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In its first major visual overhaul ever, RPG Maker will soon let you make games in the style of Octopath Traveler

The distinctive RPG Maker look is finally evolving.

PC Gamer

Final Fantasy 14's Japanese age rating gets a bump, and it's all because of screenshots

Square Enix has adjusted the rating "to maintain the freedom of Group Pose."

PC Gamer

For the first time ever, Square Enix is crowned top publisher on Metacritic thanks to its 2025 run of remakes like Final Fantasy Tactics and Dragon Quest 1+2

While Nintendo failed to crack the top 10 in Switch 2's launch year

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77% of US Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth players were 30 or older, analyst says, as Square Enix fights to get young people to care about the JRPG series again

62% were over 35

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Square Enix plans to add Google gen AI to Dragon Quest 10 so a chatbot called "Oshaberi Slimey" can call your outfit ugly in real time: "No thanks"

Keep it to yourself

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Final Fantasy 14 boss man Yoshi-P says younger players "haven't really had the chance to connect" with the JRPG series as "the release intervals for new titles have gotten longer"

"The recent entries in the series may have been harder to engage with" for younger gamers, says Yoshi-P

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Life is Strange: Reunion includes licensed tracks by Daughter and Girl in Red, full tracklist revealed

One last time with feelings.

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Square Enix shadowdrops Bravely Default onto Xbox and PC — I'm so happy to see this classic JRPG finally escape Nintendo's prison for other platforms

Out of nowhere, Square Enix has announced that it's releasing another classic JRPG from its backlog onto Xbox and PC, the turn-based throwback to early Final Fantasy games called Bravely Default.

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Nier Automata's Yoko Taro thinks his generation of directors has "a lot of weirdos", himself included, because "games weren't mainstream like they are now"

But those oddball qualities could make for better game directors

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Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster, a hi-def update of the 2012 Silicon Studio classic, shadow-drops on Steam

A Switch 2 exclusive no more.

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2 words were all it took for the Octopath Traveler team's new Zelda-like action RPG throwback to shoot to the top of my most wanted list: "Cat collecting"

"Different cats have different tastes"

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Nier: Automata creator Yoko Taro sees it "as a form of respect" when devs "say outright that they copied" his action RPG, but he's not sure "how Square Enix would feel about that"

"I'm happy when people say they were influenced by Nier: Automata"

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake director reveals new part 3 details: Rocket Town is back, Wutai is "one of the main locations," and the Highwind airship is "a very large part" of the JRPG finale

"If Wutai's not featured, I think the fans are going to yell at me"

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Despite being 23 years old and having Final Fantasy 14 to contend with, Final Fantasy 11 is locking off one of its biggest servers due to overpopulation

The MMO's third server lockdown in less than a year

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24-year-old FFXI is restricting new sign-ups again because of popularity

Quarter-of-a-decade-old MMO is suffering from success.

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"Every AAA single player game since Bioshock is basically the same collection of fetch quests," says ex-Square Enix suit, while Roblox games evolve "as fast as Tiktok trends" and create "overnight millionaires"

"Unclear to me what stops Roblox from being a trillion dollar company in the future"

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Another Final Fantasy 14 news blog shuts down as admin cites "weight of responsibility" following accusations of defamatory content towards the MMO's devs

"I sincerely apologize"

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"We sincerely apologize": Final Fantasy 14 news blog goes down as Square Enix takes action against its admin for allegedly defamatory content against the MMO's devs

The company says its priority is its employees' safety

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Every Life is Strange game you need to play before Life is Strange: Reunion

One last time for the partners in time.

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New Final Fantasy 14 Live Letter dedicated to the MMO's 7.5 update is set for next month, and fans are hoping for the long-awaited Beastmaster job

Square Enix promises a "first look" at the patch's "exciting new features"

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"Square Enix, hire us, I'm not joking," says team of Final Fantasy modders who gave Final Fantasy 7 new voice acting and audio, because "we must fix" the JRPG's busted new PC version

"Let us help you"

PC Gamer

Modders file a Square Enix job application after it ballses up yet another FF7 release: 'Let us help you'

If you want something done right…

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Nier fans have zero expectations as Square Enix teases Automata will "be continued": "It's probably some merch or some bulls**t"

People have grown wary of false hope

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3's Ultimate Weapon design may have just been shown off in a free-to-play spin-off

Ever Crisis is still going

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Nier Automata "to be continued," Square Enix says, giving stunned fans some hope as the Yoko Taro-led JRPG flies past 10 million copies sold

Nier Automata 2B continued

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