It's time to crown the best of the best competitive players in MLB The Show 21. Our final tournaments of the year give eligible players the chance to win millions of Stubs and compete in two events for $75,000 combined in total cash prizing. Fall Circuit The MLB The Show 21 Fall Circuit consists of […]
Tokyo Game Show 2021 concluded over the weekend, and we're still learning great nuggets of information from the various streams and interviews during the event. One highlight was a Famitsu-hosted interview with Naoki Yoshida and Hironobu Sakaguchi, two developers who represent the present and past of the Final Fantasy series, respectively. Yoshida is currently heading the development of Final Fantasy XVI and has been the driving force behind the resurrection of Final Fantasy XIV Online since A Realm Reborn. Sakaguchi is, of course, the creator of Final Fantasy and has most recently released the mobile RPG Fantasian.
Some news slipped about Final Fantasy XVI when the topic switched to why Sakaguchi and Yoshida were drawn to the RPG genre. Yoshida questions what to even call Final Fantasy XVI since so many games have RPG elements. He reveals that Final Fantasy XVI has an "expansive" skill tree. After mentioning the one present in Fantasian, a skill tree that gives players the sense of the game opening up for character growth, Yoshida says XVI has something similar.
Also mentioned in the discussion, Yoshida confirms the scenario for FFXVI is complete, and the team is working on finishing side quests and working on the 3D models. He brings up the team's small size during scenario planning and the ramp-up in staff needed when building the rest of the game. Sakaguchi presses him lightly for a time frame for release, but unfortunately, Yoshida holds that bit of information back. Thanks for putting on the journalist hat for a minute, Sakaguchi. We appreciate the effort.
Check out the rest of the interview in the video above to watch an interesting conversation between two game dev luminaries who happen to sit on opposite ends of one of gaming's biggest franchises.
Earlier this year, Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town had released on the Nintendo Switch. It was released in Japan and Asia on February 25th, followed by North America on March 25th and Europe on March 26th. Since then, the game also released on PC via Steam just a couple of weeks ago. Well, […]
It's time to crown the best of the best competitive players in MLB The Show 21. Our final tournaments of the year give eligible players the chance to win millions of Stubs and compete in two events for $75,000 combined in total cash prizing. Fall Circuit The MLB The Show 21 Fall Circuit consists of […]
Steel Assault seems almost engineered to catch your eye the second it crosses your feed. Each pixelated scene looks at once like generic retro-gaming fodder while also bursting with vibrant colors, as if someone smashed a gumball machine and then used the pieces to craft a side-scrolling action game for the Game Boy…
Facebook could not be more down right now. As the world gets a taste of the alternative reality where Mark Zuckerberg played sports in college, we're also learning just how much of our lives are entangled in the Facebook empire. As far as gaming goes, if you were hoping to pick up that new game on Oculus VR, you might…
Last week, Square Enix released yet another trailer for Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, its upcoming Souls-like prequel to the original Final Fantasy. And while the project continues to look great, English-speaking fans apparently missed out on some more aggressive references to Chaos, the Stranger of…
Within my first two deaths I was certain Halo Infinite was doing something right. In that short span of time I identified the nearest power weapon, the skewer (which is also the best gun ever put in a video game), and ran for it. I jumped into one of Halo's signature man-cannons, which launched me across the map…
Accessibility options for games, big and small, have become a more frequent topic of conversation in the last few years. Even just recently, Destiny 2 is adding a full-auto mode while EA are sharing their accesibility feature patents. Depending on what features you need access to though, it can still be a chore to find out exactly what options a game will support. The recently launched Accessible Games Database aims to help catalog games by a list of different accessibility features. It's launched with over 140 games logged so far, and the creators say they're planning to add more every day.
It's rare to see big discounts on high capacity SSDs, especially when the SSDs in question are also super-fast PCIe 4.0 models - but that's exactly what's happening for today only over at Amazon. PNY's XLR CS3040, a model compatible with both PC and PS5, has been discounted $230 for a massive 4TB size. That cuts the price of the drive down from a whopping $750 to a still significant (but much more reasonable) $520, a 31% discount.
Ah, the Wii. A classic console that instills nostalgia in the hearts of millions. Being one of the best-selling consoles of all time, it's no wonder so many hits came out of this beloved platform. Let's take a look at the casual system with a casual library full of fun for countless, casual game nights. […]
The official ToeJam & Earl Twitter account shared a post today asking fans for their opinions: what types of games would you want for the franchise for its upcoming 30th anniversary? The ToeJam & Earl series turns 30 years old this week; the first game originally released back in October 1991 on the Genesis. The […]
Publisher Microids and developer Blazing Griffin have prepared a launch trailer for Agatha Christie – Hercule Poirot: The First Cases. The Switch title, starring a young Hercule Poirot, is a new detective and adventure game. Here's some additional information: Discover an untold crime story from the mysterious youth of the famous detective Hercule Poirot. In his early years as a...
Atlus has shared a new batch of details and screenshots for Shin Megami Tensei V for characters, demons, Da'at, and various systems like Miman, quests, and difficulty settings. Much of this was covered in the latest video report. Here's the full rundown: Characters The protagonist must cooperate with Bethel's Tokyo Branch to protect the city, however, demons representing Bethel Branches...
Twenty years of being online is a major milestone for any MMORPG, and you can be rest assured that Dark Age of Camelot will be offering up plenty of celebratory events as the game has hit the twenty year mark as of this month. Until then, however, players can reap some big tasty bonuses to […]
October is the spookiest month of the year, but it's a lighter month for Final Fantasy XI patches this time around. The official preview of the patch doesn't disguise this fact, of course; players are being told outright that the game is taking this month off from the Voracious Resurgence storyline in part to prepare for […]
The Game Boy Advance is often criticised for having hosted far too many ports of classic SNES titles – but when it came to the Castlevania series it was no slouch. Instead of just bringing Super Castlevania to the handheld and being done with it Konami instead released three all-new adventures on the system. And […]
