The Latest Breaking News from Nobuo Uematsu

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PC Gamer · Feb 8

"Square had a kind of recklessness at that time": During Final Fantasy 9's development, the team moved to Hawaii without "a solid plan," and some even splashed out on themed license plates

"I thought 'why did I get a license plate as simplistic as FF9?'"

GamesRadar · Jan 7

Legendary Final Fantasy composer can't listen to his own music because he's "too embarrassed," but as a "medieval nerd," he was "pleased" with Final Fantasy 9's direction

"You have to admire medieval fantasy"

GamesRadar · Jan 7

Final Fantasy composer shares concern about 'stagnation' in game music: 'Frankly speaking, there’s less weird things now'

"I believe directors and producers hold too much power in their hands even when it comes to the music."

PC Gamer · Sep 13, 2025

The original Final Fantasy launched with a game-breaking bug that Square noticed too late to fix, so devs had to slip a warning into 500,000 copies of the JRPG: "Do not delete this..."

"If this happens, the game will break"

GamesRadar · Aug 18, 2025

Before it was Square Enix, Square "collapsed" when Final Fantasy boss Hironobu Sakaguchi left the company, says composer Nobuo Uematsu: "The situation at Square was awful after he quit"

"Maybe Sakaguchi isn’t aware of this, but the situation at Square was awful after he quit"

GamesRadar · Jun 25, 2025

Final Fantasy 14 composer Masayoshi Soken discusses his work and reveals why he'd love to make a horror game soundtrack: 'I have the desire to face that challenge'

Final Fantasy 14 composer Masayoshi Soken talks to us about making music for the popular MMORPG as well as the series’ 16th mainline entry.

TechRadar · Apr 19, 2025

Final Fantasy legends Nobuo Uematsu and Masayoshi Soken reunite to turn one of the greatest wrestlers ever into the ultimate final boss

Babe, wake up: new raid boss theme from Soken just dropped at Wrestle Dynasty

GamesRadar · Jan 6, 2025

Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi reportedly reuniting once more with JRPG legend Nobuo Uematsu on a new unnamed game 38 years after their first collaboration

It's in development at Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey studio Mistwalker

GamesRadar · Nov 1, 2024

Legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu is "not retiring" after his next JRPG Fantasian Neo Dimension, but taking more time for "the music I want to make"

"Everybody calm down!"

GamesRadar · Oct 15, 2024