Today at Square-Enix's E3 2015 press conference, company executive Shinji Hashimoto announced that a port of Final Fantasy VII is currently in the works for iOS.
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Square Enix has announced Lara Croft Go, a new Tomb Raider mobile game from the developer of Hitman Go.
Lara Croft Go has a striking and colorful art style and elements of Monument Valley in its turn-based adventuring.
The game is coming to mobile and tablets in 2015.
Square Enix has announced a new Nier game, the sequel to the cult game Nier.
Platinum Games is leading development.
Nier's original developer, Cavia, disbanded in 2010 after the Director left the studio.
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AMD announced its Radeon R9 Fury X, R9 Fury, and R9 Nano graphics cards today. It also took the opportunity to unveil a new, pre-built PC called Project Quantum it says it's working with partners to bring to the market.
AMD also announced a dual-Fiji GPU, but gave no name or expectation of price, only saying it would be available later in the year.
All of the cards will run its Fiji GPU. AMD claims the new line sees a 1.5x increase in performance per watt over the 290x. The Fury will be air-cooled, while the Fury X will be liquid cooled. The Nano is a Fiji-based card running HBM in a 6" form factor and promises "significantly more performance" than the 290x.
There are a lot of memorable moments from the final space battle in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, but the destruction of the Super Star Destroyer Executor is particularly important.
Although this was a massive tipping point in the battle, the one character responsible for it is never credited, properly introduced, or even given a second thought.
That's why Daniel Warren Johnson (via Kotaku) created Green Leader, a short fan comic about the brave action taken by Arvel Crynyd, the heroic Green Leader himself.
Freestyle Games creative director Jamie Jackson is showing me Guitar Hero Live's ambitious Guitar Hero TV mode, in which scores of frequently added music is curated for you based on your song preferences throughout the rest of the game. He's demoing a Premium Show – in this case, a three-song live concert set from an actual Pantera concert – riffing along to show off the note highway in the series reboot, as this is my first time seeing it in action. He pauses the gameplay to show me some of the things you can do in the menus, right from inside the song.
"It's our always-on, 24-hour playable music network," he begins to explain.
But I notice that the song doesn't stop. The music video keeps playing in the background, it's just that the note highway is gone while we poke around in the interface. I ask if you can actually pause the song proper – you know, in case the phone rings or someone knocks on the door. No, I'm told. Not in a Premium Show. Apparently the show must go on with or without you. Which makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever, especially when you consider that Premium Shows are always more than one song long.
We knew Yo-Kai Watch was coming west, but today Nintendo announced a more specific time frame for its western release. Yo-Kai Watch will release this year during the Holiday 2015 window.
Yo-Kai Watch is a national sensation in Japan, and it could very well be the next Pokemon in the West.
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