FINAL FANTASY VII
Andrea Shearon Jul 24, 2022. 2 minute read
Cloud Would Hate The NFT FF7R Bring Arts Figure
Square Enix has a new Final Fantasy VII Bring Arts figure of Cloud up for pre-order, but the Digital Plus edition comes bundled with an NFT the guy would hate. I’m not sure how many times we’ve mentioned this, but the Square Enix bad decision guys should play FF7R. After…
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Andrea Shearon Jun 5, 2022. 2 minute read
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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Imran Khan May 18, 2022. 2 minute read
Final Fantasy VII-Related News Likely Coming Next Month
The extent to which I liked 2020’s Final Fantasy VII Remake is honestly a little shocking. Over the past two decades, I had somehow and for some reason convinced myself that Final Fantasy VII was not a formative part of my childhood and that I did not have a deep sense of…
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Andrea Shearon Jan 30, 2022. 2 minute read
Final Fantasy VII Celebrates 25th Anniversary With Messages From Yoshinori Kitase And Tetsuya Nomura
Final Fantasy VII is celebrating its 25th anniversary this week, ringing in the special occasion with an upcoming livestream and new messages from FFVII Remake producer Yoshinori Kitase and creative director Tetsuya Nomura. While neither Final Fantasy veteran got into specifics, Nomura mentioned “new FFVII projects,” starting after delivering more…
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Imran Khan May 20, 2021. 2 minute read
Kentaro Miura Influenced More Video Games Than You Realize
Berserk, a long-running manga that began in 1989, will never be completed. Kentaro Miura wrote and illustrated the manga from its first issue until his death on May 6 at the age of 54 due to acute aortic dissection, as announced by publisher Young Animal Comics last night. The action…
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Nerium Jun 19, 2020. 3 minute read
The Switch Got Me to Beat Three Old Final Fantasy Games in Two Weeks
It’s been tough to play Final Fantasy games over the years. Despite being one of the most recognizable franchises in the medium, publisher Square Enix has done a pretty poor job of making the games properly available on modern hardware. The 2D era of games have suffered the worst (and…
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Natalie Flores Apr 19, 2020. 6 minute read
An Ode to Final Fantasy VII’s Aerith Gainsborough
Major spoilers for Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VII Remake to follow. I’m 11 years old. I’ve finished playing Kingdom Hearts 2, my introduction to Japanese role-playing games, which would eventually become my favorite video game genre. Alongside Sora, Riku, and Kairi, I’ve seen some more mature-looking characters from…
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John Warren Mar 17, 2020. Less than a minute
Fanbyte Morning News March 17, 2020
Here’s your audio roundup for this morning’s news! Direct link here or use the embed below. You can find our Morning, Evening, and Sunday edition short podcasts on the Fanbyte FM feed of your favorite podcatcher.
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John Warren Mar 5, 2020. Less than a minute
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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John Warren Mar 2, 2020. Less than a minute
Fanbyte’s Three Hours with Final Fantasy VII Remake
I spent three hours with Final Fantasy VII Remake in Los Angeles a few weeks ago and spoke with Steven Strom about my experience while we were at PAX East! Our 40 minute conversation goes into the big differences, similarities, and surprises comparing the original to the new release. A few…
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Victoria Rose Feb 13, 2020. 3 minute read
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Unveils Very Cursed Summons, The Doggo, and More
While Final Fantasy 7 Remake is getting released on some extra borrowed time, that’s not stopping Square Enix from keeping the hype up. (Though admittedly, Square Enix fans can do that on their own.) This time, thanks to PlayStation Blog, we’ve got more details on some of what FF7 Remake players, nostalgic…
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John Warren Jan 31, 2020. 4 minute read
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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Kenneth Shepard Jan 25, 2020. 2 minute read
Check Your Email, Lest Your Final Fantasy VII Remake Pre-order Be Cancelled
Square-Enix is really on a roll with handling folks’ Final Fantasy VII Remake pre-ofrders. Where once the company was charging for the collector’s edition months in advance, it’s now using Twitter to announce that it’s sending an opt-in email to people who pre-ordered through the official Square-Enix store to establish that…
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Victoria Rose Jan 14, 2020. 2 minute read
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Is Officially Delayed Until April 10th
We’re so close, yet so far from the release of Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Now, sadly, we have to wait a little longer to trek with Cloud and friends. This morning, Square Enix announced that FF7 Remake would be delayed several weeks, down to April 10th. This is exactly five…
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Victoria Rose Jan 2, 2020. 2 minute read
Final Fantasy 7 Remake’s Unannounced Demo Already Leaks Spoilers
NOTE: No unrevealed, demo-farmed spoilers for FF7 within. You’re welcome. It may seem odd that Final Fantasy fans are dying to spoil a game that’s technically already 20 years old. But already, spoilers are out for the Final Fantasy 7 Remake! Excited dataminers already got their hands on the FF7…
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Kenneth Shepard Dec 10, 2019. 2 minute read
Final Fantasy VII Remake is a PS4 Exclusive For One Year
It’s been so long since Square-Enix revealed the Final Fantasy VII Remake at Sony’s E3 press conference in 2015 that you might’ve forgotten that it was announced as a timed exclusive for PlayStation 4. Well now, thanks to an updated box art, we know just how long anyone who doesn’t own…
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Kenneth Shepard Nov 30, 2019. 2 minute read
For Reasons, Square-Enix Will Be Charging for Final Fantasy VII Remake Pre-orders Three Months Early
Square-Enix has sent out emails to fans who pre-ordered Final Fantasy VII Remake’s 1st Class Edition letting them know the company will be making a first attempt at charging for the $329.99 package next week, three months before the game even comes out. Twitter user @peanushernandez posted a screenshot of the…
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Victoria Rose Nov 25, 2019. 4 minute read
FF7 Remake Part 2 Confirmed; Plus, All New Details You Need To Know
The Final Fantasy 7 Remake is one of the most anticipated and ambitious releases out there. At this point, even a trickle of information, like we got today, seems like a lot. A new post by PlayStation.Blog today, for instance, showed off a cute summon and new character abilities. And…
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John Warren Sep 11, 2019. Less than a minute
Late Lunch September 11, 2019: Dick Tracy Hanson
New set, NEW RULES, BABY. That’s right, Late Lunch has a couch now and a license to get psyched for Final Fantasy VII Remake and Apple products! Late Lunch is Fanbyte’s live video podcast that airs every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 1pm PST on twitch.tv/fanbyte. We’ll put the VODs up…
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Vrai Kaiser Aug 23, 2019. 7 minute read
Five Things That Will Come Out Before the FFVII Remake
I don’t know about you, but the games industry has broken my heart before. No, not with the heinously unethical treatment of its workforce or conflation of journalism with studio-sponsored advertisement or the disproportionately vicious response every time a marginalized person asks to perhaps be treated a bit less like…
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