Today, Square Enix announced that Teruki Endo, Battle Director on the Final Fantasy VII remake project, will be hosting a game desing panel during the Game Developers Conference this year. The panel, titled The Challenges in Developing an Innovative Battle System for ‘Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth,’ will go

Last month, Lead Technical Artist Eitaro Iwabuchi and Game Designer Momoka Aono of Square Enix delivered three panels at GDC discussing the tools, strategies, and processes used to develop Final Fantasy XVI. The first panel ‘FINAL FANTASY XVI’: Wrangling Complexity to Deliver Top-Quality is free to watch for everyone while

There are a lot of events going on this week, and one of the biggest of course is Game Developer’s Conference. GDC 2024 has a bunch of stuff happening, and one of the biggest attendees is Microsoft and Xbox. They are there in full force as well, with a

GDC was incredibly busy, but that doesn’t mean we didn’t have time to check out some cool games while we were there. I had the chance to sit down with Artur Grochowski from 11 bit Studios to talk about their investigative thriller, The Thaumaturge. An isometric story-based RPG

One of the coolest stops I made while at GDC was at a booth for a company called Nreal.  They were promising augmented reality that would fit inside of a pair of normal sized sunglasses.  Dubbed Nreal Air, these smart glasses purported to be the “new way to play” all

Raw Fury has been busy backing some very cool indie projects lately, and GDC gave us our first hands-on with the newest game from developer Stitch Heads: Superfuse. Superfuse casts you as one of five heroes (we’ve only gotten to play one thus far – a Berserker named…well, I

Rhythm-based games aren’t new, by any stretch of the imagination. We still fire up Rock Band and match notes for fun, and games like Rocksmith taught us to play the real thing. Games like Crypt of the Necrodancer and Pistol Whip took those concepts and spun them on their

Are you ready to test the limits of Unreal Engine 5? The Coalition seems to think so, as the team recently unveiled a new tech demo, called Alpha Point, during last week’s Game Developers Conference. The short demo showcases what will be possible during this generation of video games,