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Final Fantasy XVI News
All the latest Final Fantasy XVI news for 2026: updates, patches, DLC, discounts and events. Fresh game news every day on VGTimes.
Sony Reveals June PS Plus Premium Lineup, Including Final Fantasy XVI and Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Sony has unveiled the June lineup of games coming to PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium subscribers. Over the coming weeks, the service's catalog will be expanded with several major titles, including Final Fantasy XVI, Sonic X Shadow Generations, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and Life is Strange: Double Exposure.
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June 10, 2026
“We need to create new IPs”: Expedition 33 and Final Fantasy voice actor urges the industry to move beyond sequels
Ben Starr — the voice of Verso in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Clive in Final Fantasy XVI — spoke at Emerald City Comic-Con about the state of the gaming industry. In his view, studios have become too focused on sequels and remasters at the expense of original ideas.
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April 8, 2026
Ben Starr: “The industry needs more new original games!”
The star of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Final Fantasy XVI has urged the industry to create new IPs instead of living in the past.
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April 5, 2026
Are the old-school fans here? Most Final Fantasy fans in the U.S. are over 35
According to analytics firm Circana, 62% of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth players in the U.S. are over 35, and if you include everyone aged 30 and up, that share rises to 77%. It is yet another sign that gamers are “getting older.”
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March 24, 2026
“I Played the First Game Before You Were Born”: Yoshida on Final Fantasy’s Generational Gap
Naoki Yoshida — also known as Yoshi-P, director of Final Fantasy XIV and producer of Final Fantasy XVI — has addressed a problem Square Enix seems to have long understood, but rarely speaks about openly. In a video released alongside the mobile game Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy, he explained why younger audiences are drifting away from the series.
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March 21, 2026
Rumor: Final Fantasy XVI and Dragon's Dogma 2 May Join PS Plus Extra in March
A new rumor suggests that PS Plus Extra could receive two major additions in March — Final Fantasy XVI and Dragon's Dogma 2. The information first appeared in the Saudi gaming community and quickly spread online.
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March 10, 2026
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and other popular games may be released on Switch 2 in 2026
Nintendo is planning to seriously expand its library of games for the Switch 2 in the near future. Moreover, we are talking about the largest projects that have already been released on other platforms.
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January 28, 2026
Metacritic Unveils Top 20 Best Xbox Games of 2025
The Metacritic portal has published its list of the best Xbox games of 2025, featuring the 20 highest-rated titles. The cooperative action game Split Fiction claimed the top spot.
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December 29, 2025
Parody Adventure Earth Must Die With an All-Star Cast Gets a Demo on Steam
At Steam Next Fest, a demo of the comedic adventure Earth Must Die was released — a bold parody of classic 1990s point-and-click games like Monkey Island.
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October 16, 2025
Final Fantasy XVI and Final Fantasy VII Remake Are Coming to Xbox
Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy XVI and Final Fantasy VII Remake are finally heading to Xbox consoles.
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June 9, 2025
Another PC Game Gets Leaked After Denuvo Removal
Following Visions of Mana, another Square Enix title has lost its anti-piracy protection. According to SteamDB, the company removed Denuvo from the PC version of Final Fantasy XVI earlier today.
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March 4, 2025
Top 10 most graphically impressive PC games of 2024 revealed
DSOGaming has released its list of the top 10 most graphically impressive PC games of 2024, emphasizing that optimization was not a factor in its ranking – the outlet focused solely on graphics.
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December 27, 2024
Steam Awards 2024 Nominees Announced
Valve has revealed the nominees for The Steam Awards 2024, spanning 11 categories. Leading the pack with three nominations each are the action RPG Black Myth: Wukong, the story-driven shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, the rogue-lite Balatro, and the co-op shooter Helldivers 2. Here's the full list of nominees:
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December 18, 2024
Steam Winter Sale Trailer Released
Valve has released a trailer for the upcoming Steam Winter Sale, confirming the sale will begin on December 19th. Thousands of games and DLC are expected to be included in the massive event.
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December 14, 2024
Prometheus Actor in Hades 2: «It's absolutely criminal that we don't have an official version of Bloodborne running at 60 FPS»
A humorous moment unfolded during the 2024 Golden Joystick Awards. Ben Starr, the actor and host of the event, unexpectedly brought up Bloodborne, lamenting its lack of a proper remaster.
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November 22, 2024
PC-version of Final Fantasy XVI released
The PC version of Final Fantasy XVI, which has been available on PS5 since June 2023, has officially launched. Early reviews from gamers are already appearing on Steam. At the time of writing, the game holds a rating of 78%. Many players are reporting low FPS during cutscenes.
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September 18, 2024
Possible traces of Red Dead Redemption, The Last of Us: Part 2, and other games found in the Epic Games Store database
Last night, a Redditor with the nickname MixV2 talked about EpicDB — a proprietary service in the spirit of SteamDB that allows studying the Epic Games Store database. Network users immediately found traces of unannounced games.
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June 12, 2024