RPGFan News Archives - August 2015

News Archive: August 2015

Date	Update
08/31/15	Final Fantasy Type-0 HD PC Review Is it HD-er on PC?
08/30/15	PAX Prime 2015: Hob Hands-On Preview Just don't call it a Zelda clone.
08/30/15	PAX Prime 2015: Bedlam Hands-On Preview Bedlam: (noun) a scene of uproar and confusion.
08/30/15	PAX Prime 2015: Sword Coast Legends Hands-On Preview Play D&D on your computer.
08/30/15	PAX Prime 2015: Eon Altar Hands-On Preview This is a rare chance to experience something truly novel in RPGs.
08/30/15	New Legend of Legacy Trailer Stars Liber, Garnet Not to be confused with the princess from FFIX. Shh, spoilers!
08/30/15	Sword Art Online: Lost Song Gets First PS4 Trailer Yeah, all the other ones were for PS3 and Vita.
08/30/15	See Tokyo Xanadu in Action With Five-Minute Trailer I'm not even that big a Falcom fan, and I want this game.
08/29/15	See Summon Night 5's Limited Physical Release and New Trailer Why aren't you watching it already? I want action, not excuses!
08/29/15	PAX Prime 2015: Shadowrun: Hong Kong Hands-On Preview That's great, but now I'm hungry for dim sum.
08/29/15	Have Some Delicious Project X Zone 2 Updates Just like grandma used to make, without the buttermilk.
08/29/15	New English Trailers for Nanako, Margaret in P4: Dancing All Night Margaret left the Velvet Room?!
08/28/15	The Heroes You Know Take Stage in New Dragon Quest Heroes Trailer I need a hero! Twelve of them to be exact.
08/28/15	Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns Release Date Announced Do you dare to venture into the Heart of Thorns?
08/28/15	Retro Encounter 4-2: The Last Story Eyepatch Dude and Count Dracula walk into a bar...
08/28/15	The Witcher 3 Sells Six Million Copies Over six million Griffins slain!
08/28/15	Line Up for Square Enix's Tokyo Game Show Lineup Three playable games will be there!
08/28/15	Good Ol' Bethesda Games Gather at GOG Kids, let me tell you a story about DOS.
08/28/15	Come for the Dragon's Dogma Online Trailer... ...but stay for the fashionable armor and news tidbits.
08/28/15	Divinity: Original Sin II Kickstarter is Now Live And the game is already fully funded!
08/28/15	Bravely Default: D's Report Surges Past Four Million Downloads That's a lot of Reports.
08/26/15	Before the Fall: Final Fantasy XIV OST Review The moral of the story is this: There's no end to FF XIV.
08/26/15	Epanalepsis Review Yeah, we didn't know that word either.
08/26/15	Amnesia: Memories Trailer & Screens Added View our new media for Amnesia: Memories.
08/26/15	Mother 2 / EarthBound OST to be Released on Vinyl in 2016 Did you SNES fans hold on to your record players?
08/26/15	Final Fantasy VII Remake Producer Shares New Details ATB for life!
08/25/15	Go Grab Your Digital Copy of Grandia II Anniversary Edition Now Gather around kids, and let Grandpa tell you about a little something called the Dreamcast.
08/25/15	Take a Tour of 7th Dragon III in a World Introduction Trailer I don't think we're in Tokyo anymore...
08/25/15	The Witcher 3's New Game+ DLC is Out Now For Everyone It is time to restart the hunt - now with your hard earned gear!
08/24/15	Yoru No Nai Kuni and Atelier Sophie Delayed The extra time being used for a final polish.
08/24/15	Yo-kai Watch Gets Official US Release Date The game will be launching alongside its manga and anime series.
08/24/15	PS4 and Vita Trophies for Kemco RPG Grinsia Are Leaked Sorry trophy hunters; no platinum.
08/24/15	Until Dawn Review Can you find a way for everyone to survive?
08/24/15	Rune Factory, Story of Seasons Thrive While PoPoLoCrois Struggles Poor, poor PoPo.
08/24/15	Check Out Naoto's Moves in the Newest Trailer for P4: Dancing All Night The Detective Prince brings on the Jazz!
08/24/15	Final Fantasy XIV Reaches 5 Million Registered Users That's one big party!
08/24/15	Atlus Shares Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir Box Art If you know Vanillaware, you know this will be quality.
08/24/15	Go Forth, Get Your Blade and Soul Founder's Pack Cosmetics, costumes, coins, and character slots.
08/24/15	PS4 To Receive a Forecast of Rainbow Skies and Rainbow Moon With low humidity and zero percent chance of rainbow showers.
08/24/15	Japanese Convenience Store Gets Dragon Quest'd But can the cashier save your game?
08/24/15	Closed Beta Has Begun for Blade and Soul Mobile A completely different game in a familiar world.
08/24/15	The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC Evolution Announced for PSVita And will be released by the year's end... in Japan. Sigh.
08/23/15	King's Quest Chapter I: A Knight to Remember Review Welcome back to Daventry!
08/23/15	RPGFan Music: Legacy Sessions: GAME Generation 5 Review I'll give YOU 5 reasons to check out Casey Ormond's album!
08/22/15	Konami Polls for Consumer Input on Reviving Classic Franchises Now is your chance to speak up for Suikoden, Castlevania, and more.
08/22/15	Final Fantasy XIV Patch 3.1 Details Revealed I will be the Lord of Verminion!
08/22/15	Tales from the Borderlands: Episode Four Review Will the series rise to the top again, or does the slump continue?
08/22/15	RPGFan Music: Support Video Game Music Online! Game music needs love badly!
08/20/15	Ballads of Reemus: When the Bed Bites Review Sleep tight, and don't let the... wait.. what?
08/20/15	Kingdom Hearts Premium Theater Event Outlined for D23 Japan Somebody page Stephen!
08/20/15	There Will Be Two Types of Magic in Final Fantasy XV Please look forward to it.
08/20/15	Meet the Girl with the Mysterious Book in Atelier Sophie Is she a doll or a girl?
08/20/15	Final Fantasy Type-0 HD Out Now for PC More JRPGs on Steam is always a good thing.
08/20/15	Final Fantasy VII Makes Its Way to iOS No, this isn't the remake. Wouldn't that be a kick in the teeth, though?
08/20/15	Summon Night 6 Coming to PlayStation 4 and Vita Wasn't expecting this one!
08/20/15	Meet Bianca and Meurs from The Legend of Legacy in New Trailer Take in their fabulous good looks.
08/20/15	New Stella Glow Trailer Shows Off English Version of its Theme Song For those of us not fluent in poetic Japanese.
08/18/15	Phantasy Star Online 2 Heading to the PS4 Sega enough already, give us an Western version please!
08/18/15	Breath of Fire 6 Shows Off Its Version of Ryu Surprise, surprise you don't even get to play as him.
08/18/15	Time to Leave Pandora in Episode 4 of Tales From The Borderlands That Goliath came from the moon.
08/18/15	Zodiac: Orcanon Odyssey Going For Premium Pricing Smart move.
08/18/15	Random Encounter - Episode 99 We're struggling to contain all of the excitement!
08/18/15	Retro Encounter 4-1: The Last Story That's a weird way to say Lost Odyssey.
08/17/15	Persona 5 Still On Track For 2015 Fingers crossed!
08/17/15	Grandia II: Anniversary Edition Out August 24th Experience this underrated classic all over again.
08/17/15	Sword Art Online: Lost Song Due Out This November Sharpen your swords and plug in that NervGear.
08/17/15	Charm and Adventure Await in Atelier Sophie And sparkles, lots of sparkles.
08/16/15	Free PS4 Home Screen Themes Will Come With Pre-Orders of Disgaea 5 Buying digital does, indeed, have its perks.
08/16/15	Big Hero 6 Flies Into Kingdom Hearts III Baymax has gotta be a better healer than Donald, right?
08/15/15	Square Enix Offering Large Sale on PlayStation Store No need to stampede the doors for this one.
08/15/15	Divinity: Original Sin II Is Becoming a Reality Through Kickstarter As Samuel L. Jackson once mused, "Hold on to your butts."
08/15/15	Sony Trademarks Two PS2 Games in Japan Is this for a rerelease or a remaster?
08/15/15	The Witch and the Hundred Knight Revival Demo Available If you buy Dengeki PlayStation Vol. 596
08/15/15	Pandora's Tower Hits the Wii U eShop The last of the Operation Rainfall trio is the first to come to the Wii U. Neat!
08/15/15	Fire Emblem Fates Preview Its fate is to bring change to a classic series
08/14/15	See the First Dragon Quest XI Screenshots The PS4 version looks gorgeous. The 3DS version looks awesome. Okay, they both look awesome.
08/14/15	Final Fantasy XV To Get Simultaneous Worldwide Release A first for the series.
08/14/15	The Legend of Legacy Gets Swanky Launch Edition To: RPG Fans. Love, Atlus.
08/14/15	Retro Encounter 3: Final Fantasy Tactics ~ Final Thoughts Wrapping up July's Retro Encounter.
08/13/15	Hands-On With Blood Gate: Age of Alchemy Making "freemium" sound less like a four-letter word.
08/13/15	Nab A Shiny Rayquaza in Pokemon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire Time to dust off my copy.
08/13/15	Erin Fitzgerald Interview The voice actress talks to us about her many, many roles!
08/12/15	Repent Your Sins and Come Watch the Criminal Girls 2 Debut Trailer This trailer isn't technically NSFW but it's pretty much as close as you can get. Play it safe.
08/12/15	Final Fantasy Tactics Makes Guest Appearance in Rise of Mana Proof that Square Enix listens to Retro Encounter?
08/12/15	Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Promises Consequential Choices You asked for this.
08/11/15	Retro Encounter 3-3: Final Fantasy Tactics Coming up next: The Last Story, which is in fact not the last story.
08/11/15	WildStar Free-to-Play Closed Beta Goes Live Love me some beta testing!
08/11/15	Omega Labyrinth, a New RPG Roguelike, is Heading for PS Vita This game combines two of my favorite things: RPGs and...Roguelikes. What did you think I was going to say, sicko?
08/10/15	Final Fantasy XIV's Second Expansion Already In the Works New Gold Saucer attractions in 3.1 as well.
08/10/15	Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir gets New Screenshots and Artwork This game is as beautiful as ever.
08/10/15	Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night will Have Xbox One and PC Cross-play More features coming to Koji Igarashi's triumphant return.
08/10/15	Final Fantasy VII - A Not So Retro Retrospective Struck by lightning on terra, carried by a squall, left floating on a cloud.
08/09/15	Final Fantasy XV's Malboro is Appropriately Hideous New trailer also gives us a look at some new locales.
08/09/15	Feast Your Eyes Upon the New Grand Kingdom Trailer The Grandest trailer of them all.
08/08/15	Dragon Quest Creator Yuji Horii Talks Dragon Quest XI Learn about the protagonist, release date, themes and more!
08/08/15	Is Tales of Link Coming to Europe? Trademark, ahoy!
08/08/15	Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster Patch Coming to PS4 Soon Ready to fix those odd and annoying issues.
08/08/15	New World of Warcraft Expansion, Legion, Announced at Gamescom Bringing a new class and higher level cap to the enduring MMORPG.
08/07/15	Composer Peter McConnell on Music, Broken Age, Hearthstone, and More Even Tom Waits!
08/07/15	Steep PSN Sales Available on NIS Titles Now Until August 11, their games are 50-80% off. Happy Summer!
08/07/15	Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes Coming in October Just in time for a great group Halloween costume.
08/07/15	Sneak a Peek at the Preorder Bonus for Exist Archive You'll want to keep these in your archives...I'll let myself out.
08/07/15	New Features in Dragon Quest VIII Include Camera, New Ending First it was Dragon Quest-Minecraft, now Dragon Quest-Snap.
08/07/15	New Disgaea 5 Media and Details They are dis-believable!
08/07/15	7 DLC Maps Coming to Fire Emblem Fates This is separate from the multiple versions of the story.
08/06/15	Tons of Final Fantasy XV News from Gamescom Potential release window, themes, new gameplay, and more.
08/05/15	Check Out Dark Souls III's Gamescom Trailer That guy with the branding iron looks... threatening.
08/05/15	Project X Zone 2 Delayed to 2016 in US We're given a 7-minute trailer as a consolation prize.
08/05/15	Behold Final Fantasy XV's "Dawn" Trailer You're going to want to watch this.
08/04/15	Life is Strange: Episode 4 - Dark Room Review Hey look, a review for another episodic series nearing its finale.
08/04/15	Exist Archive Gets Teaser Trailer and Japanese Release Date Should be even more news soon!
08/04/15	Gamescom Brings the Hype with New Final Fantasy XV Trailer Premiering Tonight Tonight begins at Dawn.
08/04/15	Digimon World: Next Order Gets Teaser Trailer Welcome back to Digimon World...
08/03/15	Extra Story For Hatoful Boyfriend Coming to PC Owners For Free There's no such thing as too much pigeon love.
08/03/15	Distant Worlds Composer Leaks Possible Final Fantasy XII Remake International Zodiac Job System anyone?
08/02/15	Game of Thrones: Episode 5 - A Nest of Vipers Review Much like Indiana Jones, I live my life specifically avoiding any scenario in which I would visit a nest of snakes.
08/02/15	Chroma Squad Review Do you like Power Rangers? Wish you could manage them?
08/02/15	Final Fantasy Type-0 HD Coming to PC this August Visit (or return to) the land of Orience on August 18th.
08/02/15	Dragon Quest Heroes II Coming to Japan in Spring 2016 Say it with me: "no word of a Western release date."
08/02/15	Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight Review Well the story's no longer untold now, I suppose...
08/01/15	Grandia II HD Coming to PC This Year It's the year of the HD PC rerelease.
08/01/15	Square Enix has 'no concrete plans' to Localize Dragon Quest XI Square Enix giveth, and Square Enix taketh away.
08/01/15	Final Fantasy VII Remake To Have Dramatic Changes To Combat No one ever wants to use the ATB system anymore.
08/01/15	Exist Archive is a Colorful New IP that Channels Valkyrie Profile Welcome back, Tri-Ace.