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Octopath Traveler 0 Is Based On A Mobile Game, But Is Leaving The Gacha Behind
31.7.2025
Octopath Traveler 0 closed out this morning’s Nintendo Direct, and long-time fans immediately clocked that, despite the new name, the prequel RPG seemed to draw heavily from the 2022 mobile game Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent. It turns out that yeah, the new RPG is “inspired by” that...
The Internet Reacts To The Most Ridiculous Part Of The Nintendo Direct
31.7.2025
Square Enix lived up to its reputation for terrible game names during the July Nintendo Direct, but somehow an action-RPG titled The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales wasn’t the most absurd part of the showcase. That came when the publisher revealed the name of the world in which the HD-2D...
Everything We Saw At Today's Nintendo Direct
31.7.2025
Hey! Today we were treated to another lovely look at some games coming to both the original Switch and the fancy new Switch 2. Nintendo’s latest Direct went all in on third-party titles, so alas, no Metroid Prime 4. But there were still a ton of cool-looking titles, many of which feature co-op,...
Ranking Blizzard’s Proposed Overwatch 2 Collabs By How Much I Do Or Don't Want Them
29.7.2025
Overwatch 2 loves a collaboration. Blizzard has spent more time dressing up its heroes like characters from other worlds than nurturing its own lore, and that means fans can expect more themed skins in the future. If there’s one thing Overwatch fans can count on, it’s that Blizzard will find a...
Clair Obscur Devs Visit Final Fantasy Offices For An 'Exchange Of Ideas'
24.7.2025
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is one of the biggest surprise gaming hits of 2025 and a traditional turn-based role-playing game that reminded many fans of the golden-era of PlayStation 1 JRPGs they still pine for. Some have even gone so far as to argue that the next Final Fantasy game should be more...
Magic: The Gathering's Final Fantasy Set Earned $200 Million In A Single Day
23.7.2025
We already knew that the Final Fantasy Universes Beyond expansion was the fastest-selling set in Magic: The Gathering’s history, but an absurd new stat puts what that actually means in perspective. Hasbro’s CEO recently revealed the massive crossover sporting Cloud, Sephiroth and other Square Enix...
After Two Decades, One Of The Stars Of Kingdom Hearts Is Finally Playing The Games
15.7.2025
The original Kingdom Hearts came to the PlayStation 2 in 2002 when David Gallagher was 17 years old. The actor, now 40, has played deuteragonist and noted “sexy guy” who “the gamer girls” go crazy for, Riku, for more than half his lifetime, but somehow hasn’t ever played the Disney RPGs. Gallagher...
Square Enix To Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Switch Players Who Want To Upgrade To Switch 2: Buy The Whole Game Again
15.7.2025
The times of transition between two console generations are often fraught, with publishers trying to sell to two ever-shifting markets, with their expectations of forward or backward compatibility, and the perceived inherent unfairness of needing to buy the same game twice. Square Enix has taken...
Final Fantasy Doesn't Need Turn-Based Combat Back, It Needs Better Stories
11.7.2025
There’s been an undercurrent of opinion, ever since Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 took audiences by surprise earlier this year, that the approach taken by the turn-based fantasy RPG is the cure for everything that ails Final Fantasy. It delivers an old-school take on the genre that’s much less flawed...
Astro Bot's New Update Finally Adds A Character Fans Have Been Waiting For
10.7.2025
Astro Bot, Team Asobi’s delightful PlayStation tribute platformer and Kotaku 2024 Game of the Year, is still getting free updates. Today, the team put out a handful of new levels and Special Bots, or little robot guys dressed up as different characters from PlayStation’s history. These updates have...
We Were Getting Outriders 2 And Now We're Not
1.7.2025
Last month, developer People Can Fly announced that work on a game codenamed Gemini was being suspended over issues with the publisher regarding payment and communication. The publisher was believed to be Square Enix, and fans speculated that the project in question was a sequel to Outriders,...
Marathon Gets Delayed, Donkey Kong Bananza Gets A Smashing Showing, And More Top Stories
21.6.2025
This week, Donkey Kong Bananza knocked our collective socks off in a very strong Nintendo Direct dedicated to the Switch 2's next big exclusive, and Marathon, the next big game from Destiny maker Bungie, was delayed in the wake of an alpha earlier this year that left many players underwhelmed....
The Final Fantasy Tactics Remaster Had To Be Brute-Forced Into Existence And Makes Some Controversial Cuts
17.6.2025
Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles will make the PS1 classic playable on modern hardware in September for the first time since the PlayStation 3 generation over a decade ago. Why did it take so long for Square Enix to bring back the beloved strategy spin-off? It might have had something...
Everything We Saw At Xbox's Big Summer 2025 Showcase
8.6.2025
Microsoft just concluded this year’s not-E3 festivities with a surprisingly great showcase that made up for all of the grim vibes and unfortunate shortcomings of Friday’s Summer Game Fest Live presentation. While the Xbox event wasn’t full of big first-party reveals, we saw plenty of neat-looking...
Final Fantasy Tactics Is One Of The Best Games Ever And It's Getting A Remake This September
4.6.2025
The rumors were true: Final Fantasy Tactics is getting a remake on modern platforms. The incredible PlayStation 1 strategy RPG will be graphically overhauled so new audiences can fall in love with its meaty combat systems and tragic storytelling all over again this September.Read more
Hitman Studio Finally Reveals A Bit More About Its Upcoming James Bond Game
2.6.2025
Hitman and Kane & Lynch developers IO Interactive have shared some more information about the studio’s long-awaited James Bond project. On June 2, IOI revealed that its upcoming James Bond game is going to be titled 007 First Light, and if you think that’s because this is a new origin story for...
Outriders Studio Blames Square Enix's 'Lack Of Communication' For New Game Being Put On Ice
2.6.2025
People Can Fly, best known for Bulletstorm and Outriders, has abandoned two of its in-development projects and blames Square Enix for at least one of them falling through. A triple-A blockbuster codenamed Gemini has been “suspended” due to a “lack of communication” from the Final Fantasy...
Everything You Need to Know To Get into Magic the Gathering's Final Fantasy Set
28.5.2025
Few game franchises can match the pedigree of Final Fantasy, but one that arguably comes close is the long-running trading card game Magic: the Gathering. Much like FF, Wizards of the Coast’s TCG has been around for decades, bringing in new players regularly and exciting existing ones continualy....
New Kingdom Hearts IV Screenshots Confirm Playable Mickey
15.5.2025
After canceling Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link, Square Enix has released some new screenshots of Kingdom Hearts IV to give fans proof of life. The company has been pretty quiet about the fourth entry in its Disney/Final Fantasy crossover RPG series since announcing it in 2022, and if you’ve got...
Final Fantasy Maker Cancels Kingdom Hearts Spin-Off As It Focuses On 'Quality Over Quantity'
14.5.2025
Square Enix has finally given up on its Pokémon GO-style mobile spin-off of Kingdom Hearts. The Final Fantasy publisher announced on Wednesday that it was cancelling Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link, which began development back in 2019, because it didn’t think it could deliver on the live-service...