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Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles director open to revisiting the series' Game Boy Advance sequels if the remaster does well, but thinks the strategy RPG playerbase is currently a "bit small"
By Scott McCrae published
News Kazutoyo Maehiro is also open to totally new tactics games

Final Fantasy Tactics remaster makes Cloud easier to use, Square Enix promises, and even gives him the Materia Blade right off the bat, so you'll want to see the secret hiding where it was in the original RPG
By Jordan Gerblick published
News Director Kazutoyo Maehiro admits "he was pretty difficult to utilize as a character" in the original strategy RPG

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles devs "haven't made any changes to characters that were powerful," because they "didn't really want to disappoint" OG fans with nerfs
By Anna Koselke published
News Square Enix "didn't really want to break" anything in the strategy RPG

45 minutes of Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles has me certain that Square Enix "rebuilding" the remaster after losing the original source code was worth the effort
By Catherine Lewis published
Hands-on Gamescom 2025 | After a hands-on session and a chat with the leads behind Final Fantasy Tactics' remaster, I'm already hungry for more tactical RPG action

I played Where Winds Meet and fell in love with the RPG's open world so fast I could barely pay attention to any of the missions
By James Daly published
Hands-on Gamescom 2025 | The epic Wuxia game is visually gorgeous and its traversal is stunning

Ghostrunner devs abandon parkour for Valor Mortis, a first-person soulslike that might explain why the rest of the genre follows Dark Souls' lead
By Ali Jones published
Hands-on Gamescom 2025 | One More Level treads brand new ground

"We tend to commit to the bit": Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford talks Borderlands 4, the evolution of looter-shooters, and $80 game discourse
By Catherine Lewis published
Interview Gamescom 2025 | Randy Pitchford tells us how Gearbox went from seeing the industry predict that Borderlands "would find no audience, to being one of the leading video game franchises in the world"

Menace is an XCOM-Warhammer hybrid that makes turn-based strategy feel like an immersive sim, and for the first time in my life I'm playing a game that seems made for me
By Andrew Brown published
Preview Gamescom 2025 | From the publisher behind Manor Lords comes a long-awaited substitute for playing XCOM 2 over and over again
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