The last five years have seen a tremendous resurgence of role-playing games, from the turn-based masterpieces of Baldur’s Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, to the action-packed Final Fantasy 7 ...

How do you make old games attractive to modern players? Masaaki Hayasaka, the producer of the remake, explains the magic behind the HD-2D style. David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and ...

The first Octopath Traveler was released in 2018, and marked the first time Square Enix used its HD-2D design aesthetic. Seven years later, and after a series of classic titles remade using the same ...

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Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Square Enix has announced Octopath Traveler 0, the third installment in the HD-2D RPG series. The new Octopath Traveler game will allow users to customize their own protagonists for the first time.

Today's Nintendo Partner Direct ended on a Square Enix double-whammy. One of the games is a brand new HD-2D action-RPG entitled The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, and it's coming to ...

You could tell while watching the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase which developers really “brought their best” to the presentation. While it took a while for them to get there, Square Enix had ...

Square Enix's latest initiative with the Dragon Quest series has been to remake the earliest games in the series with the HD-2D style pioneered by games like Octopath Traveler. Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D ...

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Fallout, Wasteland, and Stalker are three of the most influential game series to come out in the medium's history. Each of them has spawned a number of successful sequels, from Fallout 76 to Wasteland ...

The Dragon Quest series isn’t the most well-known within Square Enix’s stable, but it’s one of the most influential. Its simple turn-based combat became the blueprint of hundreds of modern RPGs. It ...