Final Fantasy 7 Remake director would give an emphatic ‘No!’ if someone asked him for an FF8 remake, and FF8’s original director isn’t keen either

Call me an empath, but something tells me that remaking Final Fantasy 7 as a trilogy of slick, high-budget modern games is taking its toll on poor Naoki Hamaguchi, the remake’s director. In a recent chat with IGN, Hamaguchi and Final Fantasy 8 director Yoshinori Kitase were presented with the idea of a similar remake…

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Guide: Best Nintendo Remakes Of All Time, Ranked

Harder, better, faster, stronger. When it comes to remaking and re-releasing a game, it’s easy to assume every publisher out there is plundering its back catalogue to refurbish and resell treasured games to a nostalgia-laced audience happy to pay for the comfort of childhood classics brought up to date on their current consoles. However, looking…

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Former Overwatch 2 artist alleges shocking mistreatment by Blizzard management: ‘I spent most of a year stressed out of my mind’

Blizzard’s reputation has taken a pummelling over the last few years. In 2021, horrifying descriptions of the company’s toxic workplace culture spilled onto the Internet, after a lawsuit was filed by California’s Department of Fair Employment regarding “unlawful harassment, discrimination, and retaliation”. Following the lawsuit, Blizzard made extensive promises about how they were going to…

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Tekken 8’s leaderboard is being dominated by cheaters and boosters but bans are being handed out soon

Bandai Namco and Tekken 8 director Katsuhiro Harada are readying the banhammers, with warnings of rank resets and account suspensions, after players quickly discovered that the leaderboard’s ‘top’ online ranked users were cheating or win trading to inflate their standing. Accusations of win trading to reach a high rank aren’t new to Tekken or fighting…

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