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Catherine Lewis

As Final Fantasy 16 players face crashes, mysterious black squares, and a flood of eternal darkness after the recent PS5 system update, Square Enix and Sony vow to find a cure

Final Fantasy 16 protagonist Clive uses magic in closeup screenshot.

Final Fantasy 16 is going through it right now, as the hit RPG has suddenly become plagued with graphical glitches and crashes - and it doesn't even seem to result from an update to the game itself. 

Instead, these issues have all surfaced following last week's PS5 system software update. Of course, this update shouldn't have had anything to do with Final Fantasy 16 - it rolled out some new features for the console itself. However, since then, confused FF16 players have been sharing clips and screenshots of Clive being enveloped by darkness, while others have reported frequent crashes.

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