Nearing the end of its development cycle, Final Fantasy Type-0 started its life as a cell phone game, and is well on its way to landing on Japanese PSPs. As a result, Square Enix has kicked off the marketing push for its title, starting with …Read more »
The buzz this past week has been all about Square Enix's unexpected take on the rhythm game genre, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy . As one might expect, it mixes the world of FF with the world of music-based games, turning battles into rhythm-based takes on classic …Read more »
Eccentric games with quirky conceits are everywhere and they are almost unilaterally terrible. Even the ones who exude limitlessly bizarre charm ( Deadly Premonition ) mire themselves in gameplay that vacillates from boring to unbearable. These games are not good. That is why when a …Read more »
Appropriately, the latest trailer for Atlus' RPG/Puzzler/Romancer Catherine is titled "Nightmares," and contains just that. Check it and some fresh screens out below in preparation for both the demo's July 12 release date, and the July 26 street date of the game itself. Via the …Read more »
Why yes, that is Final Fantasy III on Nintendo's Virtual Console today. No, not that FFIII , the other one. You know, back before everyone in North America knew it by its original name, Final Fantasy VI ? Playing the numbers game with the Final …Read more »
Square Enix teased everyone with a pair of screens prior to E3, which kicked off yesterday. Now that the expo is in full gear, they've unleashed the full E3 2011 trailer for the followup to Final Fantasy XIII . Check it out and let us …Read more »
Technically Persona 4 was already animated—at least in the form of cutscenes in Atlus's beloved Playstation 2 role-playing game—but now it's getting the full TV series treatment. AIC ASTA ( Bamboo Blade , GUNxSWORD ) is heading up production, with Seiji Kishi ( Angel Beats! …Read more »
If ever I pictured myself reporting on Monster World IV making its way to North America, I figured it would be a Wii Virtual Console story at best. But no, this is even better. If the Monster World series doesn't ring a bell, that's ok. …Read more »
In immediate retrospect that headline makes almost no sense, and yet it remains. Such is the curse of being so easily entertained, and hey, speaking of being entertained, let's see what Nintendo has in store for us this week. Since the headline spoiled it already, …Read more »
Really, what else were they going to call it? Taking a cue from the, ahem, "interesting" Final Fantasy X-2 , Square is continuing the saga they kicked off last year with more adventures in the realm of Final Fantasy XIII . FFXIII-2 's direct sequel …Read more »
Yoshitaka Amano's art—most recognizable across a great majority of Final Fantasy games, as well as Vampire Hunter D —has been tough to translate to any medium outside of his own. It's not exactly easy to bottle that ethereal quality in the confines of movies or …Read more »
Typically Square Enix publishes the Dragon Quest titles themselves, though that changed this past summer with the grand release of Dragon Quest IX . With faith firmly planted in the title, Nintendo took over publishing duties, which says a lot about the quality of the …Read more »
There are very few US game publishers like Atlus—where would the world be without games like the crushingly brutal Demon's Souls , for instance?—but we're certainly thankful they exist. Now they're continuing the tradition of localizing solid, otherwise niche RPG titles with Radiant Historia . …Read more »
Oh, weekly update of all things having to do with Nintendo's Virtual Console releases, how I've missed you. I'd love for this little feature to be more regular, but frankly there's just not as much to report on as there used to be. Nintendo has …Read more »
Atlus has won over a lot of fans in the last few years with the bold direction of their Persona series, and for good reason. They've done an admirable job in diverging from the typical RPG style, and it looks like they're continuing to do …Read more »
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