Square Enix

Square Enix’s President Yosuke Matsuda prepares to step down from his position at the Japanese gaming giant, and his replacement has already been decided. — Square Enix announced that it will replace its president and CEO Yosuke Matsuda, who is stepping down from the job after many years in the role. He will be replaced by Takashi Kiryu, who is currently the chief strategy officer. Previously Kiryu had two stints at Dentsu, a Japanese advertising…

Japan’s gaming giant is building a new gaming experience called ‘Symbiogenesis’ on the Polygon blockchain. — The publisher behind the Final Fantasy video games, Square Enix, will launch its first Web3 game Symbiogenesis on the Polygon blockchain instead of Ethereum’s mainnet, saying the decision reflects what it called the environmental sustainability of the network among other advantages. The project, titled Symbiogenesis, was announced in November. Sales…

A new art style and aesthetics can change game design and make a whole new genre interesting again, bringing potential to other genres of classic games. As Octopath Traveler 2 has recently been released to a warm critical reception on the Nintendo Switch, it is worth delving into its art…

Octopath Traveler II comes out tomorrow and I still haven’t properly processed how I feel about the first game, even though I played in 2019 so I’m going to do it right now! Vague spoilers for the first Octopath Traveler. Octopath Traveler is a role-playing game where you follow eight…

Triple-A gaming is coming to Web3 — Hey Peeps! On February 15th, Square Enix, the legendary video-game company behind the Final Fantasy franchise, announced a partnership with Polygon to launch their upcoming NFT-based game, SYMBIOGENESIS. Back on November 3rd of 2022, Square Enix officially announced SYMBIOGENESIS, via press release, which they stated to be their “first digital collectible art…

The long-running Final Fantasy series just recently passed its 35th anniversary, and one of the hallmarks of this groundbreaking RPG series is it’s always had some pretty memorable and fantastic music in pretty much all its entries. Square Enix is celebrating this by releasing the latest game in its Theatrhythm…

February’s game: Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Welcome to the fourth year running of my JRPG Journey. I’ve been playing one JRPG a month since the start of 2020 and sharing my thoughts, and I’ve had a blast going through all the classics I missed. To start off what’s bound…

A lot of AAA companies have marketing budgets which allow their games to get properly hyped. Anytime a Call of Duty game gets released, for instance, Activision goes all out with commercials and digital advertising to let people know that it’s coming. But what happens to the games that get…

Tactics Ogre: Reborn is a serious campaign to get through. It boasts plenty of strategic components that it doesn’t necessarily teach you through the early in-game “tutorial”. This is a continuation from my original article so that it wasn’t a giant wall of text that you might dread digging through…