A Final Fantasy Tactics remaster has been rumored since way back in 2021, but hopes are burning brighter than ever ahead of tomorrow's PlayStation State of Play. The game's original director, Yasumi Matsuno, retweeted – and hastily deleted – that announcement, which has driven the FFT fandom absolutely wild with speculation.

The retweet was captured on the Final Fantasy Tactics subreddit, since if you look at Matsuno's Twitter feed now you'll simply see his laments over Final Fantasy 14 mahjong matches. One would assume, of course, that Matsuno deleted his retweet to stave off any undue speculation, but naturally this has all had the opposite effect.

You can browse that Reddit thread for yourself if you want to enjoy varying degrees of copium and hopium from fans, but the sentiment is probably best summed up by this comment: "So you're saying there's a chance."

Rumors of a Final Fantasy Tactics started circling when it appeared among the games listed in a big Nvidia leak from 2021. The company called the game listings from that leak "speculative" at the time, but many of those them have since proven to be real, including Square Enix remasters like those for Chrono Cross and Tactics Ogre.

If you want a little extra fuel for the fire – in 2024, Bloomberg's Jason Schreier noted in a conspicuous Reddit comment that "the Final Fantasy Tactics remaster is real and happening." Today, Schreier is once again vagueposting about Final Fantasy Tactics. Take that as you will, but beware joining the Hollow Knight Silksong community in the pits of unending despair.

If this remaster is real it would, of course, be the second major rerelease for Final Fantasy Tactics, which was previously upgraded for a 2007 PSP release called War of the Lions. It's one of the best PSP games ever made and would certainly give a fine base for an even more modern remaster.

State of Play gives us an early stop on the road to Summer Game Fest. Check out the full Summer Game Fest schedule 2025 for everything you can expect this week.

For the very first time, new Elder Scrolls Online updates are moving the MMO's timeline beyond the events of the base game.

Starting in 2025, Zenimax Online ditched ESO's long-running update structure of dropping one massive annual expansion in the middle of themed years, adopting a seasonal release cadence in its place. Well, the first major update of the Seasons of the Worm Cult saga is out now on PC, and it's the first update in ESO history to put a lid on the story told in the base game.

"For the first time in ESO's history, that I'm aware of, we're moving the timeline forward. The story itself is advancing," said zone lead Jason Barnes in a recent preview attended by GamesRadar+. "We are basically saying, 'the events of the base game, which is Molag Bal's Planemeld, have already happened. Molag Bal is defeated, the Planemeld is ended, and the world is recovering.'"

Barnes was quick to stress that this advancement of the timeline in Seasons of the Worm Cult won't lock you out of any existing content. You can still play Seasons of the Worm Cult updates and then go back and play the base game, and the base game story will still be playable as ever. It's just that in the world of Seasons of the Worm Cult, everything that went down in the base game is in the past.

After years of asking, Elder Scrolls Online fans hear the 3 words they've dreamt of since playing WoW and Lord of the Rings Online: Difficulty options are "in the works"

The pre-release saga of MindsEye, the debut game from former Rockstar Games stalwart Leslie Benzies and his Build a Rocket Boy studio, has taken another strange twist. As noticed today by Eurogamer, Build a Rocket Boy's chief financial officer and chief legal officer have both left the company, just a week ahead of MindsEye's release.

Former chief legal officer Riley Graebner, who joined Build a Rocket Boy in 2022 and also served as chief operating officer until April 2024, announced his departure from the studio in a message posted to LinkedIn.

"After three and a half years my time at BARB has come to a close," Graebner wrote. "I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished. During that time we more than doubled the size of the company to over 450 employees. We launched multiple products worldwide. We built the legal team and legal ops infrastructure from the ground up, working to systemize and automate.

"I’m beyond excited for what’s next—but currently operating in stealth mode for a while longer. Stay tuned."

CFO Paul Bland didn't make any sort of public declaration about leaving BARB, but updated his LinkedIn profile to indicate that he'd parted ways with the company in June. Somewhat oddly, he seems to have subsequently changed his LinkedIn page: The Paul Bland page on the site (which I successfully visited earlier today) is gone, but the account itself remains available, at a different URL, under the name Paul B. I have no idea what to make of that, but it's weird.

The whole thing is weird, really. Executives come and go, it's true, but losing two C-suiters, effectively at the same time, and literally a week before the launch of the big thing you've been working on for years—well, it's not a very good look, is it?

There's no indication that anything untoward is going on behind the scenes, but even so their departures have caused an understandable ripple amongst some of the MindsEye community. As one person put it in the MindsEye Discord, "Two major players inside the company just resigned. That's concerning!" I'm inclined to agree.

Similar sentiments can be seen on the MindsEye subreddit, where people are already somewhat less than enthusiastic about the game due primarily to a relative dearth of information about it. Back when the metaverse was still a thing, MindsEye was billed as an experience taking place within the Everywhere platform, which has been kicking around—equally ill-explained—since 2016. But I know even less about Everywhere than I do about MindsEye at this point, and it seems to have fallen off the radar: The Everywhere website, for instance, now redirects to a MindsEye site—which is just a trailer and purchase links.

"They’ve done such an incredibly poor job explaining this game I still have no clue what it even is," redditor Greatnes wrote. "It’s just buzzwords and features with nothing linking them or explaining them. I’ve never had this issue with a game before with not even knowing what it is. Game is out in 13 days and they don’t seem interested in actually showing it off beyond carefully scripted gameplay trailers that don’t explain anything."

(MindsEye is, for the record, "a narrative driven, single-player action-adventure thriller" with an estimated 15-hour campaign—it looks a bit like GTA, but don't expect anything on that scale.)

The departures of Build a Rocket Boy's CFO and CLO come less than a week after the company's co-CEO Mark Gerhard caused a stir by claiming publicly that the negative reactions to MindsEye were part of a "concerted effort to trash the game and the studio" ahead of its release, being financed by an unnamed entity. That was not great either, and also very weird.

MindsEye is set to launch on June 10. I've reached out to Build a Rocket Boy for comment and will update if I receive a reply.

Happy Not-E3 month. We're officially in that short few weeks of the year where the games industry comes together to announce as much as humanly possible before dispersing to prepare for the same thing next summer. That means our event schedule is unsurprisingly packed, but let's not lose sight of all the PC game releases you can actually play in June.

June isn't quite as busy when compared to the beginning of 2025, and that's fine enough since so many of us still have May's late Elden Ring Nightreign launch to contend with. Mercifully, there are only a couple of games launching around Summer Game Fest showcase days, like Deltarune and Rune Factory.

But we've still got quite a few big PC games to watch in June, and the nature of several survival-crafting ordeals plus a few RPGs guarantees they'll be lengthy ones. I'm sure this list will grow much more chaotic with any Summer Game Fest surprises, but I've highlighted what I'm eyeing for now.

June's big PC release dates

June events and sales

• The PlayStation: State of Play kicks things off with a 40-minute showcase on June 4
• Summer Game Fest continues the spirit of E3 with its main showcase on June 6. There are a few highlighted here, but we've got a rolling SGF showcase schedule that includes where to watch everything.
• The Latin American Games Showcase airs on June 7, highlighting games from the LATAM region and Latin Americans around the world.
• The Future Game Show returns on June 7 with Critical Role's Laura Bailey and Matthew Mercer as hosts
• The Xbox Games Showcase takes place on June 8, and The Outer Worlds 2 Direct follows up immediately after
• Our very own PC Gaming Show returns on June 8—tune in to watch our hosts assemble 'The Rig'
• Black Voices in Gaming hosts its showcase on June 9, highlighting Black developers and artists worldwide
• Steam Next Fest begins on June 9 and runs through June 16, followed by the Steam Summer Sale beginning on June 26

More games releasing in June 2025

• June 5 — Deltarune Chapters 3&4 - Undertale's parallel story continues (Steam)
• June 5 — Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - More than farming (Steam)
• June 10 — MindsEye - A tale of big tech and government corruption (Steam)
• June 11— Stellar Blade - A Nier-like action RPG (Steam)
• June 13 — Five Nights At Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic (Steam)
• June 16 — Gex Trilogy - A sassy lizard collection from the '90s (Steam)
• June 17 — FBC: Firebreak - Remedy's 3-person co-op shooter (Steam)
• June 17 — Date Everything! - A "sandbox" dating sim (Steam)
• June 17 — Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond - The CCG's sequel (Steam)
• June 19 — Broken Arrow - Real-time modern warfare tactics game (Steam)
• June 20 — BitCraft Online - Massive, single-world fantasy MMO (Steam)
• June 20 — Gold Gold Adventure Gold - A city builder fueled by greed (Steam)
• June 26 — Persona 5: The Phantom X - P5's mobile spin-off (Steam)
• June ?? — Cast n Chill - Gone fishin', plus there's a dog (Steam)
• June ?? — Hell Clock - Dark fantasy Diablo-style ARPG (Steam)