In fact, prominent leaker NateTheHate recently threw his weight behind those claims again. Spotted by VGC, in the lead-up to last week’s State of Play presentation, the leaker claimed that both titles were still very much in “active development”. As per the leaker, neither will is expected to release in 2025, but he claims Final Fantasy 9 Remake in particular could release sometime in 2026.

What that means for when Square Enix will choose to announce these titles is anyone’s guess. A Nintendo Direct presentation focused on the Switch 2 is scheduled for April 2, which might presumably serve as a suitable stage for such reveals- though that’s purely speculation at this point.

Both remain in active development. FFIXR isn’t expected to see release in 2025. Maybe we’ll see it launch in 2026.

— NateTheHate2 (@NateTheHate2) February 9, 2025

Not that I’ve heard.

— NateTheHate2 (@NateTheHate2) February 10, 2025

In a recent interview with TheGamer, when asked about whether there was any likelihood of seeing a Tactics spinoff for Final Fantasy 16, Yoshida said that though FF16’s setting and core mechanics wouldn’t lend themselves to a tactics game very well, the series as a whole does fit that genre, adding that it’s “probably about time” a new Tactics game was developed.

“How would we even do the Eikon versus Eikon battles in that style?” Yoshida said. “If you have the Eikons, how many squares is an Eikon going to be? You have more people out there as well, so what about the wait time in between? … But the series does lend itself well to that kind of storytelling, and we love Tactics as well. It’s probably about time that we do a new one.”

Final Fantasy Tactics remaster was first spotted in a massive list of unannounced titles in 2021’s GeForce Now leak. In February last year, journalist Jason Schreier seemed to reaffirm the game’s existence, but later in the year, Final Fantasy Tactics creator Yasumi Matsuno said there were no “current” plans to bring the series back.

Responding to a question on X, Matsuno states that fans would have to ask Square Enix about the potential remaster, and that it’s all he can say in his position. For the sake of reference, Matsuno is one of the people credit with the Ivalice sub-series in Final Fantasy, with titles like Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy 12 being parts of the Ivalice setting.

Back in February, Bloomberg’s Jason Schrier stated that a remaster of Final Fantasy Tactics was in the works. Square Enix itself hasn’t made any real announcement about the game, and the last we heard of any game set in Ivalice was Final Fantasy 14: Stormblood‘s Alliance Raid setting, which featured characters from Final Fantasy Tactics.

Final Fantasy Tactics was originally released on the PlayStation One back in 1997 in Japan. The game has since been ported to PlayStation Portable as Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions in 2007, and eventually made its way on to iOS devices.

https://twitter.com/YasumiMatsuno/status/1729771931522470343

If that weren’t enough, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier says it’s “coming,” in a recent tweet. He didn’t specify anything further, so he’s either repeating established rumors or not at liberty to say more. Your guess is as good as ours.

First released in 1997 for Japan on the PlayStation One, Final Fantasy Tactics is a turn-based tactical RPG. It’s the first game in the series to introduce the setting of Ivalice and featured several developers who worked on the Ogre Battle series (to which Tactics Ogre is related). Renowned as one of the best games ever made, it was ported to the PlayStation Portable as Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions in 2007.

Coming

— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) February 17, 2023

Dark Souls Remastered

Combat in FromSoftware games always has a straightforward explanation – hit this button to attack, this button to dodge etc. However, the greater nuances like stamina management, invincibility frames while rolling, the significance of certain stats and what to build towards take more time to understand. That’s not even considering the design of bosses in games like Dark Souls Remastered or the order to go to certain areas given the game’s world design. Suffice it to say but if this or the original was your first Dark Souls, it was a struggle.

C’thun – World of Warcraft (2006)

If you were bold enough to battle C’thun in World of Warcraft, then you were in for some pain. Introduced with patch 1.9 in 2006, C’thun was insanely tough, randomly swallowing select players and digesting them slowly. Such was C’thun’s power that he could insta-kill raid group members with a single beam attack. Even weakening him for short periods of time did little to affect his health. When Blizzard realized that C’thun was effectively unbalanced, it stepped in to nerf him. Those who were there, however, will remember his terror forever.

Good news; Final Fantasy Tactics: War Of The Lions still exists! The game has been delayed till late July, for which assistant producer Shiina is very sorry. But, in a bid to smooth things over, Shinna has answered a few questions on the upcoming title:

Is the slow-down problem solved?

Yes! It’s definitely faster, comfortable to play.

We’ll show it in the trailer or a movie clip.

Is it a universal app?

No. We’ll release iPhone ver and iPad ver both.

When will you release the iPad version?

Now we plan to release it 1 month later than iPhone version.

Supported 3GS?

Yes! Absolutely!

3G also supported?

No. We tried to support 3G but it was toooo slow to play the game.

Does it have the Multiplayer mode.

Nope. We had to cut it off for iOS devices.

Add-ons?

No. We don’t plan to release add-ons now.

Did you add the autosave function?

Yes! Exactly!

If you get a phone call, the game will be automatically saved and you can get back to the game immediately.

Honestly…it took much time to add this function. It made the dev team exhausted.

Thanks to Siliconera for the info.

Final Fantasy Tactics ‘War Of The Lions’ should be hitting the iPhone/iPod touch late June or early July. No release window has been given for the iPad version, which wil be running at a higher resolution.

Thanks to IGN for the info.