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Final Fantasy 7 Remake 3 Developers Close To Choosing Full Title as The Game Awards Approaches

Final Fantasy 7 Remake 3 is reportedly close to getting its full title, with fans expecting a reveal as The Game Awards draws near.

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 lead says the Highwind is an important part of the upcoming RPG, and it sounds like Square Enix is close to deciding on a name

The RPG's leads will choose the title by the end of the year

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'Final Fantasy's Latest Spinoff Is Going in a Truly Surprising Direction

Square Enix is finally returning to the Dissidia spinoffs of Final Fantasy, but the new mobile game might not be what you were expecting.

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is "going very smoothly" and the "announcement timing has been decided," Square Enix's Tetsuya Nomura says, and Kingdom Hearts 4 is also "progressing well"

A very welcome update for the RPG fan in your life

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‘Final Fantasy 7’ Is Hiding A Sword That Grows To Meet The Moment

According to the character's creator, Final Fantasy 7's Sephiroth has a pretty hilarious secret to his iconic Masamune sword.

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New 'Kingdom Hearts 4' Screenshots Debut a Surprise Playable Character

A fresh batch of 'Kingdom Hearts 4' screenshots confirms that an iconic character will once again be playable, along with a few other interesting secrets.

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'Final Fantasy 7' Creator Teases A New Sephiroth Design For The Remake's Final Installment

Thanks to 'Magic: The Gathering's Final Fantasy set, we have our first look at what Sephiroth's final form might look like in 'Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3.'

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Kingdom Hearts 4 director rears his head 1,085 days after the JRPG's reveal to share a potentially crucial piece of fruit lore that baffles even Square Enix

Square Enix is left speechless after Tetsuya Nomura does his thing

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28 years after Final Fantasy 7 introduced a generation to the concept of waifus, Tetsuya Nomura says Tifa's popularity is "not just about appearance"

"I believe Tifa’s good qualities are the combination of her character, expressions, voice, movements, combat abilities and all of her other charms"

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'Kingdom Hearts 4' Just Gave Us A Small, But Life-Sustaining Teaser

The creator of Kingdom Hearts, Tetsuya Nomura, celebrated the 15th anniversary of 'Birth By Sleep' by giving fans a tantalizing tease of what's next.

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Kingdom Hearts 4 has been radio silent for 1,005 days, but don’t worry - Tetsuya Nomura teases he has the story planned out

Via a commemorative message for Birth By Sleep's 15th anniversary

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The original Kingdom Hearts was initially "more hardcore" until Square Enix toned it down: "We had some puzzles in there that would make you go, 'what is this, Takeshi's Challenge?'"

"It's a bit of a wolf in sheep's clothing."

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Metal Gear Solid's former art director once said he spends "a lot of time fussing over the details of the characters' backside since that's the side the player sees most in-game"

"Especially the butts."

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During the original Final Fantasy 7's development, the devs considered Tetsuya Nomura "the Demon King of retakes" - "He was always making the designers re-do things"

"Yeah, I stuck my nose into everyone's work there."

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When making Kingdom Hearts, the "one thing" RPG icon Tetsuya Nomura "wasn't willing to budge on" was a non-Disney protagonist

"I wanted Sora's design to be a kind of 'grand compilation' of all the characters I'd drawn up till then."

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After voicing Sora in 12 RPGs, Kingdom Hearts actor says maybe "the best thing to do" is let the long-running series end: "Even if you have something that you love"

Haley Joel Osment thinks it's nice to not let a series "drag out beyond where the creator wants it to go."

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Not to be outdone by the PS5 Pro's price tag, Hideo Kojima stuns in $1700 Death Stranding 2 jackets that are already sold out

The Death Stranding 2: On the Beach jackets have enough zips to make Tetsuya Nomura jealous

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'Kingdom Hearts 4' Will Finally Break the RPG Franchise’s Worst Habit

Co-writer and lead artist Tetsuya Nomura spoke about what the fourth mainline game means for the series.

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Tetsuya Nomura acknowledges that Kingdom Hearts 4 is more like Kingdom Hearts 13, but the story's gotten a "reset" to keep new players from getting confused

The next round of Kingdom Hearts games are "being made with a stronger focus on being new titles rather than sequels"

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Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy veteran says he started making hot characters after a friend said he didn't want to be "ugly" in games, and then never stopped

Tetsuya Nomura thinks back on a crucial high school memory

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JRPG icon Hironobu Sakaguchi reckons Final Fantasy 6 is the "most complete" game in the series, "especially because it was the last Final Fantasy to use pixel art"

That puts him at odds with fellow FF veteran Tetsuya Nomura, who thought the classic game could've been better

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Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy maestro Tetsuya Nomura has a "huge number of game proposals" and probably countless zipper-infested protags "lying dormant"

Nomura still has plenty of new ideas that have yet to see the light of day

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Final Fantasy 6 is one of the few games RPG icon Tetsuya Nomura feels he "could have done a better job on" – "I don't really feel that way about many other games"

Nomura "tried to do everything I could" during the JRPG's development

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Louder for the shareholders in the back: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth producer says Part 3 may be finished within just 3 years because the dev team hasn't been split up

Here's hoping we don't have too long to wait

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 development has officially begun and the director is ready to be "done with this absolute marathon of projects"

Square Enix has officially begun development on the third and final part of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy.

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