The Latest Breaking News from Naoki Yoshida

'FFXIV: Dawntrail' Is Bringing Massive Changes to Jobs

'Final Fantasy XIV's Dawntrail' expansion is bringing sweeping changes to nearly every job, and it's clear Square Enix wants it to be a fresh reset for the MMO.

Inverse · May 16, 2024

Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P says the ongoing DDoS problems are the 'largest scale' attacks seen since the game's original 2010 launch

Sporadic attacks have been hitting servers worldwide since early May.

PC Gamer · May 16, 2024

Here's why Final Fantasy 14's upgraded characters looked so bad in its Benchmark test, and how Square Enix is improving them for 7.0's launch

It's all down to lighting issues

GamesRadar · May 16, 2024

Final Fantasy 14 and 16 big cheese Yoshi-P says 'It's probably about time' they do a new Final Fantasy Tactics game

What do you mean? It's only been 17 years.

PC Gamer · Apr 7, 2024

As Final Fantasy 14's visual overhaul nears, the Elder Scrolls MMO developers acknowledge improved technology is really important

"We do run on a somewhat aging engine"

GamesRadar · Apr 5, 2024

A demo for Final Fantasy 16 is reportedly coming to PC soon, as producer Yoshi-P says work on the port is 'going smoother than we thought it would'

Still no confirmation of a release date, however.

PC Gamer · Mar 29, 2024

Final Fantasy 16 on high-end PCs will have better performance than PS5, but the producer encourages users to try the demo first

Final Fantasy 16's producer Naoki Yoshida has offered some insight into the game's PC performance benchmark.

TechRadar · Mar 27, 2024

10 years ago, Final Fantasy 14's hard-fought revival was nearly derailed by an infamous boss who Yoshi-P says made 300,000 defeated players drop the MMO

No one liked Titan's Extreme brawl

GamesRadar · Mar 27, 2024

Square Enix's Yoshi-P hints that 'Final Fantasy XVI' could come to Xbox after the Windows PC version is done

In a recent interview at Pax East 2024 with Noisy Pixel, Yoshi-P, and Takeo Kujiraoka look back on Final Fantasy XVI and discuss plans of porting the game to other platforms beyond the PlayStation 5 and PC.

Windows Central · Mar 25, 2024

'I'll give you one week!' FF14's director Yoshi-P wanted to start Dawntrail's early access period earlier, but then that pesky Elden Ring DLC announcement happened

Yeah, that'd do it.

PC Gamer · Mar 25, 2024