Square-Enix confirmed today that Dragon Quest Builders would be published in the Western market. This is not a main Dragon Quest game, but a side spinoff that borrows just about everything from Minecraft. They released a new trailer too: What’s most interesting about this game is the manner in which…
Los Angeles residents will be able to experience the horror and thrills of the Zero Escape virtual novels this spring when the attraction Real Zero Escape: Trust On Trial opens in the city’s Little Tokyo area. It’s expected to work much like the rooms in the game do: you enter…
We now know when Vanillaware’s HD remaster of Odin Sphere, Odin Sphere Leifthrasir, will be turning up: they’ve announced the release date as June 7. It’ll be available both digitally and in disc form for Playstation 3, Playstation 4 and Vita. The rerelease will be more than just a hi-res enhancement….
Final Fantasy Adventure, released in 1991 for the Game Boy, was not actually a Final Fantasy (even though it had a Chocobo in it). It was the first game in the Mana series, renamed by Square’s US marketing team. This was followed by Secret of Mana, and believe it or…
The original Odin Sphere was one of the highlights of the Playstation 2 library — a sidescrolling action-RPG with beautiful handpainted art, not to mention sheep that grew on trees. Atlus is currently working on an HD version of the classic game, for digital release on Playstation 4, Playstation 3…
Until Tokyo Game Show happened, all anyone knew about Square-Enix’s mysterious new property, called Project Setsuna, was that it starred a female and it had “themes of sadness.” Today we were finally given a glimpse of what Square has in mind, and it looks like the kind of game they…
If there’s any PS2 game that deserves the HD treatment, it’s the 2D RPG sidescroller made of beautiful paintings known as Odin Sphere. (That and Okami, which already got an HD remaster years ago.) Thanks to the original developer, Vanillaware, this game WILL be remastered soon, and thanks to Atlus,…
Earlier in the month Square-Enix revealed that the next game to carry the Dragon Quest brand would be a spinoff called “Dragon Quest Builders.” Today they showed off three screenshots, the first glimpses anybody has ever gotten of the game. Stop me when this starts looking familiar to you. Yup….it’s…
In 2010 a little underdog DS game called Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors won the hearts of critics and became a cult sensation, despite belonging to the most niche gaming genre in the Western world: the visual novel (though unlike most Japanese novels on game systems, 999 included playable…
Bastion, the overhead action-RPG that won massive critical acclaim when it debuted in 2011, has now become playable on the Playstation 4 — at least in North America. It has yet to reach European markets, but in the States it’s now available for the price of $14.99 (or one buck…