Final Fantasy XIV producer/director Naoki “Yoshi-P” Yoshida has talked a few times over the years about his desire to introduce some sort of companion app for the game. That’s finally coming to fruition, with the Final Fantasy XIV Online Companion App outlined in the latest development update. The free app …
By Ginny Woo After 12 long years of spin-offs, and remasters, the Yakuza franchise is finally closing the curtain on its main series with Yakuza 6: The Song of Life. The title may confuse some who haven’t followed the trajectory of the series since day one, but it’s clear …
A lot of games draw on fairy tales. Whether transplanting familiar characters into new settings or simply drawing on the tone and themes of those childhood folktales, it’s not unusual to see such stories reflected in video games, often to great effect. The Witch and Hundred Knight 2 is similarly …
ARK Park is not the sort of spinoff I would have expected from ARK: Survival Evolved. The original game was a survival game, with a focus on scavenging resources and doing whatever you can to not die on an island overrun with dinosaurs. ARK Park, meanwhile, is a virtual reality …
After an unsuccessful Fig campaign last year, director Hidetaka “SWERY” Suehiro and his studio White Owls are once again seeking crowdfunding support for his new project, The Good Life—this time through Kickstarter. At more than a third of the USD $638,000 goal already raised, things are looking better than they …
You can always count on Kirby games to be innovative, even within the relatively narrow confines of a 2D platformer. Every game since the first had brought creative new ideas into the fold, going beyond simple sequels to make each game feel like its own unique thing. Kirby Star …
Earlier today, Square Enix announced a new Final Fantasy XIV companion app: Final Fantasy XIV Online GO, where the “GO” stands for “Gathering Outdoors”. Following the hype of Pokemon GO and other GPS-enabled games that followed, FFXIV GO would let players gather crafting materials from nodes in the real world. Reading the press release that came into …
“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.” – Leo “the lip” Durocher I used to lump baseball in with cricket as a slow, ponderous game that took too long and was boring to watch. I was a fool. Every at-bat is filled with tension. Every inning could be a …
Capitalism is cruel and unforgiving. It follows, then, that a game that, oddly enough, exists as both a parody and a celebration of capitalism should also be cruel and unforgiving. For better or worse, that’s exactly what Penny-Punching Princess is. At first glance, this looks like a fairly typical 2D …
The original Ni no Kuni was always going to be a beautiful game, both visually and tonally—it was, after all, made in collaboration with Studio Ghibli. That partnership ended before Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom came along, though, and I know a lot of people, myself included, were concerned …
