After only a month since what was previously the Square Enix Montreal studio, Onoma has been shut down by Embracer Group.  According to a report by Bloomberg, Embracer Group informed employees today that several members of the staff will be transferred to Eidos Montreal. Square Enix Montreal is best known for devel

Following the acquisition by Swedish company Embracer Group, the studio formerly known as Square Enix Montréal has rebranded as Studio Onoma. Square Enix Montréal was founded in 2011 with the goal of developing premium games before switching its focus to free-to-play games in 2013. It is the developer behind mo

Square Enix has launched a new Tokyo Game Show 2022 special website. At TGS 2022, The Square Enix booth at Makuhari Messe will be showcasing playable demos for; Forspoken, Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII Reunion, Valkyrie Elysium, Star Ocean The Divine Force, and Romancing Saga Minstrel Song Remaster. TGS Online will

Square Enix has allowed Nintendo to showcase a lot of its upcoming farming JRPG simulator mashup Harvestella. And it's looking promising. Despite being heavily inspired by Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons/Rune Factory, there's a distinctive Square Enix melancholy charm to the game's aesthetics, gameplay, and harvesting

Harvestella was originally announced in June 2022. According to Square Enix, it is a life simulation RPG that lets you enjoy daily life, socializing and adventuring. It is slated to release for PC via Steam and the Nintendo Switch on 4 November 2022. In daily life, you can spend a relaxing day farming, fishing, or r

Square Enix is most likely done with making new versions of Final Fantasy games and remastering ports of their classics, so it decides to announce a new game for Nintendo Switch called Harvestella. Which kinda looks familiar if you have been playing Japanese-made farm sims or their hybrids. What's the game about? Yo

One of Square Enix's renowned producers and hypemen is taking a step back from the company. After 27 years of being in Square Enix, longtime producer Shinji Hashimoto will be retiring from the company. The Twitter announcement he made mentions that he is grateful to Square Enix for letting him take on multiple roles

Square Enix announced that it will be sharing more news about upcoming Final Fantasy 7 projects. According to Final Fantasy VII Remake director Tetsuya Nomura during a Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier livestream, he said that this June will be the month where the company might reveal Final Fantasy VII Remake Par

Embracer Group, the investment firm who recently bought Gearbox Software, are continuing its buying spree with notable Square Enix Western studios. The group has entered an agreement to acquire Crystal Dynamics (Tomb Raider, Marvel's Avengers), Eidos Montreal (Deus Ex, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy), and Square E

Balan Wonderworld was one of the biggest disappointments of 2022. One of the reasons why that was is because the director of the game, Yuji Naka, is a legendary developer best known for co-creating Sonic The Hedgehog and Nights Into Dreams. However, it looks like things weren't really his fault after all. Today,

It looks like we might finally be getting a new Tactics Ogre game. Square Enix recently filed a trademark for the title; Tactics Ogre Reborn. This indicates that the Japanese publisher and developer is working on a either a sequel or a remaster of the classic tactical RPG game. The original Tactics Ogre Let Us Cling

The upcoming action game Forspoken from Square Enix, which is exclusive to PlayStation 5, will be delayed from its early 2022 release date. The game will be out on 11 October 2022 instead. This is due to spending all that extra time polishing the game, according to Square Enix's official Twitter announcement. "We h

To celebrate the Mana RPG series' 30th anniversary, Square Enix will be hosting an orchestra concert on 3 Aprili 2022. The concert will take place physically at the Bunkamura Orchard Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra will perform tracks from the Mana series during the show. Original composers Kenji

The 1st of January 2022 means a ton of welcome messages from various video game companies. We'll be sure to compile the best ones in a separate article, but this one from Square Enix is attention-grabbing for the wrong reasons. In a New Year's open letter, Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda expresses personal enth

Square Enix has suspended sales of Final Fantasy XIV sales, due to ongoing server congestion and queue issues following the launch of the recent Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker expansion. However, this doesn't affect existing players in any way. It's just that no one can currently purchase Final Fantasy XIV Starter Edit

Square Enix has opened up pre-orders for a Chrono Trigger jazz arrangement album in Japan. It was bound to happen, given the love everyone has for Chrono Trigger. The new album is the fifth in the Square Enix Jazz album series, which so far have been top-notch stuff featuring great arrangements for SaGa and Final Fa

Square Enix and Eidos Montreal have revealed the full licensed tracklist for its upcoming action game, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. If you're a fan of 80s music, you are in heaven here. The OST features 28 licensed songs from the 80s, as well as two original songs by fictional group Star-Lord Band. Here's the p

Back in the late 90s during the PlayStation One era, Enix released a pretty sweet JRPG called Valkyrie Profile. It featured a reworked Norse mythology storyline, a main protagonist who acts as a heavenly recruiter for a literal soul army, and a nifty turn-based combat system involving action prompts and combos. Seem

Square Enix gave us a meaty gameplay and story trailer for its upcoming PS5 game Forspoken during last week's PlayStation Showcase. But somehow, the internet seems to rather give attention to the game's cat, who is owned by the main character Frey. This begs the question: "What's going to happen to Homer while Frey

Square Enix just announced its Tokyo Game Show 2021 games lineup for its 1st to 3rd October presentation. And while it looks standard, there is one title that is missing: Final Fantasy XVI.  Yep, the 16th mothership FF title may not make an appearance during TGS 2021 week. Either it's getting its own showcase lat