"Aww, you'll get scars but you'll [learn to cope]. Part of the fun!" Sean Diaz is told this early into Life is Strange 2: Episode 3 by a peer who's talking about literal scars from their illegal employment trimming marijuana buds. But,...

Due to a rather unfortunate slip-up in the Nintendo Switch and Xbox One ports of Final Fantasy VII, the music restarts after every single random encounter with enemies. The issue appeared in the game's Steam release, and folks were dismayed...

With only a few more weeks to go before PC players can dig into Octopath Traveler, Square Enix has revealed the price of the port and opened pre-orders. HD-2D art doesn't come cheap – the throwback JRPG is going to command $60 on Stea...

While Lyle continues to take the biggest bath, here's the dirty deeds going down in video games: Epic Games will be sponsoring the PC gaming show at E3! Final Fantasy VII Remake got a new trailer! Bubsy is getting another game for some re...

Delisted videos. Missing social media accounts. A landing page that redirects to the publisher's main website. If these sound like signs that a game is easing itself out of existence, you'd be right. Two years ago, we learned about an all-n...

Square Enix has announced that its dramatic android adventure NieR: Automata is still continuing to pull in new sales, with the 2017 title having hit the four million global shipments/sales milestone.The action RPG, which tells an emotive s...

Square Enix's financials look a little Goofy. The Japanese publisher had a weak fiscal year despite a release slate that was headlined by the long-awaited Kingdom Hearts III. Sales aren't the issue, though. The costs associated with getting...

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is nearly six years old at this point. Let that sink in for a moment. Director/producer Naoki "Yoshi P" Yoshida has been at this for a while, shipping two expansions for the massive project while touri...

Just in case you were somehow holding out hope that the Final Fantasy VII Remake wasn't going to be episodic anymore, Square Enix has dashed your hopes again. Despite the fact that it was announced as episodic after its reveal, and the...

Savor it, because the opportunity only comes along every once in a blue moon. During this afternoon's PlayStation State of Play, Square Enix gave us another look at the Final Fantasy VII remake. The newest revelation? There will be mo...

[Update: They actually did it. Square Enix showed new footage of Final Fantasy VII.] Sony's State of Play (think Nintendo Direct, Inside Xbox) will air later this evening, and Square Enix is getting in on the speculative fun. Just this week...

Final Fantasy XIV has been around for a long time now; it has been nine years since it first launched, and six years since A Realm Reborn replaced the original. Square Enix has a new strategy to earn back some lapsed players. Fro...

Square Enix has announced plans to expand it's biggest non-Japan divisions, namely Square Enix Montreal and Eidos Montreal. The expansion will bring new facilities to the studios as well as open up approximately 100 new jobs on the workforc...

When Kingdom Hearts III arrived earlier this year in January, there was already a lot of uncertainty on the table. A lot of people didn't even believe that it would hit its release target, much less provide any sort of DLC update anytime so...

Square Enix is stepping into some big shoes at E3 2019. In the absence of Sony and PlayStation at E3, Square Enix has foregone its usual Monday morning spot and is instead shifting to Monday evening. You know, the time when PlayStation usua...

It feels like it has been a while since Life is Strange 2's second episode released, and that's kind of the case. Rules came out in January, four months after the initial episode. Now, it's about time for the next installment. Li...

Square Enix will be releasing an update for Kingdom Hearts III tomorrow that adds back the series' patented "Critical" difficulty option. A step above the current hard mode, it should provide a suitable challenge for series veterans and any...

Remember Project 10 Dollar/online passes, circa 2010? They were a draconian concept primarily adopted by EA, Sony, and WB (among others) that would provide a content code (or strip something crucial out to sell as a bonus) for new copi...

Have you ever been enraptured by a single image from a video game? Just one shot, one minuscule slice of a final product that you just can't take eyes off of, that lives in your brain for days or even weeks after? I've had my fair share. Th...

Square Enix has announced a symphonic concert centered around one of the most beloved video games of all-time. Final Fantasy VII: A Symphonic Reunion, will take place at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles on June 9 and is a celebration of the...

For those of you still elbows-deep in the carnage of Avalanche Studios' Just Cause 4, the team has released a trailer showcasing a new addition of explosive mayhem, headed to the title at the end of the month. Dare Devils of Destruction is...

Octopath Traveler will be arriving on PC on June 7, just over a month shy of one-year exclusivity on Switch. This whole thing kind of came out of nowhere due to a Korean rating board entry, but once the cat was out of the bag it didn't take...

First comes the rating, then the reveal. Or something like that. These things aren't set in stone. Octopath Traveler popped up on Korea's rating board in a listing that suggested a PC port of the Nintendo Switch JRPG was likely imminent. No...

Hideo Minaba is one of the most talented artists in Square Enix history. While Yoshitaka Amano's beautiful works (particularly his concept art for Final Fantasy VI) are circulated most frequently, you've no doubt seen Minaba's art as well. ...

While chatting with USGamer, a representative of Eidos Montreal has expressed pleasure with the performance of last year's Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the third title Lara Croft's adventure series since she made her grand return in 2013.Spea...