Male, female and cool hat. All genders are considered. screenshot: Square Enix / Kotaku It shouldn’t be a big request from gamers to have more gendered pronoun options in a video game, especially RPGs. A producer at Square Enix feels helping gamers feel welcome by including non-binary pronouns is such a small request that making ...
Image: Nintendo Life / Square Enix Crashing onto the scene back in 2017, NieR:Automata was a breakthrough moment for Yoko Taro. Though the director gained infamy for the Drakengard series — including the original NieR on PS3 and Xbox 360 — and his unusual interviews, Automata is the game that truly put him and his ...
screenshot: Square Enix / Kotaku Two weeks ago, Square Enix released a new story trailer for its upcoming RPG. Final Fantasy XVI. There’s just one noticeable problem – there doesn’t seem to be a single non-white character in it. So IGN asked producer Naoki Yoshida about whether or not the game would feature black people ...
A new RPG adventure begins February 2023. Perhaps one of the more surprising announcements in the recent September Direct was the reveal of Octopath Traveler II – a follow-up to Square Enix’s successful HD-2D role-playing game from 2018. If you are eager to see more, you’re in luck – with Square Enix today releasing an ...
picture: Square Enix Embracer Group hits both gamers and their developers with a double whammy today by announcing that they will be shutting down Onoma. Corresponding Bloomberg, staff at the recently rebranded Onoma studio were briefed on the closure during a meeting on Tuesday. About 200 employees are reported to be affected by the closure. ...
Can I uhhhh… get a happy ending?illustration: Square Enix When a game’s online servers are down, players typically don’t get a chance to step out in a confident glow of glory before the final dawn arrives. But then again, most games don’t have the bizarre kidney Creator, Yoko Taro, as its director. The game in ...
Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube We are now but a few short weeks away from the official launch of Tactics Ogre: Reborn on 11th November, 2022and Square Enix is making one last push to ensure that our excitement is kept at a tip-top level. The studio has released the game’s ‘Final Trailer’ (we expect ...
picture: GameStop / Jazplus / Kelly Toys Holdings / Kotaku / Ethan Miller (Getty Images) As my box Last week, retail giant GameStop reported increasingly to fill its retail stores with weird, random junk instead of, well, video games. Dissatisfied GameStop employees are grumbling online about the massive quantities of toys the warehouses are shipping. ...
Physical game manuals are hard to come by these days, especially as the industry begins to focus heavily on cloud streaming and digital-first infrastructure. But if you remember the good old days, when game boxes came with clunky booklets you could peruse before plunging into your final purchase, a The game protector named Kirkland is ...
Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Last month, it was discovered Disney was planning on releasing an animated series based on Kingdom Hearts in 2003. The same veteran animator Seth Kearsley, who uploaded cast notes and even script segments of the axed project, has now revealed the full pilot animatic (a series of storyboard sequences) ...
