Time ebbs and flows in Dragon Quest IX: Defenders of the Starry Sky. Like the recent DS remakes Dragon Quest IX will adopt the time cycle system. As you wander around the overworld the sun rises and sets which changes…

Finished Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen yet? Better get working on it. Chrono Trigger comes out in November and shortly afterwards Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride. Classic RPG fans can look forward to an English release…

Why does Square Enix keep revisiting old franchises and selling polished classics? People buy them. This sales chart is a slide from Square Enix’s second quarter financial briefing of fiscal year 2009, a quarter when Square Enix released more new…

There was an eight month interval between the release of Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen and Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride in Japan. North America might not have to wait as long for the next game in…

Dragon Quest IX wasn’t playable at Tokyo Game Show. We saw an awesome trailer, but that was it. If you want more information on Dragon Quest IX and possibly play it head back to the Makuhari Messe for Jump Fiesta on…

If you loitered around Square Enix’s Tokyo Game Show booth long enough you may have seen a Dragon Quest IX trailer which was sandwiched between clips of other Square Enix games not worthy enough to be shown in the Closed…

Dragon Quest IV is one of those rare games that makes me feel like a kid again.  Sure, it’s got a brand new sparkling coat on for the DS, but underneath, it’s still an old school role playing game –…

No, Dragon Quest IX: Hoshizora no Mamoribito (Dragon Quest IX: Defenders of the Starry Sky) won’t come out in 2008. Instead of announcing the bad news at the Tokyo Game Show Dragon Quest Special Stage event Square Enix sent out a…

Square Enix is giving the Dragon Quest series a 90 minute event during the two public days of Tokyo Game Show. Head to the event stage at hall 8 to catch Square Enix’s Dragon Quest Special Stage at 1:00 - 2:30…

It is a bit uncommon to see a videogame embrace the theme of playing through various generations of the protagonist’s life. Such a mechanic allows us to literally grow with and build a symbolic relationship with the character; and in…