Final Fantasy Agito+ Cancelled for Vita, Mobile

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Final Fantasy Agito+ Cancelled for Vita, Mobile

September 18, 2015 /
It's well known that Square Enix has a habit of biting off more games than they can chew, and now following the announcement of Final Fantasy VII G-Bike's cancellation news has broken that another Final Fantasy spinoff is also getting the axe prematurely. Final Fantasy Agito was a mobile tie-in game to Final Fantasy Type-0, confusingly enough bearing Type-0's original name. Despite being a mobile spinoff Agito was actually a full-on RPG and visual novel in its own right, even borrowing many assets from the ...

Final Fantasy Agito+ Cancelled for Vita, Mobile

Destiny 2.0 - It's Nice to be Proven Wrong

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Destiny 2.0 - It's Nice to be Proven Wrong

September 09, 2015 /
In general, nobody likes being contradicted. But sometimes, every once in a while being proven wrong about someone or something can mean the difference between disliking or liking them. Yes, in that order. Fabled game developer Bungie has been in a bit of an awkward spot pretty much since their latest endeavor, the MMOFPS Destiny, released. It pretty much immediately fell out of favor with reviewers, and while much of the player base initially disagreed with critical opinion, the longer the world spent ...

Destiny 2.0 - It's Nice to be Proven Wrong

Mobius Final Fantasy Hands-On Review — The Oddest Duck Yet

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Mobius Final Fantasy Hands-On Review — The Oddest Duck Yet

July 11, 2015 /
Though it's not available in the west and Square Enix has not announced any intentions to make it so (though it probably will—just look at Chaos Rings 3), yesterday I had the opportunity to go hands-on with Mobius Final Fantasy, recently released in Japan on iOS and Android. The game was pushed as a full-scale console RPG on smartphones, but in the end it looks and plays more like a tech demo for the new Unity 5 engine than a direct companion to previous entries in the Final Fantasy series. The combat is ...

Mobius Final Fantasy Hands-On Review — The Oddest Duck Yet

Show Floor @ E3 2015 - 3 Favorite Games not on Stage

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Show Floor @ E3 2015 - 3 Favorite Games not on Stage

June 20, 2015 /
Every year at E3 a ton of new game announcements and demos hit the stages of downtown LA, and every year a number of great titles go unmentioned during presentations because there's just not enough time in the day to list them all. This year's E3 made a valiant effort as one of the most packed yet, but even with three extra press conferences there are still some games you'll only see this week on the show floor--arguably where the real fun of E3 takes place. It's become something of an E3 tradition for ...

Show Floor @ E3 2015 - 3 Favorite Games not on Stage

Square Enix @ E3 2015 Roundup - The Past is in the Past

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Square Enix @ E3 2015 Roundup - The Past is in the Past

June 17, 2015 /
It's been almost a decade since Square Enix last claimed its own stage at E3--interestingly enough, to unveil a certain Final Fantasy game that we still haven't seen release to this day, aside from its demo form, Episode Duscae. That game wasn't at E3 this year, which we knew going in--we'll have to wait for Gamescom for that. So with one of their longest in-development titles a guaranteed no-show, what else could Square Enix have in store for gamers to warrant reserving their own time slot? Quite a bit, ...

Square Enix @ E3 2015 Roundup - The Past is in the Past

PC Gamer @ E3 2015 Roundup - Yes, PC Gaming is a Thing!

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PC Gamer @ E3 2015 Roundup - Yes, PC Gaming is a Thing!

June 17, 2015 /
While it may not have the mainstream appeal of Xbox or Playstation, following a rather weak gaming generation the PC has come back strong as a highly popular platform that fewer and fewer developers are taking for granted. With digital distribution platforms like Steam and Origin it's become easier than ever for developers to take advantage of the PC while maintaining something of a console mindset, and as PC graphics hardware advances the requirements ultimately become more and more accessible to more and ...

PC Gamer @ E3 2015 Roundup - Yes, PC Gaming is a Thing!