AfterClimate, a research and advisory firm “with a mission to decarbonize the gaming industry,” have this week published the results their Game Industry Net Zero 2022 Snapshot.” It is a report that takes an in-depth look at how most of the world’s largest video game companies are responding to the impending climate crisis. The good ...
picture: DeusExGo For a while, Square Enix gave Montreal (later renamed Onoma) made some of the best mobile puzzle games of all time. Hitman Go, Lara Croft Go and DeusExGo were three of the most sophisticated and challenging games you could play on your phone, and all have perished as classics of the genre. Unfortunately, ...
Image: Square Enix There have been a lot of RPG releases this year, but we’re not done just yet. Before the end of 2022, Square Enix is releasing Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion on multiple platforms including the Switch. Ahead of next month’s launch on December 13th, the Japanese video game company has released ...
In the past 24 hours, a number of people – including a Square Enix employee – have been arrested in Japan for insider trading dragon quest game announcement. Legendary Sega designer Yuji Naka is now reportedly on board among them. The scandal revolves around a studio called Aiming, announced in 2020 as the developer of ...
Image: Square Enix This week saw Square Enix release Tactics Ogre: Reborn on the Nintendo Switch and multiple other platforms. If you haven’t already got around to playing this one, here’s another reason why you should check it out. As highlighted by user ‘solwhitehorn’ on the Nintendo Switch subredditthe game actually supports mouse and keyboard ...
Medieval fantasy game Blacktail, the debut of Kraków studio The Parasight, lets you play as the fairy tale witch Baba Yaga in her bow and arrow carrying youth. You decide her fate, whether she is a good witch or a bad witch, depending on how you navigate the magical, dangerous forest she roams. “When vivid ...
Image: Square Enix It’s already been quite an exciting month in the world of video games, and if Sonic and Pokémon weren’t already enough Square Enix has also today released Tactics Ogre: Reborn, based on the classic series of the same name. We’ve already had some positive early impressions and now we’ve got a round ...
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 ...
