JRPGs

RPGs like Dragon Quest 11 and Nier: Automata are heavily outsourced, Square Enix producer says

Dragon Quest fans are being mean to the new protagonist: "Bro thinks he's on the team"

Dragon Quest's Pokemon-esque spin-off series Monsters gets another game in The Withered World

Dragon Quest 12 Beyond Dreams announced, replacing the previous version of the JRPG as Square Enix hits the reset button

An infamously useless Dragon Quest weapon owes its existence to a Famicom limitation, according to the series creator

Celebrate the Dragon Quest 40th Anniversary with my favorite merch from across the series

Dragon Quest lead doesn't think the JRPG series "must always feature turn-based combat"

As Dragon Quest 12 continues to slumber, Yuji Horii reveals a 40th anniversary stream with news on the "next game"

Dragon Quest creator says AI can make characters "feel even more human" and "listen" with "empathy"

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth modder says fine, I'll do it myself, fixing the JRPG's wonky lighting

At 117GB, Final Fantasy 14 is about to be the biggest game on Switch 2

Final Fantasy 14 Evercold's new DPS job to be revealed in October, and we already have big clues

"I want this guy to make Final Fantasy 17": Yoshi-P embarrasses FF7 Remake lead with fan request

Final Fantasy 6, 8, or 9 remakes would need even more games than the FF7 trilogy, Yoshi-P warns

28 years later, Final Fantasy 8's wonderfully awkward E3 reveal has hit the internet

Final Fantasy 14 Evercold changes housing for the better, Yoshi-P says, and World of Warcraft's take is "amazing"

Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P doesn't quite get the community hype around Chort: "Just why?"

The Final Fantasy 7 Remake series comes to Final Fantasy 14 as part of an Evercold raid

New look at Persona 4 Revival's stylish menu UI confirms a complete transformation for the OG JRPG

Persona 4 Revival seemingly features more Marie, fuelling hopes she'll be integrated better

Persona 4 Revival changes some of Yosuke's controversial scenes: "We wanted to lighten that up"

Persona 4 Revival's cutscenes come from Jujutsu Kaisen and Chainsaw Man studio MAPPA

Atlus never added her to Persona 3 Reload but the 2009 JRPG's female lead is coming to The Phantom X

Persona 3 fans take matters into their own hands, releasing a DS port of the Atlus JRPG

Persona 4 Revival makes changes to scene from the OG JRPG, and fans aren't sure how to feel

Netflix is making a live-action Persona series, and the Joker fan-casting has already begun

Persona 6 boss wants his games to be like "poison," something "that shakes people's values or gives them something to think about"

Nintendo awakens JRPG hopes as Xenosaga gets a fresh cameo in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 on Switch 2

My favorite JRPG ever added a wildly out-of-place racing minigame and I'm so glad it exists

Xenoblade Chronicles JRPG trilogy gets Nintendo Switch 2 editions this year, and the first one is out today

Xenoblade Chronicles Genesis is coming in 2027, and it looks very different to Monolith Soft's last JRPG trilogy

JRPGs struggle to break 3 million sales, once said Xenoblade lead who was hesitant to focus on tech

Xenoblade Chronicles X Switch 2 Edition is "disappointing," say saddened fans – Nintendo apparently offering refunds

Xenoblade Chronicles X becomes first in the series to get a Switch 2 Edition, fans beg for main trilogy to get the same

One of my most minor complaints about Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition was a bug all along, and it's now been fixed in the JRPG's latest patch

After 9 years in Wii U prison, sci-fi JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles X debuts as March's best-selling Switch game in the US, kicking Mario Kart 8 into second place

The best Yakuza games, ranked

Snoop Dogg and his son join Stranger Than Heaven cast as Yakuza devs' new game gets a winter release window

Forget Animal Crossing, my favorite life sim of 2026 is tucked inside a controversial remake

Yakuza lead is proud "people can finally say they enjoy the Like a Dragon series more openly"

Sega is delisting Yakuza 0 in favor of its divisive Director's Cut, risking locking PS4 and Xbox One users out of the RPG entirely

After 16 years, Yakuza 3 is getting a much-needed remake and RGG going the extra mile with a new expansion making one of the series' most popular villains playable for the first time

The worst Yakuza game is finally getting a remake: RGG Studio accidentally leaks Yakuza Kiwami 3

Giving that Elden Ring co-op modder a run for their money, there's now a Yakuza 5 mod that lets you play with a friend or AI-controlled Ichiban

10 years after Yakuza 0, Majima's swashbuckling return finally puts a bowline knot on decades of character growth

Marvel Rivals publisher reportedly cuts funding for Yakuza co-creator's studio 3 months after debuting its first game

Yakuza lead is proud "people can finally say they enjoy the Like a Dragon series more openly"

Sega is delisting Yakuza 0 in favor of its divisive Director's Cut, risking locking PS4 and Xbox One users out of the RPG entirely

Like a Dragon fans, please stop saying Kiwami 3 is a remake of the worst game in the series when Yakuza 4 is worse

After 16 years, Yakuza 3 is getting a much-needed remake and RGG going the extra mile with a new expansion making one of the series' most popular villains playable for the first time

Sega wants you to make your own Like a Dragon games in Roblox, but your creations need to "stay true to the world and lore" established in the Yakuza series, so please don't make Kiryu and Majima kiss

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii lead avoided ship-based games like Sea of Thieves and Assassin's Creed to make "something uniquely Yakuza-like"

10 years on, Yakuza 0 is still one of the strongest entry points to a franchise ever made

Years before we learned of Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Majima's voice actor pitched a JRPG about the fan-favorite anti-hero and was told "that's not going to happen"