Expedition 33 is one of the biggest surprise gaming hits of 2025 and a traditional turn-based role-playing game that reminded ...

Now those links are reality, as several members of the Clair Obscur team recently visited Square Enix's offices and met with ...

Whether it's for an active collaboration or simply two great devs chattering away, such meetups are inherently cool stuff.

Naoki Hamaguchi: So initially, I started out in a sort of engineer role, and I had joined the development of the titles from “Final Fantasy XII” and had gone on to be involved in development ...

FF7 Rebirth’s ending left fans divided over whether it was a bold retelling, a convoluted mess, or just a disappointment, and that’s exactly the reaction director Naoki Hamaguchi wanted.

The most controversial twist of the Final Fantasy Remake project — which itself would encompass not just one game, but three — was that the developers wanted to test fate. Quite literally, it ...

Yet while Kitase and Hamaguchi agree on the importance of keeping the tone and the feel of 1997's Final Fantasy 7 intact, there was never any intention to do a straight remake of the original ...

Naoki Hamaguchi spent his high school years obsessively poring over gaming magazines for news about Final Fantasy 7. Now, a quarter century later, he's directing the latest entry in the series ...

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains light spoilers for “Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.” When it comes to Final Fantasy and Square Enix, Naoki Hamaguchi has seen it all. Having started as a real ...

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains light spoilers for “Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.” When it comes to Final Fantasy and Square Enix, Naoki Hamaguchi has seen it all. Having started as a real ...

[SPOILER ALERT: This interview includes details about Final Fantasy VII Rebirth] The highly anticipated action-adventure RPG Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has finally been unleashed into the Chocobo ...