The other day on Twitter, fellow Kotaku writer Kate Cox mentioned she had just finished Xenogears, Square’s classic PlayStation role-playing game. Since Xenogears is one of my favourite games, a classic up there with the best RPGs ever, I bugged her roughly 19,283,493,849,284,924 times to come chat about her experiences for Random Encounters. Eventually she said yes.
Square Enix fans rejoice: the publisher has opened up a streaming radio channel that plays music from many of their games for free. There aren’t a huge number of games yet, but hey, Xenogears is on here, which should make many people happy, judging by the zealous comments I regularly hear about that game’s soundtrack.
Artist Jake Murray pays tribute to classic RPG series Xenogears in the best way possible: with heroic fan art of star Elly Van Houten.
Monolith Soft, known for the Xenogears games, is working on a new title for the Wii U and currently taking applications for the game. What could it be? [Monolith Soft]
Four classic titles from Squaresoft (now Square Enix) have been rated by the ESRB for release on the PSP and PS3, indicating an imminent release to the North American PlayStation Store.
Since the release of the Game Boy, Nintendo has ruled portable gaming. That era is over, says Masato Kato, the writer of FFVII, Xenogears and Chrono Trigger. But why?
If you need to get your “man, the Japanese PSN is so much better” rants out of your system first, do it, then get back to us. All better? Right, on we go! Square-Enix has committed to re-releasing many of their classic titles over the PlayStation Network, starting today, with two Square games (Xenogears and Einhander) and two Enix games (Rakugaki Showtime and Astronoka). They’re all available for ¥600 ($AU 5.75). According to this week’s issue of Dengeki PlayStation, they’re planning on releasing twelve games in total, so you’ve got plenty more chances to whine about the absence of your game of choice.
