If Final Fantasy wants to distinguish itself for future entries in the franchise, it’s going to need to revisit its roots eventually and recapture the magic that made Square Enix’s original game a breakout success so many years ago. Something that Final Fantasy XIV director and producer Naoki Yoshida would love to see in the next core numbered game.

For all the flack that Kingdom Hearts gets, it a series that knows what it is and unashamedly embraces its quirks and silliness. Sure, it has its fair share of melodrama but for Pete’s sake you’re a kid running around with Goofy and Donald Duck trying to save Disney themed worlds from evil monsters. It’s weird and it can be dumb…but hot damn do I love it.

The analysts over at the EEDAR decided to see just which game genres performed the best across various gaming systems, which saw the NPD group send out a survey to various players. The results? Well yeah, first-person shooters are still the most popular games around, and water is still wet.

There’s a certain charm to Trials and how it manages to make one victory worth a thousand failures, with each game from RedLynx generally being fun, lengthy and imaginative. While there’s plenty to do and create in Trials Rising this month, the studio is planning to launch plenty of extra content after release…for a price of course.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Anthem looks like a great 20-hour game, but it has an uphill battle on its hands if it wants to convince me to spend more time than that within its world. With the amount of hype, resources and development invested within Anthem, Bioware and EA need to make certain that this Big Mech with Cheese combo special is satisfying enough to keep players around not just for days, but months.

There’s a great story to be told across the Devil May Cry games, but the actual timeline doesn’t match up very coherently between games. One of the biggest plot holes in the chronology? The abysmal Devil May Cry 2, which kind of doesn’t make sense in the big picture of the franchise.

In the month of love, Xbox Game Pass is about to get even better. While Crackdown 3 is the biggest release of the month for Xbox Game Pass, it’s not the only high-profile game arriving. The second and fourth-best Batman games respectively, Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Akrham City, are also on the way, with Square Enix’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider rounding out the new releases.

It’s not often that we get to go into a game without any real knowledge of what to actually expect, but here we are! Apex Legends arrived out of nowhere, and the initial results have been more than just promising: They’ve been bloody brilliant. On the surface, Apex Legends ticks all the right battle royale boxes. It has a map that shrinks every few minutes, plenty of weapons to pick up and it handles beautifully.