Chained Echoes, a 16-bit JRPG to be published by the company that brought The Surge and Lords of the Fallen, has demolished its Kickstarter goal, along with most of its stretch goals. It looks amazing, and the soundtrack plucks those nostalgia strings brilliantly.
Square Enix is shifting its strategy to aggressively pursue multiplatform releases and focus on quality over quantity.
Yup, it's official. FFXVI and FFVII Rebirth didn't sell as much as they expected.
Hopefully the next Nintendo system isn't a potato and it can contribute to FF sales in future as well, in addition to PC releases. If this ensures the long term health for SE and franchises than like FF and KH then I'm all for it.
Paul Thurrott in a recent episode commented on the on-going Microsoft fiasco hinting at more job losses and that "there's more to come".
There won't be no more acquiring game publishers from Microsoft in the future . Xbox has to pay Microsoft back. It might take two decades to do that.
There really needs to be a class action lawsuit here. You buy these companies just to put people out of jobs. And it’s not like something happened to derail their plans this WAS the plan. Microsoft has no business in this space at all.
Ninja Theory, Perfect Dark, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Wolfenstein 3, Dishonored, Prey, Doom, Quake... something tells me that bad things are going to happen to these entities under Microsoft.
Sega has released its financial statement for the 2023-24 fiscal year, and profits may be up, but it's mostly not down to video games.
What a phenomenal-looking game
This actually looks pretty sweet.
This is a bit bizarre. The way this was written makes it sound like this game was newly announced, is being actively funded, and recently hit stretch goals. That's not at all the case.
This game was posted to KS around February of 2019. It appears to have hit its funding goal a couple of weeks later, its physical copy stretch goal hit days later, and the campaign ended a few days after that. The KS page, in regards to stretch goals, hasn't been updated since the campaign ended which was, again, about 11 months ago.
I'm all for bringing attention to smaller games - this is being made by what appears to be a solo developer, with Deck13 reaching out to publish after it got some attention - but the way this article was written is kind of puzzling.
This would be much cooler if it wasn’t turn based but more like a secret of mana or beat em up style.