Tag: Square Enix
News Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 Named Revelation, Job System Gameplay Blows Minds
Spring 2027 release
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation... it does have a nice ring to it. This is the official name of the third game in Square Enix's remade trilogy, and as many fans speculated, it's very open. Cloud and the party have access to the Highwind airship here, which allows you to zip all around the world. You can then jump off the vehicle...
Rumour Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 Reveal Is a Lock for Summer Game Fest
Cloudy forecast
We'll finally get to see Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 this week, if a reliable insider's tip is to be believed. Responding to another user's query on Reddit, prevalent games industry whisperer Nate the Hate says that he's "heard" Part 3 will be present at Summer Game Fest — which is happening this Friday. It wou
News Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Cheats Live Now in New PS5 Patch
Another set of streamlined progression features
Just as it did upon the Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2 ports of Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Square Enix has today updated Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth on PS5 with the selection of cheats the other two consoles get with their new versions. An update is live now on PS5, and having downloaded it, you shall...
News Dragon Quest Monsters Finally Drops Nintendo Exclusivity with a New PS5 Game
The Withered World awaits
An all-new Dragon Quest Monsters game has been announced, and it's "coming soon" to PS5. The intriguingly titled Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World is actually called Dragon Quest Monsters 4 in Japan, so it's another mainline entry and not some kind of spin-off. As the headline of this article suggests, it's been a...
News Dragon Quest 12 Renamed and Re-Revealed After Development Restart, First Gameplay Shown
But it's still a long way off
Dragon Quest 12: The Flames of Fate no longer exists. The next mainline instalment in the decades-old franchise was announced years back, but executive producer Yosuke Saito has confirmed that the project ran into quite a lot of trouble. Basically, development was scrapped, and the whole thing was restarted. The...
News Dragon Quest's 40th Anniversary Show Confirmed, But It's Only 10 Minutes Long
Short and hopefully sweet
As promised, Square Enix will host a broadcast in celebration of Dragon Quest's 40th anniversary this week. It's happening on the 27th May at 6am PT / 9am ET / 2pm BST / 3pm CEST, so the good news is that I won't be staying up all night to catch it. The show will be available in Japanese and in English via subtitles. It's...
Rumour Dragon Quest Has Multiple Major Reveals Lined Up for Its Big Day This Week
The quest continues
Dragon Quest Day is almost upon us, and if fresh rumours are to be believed, the annual celebration is going to be one heck of a blowout. The big day is happening this week, on the 27th May. To be clear, this was always going to be an important showing because it's the franchise's 40th anniversary — but the hype is now...
News Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Dev Regrets Brutal PS5 Platinum Trophy
Now considers it "excessive" in hindsight
Don't worry, Balaam_, the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi hears you: the requirements for the game's Platinum Trophy were far too unreasonable. In an interview with Restart.Run, Hamaguchi was asked what he wished he'd done differently during the development of the game, and the Trophy list...
Hands On The Adventures of Elliot Fixes My Biggest Problem with Square Enix's Modern RPGs
Pace race
A lot of you reading this won't agree, but I think almost every single 'smaller' RPG that Square Enix has released over the last decade or so suffers from the same problem: bad pacing. To be fair, this isn't just a Square Enix problem. Modern gaming in general seriously struggles to tell well-paced stories thanks to the rise of open world...
News Play One of Square Enix's Most Promising PS5 RPGs Right Now with a Free Demo
Sword and hopefully not bored
I absolutely hate the name, but there's no denying the potential within The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales. If you haven't been keeping up, this is a new action RPG from Square Enix, which boasts that (admittedly quite tired) HD-2D graphical style. It's from the same team that made the Octopath Traveler...
News Is It Almost Dragon Quest 12 Time? Pray to Yuji Horii and the Big Slime in the Sky
Livestream planned for this month
A 40th anniversary Dragon Quest livestream will take place later this month, on 27th May – and everyone’s praying for a Dragon Quest 12: The Flames of Fate update. In a YouTube video which has since been delisted, series creator Yuji Horii confirmed: “We’ll be doing a livestream on 27th May. I think...
News Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 Could Take the Story Even Further with DLC
Depending on player demand
Square Enix hasn't ruled out the idea of expanding upon the Final Fantasy 7 Remake saga even further, with the concept of DLC for Part 3 being floated around by director Naoki Hamaguchi. Our knee-jerk reaction to this is that the developer is already stretching Final Fantasy 7's story beats to breaking point by splitting...
News Final Fantasy 7 Remake Dev Says He's Beaten Part 3 Over 40 Times Already
Yeah, alright mate, if you say so
Finishing an RPG like Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth just once takes a considerable amount of time and effort, so the fact that director Naoki Hamaguchi reckons he's completed "over 40 full playthroughs" of Part 3 is eye-opening to say the least. Despite the fact the final title in the remake project from Square Enix is...
News Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 Reveal Being Prepared, Says Square Enix
Its preparations are "steadily underway"
Members of the Final Fantasy VII Remake development team have done another media blast this week, as Square Enix readies Final Fantasy VII Rebirth for Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2. Many of the interviews focus on the porting process from PS5 to the other consoles, but director Naoki Hamaguchi still...
News Final Fantasy X Turns 25 This Summer, as Square Enix Opens Special Website
Blitzballin'
Here's one that's got to make you feel old: Final Fantasy X is celebrating its 25th anniversary this summer. The beloved RPG, which first launched for the PS2 back in 2001, will be a quarter of a century old on the 19th July. And to help drum up some hype, Square Enix has opened a new website. At the time of writing, said website's...
News PowerWash Simulator's Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider DLC Packs Are Going Down the Drain
About a month left to claim them
Developer FuturLab has announced that some DLC packs for the original PowerWash Simulator will soon be going away. The first game, which was published by Square Enix, received two free expansions based on Final Fantasy and Tomb Raider; these DLCs are set to expire in just over a month's time, on 19th May 2026...
News First PowerWash Sim 2 DLC Has You Clean Up Adventure Time Locations
Out on PS5 now for £6.49 / $7.99
The first premium PowerWash Simulator 2 expansion is available now on PS5, priced at £6.49/$7.99. The initial pack is themed around Adventure Time and adds an additional five levels to the scrubbing experience. Catch a look in the trailer above. An all-new narrative ties together the following five locations that...
Review Life Is Strange: Reunion (PS5) - Twee Mystery Finale Falls Flat
In another life
The Life Is Strange series comes to its supposed end with Life Is Strange: Reunion, a quasi-sequel to the 2015 original, and a full-on sequel to 2024’s Life Is Strange: Double Exposure. However, its commitment to either of those prior games is a little inconsistent, leading to a disappointingly flat and messy finale. We’d say...
Feature I Played Kingdom Hearts for the Very First Time, Here's What I Liked and What I Didn't
Gawrsh
It's difficult to pinpoint the precise reason why I thought it would be a good idea to play Kingdom Hearts. Generally speaking, I've always found it hard to engage with RPGs, which I tend to put down to how long they take to play, and their often complex fantasy worlds that, to my mind, are quite cookie-cutter. That's how it feels from the...
Rumour Final Fantasy 9 PS5 Remake Development Is 'On Ice' Right Now
Square Enix casts Blizzara
The long-rumoured remake of fan-favourite RPG Final Fantasy 9 is currently "on ice", according to a well-known leaker. NateTheHate, speaking on the latest episode of his podcast, reveals what he claims to know about Square Enix's still-unannounced project. "The last update I had on it is that the game is still on ice,"...
News As the Series Turns 24, Fans Are Asked to Wait One More Year for a Kingdom Hearts 4 Update
"Thank you for your support"
Recently, Kingdom Hearts turned 24 years old, and it's left fans hungrier than ever for news on what comes next. Square Enix's beloved RPG franchise, which blends together Disney worlds and characters with over-the-top anime antics, got its start on 28th March 2002. It's been hugely successful, with many games...
Arcadia wahey
Life Is Strange: Reunion currently looks poised to buck the trend of recent releases in Square Enix’s narrative series, as the title has rushed to an 85 on Metacritic. Just for context here, the publisher didn’t send any pre-release review code out to media, citing spoilers as one of the reasons. We received our copy on launch...
News If You're Playing Final Fantasy Games on PS5, There's a Good Chance You're Old
Old man yells at Cloud
Square Enix always attaches absurd expectations to its Final Fantasy franchise, and rarely ever seems to be happy with how the series sells. Recently it completely overhauled its business to prioritise multiformat publishing, even if its plan doesn’t appear to apply to series like Bravely Default. (Seriously,
News 'What the F*ck Are We Doing Here?': PS5 Fans Slam Square Enix for Sloppy Multiformat Strategy
Inconsistently incosistent
Square Enix has been telling us for quite some time that it’s going full multiformat, with its strategy seemingly shifting after “disappointing” sales of timed PS5 exclusives, like Final Fantasy 16 and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. The publisher’s presumably realised that releasing its games elsewhere at a later date...
News Fastidiously Multiformat Square Enix Skips PS5 with Yet Another Game
Surprise, surprise
Ever since Final Fantasy 16 didn’t meet its lofty sales expectations as a timed PS5 exclusive, Square Enix has been on a tear promoting its new multiformat business. Funny, because as far as we can see, it still covets exclusivity where it suits. Nintendo DS remaster Bravely Def
News As Nier: Automata Reaches 10 Million Sales, Square Enix Teases More to Come
To be continued
Publisher Square Enix has announced that NieR: Automata has now surpassed 10 million copies sold worldwide. To commemorate this impressive milestone, the company has released the following video, which goes over the game's journey and its various related projects over the years: While this is notable news in itself, the video...
News Despite Big Multiformat Push, Square Enix's Acclaimed New Visual Novel Will Skip PS5
Consistently inconsistent
Square Enix is often eager to remind us it’s a multiformat publisher now. The firm, perhaps feeling burned by the Sony exclusivity deals it signed off on, is courting Nintendo and Xbox fanbases hard with the Final Fantasy 7 Remake series. The third instalment will release on all platforms at once, presumably without...
News Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3's Multiplatform Approach Won't Affect Graphics, and Here's Why
Director explains all
Square Enix's Final Fantasy 7 Remake project started life as a PlayStation-exclusive endeavour, but the games are now coming to every other major platform. The third instalment, which is yet to be given its full name, is the only game in the project that's being simultaneously developed for multiple platforms, following the...
Poll What Review Score Would You Give Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined?
Use your reimagination
Now that we're a solid week beyond its release date, we'd like to think that you've made enough progress through Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined to give it a review score. But we'll be the first to admit: this is a long RPG. And that's despite Square Enix streamlining whole chunks of the remake, in response to the original PS1...
News Unsurprisingly, Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined Is a Massive Hit in Japan
Physical sale estimates are high
It's well-documented that Japan loves Dragon Quest, and that continues to prove itself true with the most recent game. Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined was last week's best-selling physical game in the country by a landslide. With different platform versions taking up the top three spots on the chart, the total sold comes...
News Square Enix Confirms Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Cheats for PS5
At launch on 3rd June
Following the confirmation of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth for Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2, the new Streamlined Progression settings included in the port have now been announced for PS5. These new options will be patched into the PS5 version upon the launch of the two upcoming versions, which have been scheduled in for...
News Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Permanently Cheaper on PS5 from Next Week
All versions are $20 cheaper
Following this week's confirmation of Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2 ports for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth coming in June, Square Enix has shared the PS5 version will receive a permanent price drop to line up with the new editions. From 9th February 2026, here are the permanent price drops for every version of the...
News Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's New Cheats Revealed, Should Come to PS5
Boost features return for Xbox, Switch 2 port
As was the case when Final Fantasy VII Remake was ported to Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2 just a few weeks ago, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will also make the jump with some additional cheats and modifiers. Game director Naoki Hamaguchi showed off the bonus settings menu on social media,...
News The Adventures of Elliot Release Date Locked in for 18th June on PS5
Your summer RPG has arrived
The Adventures of Elliot might be closely linked to Nintendo Direct livestreams, but it's still a multi-platform release with a PS5 version on the way. Therefore, as a result of today's showcase, we know the HD-2D action title will launch on 18th June 2026. Catch the latest trailer above. The summer release brings with...
Rumour Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 Skips PS5 Exclusivity, Will Be Multi-Platform Straight Away
Square Enix will "target everything" for Part 3
The final part of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy will not have any kind of PlayStation exclusivity tied to it whenever it comes out, a new report claims. Square Enix is in the process of bringing Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth to Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox Series X|S, following...
Review Dragon Quest VII Reimagined (PS5) - A Tip-Top Remake of a Once Tedious RPG
Gone fishing
An infamously long RPG, Dragon Quest 7 has never quite been held up alongside the series' most revered instalments, but it's always been deserving of a second — or technically third — chance. Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined sets out to rework the adventure for a modern audience; many of its biggest alterations to the original formula...
News Final Fantasy 7 Remake Dev Explains Why It's Not Upgrading to Unreal Engine 5 for Third Chapter
"We've made a lot of modifications"
It’s really rather fascinating how open Square Enix is being about the third and final chapter of its Final Fantasy 7 Remake project. We know, for example, that the game now has a name. And we also know that, like its predecessors, it will be built using Unreal Engine 4. There had been some debate recently...
News Arguably the Worst Final Fantasy Game on PlayStation Turns 20 Years Old
Should have stayed in the mansion
Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy 7 released for the PS2 20 years ago today, if you can believe it. The action shooter, which is a sequel to one of the most beloved RPGs ever made, is widely regarded as one of the worst Final Fantasy titles in the entire franchise. So why are we bothering to highlight its...
News Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 Has an Official Name at Square Enix
Life Is Strange has taken Reunion, so now what?
Square Enix has decided on a name for the final instalment of its Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy, the publisher has now confirmed. From the beginning of November 2025, it was reported Square Enix had narrowed its options down to two names, and a final decision would be made after Paris Games Week...
News Queen's Blood will Return 'Enhanced' in Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3
"Beloved" minigame will be back
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth went a little crazy with the minigames and side activities, and the quality varies of course, but one that everyone seems to adore is Queen's Blood. The tactical card game has been a big hit among players, and it seems Square Enix likes it too, as it's set to make a return in the third game in...
News Life Is Strange: Reunion Revives One of Gaming's Iconic Relationships on PS5
The Price is right
The ending to the original Life Is Strange wrote series publisher Square Enix into a bit of a corner it’s been wrestling with ever since. Original dev DONTNOD decided to introduce an entirely new cast in Life Is Strange 2, but brothers Sean and Daniel never connected like original protagonists Max and Chloe. So new studio...
News Life Is Strange Confirms Its Return Following Leak, Full Reveal Coming Next Week
Reunion?
The next game in the Life Is Strange series has softly been confirmed today, with a full unveiling taking place next week. The official socials for the franchise have posted a teaser, pointing fans toward a YouTube premiere dated for 20th January 2026: The teaser video sees two figures walk past the camera, presumably the protagonists...
News Final Fantasy 7 Remake on PS5 Gets Bonus Switch 2, Xbox Features Next Week
PS5 patch on 22nd January
Square Enix has now confirmed the additional features and options coming in the imminent Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox Series X|S ports for Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade will now also be patched into the PS5 version on the same day they release. The publisher previously shared with Push Square that the extra toggles and...
News Maybe There Is Still Hope for the Final Fantasy 13 Trilogy on PS5, After All
Young staff have nostalgia for PS3 era
These days, you can play almost all the Final Fantasy games in some form on the PS5. Perhaps the biggest absentee is the Final Fantasy 13 trilogy, which for PlayStation players remains restricted to the PS3 hardware. To its credit, Microsoft offers upgraded versions of Lightning’s adventures on the Xbox...
News Life Is Strange Reunion Pairs Max with Chloe Once More on PS5
Unannounced game leaks
An unannounced Life Is Strange game, subtitled Reunion, has been leaked for the PS5 by European ratings board PEGI. The upcoming game will likely be richly received by franchise fans, as it will see series protagonist Max Caulfield reunited with Chloe Price, her BFF – and eventual love interest – from the original game...
Hands On Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined Could Be the Series' Best Remake Yet
A tight ship
Dragon Quest 7 has long been one of the most divisive entries in the incredible RPG series, mostly thanks to the sheer length of its island-hopping adventure. The original PS1 release and its 3DS remake both suffer from what we'd call rather severe padding at times, with a comical amount of backtracking often dismantling the story's...
News Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined PS5 Demo Is Available Now
VII heaven
Square Enix has revealed the full opening movie for Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined, and in a word, it's magical. The movie takes full advantage of the remake's diorama-esque visuals, dropping its puppet-based characters into delightfully detailed environments as they battle against beasties big and small. We think it's pretty much a...
News Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles Sees in the New Year with Major Sales Milestone
It's a sold strategy
Square Enix has announced Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, a remaster of its classic strategy RPG, has reached an impressive sales milestone. Shared on its social media channels, the publisher says the game has now surpassed one million copies sold: The Ivalice Chronicles is an enhanced version of the beloved...
Guide Best Square Enix Games on PS5
Square Enix's best PS5 games ranked and rated
What are the best Square Enix games on PS5? One of Japan's great game publishers, Square Enix has been an indomitable force in the industry for a very long time. Originally, Square and Enix were separate entities, but a merger in 2003 brought the two companies together. Both before and after this...
News Key Square Enix Shareholder Publicly Criticises Weak Game Sales, Company Management
Square one
One of Square Enix's major shareholders has doubled down on its criticisms of the publisher, to the point where it's publicly released a 100-page presentation (yes, really) in an attempt to highlight its perceived problems. The shareholder in question is Singapore-based activist investment fund 3D Investment Partners, which as alluded,...
