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newsThe final Trails game will be announced in 2031 and released in 2032, Falcom president confirms
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NewsDragon Quest creator says English is "a simple language," so "the flavor tends to get lost" when translating games
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NewsPutting FromSoftware challenge sickos to shame, one fan smashes Final Fantasy 9's skip rope challenge blindfolded
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NewsMarvel Rivals publisher reportedly cuts funding for Yakuza co-creator's studio 3 months after debuting its first game
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NewsFinal Fantasy 7 Remake director confirms Rocket Town is back in part 3 and Wutai is "one of the main locations"
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NewsDespite contending with Final Fantasy 14, the 23-year-old FF11 is locking off a third server due to overpopulation
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NewsBandai Namco teaser gives JRPG fans real hope for a new Tales game as Elden Ring 2 holdouts put their clown makeup on
By Dustin Bailey Published
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Final Fantasy
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NewsPutting FromSoftware challenge sickos to shame, one fan smashes Final Fantasy 9's skip rope challenge blindfolded
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NewsFinal Fantasy 7 Remake director confirms Rocket Town is back in part 3 and Wutai is "one of the main locations"
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NewsDespite contending with Final Fantasy 14, the 23-year-old FF11 is locking off a third server due to overpopulation
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NewsAnother Final Fantasy 14 news blog shuts down as admin cites "weight of responsibility" after statement from Square Enix
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NewsFinal Fantasy 14 news blog goes down as Square Enix takes action against its admin for allegedly defamatory content
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NewsNew Final Fantasy 14 Live Letter dedicated to 7.5 set for next month, and fans hope for the long-awaited Beastmaster job
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NewsFinal Fantasy 7 Remake director was surprised that we were surprised that Part 3 is being made in Unreal Engine 4
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NewsFinal Fantasy 14 might just be healing as unofficial census shows increase of 110,000 players in 3 months
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news"Square Enix, hire us, I'm not joking," say Final Fantasy modders wanting to "fix" the JRPG's busted new PC version
By Jordan Gerblick Published
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Persona
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NewsJRPG icon behind Persona and Shin Megami Tensei breaks his 16-year hiatus from games with an upcoming "school life RPG"
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Best ListThe best Persona games, ranked
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NewsAs the wait for Persona 6 continues, developers tease "opportunities in 2026 to talk about future developments"
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NewsPersona 5 and Metaphor director hasn't been "super involved" in the Atlus JRPG series since P5 Royal
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NewsA year later, Persona 3 Reload gets a fresh update bringing back the PS2 JRPG's original vocalist: "I'm truly overjoyed and grateful to be reunited with everyone again"
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NewsFollowing performance complaints over Persona 3 Reload's Switch 2 demo, Atlus promises "future patches" are on the way but they won't be "in time" for the JRPG's launch
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NewsAtlus considered a Persona 3 Reload port for both the OG Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, but opted for only the latter as the JRPG's devs couldn't manage both "without any significant delay"
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NewsPersona studio has "several projects in development" beyond Persona 4 Revival, Atlus wants the JRPG series' 30th anniversary next year to let fans "enjoy the series even more" – and what better time to finally announce Persona 6?
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NewsPersona 4 Revival is "shaping up nicely" – but it's "not just about adding more" content, because the JRPG devs "have to create an experience that's enjoyable in a new and different way"
By Catherine Lewis Published
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Xenoblade Chronicles
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NewsXenoblade Chronicles X Switch 2 Edition is "disappointing," say saddened fans – Nintendo apparently offering refunds
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NewsXenoblade Chronicles X becomes first in the series to get a Switch 2 Edition, fans beg for main trilogy to get the same
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NewsOne 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
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NewsAfter 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
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OpinionI spent 10 years waiting for the answers to Xenoblade Chronicles X's haunting cliffhanger ending, and it was worth the wait
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NewsSci-fi JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles X's overpowered combat system is back in Definitive Edition, and it's taken fans mere hours to deal millions of damage in 1 hit: "New Arts are so broken"
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NewsSci-fi JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition is tied with Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 as the 3rd highest-rated game of the year on Metacritic so far
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NewsXenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition looks like an incredible revival of one of the best Wii U JRPGs, but fans might be most excited about one simple thing – the larger text size
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NewsAfter pumping out Xenoblade Chronicles games for a decade and helping out on Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Monolith Soft is now fully owned by Nintendo
By Kaan Serin Published
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Yakuza
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FeaturesForget Animal Crossing, my favorite life sim of 2026 is tucked inside a controversial remake
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Best ListThe best Yakuza games, ranked
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NewsYakuza lead is proud "people can finally say they enjoy the Like a Dragon series more openly"
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NewsSega is delisting Yakuza 0 in favor of its divisive Director's Cut, risking locking PS4 and Xbox One users out of the RPG entirely
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NewsAfter 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
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NewsThe worst Yakuza game is finally getting a remake: RGG Studio accidentally leaks Yakuza Kiwami 3
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NewsGiving 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
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Opinion10 years after Yakuza 0, Majima's swashbuckling return finally puts a bowline knot on decades of character growth
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NewsLike A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza is longer than the last Yakuza spin-off, but it's not the dev's fault: "The volume increased by itself"
By Kaan Serin Published
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Yakuza Like A Dragon
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NewsMarvel Rivals publisher reportedly cuts funding for Yakuza co-creator's studio 3 months after debuting its first game
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NewsYakuza lead is proud "people can finally say they enjoy the Like a Dragon series more openly"
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NewsSega is delisting Yakuza 0 in favor of its divisive Director's Cut, risking locking PS4 and Xbox One users out of the RPG entirely
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OpinionLike a Dragon fans, please stop saying Kiwami 3 is a remake of the worst game in the series when Yakuza 4 is worse
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NewsAfter 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
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NewsSega 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
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NewsLike 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"
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Opinion10 years on, Yakuza 0 is still one of the strongest entry points to a franchise ever made
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NewsYears 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"
By Jordan Gerblick Published
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NewsBandai Namco teaser gives JRPG fans real hope for a new Tales game as Elden Ring 2 holdouts put their clown makeup on
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NewsAnother Final Fantasy 14 news blog shuts down as admin cites "weight of responsibility" after statement from Square Enix
By Anna Koselke Published -
NewsFinal Fantasy 14 news blog goes down as Square Enix takes action against its admin for allegedly defamatory content
By Anna Koselke Published
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Dragon Quest
Dragon Quest creator says English is "a simple language," so "the flavor tends to get lost" when translating games
Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined convinces Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi to do the unthinkable and drop FF14 for now
Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined producer says the dev tried to preserve the "cuteness" of Akira Toriyama's original designs
Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined "isn't meant to supplement or improve upon" previous versions of the classic JRPG
Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined is having a great time on Steam, but it's no Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D
Dragon Quest 8 translator's decision to make the JRPG British English didn't go down well with Square Enix's US office
I've fallen in love with Dragon Quest 7 – not the JRPG's breezy new remake, but the 25-year-old PS1 original
Dragon Quest visionary Yuji Horii is getting his own RPG-style manga detailing his journey to creating the iconic JRPG
Final Fantasy's Yoshinori Kitase and Dragon Quest's Yuji Horii are both on board with Square Enix's multiplatform push