New Final Fantasy VII Remake Trailer Has EVERYTHING

Tough to say “spoilers” for a 23-year-old game, but the latest trailer for Final Fantasy VII Remake absolutely shows you some wild stuff you might want to save for your first playthrough. I’ll also discuss a lot of plot points from the original as a reference point for what you see in the…

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Office Hours: Niki Plays the Final Fantasy VII Demo

Niki never played the original Final Fantasy VII, so John was delighted when Niki fired up the new demo for a spin. Here’s what a fresh-eyed, barely-alive-when-it-was-1997 person thought of the remade classic. Office Hours is the short show hitting big topics on the Fanbyte FM feed on Apple, Spotify, or…

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PODCASTS

You Love To See It 22: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is not a great movie. It’s probably not even a good movie. But it’s a fairly interesting film, at least for its historic significance: it was supposed to launch a “digital actress” in Ming-Na Wen’s character, Dr. Aki Ross. It was absurdly expensive. It flopped…

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Fantasian, the New RPG From the Creator of Final Fantasy, Drops on Apple Arcade

Just last week, we wrote about how Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi recently said Fantasian might be the final collaboration project between him and iconic composer Nobuo Uematsu. On April 1, Sakaguchi’s first RPG in over a decade surprisingly launched on the Japanese Apple Arcade platform. It was released on the…

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The Best Final Fantasy Games Are Coming to Game Pass Tomorrow

Microsoft has announced the best games in the Final Fantasy series are coming to Xbox Game Pass tomorrow, May 13. No, I’m not talking about Final Fantasy VII, or VI, or even XIV. Friends, I’m talking about Final Fantasy X | X-2 HD Remaster. The Xbox Game Pass social channels posted about it on Twitter…

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Final Fantasy 14 Developers Withdraw PAX East Attendance

Major game conventions’ attendance numbers are going down — no, not in fan attendance, in industry presence. Final Fantasy 14, the hit MMORPG, announced today that its developers voluntarily withdrew from attending the consumer-facing Boston gaming convention. “As the community may be aware, COVID-19 (also known as “novel coronavirus”) is…

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Final Fantasy XIV Halloween Event To Start October 17

Halloween is quickly approaching in all the land of Eorzea, and now Square Enix have announced the events that will take place in Final Fantasy XIV. Once again, All Saints’ Wake is returning, with a new mission. It’ll take place from Thursday, October 17th, 1 AM PDT until Friday, November…

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Final Fantasy 14 Heaven on High Guide: Tips & Strategies

Final Fantasy 14: Shadowbringers is right around the corner, and players are scrambling to get as many Jobs to 70 as they can! Thankfully there’s a very efficient way to do just that: Heaven-On-High. However, while most players are familiar with floors 21-30 (the highest tier a non-fixed party can reach) there…

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GUIDES

Final Fantasy VII Remake Mod Upscales Entire Game, Reworks Aerith’s Garden

Final Fantasy VII Remake is beautiful, but what if I could make it… more beautiful? There’s a rather impressive mod for that with the release of Altezein’s FFVIIR HD Project, upscaling more than 20,000 textures and fixing some of the RPG’s uglier pain points found in the PC port. While…

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Introducing Our FFXIV Item Database – Gear, Materials, Crafting, and More

Here at Fanbyte’s dedicated Final Fantasy XIV section, aka The Linkshell, we cover the critically acclaimed MMORPG as comprehensively as possible. News, featured stories, guides, and even a model viewer are all part of the mix. But our latest addition might be the biggest site feature yet: a full FFXIV…

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FEATURES

Yes, Those Familiar Babylon’s Fall Assets are From Final Fantasy XIV

If you’ve tried out one of the several Babylon’s Fall beta sessions, you may have noticed some of the armor sets look familiar. That’s because they’re from Final Fantasy XIV, and director and producer Naoki Yoshida gave the team at PlatinumGames permission to use those assets. Both Yoshida and Babylon’s…

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One of the Best Antagonists of Final Fantasy XIV Returns in Patch 5.5

On April 2, the Final Fantasy XIV team held the 63rd Letter from the Producer Live broadcast, which was dedicated to properly teasing the game’s next patch. As previously announced, Patch 5.5 — named Death Unto Dawn — will be released on April 13. It will be the first of…

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