While Square Enix has already announced plans to shut down Luminous Productions and reassign employees to other internal studios under the publisher's umbrella, work on Forspoken hasn't ended just yet. There is a story DLC on the way first, which now has a May release date. Forspoken's ‘In Tanta We …
Read More »Square Enix confirms Forspoken sales were ‘lacklustre’
Way back in 2021 when Square Enix first started raising its game prices to match the new $70 standard that Sony ushered in with the PS5, I talked a little bit about the negative impact this may have on Forspoken. While the game was highly anticipated at the time, the …
Read More »Forspoken devs reportedly had ideas for a sequel before Luminous shutdown
Luminous Productions won't be around for much longer, with Square Enix announcing plans to dissolve the studio and reassign employees to other projects within the company. As it turns out, the studio had multiple projects in the works before this news came down, including a potential Forspoken sequel. Forspoken launched …
Read More »Forspoken Studio being merged into Square Enix after just one game
It’s safe to say that Forspoken has not had the best launch. The open world title was the first game to be developed wholly under Luminous Productions – a studio formed primarily of Final Fantasy XV developers. Unfortunately, it seems as though this initiative did not pan out, as Luminous …
Read More »Forspoken devs promise patch to improve ‘performance, graphics and playability’
Forspoken didn't have the best launch, with technical issues impacting the experience, particularly on PC. Fortunately, there is a big patch on the way, which will aim to improve performance, graphics quality, ‘playability' and more. In an update this morning, Luminous Productions thanked players who have jumped into Forspoken so …
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