Final Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition will be making its way to smartphones next month. Consisting of ten episodes, Final Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition is a retelling of the main game, giving fans and newcomers alike the freedom to journey through Eos whenever and from wherever they want. It will feature the main characters and story of both the console version and Final Fantasy XV: Windows Edition, which means it would include all the content from patches and DLC episodes released during the base game's post-release. All ten episodes will be available at launch, with the first episode at no charge. Episodes 2 - 10 may be purchased individually or as a bundle. Episode 2-3 each cost $0.99, while the rest of the episodes cost $3.99 individually. The bundle with all episodes cost $19.99. Final Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition will also support iPhones and iPads running on iOS 11.1 or later, select Android devices running on Android 5.0 or later. The game is currently available for pre-registration on both the App Store and Google Play. Syndicated and edited from our sister site, RPG Site.

Lost Sphear, from Square Enix’s Tokyo RPG Factory, is now available on the Nintendo Switch, the PlayStation 4 and Steam. Lost Sphear is about a brave swordsman named Kanata, who awakens to find the world disappearing. Players can join him and his friends on a quest to save the world using the power of Memory as they battle against an ominous power threatening the fabric of reality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZlWYXFlIfU&feature=youtu.be Lost Sphear will have the following features: Reimagined Turn-Based Battles – Fight with the freedom of strategic movement in enhanced turn-based battles Mighty Vulcosuits – Utilize mechanized Vulcosuit armor in the fields and in battle to amplify your abilities and execute unique skills Beautiful Soundtrack - I am Setsuna composer Tomoki Miyoshi scores an atmospheric and moving soundtrack to accompany Kanata’s epic adventure. Lost Sphear's physical package is now available for pre-order exclusively from the Square Enix Online Store for the PlayStation 4  and Nintendo Switch. Players can also download the Day One patch for the game on all platforms from today, which adds a number of free upgrades including new equipment and artefacts, a new dungeon, the new Moonlight Battleground mode and much more.

With the success of Life is Strange: Before the Storm, it will get a physical release in March 6 later this year for the Playstation 4 and Xbox One. There will be three editions in total. The Standard Edition ( Amazon PS4 | Amazon XBO ) will include the following: Life is Strange: Before the Storm - The Complete Season (Episodes 1 to 3) Bonus Episode: 'Farewell' - play one last time as a young Max Caulfield in a special bonus episode Mixtape Mode - Design your own playlist from the Life is Strange soundtrack and listen to it alongside a cinematic scene from the game Outfit Pack - Change up Chloe's look with three new complete outfits. Episode 1 from the first Life is Strange season (digital) The Limited Edition ( Amazon PS4 | Amazon XBO ) will include the Standard Edition content and the following: Exclusive art book featuring art from Life is Strange: Before the Storm Soundtrack CD with the original music soundtrack The Vinyl Edition is up for pre-order and is a Square Enix store exclusive. It will include the Limited Edition content and the following: Exclusive Vinyl Set – Vinyl music set of the original soundtrack Exclusive Packaging – Presentation Box  

Crystal Dynamics, the renowned developer of the critically acclaimed Tomb Raider franchise, released a brand new video highlighting the studio’s 25-year legacy of great gaming experiences. The developer began its 25th year in a newly redesigned, state-of-the-art facility that includes a fully equipped motion capture stage, six soundproof audio rooms, a dailies review room featuring a 4K HDR TV setup, a photogrammetry capture space, a full 4K HDR Dolby Atmos equipped theater, and more. https://youtu.be/at3jFCwdP_k Embracing a diverse staff of the industry’s best, many of whom have been tenured for over 15 years, Crystal Dynamics has developed and published over 30 award-winning titles during its 25-year adventure. Some of the most beloved franchises include Gex, Legacy of Kain and most recently Tomb Raider, which has now sold over 63 million copies worldwide including 11 million units for Tomb Raider (2013) and more than 7 million units for Rise of the Tomb Raider. In collaboration with Marvel, the studio is currently hard at work on the highly anticipated Avengers project, which was announced earlier this year. "Crystal occupies a special place in the games industry. Over a third of our team have been with the studio for more than 5 years, and several have been here for more than 20 years, which makes us a tightly knitted

As a desire to reach out to the younger generations who may have heard the fame of Square Enix's classic titles but have no access to them on today's consoles, Square Enix has showed interest in making as many of their older titles digitally available for newer platforms. CEO Yosuke Matsuda clarifies however that rather than only doing ports, modernizing them would be more appropriate for the current generation. Modernization basically refers to remasters, similarly to what Final Fantasy IX recently received. They improved its overall graphical performance and game models by upscaling them in HD, while also tweaking the gameplay by adding new  features such as level and stats boosting. As what we're seeing right now with Final Fantasy VII, those dream remakes we always think about can be demanding in terms of development, and decent HD remasters of Square's beloved classics might just be the preferred direction.

Square Enix has released a bunch of character trailers for Dissidia Final Fantasy NT's roster, and presumably we're getting one for each of them. It's certainly a way to hype up the game, especially since the trailers give a few scenes on the cast interacting with each other (in Japanese). The game is coming out on January 30th 2018 for Playstation 4. It  can be preordered here,  and you can also check out more of our coverage here. Warrior of Light Firion Onion Knight Cecil Harvey Bartz Klauser Terra Branford Cloud Strife Squall Leonhart Zidane Tribal Tidus Shantotto Vaan Lightning Y'shtola Noctis Lucis Caelum Warriors of Spiritus + Extra Characters

It's not uncommon now to see episodic games on mobile with how intuitive the platform is for the genre's structure, and Life is Strange is finally following that trend. It's coming to the iOS via the App Store on December 14, with episodes 1 to 3 available at launch. Episodes 4 and 5 will launch in early 2018, and a season pass containing episodes 2 to 5 is also available to save ten percent versus the price of buying each episode individually. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScbveGtCXXU Square Enix has also announced that for the first time in the series, Life is Strange: Before the Storm Episode 3 – Hell is Empty will see a single global launch on the Xbox One, Playstation 4 and PC. This means that no matter what country you are in the game will launch at exactly the same time.

It's been expected and rumored around, and Square Enix has finally confirmed the existence of the next Tomb Raider title. Tweeted through their official account last week, big news surrounding the new title are apparently reserved for next year in a major event. Interestingly, it seems that the tweet's message itself already holds a hidden teaser with each sentence's first letter spelling out the word "shadow". If that doesn't confirm the rumored title Shadow of the Tomb Raider...

In a recent report with GamesIndustry.biz, Square Enix's CEO Yosuke Matsuda had a chance to discuss about the current state of the company's output in the west. Matsuda clarified the impression of their Western titles' seeming decline; the publisher's Western RPG series in particular, which is Deus Ex, has knowingly met a less than satisfactory number of sales with their latest entry Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. If you were worried about the series' future based from this, however, Matsuda claims to push your worries aside as the next Deus Ex installment is actually being discussed within the company. Deus Ex's future plans have been pretty quiet, but that's only because Square Enix's Eidos Montreal is busy working on several big titles at the moment and everything needs to be in accordance to their development lineup. Matsuda continues on to say that Square Enix considers Deus Ex as a very important franchise, due to its unique position to their library of titles.

Square Enix has just released a new video where legendary Composer Yasunori Mitsuda and Director Takefumi Terada discuss their inspirations for the three new songs to be featured in Episode Ignis. This next DLC Episode for Final Fantasy XV will focus on the character of Ignis Scientia. More information on this new content was shared during the development team's most recent Active Time Report where they spoke about the length and multiple endings of the Episode. You can watch the interview with Yasunori Mitsuda and Director Takefumi Terada below. Additionally, a video with the first three minutes of Episode Ignis were uploaded by the official Final Fantasy XV Youtube channel which we've also placed below.