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77% of US Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth players were 30 or older, analyst says, as Square Enix fights to get young people to care about the JRPG series again

62% were over 35

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Final Fantasy 14 boss man Yoshi-P says younger players "haven't really had the chance to connect" with the JRPG series as "the release intervals for new titles have gotten longer"

"The recent entries in the series may have been harder to engage with" for younger gamers, says Yoshi-P

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead writer says it's "crazy" to see Final Fantasy legends who are "essentially our heroes" praising Sandfall's game after the JRPG series was such a "huge influence"

"It still feels quite surreal"

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Putting FromSoftware challenge sickos to shame, one fan smashes Final Fantasy 9's infamous skip rope challenge entirely blindfolded

"Final Fantasy 9 has one of the hardest achievements in the entire franchise"

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Metal, pop punk, Final Fantasy and Miss World Chile: the list of new bands joining Limp Bizkit, Guns N' Roses, Linkin Park and more at Download this year has a lot going on

The UK's biggest rock festival just got bigger as day splits are officially announced

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Final Fantasy 7's Materia almost had a very different name before series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi "had brilliant foresight" and realized it'd be "difficult to understand" for Japanese players

Spheres would have their day in Final Fantasy 10

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy director had to consider how much to include from the various spin-offs because devs "didn't just want to make a remake"

Naoki Hamaguchi talks about juggling all the extra FF7 stories

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Xbox Game Pass Just Quietly Added The Most Important RPG Ever Made

The original 'Final Fantasy' is a charming trip down memory lane, and its stunning remaster is now on Xbox Game Pass.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director blames Final Fantasy 10 for letting you nuke the RPG's final boss, but admits it might have been "a little bit too easy to get overpowered"

"We think it's OK – more or less what we wanted"

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'I'm a medieval otaku, after all': Legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu says FF9's soundtrack is some of his best work—even if it's more popular overseas

It's not a phase!

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These are the gaming resolutions that we're bringing into 2026

These are the gaming resolutions that the TechRadar Gaming team want to bring into the New Year.

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New Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 update is seemingly full of references to JRPG influences like Persona, Xenoblade, and Final Fantasy

Game (of the year) recognizes game

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Former Square Enix exec says that's nothing new as major investor calls out the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest creator for high development costs and lackluster sales

Final Fantasy 16 reportedly cost around $58.3 million to make

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Aerith does not want to see your fanfic – Final Fantasy 7 Remake actor reminds fans "the meaning of the word inappropriate," asks them to stop tagging her in "smut"

Leave Aerith alone

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Final Fantasy 7 writer says Dragon Quest taught him that protagonists should be "self-insert for the player", but realized "I shouldn't be so set on the idea that a silent protagonist is the only way"

"Characters' actions were no longer solely dictated by the player, but also by their personalities"

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Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says Final Fantasy protagonists "speak a lot," forming a "key difference" between the two iconic JRPG series: "You're not necessarily becoming the protagonist"

Also Final Fantasy never had Platypunk

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Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says Final Fantasy 10 is "the ultimate perfection" of the beloved JRPG series, and we're sure stans will be completely normal about it

As if Final Fantasy fans needed another reason to fight for their favorite

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Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts fans in shambles after "an announcement for Square Enix's beloved series" at PlayStation's State of Play stream was Octopath Traveler 0

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For the first time in over a decade, Square Enix is teasing a brand-new zone for its OG MMO Final Fantasy 11

Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy 11

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Final Fantasy cat boy is People’s sexiest man alive 2025

Wicked sexy.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director's GOTY pick, and not just because it features JRPG-inspired combat: "It gets all of the elements in it right"

Naoki Hamaguchi's also a fan

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The 'Final Fantasy 7 Remake' May Be Far From Over

Naoki Hamaguchi, the director of the 'Final Fantasy 7 Remake' trilogy, is already considering expanding the trilogy past the release of Part 3.

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"We received a lot of 'JRPGs are back' comments," says Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director, but the success of a turn-based game like Clair Obscur: Expeditition 33 isn't going to warp Square Enix's plans

Clair Obscur's popularity isn't impacting Final Fantasy just yet

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Kingdom Hearts actor auditioned for the role of Cloud in Final Fantasy 7 Remake "a very long time ago" after Square Enix asked him: "He's the Riku of Final Fantasy"

The studio wanted David Gallagher to "give it a shot"

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As Spider-Man fights Cloud from Final Fantasy 7, Magic the Gathering pro laments the card game's slop-ification: "I am a pig and I eat slop"

Magic the Gathering is on a slippery slope commercially

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