Category: Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Rumours of a Final Fantasy IX remake have been remaking themselves part of the discourse for several years now, sparked by the announcement of an animated series and a Nvidia leak back in 2021, and stoked by manifestations of several other Squeenix games from the leaked Geforce list. Now, Square Enix have added a dedicated 25th anniversary page flogging figures, spectacles, and other charming tat to their website.

The JRPG‘s 25th cake day isn’t until July 7th, but this new page lines up with claims from Oblivion remake leaker NateTheHate that we’re getting closer to an announcement, if not a release. Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier has also claimed that the Final Final Tactics remaster is still being worked on – a rumour that’s been twinned with the FF9 one for about as long as it’s been floating about.

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Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week – our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! I woke from a terrible nightmare last night. I’d just released a book and every three or so pages, the publisher had inserted a double page spread trying to sell the reader a wireless mouse with Minecraft movie Jack Black’s gormless, gouty grin on it, turning my carefully curated atmosphere to shit! Phew. Thank goodness it was just a nightmare! Just an utter, utter nightmare.

Anyway, never mind all that. The sun is out, and books still exist and are and mostly advertisement free! Here to talk about them this week is game maker, Dicey Dungeons writer, Now Play This festival founder, and The Husbands author, Holly Gramazio! Cheers Holly! Mind if we have a nose at your bookshelf?

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There’s a lot we still don’t know about GTA 6, but probably the most annoying thing that has gone unanswered is just when it’s coming out. Not annoying in the sense of, “oh golly gosh I’m so excited please I need to know”, more “come on now, just get it over with!” It’s just a whole thing, and I wish it wasn’t, but Rockstar and their owner Take-Two also clearly know it’s a whole thing, and are riding on that very fact. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick recently spoke with Bloomberg about a whole bunch of bits, and of course the question of when GTA 6 is coming out came up.

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We can probably all agree that planting trees is pretty much universally good, right? I can’t really imagine a scenario where planting a tree is a bad thing, we need them to live after all. If you’re not into planting trees you’re probably an oil tycoon, or a squirrel with incredibly bad survival instincts. If you are, though, might I interest you in Treeplanter, a game whose name is exactly what it says on the tin? It was announced just yesterday, and looks quite, quite lovely.

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Look, not every dating sim under the sun is insatiably horny, but I don’t think you can argue that Date Everything! isn’t. Like, the whole game is about how you can date everything, from a chair, to a clock, to a fridge. There’s literally 100 different objects you can date, this is somebody’s something for sure. And, as revealed in a new trailer earlier this week, as it turns out all you tabletop fiends out there will be able to date a twenty-sided die.

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Bah, it’s never fun writing one of these, but unfortunately Myst and Riven developer Cyan Worlds have laid off 12 of its staff members this week, supposedly cutting the studio by about half. Cyan shared the news on its social media accounts yesterday, noting that “industry conditions” have “forced” the studio to “weigh the future health of our studio against the month-to-month realities of game development in 2025.”

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Have you been Everywhere? Not like, literally, everywhere, but Everywhere, that sort of Roblox, sort of Fortnite, everything game from Build A Rocket Boy, a studio founded by ex-Rockstar dev and GTA 3 to 5 producer Leslie Benzies. That whole, uh, interactive experience or whatever you want to call it still seems to be in beta. But the first project spun off from it, MindsEye, a near-future action game that really just looks like slightly sci-fi GTA, now has a release date: June 10th, later this year. Except, I’m a little bit confused by it.

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It’s click season, and Amazon’s Spring Sale has some absolute bangers lined up for your next mouse upgrade. Whether you’re grinding out ranked in Valorant or just need something smoother than your office-issued brick, now’s the time to strike. Prices are slashed, specs are stacked, and your K/D ratio is crying out for better gear.

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We last wrote about immersive sim sequel System Shock 3 back in 2020, when then-developers Otherside sold the franchise to megapublisher Tencent. Development of the series later passed to remaster specialists Nightdive Studios, who’ve already overhauled the first game and are currently working on a remaster of System Shock 2 for release in June.

Now, Nightdive have popped up with news that the System Shock 3 project survives, in some form, and that we could get clarification as to its status “potentially within a year”. Don’t call it a comeback, do call it a sign of life.

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I’ve never trusted anyone who says their keyboard is “just fine.” If your spacebar sounds like a rusty stapler and your RGB barely flickers, it’s time to stop pretending. You deserve better. The Amazon Spring Sale is stacked with gaming keyboards that actually keep up with your reflexes and don’t sound like you’re punching a calculator from 1994.

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