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High Dynamic Range support was added to PS4 via its 4.00 patch last month, but until now no games have actually supported the feature. However, that has now changed with news that Square Enix’s Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has been updated to offer HDR visuals on Sony’s machine. It has …
Read More »Limited Edition Final Fantasy XV PS4 Slim confirmed for the UK
Final Fantasy fans are very much being encouraged to buy into the new world of PS4 Slim with a brand new limited edition console heading to retail in November. The Limited Edition Final Fantasy XV includes a 1TB PS4 Slim, complete with a special design printed across the console’s top. …
Read More »Dragon Quest songwriter named as world’s oldest games composer
85-year-old Koichi Sugiyama has worked on Square Enix’s RPG franchise since it began in 1986
Read More »Final Fantasy XIV’s Neverending Story: Three years on from A Realm Reborn’s release
Three years ago, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn achieved two impossible feats: it reversed the critical failings of its 2010 predecessor and proved that the MMO genre is alive and kicking. Producer and director Naoki Yoshida retraces the title’s evolution to discover how the studio perfected things second time around
Read More »Mauricio Pochettino is the face of Championship Manager 17
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino has been named as the cover star of Square Enix’s Championship Manager 17. The traitorous swine* Pochettino appears as the licensed front for the F2P iOS and Android game, which is released today. The title features over 450 clubs across 15 countries and 25 leagues, as …
Read More »Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy designer Manabu Daishima dies aged 45
Late developer worked on characters, battle effects and environments for some of Square Enix’s most popular RPG titles
Read More »Deus Ex: Mankind Divided sparks controversy (again) over ‘Augs Lives Matter’ art
Brand director calls widely criticised reference to Black Lives Matter movement an ‘unfortunate coincidence’
Read More »Deus Ex brand director defends ‘Augs Lives Matters’
Square Enix’s upcoming Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has stoked the fire once again by drawing on another controversial topic in its marketing. A little over a year ago the game was dragged into controversy over its use of the term ‘Mechanical Apartheid’ in its positioning of a future where mankind …
Read More »Final Fantasy XV will have a Season Pass
It seems that the upcoming Final Fantasy XV will be the first entry in the RPG series to have a Season Pass. This will give those who purchase it access tosix packs of DLC. Final Fantasy XV is not the first entry in the franchise to have post-launch DLC, but …
Read More »Square Enix is developing the first RPG exclusively for the Apple Watch
Cosmos Rings will send users notifications based on step counts and utilise ‘Time Upstream System’
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