A new minor update is out for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth that addresses a progression bug impacting a quest needed to claim a PlayStation trophy - preventing some completionists from their Platinum trophy. It involves a quest chain players can undertake upon their return to the Gold Saucer in Chapter 12. The quest requires a player to achieve a specific number of points in the G-Bike minigame, and it appears it was not functioning correctly between the last minor update and now. Players who want to progress this quest after the update will need to play G-Bike and obtain the requisite score agai ..read more

The benchmark for Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail will arrive on Sunday, April 14th at midnight Pacific time. This application will allow PC players to test their current specs performance ahead of the fifth expansion's launch on July 2, 2024. This comes ahead of a massive graphics update that the team highlighted during the latest Letter from the Producer Live broadcast which provided more in-game footage of how the game's areas and models would look following Patch 7.0. The update has also led to the team increasing the minimum requirements for the game, with a recent revision to the CPU to acco ..read more

In the 80th Letter from the Producer Live broadcast, the Final Fantasy XIV team talked at length about the upcoming graphics update to the game in the Dawntrail expansion. This time around, we got a closer look at how areas old and new will look after the update is implemented, as well as some of the graphics settings you can adjust. We also learned more about new features being added to the blacklist function, including the ability to mute players and prevent them from entering your estate. The team also shared the upcoming schedule until the Dawntrail expansion, which will see a multitude of ..read more

Visions of Mana has a new trailer out, highlighting some of the features found in the newest entry in the long-running action RPG series. Here were see the party travelling through the "semi-open" world on foot and on pikul-back - creatures resembling a corgi and a pangolin designed by Mana series creator Koichi Ishii. The protagonist Val is seen battling alongside Morley, a cat man wielding a sword, and a young woman named Careena with a dragon wing and a flammie companion. They are joined by Hinna, a young woman who is tasked with a pilgrimage to the Mana Tree. Using the power of the Element ..read more

A demo for SaGa Emerald Beyond will arrive at midnight local time on Thursday, April 4, 2024 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch. The Steam version is scheduled for 9:00am Pacific the same day. The demo comes mere weeks away from the game's official launch on April 25th, and will let you carry save progress into the retail version. Based on your platform of choice, the demo will include three different protagonists. PlayStation users will get Tsunanori Mido, Nintendo Switch gets Ameya Aisling, and Steam gets Diva No. 5. The latest tile in the SaGa series, Emerald Beyond is a ..read more

Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis has a new story that's available April 3rd, 2024. Titled "On the Road", this is the sixth chapter of the scenario that adapts the original Final Fantasy VII into the smartphone RPG. As Cloud and company travel the world in pursuit of Sephiroth, they find themselves in the Corel Region's Costa del Sol resort town and eventually make their way to the glittering Gold Saucer and the desolate Corel Prison. It's here they meet the game's newest playable character: Cait Sith. This update includes a new, third Limit Break for each character that must be unlocked by fulfil ..read more

In a report posted today by IGN's senior reporter Rebekah Valentine, which we highly recommend that you read in its entirety multiple sources within Life is Strange True Colors developer Deck Nine (published by Square Enix) have described their troubled experiences dealing with toxic co-workers and management. Deck Nine has also provided a response, which is included in Valentine's story. These sources also state there were several situations in which hate symbols were found hidden in the game and, when reported, management was slow to react. Alongside accounts of a low pay, difficulty in gett ..read more

In the latest update for SaGa Emerald Beyond, we get a look at yet another protagonist you can choose for your adventure: Diva No. 5. She's a mech that's a popular singer and dancer in the royal city of Avalon, where industry has rapidly developed. But, once she sings a forbidden song, Diva No. 5 loses her memory and her ability to sing. She abandons her humanoid body and leaves Avalon. Diva No. 5 joins the National Extradimensional Exploratory Task Force headed by Constantine, her former manager, and encounters other characters that will join her retinue. Mechs are also a special type of unit ..read more

Square Enix released a new 5.77 GB update for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth tonight, which features some fixes and adjustments to the game's performance and gameplay systems. Here's a look at the patch notes for Version 1.020: Corrected typograhical errors and omissions in some text. Fixed an issue with the player-controlled character that occurs under certain conditions on the map. Fixed an issue where Red XIII's abilities 'Supernal Fervor' and 'Watcher's Spirit' could be easily cancelled during battle. Fixed an issue where enemies could stop moving in certain conditions during battle. Fixed a pr ..read more

Final Fantasy XIV 6.58 is available to download today for Windows PC, Mac, PlayStation 4/5, and Xbox Series. This patch is a bit of small one, to bookend some of the endgame content released in the latter stages of the post-Endwalker era. Restrictions on items to upgrade gear have been eased, as is customary over time, including the removal of weekly lockouts on items obtained from Thaleia or Pandaemonium: Anabaseios. The team has also buffed the amount of tomestones you can get from Wondrous Tails, and the EXP that your Trust AI companions can earn as you raise their levels by take them throu ..read more