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News Archive: March 2016

Date	Update
03/31/16	Salt and Sanctuary Review That guy from Burgertime has really changed.
03/31/16	Recap of Final Fantasy XV Uncovered Event It's all here.
03/30/16	The Walking Dead: Michonne: Episode 2 Review It hasn't been Bob's favorite so far, but at least it's not Minecraft.
03/30/16	Final Fantasy XV's Release Date Confirmed It's about time!
03/30/16	First Pokémon Sun and Moon Footage to Be Shown April 3rd Keeping my fingers crossed for the new starters.
03/30/16	Learn More About FuRyu's Caligula With World Details, Gameplay Footage This game is sounding more and more Persona-esque by the day.
03/29/16	New Grand Kingdom Trailer Highlights Battle System Tactical combat from Spike Chunsoft.
03/29/16	Early Look At Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8's Daybreak Town Daybreak is the worst time of day.
03/29/16	Final Fantasy XIV Letter From the Producer Live XXVIII Wrap-Up The new stage of the Anima weapon starts today!
03/29/16	Final Fantasy XV's Main Story Will Take 50 Hours to Complete And what's this about airships....?
03/28/16	Bravely Second: End Layer Trailer Arrives Ahead of April Release Luckily, you don't need to watch it 4 times to get the true ending.
03/28/16	Random Encounter - Episode 107 Tasty...
03/26/16	RPGFan Music: Tales of Zestiria OST Review You'll be "sorey" you didn't check this out!
03/26/16	RPGFan Sunday Streaming: Odin Sphere Leifthrasir It's in Japanese, so wish us luck...
03/25/16	New Launch Trailer Celebrates the Japanese Release of Dark Souls III Yup, looks hard.
03/25/16	New Tails of Berseria Characters Join the Cast Sexy witch and cat-thing, check.
03/25/16	Star Ocean 5 TV Spots Cover Story and Combat Oh hey Star Ocean 5 is coming out soon.
03/25/16	The Banner Saga 2 Arrives This April Better late than never!
03/25/16	Pokemon GO Gameplay Explained Catch 'em all, right?
03/25/16	Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow 3DS Review This is my grandson. ...Erm, what is his name again?
03/25/16	ClaDun Sengoku Gets a Full-Length Trailer A ClaDun RPG with a dash of history
03/23/16	Digimon World: Next Order Gameplay Trailer Highlights Digivolutions Digimon is back in a big way.
03/23/16	Story of Seasons Sequel Launching June 23rd in Japan The perfect game for whiling away your summer.
03/23/16	Pre-Order Bravely Second from Best Buy for Gathelatio Costume Set First dibs on the demo, and now this.
03/23/16	Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness Out This Summer In The West We'll return to the stars once again.
03/22/16	King's Quest Episode 3 Arrives in April Finally!
03/22/16	Final Fantasy XIV Free Login Campaign Returns Four free days of fun.
03/21/16	Sorcery! Part 1 & 2 Review How can I keep my fingers between the pages of a virtual book?
03/20/16	Forums Experiencing Technical Difficulties You know its Sunday when...
03/19/16	Bar Oasis 2: Aftertaste 01 Receives Early Soundtrack Release Tunes to listen to while enjoying a nice cup of milk at the bar.
03/19/16	Atelier Sophie's Western Release Date is This June Unlock the mysteries of the mysterious book.
03/19/16	Star Ocean 5 Videos Cover Battles, Private Actions, and Welch Vineyard Still in Japanese though.
03/19/16	RPGFan Sunday Streaming: Danganronpa A high school whodunit we might not survive.
03/18/16	Flowers -Le volume sur printemps- Preview Hands-on time with a visual novel coming later this spring.
03/18/16	Pokémon Sun and Moon First Details Coming Next Month I hope we get to see the new starters.
03/18/16	NIS Reveals First Coven and Labyrinth of Refrain Trailer More dungeon RPGs coming to Vita.
03/18/16	Zero Time Dilemma Gets Release Date, PC Version, and First Trailer The time for hype is nigh.
03/18/16	Romancing Saga 2 for Vita and Mobile Launching March 24 in Japan And we have the trailer to celebrate the occasion!
03/17/16	Oxenfree Review Gotta be a hide and seek reference, right?
03/17/16	Watch the First Gameplay Footage of System Shock Remastered Not to be confused with the recent rerelease.
03/17/16	Square Enix Might Consider Vita Version of I Am Setsuna Ask and ye may receive.
03/17/16	Unreal 4 Sizzle Reel Teases Footage from FFVII, Kingdom Hearts III, More Don't blink or you'll miss it.
03/17/16	See the Latest Action with New Dark Souls III Media Yes, people die.
03/16/16	RPGFan on Twitch: Grandia II Schedule Change Actually, the broadcast stayed the same. It's US that changed.
03/16/16	Stranger of Sword City Preview Swords can be strange, when you're a stranger.
03/15/16	Random Encounter - Episode 106 Too. Many. Subtitles.
03/15/16	New Star Ocean 5 Media Introduces Important NPCs and Combat Tactics Behold!
03/15/16	Japanese Gamers Can Try Dragon Quest X for Free Through March 31 The first hit is always free.
03/15/16	Ikenie to Yuki no Setsuna Being Localized as I Am Setsuna Western release slated for summer 2016, no Vita version.
03/15/16	The Participants of Zero Time Dilemma Have Been Confirmed Some familiar faces and some new ones. What secrets do they hold?
03/15/16	Bravely Second: End Layer Trailer Highlights 9 New Jobs Out of a total of 12.
03/15/16	First Trailer and Screenshots for Etrian Odyssey V There's some sweet dungeon crawling in your future, let me tell you.
03/15/16	Tales of Beseria Third Trailer Goes Live Maglieux gets some screentime.
03/15/16	Danganropa 2 Launches on Steam April 18th. Monokuma can't be stopped!
03/15/16	Exist Archive Gets Free Star Ocean 5 DLC Costumes We are never getting this over in the west, are we?
03/15/16	Bloodstained Shader Feedback Results Have Been Announced And the winner is "Background 3/ Character 3."
03/14/16	RPGFan Music: The Legend of Zelda A Link Between Worlds Sound Selection Review And a link to musical excellence!
03/14/16	Retro Encounter 12: Juniper's Knot We find a reason to stay awake a little longer.
03/14/16	Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright Review What kind of Birthright did Awakening leave?
03/13/16	We're Experiencing Technical Difficulties Oh no!
03/12/16	RPGFan Sunday Streaming: The Division Don't forget Tom Clancy!
03/11/16	The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd Coming Westward in 2017 Oh, XSEED, you spoil us. Also, Cold Steel II has a release window!
03/11/16	Aveyond 4 Review Aved, Avath, and Aveyond.
03/11/16	Maglieux and Bienphu Revealed for Tales of Berseria This by way of the magazine Weekly Jump
03/10/16	Watch The Full-Length Trailer For FuRyu's New RPG Caligula Plus some snazzy bonus illustrations.
03/10/16	Ys VIII Available for PlayStation Vita July 2016, PS4 in 2017 Why the delay? I'm curious, too.
03/10/16	Check Out These New Final Fantasy XIV Developer Videos Learn about the game's sound, lore, and writing, straight from the devs.
03/10/16	Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness Preview Arriving soon in Japan.
03/10/16	Valkyria Chronicles Remastered Comes West this May With new trailer to raise the excitement.
03/10/16	Tales of the Rays Trailer Introduces New Protagonists Get your sunscreen.
03/10/16	Steins;Gate Review Not Steinman, just Stein.
03/09/16	Star Ocean 5 for PS3 Delayed In Japan, New Comparison Video Available Plus a brand-new villain.
03/08/16	Phantasy Star Online 2 Opening Cinematic is Beautiful, Confusing A mash up of mechs, sci-fi ninjas, and battleships.
03/08/16	Firewatch Developer Wants Your Help to Translate the Game Now that's next-level crowdsourcing.
03/08/16	Day of the Tentacle Remastered Launches on March 22nd And that day will be known as the day of the...
03/08/16	Ace Attorney 6 Hits Japan on June 9th (insert courtroom pun here).
03/08/16	Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth Review Digital monsters make the best cyber sleuths!
03/08/16	Fable Legends Cancelled, Lionhead Studios Up For Possible Closure Our hearts go out to everyone whose livelihood has been affected by these changes.
03/08/16	Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book Trademarked in Europe The game will likely be coming west soon!
03/07/16	Deck13's The Surge Coming in 2017 A new action RPG from the people behind Lords of the Fallen.
03/07/16	First Look at DONTNOD's Vampyr Hunt? Heal? It's your choice.
03/07/16	Retro Encounter 11: To The Moon Remember, going to space will solve all your problems.
03/07/16	Upcoming Action-RPG Shiness Trailer Looks Shiney Shine on.
03/07/16	Check Out The First English Trailer For Star Ocean 5 Hopefully, not as bad as Star Ocean 4's dub.
03/07/16	IBM Japan Announced Sword Art Online Virtual Reality Project This can only end well.
03/07/16	Square Enix Details Great Rider Cup in Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 Ride on, for glory!
03/07/16	Field Test Sign-Ups Now Open For Pokémon Go This is as close as you may get to being a true-blue Pokémon Master.
03/06/16	Lucien Dodge Interview No doge jokes here.
03/06/16	Firewatch Review Hey babe... Take a walk on the wild side.
03/06/16	Temporary Forum Outage - Resolved! We're back!
03/05/16	A Closer Look at Nights of Azure's Demon Helpers and Transformations Because calling your helpers "Servans" is one letter short of being demeaning. Demon-ing? Dem... never mind.
03/05/16	RPGFan Sunday Streaming: Diablo II Can you believe it's almost 16 years old?
03/05/16	Meet Fegor, Ashmedia, and Mammon of Trillion: God of Destruction I'm not saying you shouldn't read this one at work, buuuuuut....
03/05/16	Blizzard Now Hiring For New Diablo Title Could this be Diablo 4? A new expansion pack? A spinoff?
03/05/16	See the Latest on Tales of Berseria's World, Characters, Combat Velvet won't be alone on her journey.
03/05/16	Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward Patch 3.1 Review Heavensward's first major update is thankfully more light than darkness.
03/04/16	Our 20 Year Journey to be Pokemon Masters 20 years? I need a drink... Oh, maybe next year...
03/04/16	Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Hitting Western Shores on June 24th Ahh, TMS is SMT backwards. Clever.
03/04/16	Super Nintendo RPGs Coming to New 3DS Virtual Console For the purposes of this story, Zelda games are RPGs.
03/03/16	North American Release of Dragon Quest VII Coming 'Later' in 2016 First we had 'summer,' now we have 'later.'
03/03/16	Star Ocean 5 Receives its Final, Story-Driven, Trailer in 5th Livestream It looks to hit all the right notes.
03/03/16	Bravely Second Demo Coming to North America on March 10th Yes, yes, yes, finally!
03/03/16	Paper Mario: Color Splash Unveiled for Wii U Looks like Paper Mario is a big fan of Splatoon.
03/03/16	More Censorship Discovered in Western Release of Bravely Second Guys, does this really matter?
03/02/16	RPGFan Interviews: Kira Buckland The actress shares advice about the gaming industry, her own career, and even her daily coffee obsession.
03/01/16	Enjoy the Debut Trailer for Dragon Quest Heroes II Hope the first one did well enough that we get this Stateside.
03/01/16	Etrian Odyssey V Officially Announced for 3DS About time!
03/01/16	Find 50 Minutes of Digimon World: Next Order Footage Here Quite a change from being a Cyber Sleuth.
03/01/16	Even More Hands-On With Dark Souls III One more pre-release look at the latest entry in the series.
03/01/16	Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale Review Cows, chickens, and a whole lotta fairydust.
03/01/16	Grand Kingdom New English Trailer and Media It's war for fun and profit!
03/01/16	Shenmue III is Still Alive and Gets A New Work-in-Progress Video Why do I always feel like this game will never be released?
03/01/16	Shenmue III is Still Alive and Gets A New Work-in-Progress Video Why do I always feel like this game will never be released?
03/01/16	Dissidia Final Fantasy Arcade To Add Alexandria Stage This March Now they just need to add Vivi, and everything will be perfect.

That guy from Burgertime has really changed.

It's all here.

It hasn't been Bob's favorite so far, but at least it's not Minecraft.

It's about time!

Keeping my fingers crossed for the new starters.

This game is sounding more and more Persona-esque by the day.

Tactical combat from Spike Chunsoft.

Daybreak is the worst time of day.

The new stage of the Anima weapon starts today!

And what's this about airships....?

Luckily, you don't need to watch it 4 times to get the true ending.

Tasty...

You'll be "sorey" you didn't check this out!

It's in Japanese, so wish us luck...

Yup, looks hard.

Sexy witch and cat-thing, check.

Oh hey Star Ocean 5 is coming out soon.

Better late than never!

Catch 'em all, right?

This is my grandson. ...Erm, what is his name again?

A ClaDun RPG with a dash of history

Digimon is back in a big way.

The perfect game for whiling away your summer.

First dibs on the demo, and now this.

We'll return to the stars once again.

Finally!

Four free days of fun.

How can I keep my fingers between the pages of a virtual book?

You know its Sunday when...

Tunes to listen to while enjoying a nice cup of milk at the bar.

Unlock the mysteries of the mysterious book.

Still in Japanese though.

A high school whodunit we might not survive.

Hands-on time with a visual novel coming later this spring.

I hope we get to see the new starters.

More dungeon RPGs coming to Vita.

The time for hype is nigh.

And we have the trailer to celebrate the occasion!

Gotta be a hide and seek reference, right?

Not to be confused with the recent rerelease.

Ask and ye may receive.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

Yes, people die.

Actually, the broadcast stayed the same. It's US that changed.

Swords can be strange, when you're a stranger.

Too. Many. Subtitles.

Behold!

The first hit is always free.

Western release slated for summer 2016, no Vita version.

Some familiar faces and some new ones. What secrets do they hold?

Out of a total of 12.

There's some sweet dungeon crawling in your future, let me tell you.

Maglieux gets some screentime.

Monokuma can't be stopped!

We are never getting this over in the west, are we?

And the winner is "Background 3/ Character 3."

And a link to musical excellence!

We find a reason to stay awake a little longer.

What kind of Birthright did Awakening leave?

Oh no!

Don't forget Tom Clancy!

Oh, XSEED, you spoil us. Also, Cold Steel II has a release window!

Aved, Avath, and Aveyond.

This by way of the magazine Weekly Jump

Plus some snazzy bonus illustrations.

Why the delay? I'm curious, too.

Learn about the game's sound, lore, and writing, straight from the devs.

Arriving soon in Japan.

With new trailer to raise the excitement.

Get your sunscreen.

Not Steinman, just Stein.

Plus a brand-new villain.

A mash up of mechs, sci-fi ninjas, and battleships.

Now that's next-level crowdsourcing.

And that day will be known as the day of the...