By Thomas Quillfeldt Some 35 years old, the Japanese role-playing game genre doesn’t seem to have dimmed in popularity, with 2016 seeing the flagship JRPG series, Final Fantasy, enjoy its 84th game release (depending on how you count the numerous spin-offs, re-releases and mobile titles). Of course a major element...
By Thomas Quillfeldt and David Housden The Final Fantasy series is one of gaming’s crown jewels. Say what you will about individual games, quirks and tropes of the series or core gameplay mechanics—it can’t be denied that the fan community is incredibly vibrant both in terms of the wider series...
By Thomas Quillfeldt Merregnon Studios and Laced Records are teaming up to bring you the concert albums Final Symphony and Symphonic Fantasies Tokyo on CD and vinyl, covering the music of a number of composers that worked on classic Square Enix RPGs including Nobuo Uematsu & Masashi Hamauzu (Final Fantasy),...
