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 14 had best relaunch in "history of video games," Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 dev says

How Final Fantasy 14's best Dawntrail raids serve as "a firm guideline for our future battle content development"

Final Fantasy 14 devs looked to the MMO's best expansion to design the Arcadion series

Final Fantasy 14 Evercold raids follow The Arcadion's lead as assistant director teases "novelty"

Final Fantasy 14 gets a shoutout in Deltarune Chapter 5 that forever immortalizes one dev's love of the MMO

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director says spin-off characters could appear in the JRPG remake

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation lead says game dev "needs to evolve" as streaming becomes more common

Sorry Kingdom Hearts nerds, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth lead says sea salt ice cream "isn't a homage"

Final Fantasy 14 fans make their own in-game Tinder, with modded bunny boys and cat girls galore

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"

Persona 6 is rated M for nudity and swears, and I'm wondering if the JRPG might not so far from launch

Persona 4 Revival removes fan-favorite line, leaving fans hoping for a new love interest in shambles

Persona 6 appears on Steam, Atlus and Sega accidentally say something interesting for once

One Persona 4 Revival actor shared her "manifestation" to get into the JRPG remake over 2 years ago

Persona 4 Yukiko actor passes the torch to her replacement as Atlus reveals Revival cast

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

I spent 10 years waiting for the answers to Xenoblade Chronicles X's haunting cliffhanger ending, and it was worth the wait

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

The best Yakuza games, ranked

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"