It says a lot about the weary nature of gacha games that I’ve stepped back on my relatively idealistic outlook towards them in such little time. I was already wary of them even while trying to remain relatively optimist...

Granblue Fantasy: Relink from Japanese developer Cygames is shaping up to be one of the biggest RPGs of the year. The title, set in the same world as the massively popular Granblue Fantasy mobile game, has been in the works for a ...

Granblue Fantasy Project Re:Link was announced last year at the annual Granblue Fantasy FES, a convention dedicated to one of Japan's largest mobile games. When footage of the title reached the internet, I was immediately smitten as we...

Earlier this year at E3, I sat down with Cygames to talk about some of their upcoming projects. It was an odd meeting because, in truth, I couldn't talk about much of what I was shown. In the post I wrote about the meeting, I alluded to the...

When Nintendo first announced it would enter the mobile market, I thought it was going to do things differently. I thought the presence of arguably the greatest game developer ever would shake up the market and put an end to the dominance o...

As part of the PlayStation preview for the upcoming Tokyo Game Show 2018, CyGames released an exciting new trailer for their titan-slaying title Project Awakening.The epic new video sees a stoic medieval warrior take up sword-and-shield aga...

In a recent interview with Dengeki [translated by Siliconera] Konami and Cygames have expressed interest in creating a brand new Zone of the Enders game. Kenichi Kondo (Cygames' Project Manager) and Noriaki Okamura (2nd Runner - Mars Produc...

[Update: The show is over, but if you missed it you can catch it down below. It doesn't look too bad for a gacha game, one Nintendo is referring to as "free-to-start" but we'll have to make a final verdict after the game is released at the ...

Since the launch of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp last fall, Nintendo has been a bit quiet about its future mobile plans. We know Mario Kart World Tour is expected before next March and the company is teaming up with Cygames for Dr...

Characterizing the relationship between the fanbases of the Love Live! and [email protected] tends to veer between "beautiful friendship" and "vicious rivalry", depending whose social media feeds you follow, but mobile megagame Granblue ...

Cygames had a rather unassuming booth at this year's E3. Actually, "booth" would be the wrong word to describe it. It was a cubicle, hidden in plain sight with the other cubicles that filled the concourse of the Los Angeles Convention Cente...

From John Romero's head in Doom to kicking the asses of the head honchos for both Square Enix and PlatinumGames in Nier: Automata, the phenomenon of game creators cameoing in their own work has a long and storied history. Add to that c...

What can you do when you run a disgustingly popular and profitable mobile game? Almost anything you like, apparently. That seems to be the logic driving the latest event in Cygames' Granblue Fantasy, which sees its skybound fantasy setting ...