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Nintendo has announced that its upcoming JRPG blockbuster title Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is coming out with an expansion pass. The Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Expansion Pass will be sold for US$29.99 and features the following: Helpful Items and Outfit Colour Variants (out the same day as Xenoblade 3) Challenge Battles, New Hero Character and Q...
Genshin Impact's second half of its major 2.7 update is out now and features a ton of new events. Most importantly, you can now gacha for 5-star gang leader Arataki Itto and his trusty-yet-grumpy assistant ninja Kuki Shinobu. The latter character has a new Hangout Event dedicated entirely to her. Hangout events in Genshin Impact are basically si...
Finally, after 10 long years, we're getting a sequel to the beloved action RPG Dragon's Dogma. Dragon's Dogma 2 is officially announced during Capcom's Dragon's Dogma 10th Anniversary video. Director Hideaki Itsuno talks about Dragon's Dogma's history, before finally pulling out a t-shirt to reveal that he and his team are working on a sequel. H...
Square Enix's Asia YouTube page has released a new set of trailers for the final two playable characters in the game: Masaru Takahara of the Present Day era and Cube from the Distant Future era. In Present Day, Masaru Takahara has to fight a slew of rivals to be the best martial artist out there. And it's all done in 90s fighting game style to b...
To the rsurprise of a lot of people, Atlus announced that Persona 3, Persona 4, and Persona 5 will be coming out on Xbox consoles. The first of them will be Persona 5 Royal on 21st October. The other two games will be out later and will be part of the Xbox Game Pass subscription. For those not in the know, the Persona JRPGs are well-known for...
Atlus will be releasing a Soul Hackers 25th anniversary soundtrack in-game option for its upcoming JRPG Soul Hackers 2. Basically, you can use the soundtrack and tunes from past Devil Summoner and Soul Hacker games from the late 90s series while you're dungeon-crawling in Soul Hackers 2. The in-game option will also have the history of the Devil Su...
Good news for JRPG fans: the second installment of The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki series will be ready on 29th September for PS5 and PS4. The bad news? It's the Japanese version. The latest issue of Famitsu confirmed the return of the series' characters Swin Abel and Nadia Rayne, along with new areas and story progression details. The game...
Acquire's next big JRPG is coming off from its Class of Heroes franchise. Its new title is called Adventure Academia: The Fractured Continent and it features an adventurer named Alex who has the Ruler Orb. This weapon can command others on the battlefield, which he will need to search for his missing father in colourful yet dangerous fantasy wor...
Genshin Impact's 2.7 update is now live and features a new Archon Quest called the Perilous Trail, which is being released in segments. The update also introduces new 5-star Hydro bow user Yelan, who hails from Liyue and is a keeper of the country's top secrets. She's a great combo of badass and sexy according to the fanbase. There's a lot of co...
It's the calm before the storm that is game news and announcements for the upcoming month of June. And longtime JRPG series Dragon Quest isn't going to be left out of this. During Dragon Quest Day 2022 (which is today, 27 May), series creator Yuji Horii said that there will be a lot of new Dragon Quest titles being worked on. Most notably, he's ...
Capcom has launched a 10th anniversary website for Dragon's Dogma. This clearly means the company may finally, FINALLY announce a sequel to the hit JRPG. Here's a message from the site itself and from Capcom: "Starting May 2022, Dragon’s Dogma is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Thank you, Arisen, for taking up arms and braving through the i...
Chinese developer Xiameng has announced a new game called Codename: Wandering Sword which is a pixel-based RPG set in ancient China. The game's story is about a young man who ends up becoming a wuxia under the Sect Leader of Wudang thanks to politics and backstabbing. Check out the trailer below and see if it looks familiar: https://www.yo...
Fans of PS1 JRPGs with monster-collecting, rejoice! Or cry foul, depending on your tolerance for classic games going straight to mobile. LINE Corporation has released the opening movie for LINE: Monster Rancher, the next game in the Monster Rancher JRPG franchise featuring collectible monsters by Koei Tecmo. The trailer talks about how the world...
Square Enix has unveiled four more trailers showcasing the Live A Live JRPG remake's HD 2D-rezzed gameplay and story bits. The new trailers are for the stories Twilight of Edo Japan (ninja), Wild West (cowboy setting), Near Future (sci-fi and mechas), and Middle Ages (fantasy). They all look really amazing and are doing the HD 2D moniker justice...
Universal Entertainment has recently filed a trademark for "Shadow Hearts" on 27 April in Japan (via Gematsu); this was made public recently. That's good news for retro JRPG fans since a trademark like this may indicate a re-release or remaster. Or heck, even a reboot. Or it could mean that the game will be on the renewed PlayStation Plus servic...
Nintendo just livestreamed its indie showcase for Nintendo Switch this month. Elechead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjnUKhRS7fI Made by just one designer, this 2D pixel platformer puts you in the shoes of a robot who has to navigate a dark and dangerous facility to restore light to the world. Your robot is electric-powered, so anything it t...
Not every free-to-play mobile JRPG can be a Genshin Impact, or even a Dragalia Lost. Such is the case of Bandai Namco's latest cash grab using the Tales of name. Bandai Namco has announced the sudden closure of Tales of Luminaria, which came out on 3rd November of last year. The mobile game will stop service cease to exist on 19 July. The game w...
Softstar Technology-made action RPG Sword and Fairy 7, which came out on PC (Steam) last year on 21 October, is making its PlayStation debut later in 2022. The upcoming action RPG, now called Sword and Fairy: Together Forever (most likely to create less confusion overseas), will be out for PS5 and PS4 for US$29.99 in Japan and Asia. The game wil...
Final Fantasy XIV producer Naoki Yoshida said during a Nier Reincarnation Square Enix stream that Final Fantasy fans can expect news regarding part 16. A new Final Fantasy 16 trailer is set to air soon. In fact, the game is near completion from a development standpoint (via Siliconera and Twitter user Aitaikimochi). Square Enix planned to releas...
For many JRPG fans waiting for Final Fantasy 16, there's now some update from its producer Naoki "Final Fantasy XIV saviour" Yoshida. According to a mini interview on Uniqlo's Final Fantasy 35th anniversary collaboration event, Naoki Yoshida said that the game is now in its final stages of development (via Twitter). "Now we're at the finale of ...
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