trailer The trailer shows off some of the[...]

credit//Square Enix The latest in Final Fantasy XV news is great for PC players At GDC Square showed off a tech test for the game using Nvidia's latest GTX 1080 Ti. The tech demo shows off many of the environments from the game with different elements added to show off the lighting changes with the latest tech[...]

Milestone, the company behind Square Enix's Ride series, has announced their latest racing project called Gravel It's an off-road sort of racer featuring jeeps, monster trucks, and what could be a Subaru STI- but it's hard to tell from the brief glance we get The announcement trailer for the game is pretty underwhelming when compared with[...]

Square Enix sent out a press release this morning detailing what they call a "massive update" to Guardian Codex If you've never played it before, it's a multiplayer RPG for mobile devices and is the successor to Guardian Crossing You explore the game's world while teaming up with other players online to take out waves[...]

Square Enix Montreal has been having a lot of fun with the GO series of mobile apps for iPhone in three of Square's long time franchises The trilogy includes Hitman Go, Deus Ex Go, and Lara Croft Go Hitman Go is a turn based strategy game while Deus Ex and Lara Croft are both puzzlers. In celebration of the[...]

Square Enix released a nice 27 minute gameplay video today of their upcoming game, NieR: Automata. The almost half-hour of uncut gameplay footage shows off the game's combat and exploration as well as the "Reliquary" system where players can return to where their characters were defeated to gain extra buffs or assist an ally; 17 of[...]

Square Enix and Platinum Games' NieR: Automata hasn't even been released in the west yet, and it's already being patched due to player complaints about a trash item in the game The trash in question is named "NIN-64" and it's description reads "trash that was fished up." Seems like a lazy but obvious dig at Nintendo[...]

Capcom Infinite, and the Avengers Project by Square Enix. Apparently the white emblem on Insomniac's Spider-Man was supposed to inform us that the games are not following directly in the footsteps of any pre-existing Marvel storylines Which, sure, the hardcore Spider-Fans got The rest of us, not so much. One of the things I find most striking[...]

  The second DLC story mission for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is called A Criminal Past and is available today for those who just haven't had enough

Square Enix has another new game for us, this one is titled Project Prelude Rune and will be back in the genre Square does best – JRPGs The new title will be the property of Square's newest studio called Studio Istolia We don't know much about the new RPG, just that "The project aims to build a[...]

NieR: Automata's producer Yosuke Saito told Express UK that currently there were no plans to bring Platinum Games and Square Enix's latest title to the Xbox One Despite saying that they would be publishing the game on both platforms a few months ago, it seems like development on that side has completely halted – if[...]

Unless you all collectively fly to Japan and protest on Square Enix's doorstep, it's not going to happen, ever Not that we don't want to see it, we just know better at this point. credit//Square Enix With that out of the way… the 1.05 DLC update comes with a few different things to enhance the experience in freeplay,[...]

Its likely that, much like Red Mage, we'll be able to pick Samurai up in the Realm Reborn areas of the game and progress the job from 50 up to 70. Following the festival, Square Enix released new screenshots and art to commemorate the announcement Some of those are below. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align:[...]

The only difference with FFXV is that we'd thought we were past the trope of "no one wants to play a game with girls in it." If Square Enix and Hajime Tabata really wanted to make a game that was designed for women, they could have If Final Fantasy XV is really an attempt to cash in on[...]

Game director Tetsuya Nomura shared screenshots of his two most anticipated projects at Monico Anime Game International Conferences: Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts 3, and the remake of Final Fantasy VII. The Kingdom Hearts 3 screenshot shows protagonist Sora taking down some fearsome looking Heartless in Olympus The game's art direction hasn't changed much since the original, deapite the[...]

But Square Enix and Nissin have seen our bluff and called it We are getting that hat. Siliconera reports that the announcement came from Nissin's own website, so this is absolutely not a joke story that all of us silly games journalists have run with I wish it were The Cup Noodle hat is not the[...]

Hitman: The Complete First Season is a great way for Hitman fans who were worried about the episodic format to get on board with the new game. While you

It looks like Square Enix is planning to go all out for the fans with the release of Kingdom Hearts with the release of the HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX edition Those who purchase the game through the online store will receive an exclusive pin People familiar with the series already know about the collectible[...]

Square Enix also put out their third quarter sales earnings report for the nine-month period ending December 31, 2016 Square saw an upswing of net sales totaling ¥190,084 million for an increase of 24.4% from the prior fiscal year Their operating income of ¥21477 million equates to a decrease of 9.7% over 2015 Which is understandable[...]

Square Enix has announced a delay in Final Fantasy XV's recently revealed Power Rangers-style Magitek Exosuit costumes. The new free costumes were originally slated for a February 21st release After getting feedback that the suits look too much like Power Rangers costumes, Square Enix has taken them back to the drawing board for a re-design[...]

Credit: Square Enix Many fans had complaints about the final chapter of Final Fantasy XV and it looks like their wishes may have been granted Alongside a Gladio-focused DLC, Square Enix will be updating Chapter 13 due to fan pressure. The final chapters of XV always felt a bit off as they narrowed the game down from open world to[...]

Credit: Square Enix 8 cities in the United States will be getting their own Final Fantasy XIV themed escape room. The basis of this one is that a group of 6 people have an hour to stop the rise of the primal Bahamut Because naturally that signals the end of the world As Bahamut tends to do. The[...]

Will the next Square Enix Marvel game be Guardians of the Galaxy? We don't know No one does, because they haven't announced anything other than "The Avengers Project," which is possibly called #Reassemble. What we do know is that Eurogamer claims to have sources that say a Guardians of the Galaxy is in the work, buried[...]

When the new Square Enix Avengers Project was announced last week and it was revealed that Eidos Montreal and Crystal Dynamics were both working on it, a big question was asked of how these developers mainline series, namely Deus Ex and Tomb Raider, would be affected. Well, we supposedly have the answer for one of those, and[...]

The show, Final Fantasy XIV: Hikari no Otousan or Final Fantasy XIV: The Father of Light, will tell the story of one gamer's experience bonding with his 60 year-old-father while playing the Square Enix MMO. As fellow BC writer Adi Tantimedh reminded me, MMOs are very big in Japan and manga, anime, and light novels (the Japanese version[...]

  By this point, I think we've all seen the trailer for the upcoming Marvel and Square Enix collaboration series of AAA games Which, while very new, has struck me as nothing more but another attempt by Marvel to try and launch a game series with no major substance.   The trailer gives us almost nothing other than[...]

Today, Marvel and Square Enix announced they are in a partnership with a multi-game deal, starting with an Avengers focused project. A teaser trailer hinting at some of the key Avengers (only the male ones though), with key items laying in rubble And there was a hashtag #Reassemble and a female voice over talking about a[...]