Final Fantasy XVI is finally making its way to PC. The official X (formerly Twitter) account announced Monday that the former PlayStation 5 exclusive will release September 17 on Steam and Epic Games Store.
You can wishlist or preorder the game now on both platforms, and there’s a free demo also now available that lets you play through the opening section and a special Eikonic Challenge mode just for the demo. If you preorder, you’ll get a few bonuses: the Cait Sith’s Charm, the Sixteen Bells Orchestrion Roll item, and the Brave Blade weapon. You can get the base game standard edition for $50 or you can pay $70 to get the Complete Edition, which comes with the two released DLC: Echoes of the Fallen and The Rising Tide.
The last few mainline Final Fantasy games have gotten PC ports a year or two after launch, although where they’ve been available has varied. Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition released on Steam, but the PC port of Final Fantasy VII Remake was only available on Epic Games Store for a few months before hitting Steam. Final Fantasy XVI, thankfully, is hitting both Epic Games Store and Steam on the same day.
Players have been on the lookout for this announcement since producer Naoki Yoshida revealed to Game Informer (via IGN) in March that the PC port was in the “final stages of optimization. “When we can release the PC version might be dependent on that — the system requirements and specifications for PC that players will need, so we’re trying to figure that out. Naturally, [the PC specifications] are looking to be somewhat high,” Yoshida said.
While the PC port will be huge — 170 GB according to the Steam store page — the recommended system specs aren’t terrible considering this is a giant Final Fantasy game. Players should have at least an AMD Ryzen 7 5700X or Intel Core i7-10700 CPU and an AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT or Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080.
Imagine tapping a Zelda icon on your iPhone and jumping straight into Hyrule. A new open-source project called nxnative makes that possible by repackaging Switch games you’ve bought into apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with no emulator in the middle.
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The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”