Dr. Square Enix or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the JRPG Square Enix will work on its next global releases, “without focusing too much on the ‘global’ aspect,” president Yosuke Matsuda toldNikkei Trendy. “For example, in the past, when we developed console games with a worldwide premise, we lost our focus, and not only did they end up being games that weren’t for the Japanese, but they ended up being incomplete titles that weren’t even fit for a global audience....

Smart iOS gamers will hang back until a sale hits to buy games. It’s an easy lesson to learn, as buying a $5 game one day to find that it’s $1 the next sucks so hard that it’s impossible to forget, even if it is only a difference of $4. That $4 could have made a solid dollar menu lunch! Namco Bandai has rounded up some good games for a Thanksgiving sale....

September 24 Cities: Skylines‘ major expansion,After Dark, has been dated for September 21. After dunking onSimCity, the successful city simulator is, “focusing on making large expansions over making many small ones,” Colossal Order’s lead designer Karoliina Korppoo told me after the expansion’s gamescom announcement. “We originally said that we’d never make a day and night cycle for our game,” Korppoo said, “but we changed our minds.” Mostly because the team, found a way to do it that was, “quite easy on the computer” and wouldn’t balloon necessary system specs....

Due to Blizzard needing to log players into their servers, users may experience delays when trying to play the game at launch. Early adopters may suffer timeout errors following waits of up to forty seconds. That’ll be fun. “It’s possible we’ll need to adjust the rate at which we’re logging people in to ensure a stable experience, and if we do you may see a delay when attempting to login,” Blizzard warned....

October 5 at 7AM PT The Nintendo Direct was pretty popping, and we got some info on long-awaited games, as well as a few new ones. But there’s also DLC in the cards of course. Yep, it’s time for the last Smash Ultimate fighter. The announcement of the announcement, at least. Nintendo had a few of those! In addition to saying thatanAnimal Crossing Directwould be coming sometime in October, we got an actual date for the final “Sakurai Presents” video:October 5 at 7AM PT....

Just a huge gelatinous blob The last time I had gotten my hands onDissidia Final Fantasy NTit was in the middle of a hazy, exhausting E3. I’m not making excusesfor how I reacted toDissidia‘s massive wave of new information, but there has been a noticeable difference in how differently I’ve perceived it playing it at home during the online beta. Now while I’ve been able to parse exactly what’s going on in these fights, it doesn’t change the fact thatDissidiais largely a stiff, unintelligible mess....

I did a Kamehameha, dammit! Some new details have surfaced about the port ofDragon Ball Xenoverse 2to the Switch. Along with the requisite motion controls (you can “perform” a kamehameha) comes ad-hoc co-op play for up to six players, single joy-con 1v1 multiplayer action and a few time limited bonuses for picking up the game on launch. The first timed special comes in the form of the entire campaign from the firstXenoversegame....

Check out our full schedule of live content! PAX East is happening this weekend and we’re all soooo thrilled that everybody’s having such a wonderful time in Boston. That’s justpeachyfor them. Some of us are stuck in our normal lives, trudging through our pitiful existences while they frolic. If you’re one of those trapped at home this weekend, you don’t have to be alone in this difficult time. Come hang out with us onDtoid TVand share your pain with others who know what it means to be away from the promised land....

I think I’m due next year Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator ofFinal Fantasyand founder of Mistwalker (Last Story) will receive theLifetime Achievement Award at the 15th annual Game Developers Choice Awards in March. The award show will be streamed online Wednesday, March 6 at 6:30PM PST. Tim Schafer is hosting it, so that should be delightful. “Father of the PlayStation” Ken Kutaragi received the award last year, which spawned thishilarious Mega64 video....

Yoichi Wada speaks out Yoichi Wada, former Square Enix president, has spoken out against Konami’s recent treatment of Hideo Kojima. Given all of the hubbub surrounding his forced exit from the company, including the fact that he wasbarred from accepting an award for his own game at The Game Awards, it seems like enough is enough for Wada. He notedthis week on Facebookthat he “can’t believe this cruel treatment,” and that either way you slice it, “this is a negative for [Konami’s] business....

Last week I asked everyone which handheld games they enjoyed more —Metroidgames orCastlevniagames? Several of you refused to choose between the two, one Dtoider rebelled with a vote forContra, and Dimwit Pest even voted for thewrong debateby commenting “horizontal” for the console competition from two weeks ago. But most of you took sides in what was one of Dtoid’s closest debates ever. Here were the results: I think readerbrad dracsummed it up best with this description: “Metroidinvented the style, but I thinkCastlevaniaperfected it....

10 courses in Unity, Unreal Engine, and more, all for a price you pick There are plenty of totally legit excuses to not learn to code. Like “there will be other people in the class and I don’t care for them,” and “But how will I buy cheeseburgers?” Well, no more excuses: I’ve got a deal in the Destructoid Store on a coding bundle where you can pick your price and you don’t even have to leave bed....

4K60 footage of the entire first mission directly from Team Ninja A rapidly-moving action-RPG likeNioh 2needs to be as crisp, fluid, and legible as possible, and I’d say Team Ninja is in a good place with next month’sNioh 2 Remasteredfor PlayStation 5. The studio shared 14 minutes of uninterrupted footage – the entirety of the first main-story mission, The Village of Cursed Blossoms – and I’ll never turn down a chance to see someone pummel Gozuki....