Final Fantasy VII hero Cloud Strife is being immortalized in a new 25th-anniversary action figure… that also comes with an NFT.

Square Enix announced that the upcoming Cloud Strife figurine will include an NFT as part of the purchase – using the blockchain as a digital certificate of authenticity as well as a “digital version of the figure.”

“The digital plus edition is a set product of physical action figure with one each of exchange tickets to redeem digital certificate of authenticity and digital version of the figure,” reads the description. “Both digital certificate of authenticity and digital version of the figure are managed by the block chain technology known as NFTs. Digital certificate of authenticity provides proof of authenticity for your original purchase of the figure.”

“Digital version of the figure can be enjoyed on your smart phone or your PC through dedicated website,” they added.

Quite how you will ‘enjoy’ your figurine via smartphone or PC remains to be seen. Will this be in the form of a 3D rendering? A JPEG? Who knows. But you’ll have to sign up to the Enjin NFT platform to find out.

The figuring itself costs $159.99 and is available to pre-order now. It’s due for release in November 2023, along with both exchange tickets for the digital version and a certificate of authenticity.

Additionally, Square Enix will be attaching NFTs to some of its trading cards. According to CNET, the company will release a Final Fantasy VII trading card set next year, with NFTs bundled into packs as standard. Anyone who buys packs of trading cards will be able to redeem a digital version that exists as an NFT.

Still, fans and NFT critics aren’t too happy.

It's actually ironic as hell that Cloud's game is about saving the planet and yet Square Enix really has the audacity to slap an nft on his new figure pic.twitter.com/XgNyDnkLmR

— Marci🌹 (@MarcelinaRose_) July 21, 2022

Will NFTs really make a good replacement for the old certificate of authenticity? And how can you enjoy an NFT anyway? I guess we’ll find out next year.

Want to find out more about Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade? Check out our review of the Intermission DLC and find out why they went with Yuffie over Cid and Vincent.

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Update 07/21: Sony appears to have now fixed the issue affecting PS5 users claiming the Intergrade bundle of Final Fantasy 7 Remake. As reported by VGC, it is now possible to claim the package even if you previously owned the PS5 version of FF7 Remake. Should you do so and already have the game installed, your console should download just the Intermission DLC.

Final Fantasy VII Remake players can’t claim the PS5 Intergrade bundle via PS Plus.

A quirk in the PlayStation Store means that those who already own the remake are unable to claim the Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade bundle which has just been added to PS Plus Extra.

Intergrade, the upgraded PS5 version of Remake, includes the new episode Intermission – a spin-off story that features Yuffie as a playable character.

Unfortunately, if you already own the Final Fantasy VII Remake on PS5, you’re locked out from being able to claim or download the new bundle. Instead, you’ll find the following message:

“You can’t buy this product for the following reasons. You already own the following products, which conflict with the product you’re trying to buy: Final Fantasy VII Remake.”

This purchase error has actually existed for some time – players who upgraded from the PS4 version of Final Fantasy VII Remake to the PS5 version are then unable to buy or claim Intergrade. However, there’s never been a reason to do so, until now.

The Intermission DLC is available to purchase separately for $19.99, meaning that upgraders only had to purchase the DLC separately to gain access to the new content. But with Intergrade’s addition to PS Plus Extra, there’s a good reason to want the whole bundle. It is ‘free’ to PS Plus Extra users, after all.

This essentially means that PS5 players with access to PS Plus Extra will have to buy the Intermission DLC separately, whereas everyone who never owned FF7 Remake in the first place will get the content as part of their subscription.

A simple fix would be to include the Intermission DLC on PS Plus Extra, allowing PS5 upgraders to claim the extra content for free, just like everyone else. But right now, that’s not what’s on offer. And Final Fantasy VII fans aren’t happy.

“I hope this forces their hand,” said one user on Reddit. “I bought FF7 physical last year, and claimed the PS+ version, but have not been able to claim the PS5 upgrade for my digital copy.”

IGN has reached out to both Square Enix and Sony for comment.

Want to find out more about Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade? Check out our review of the Intermission DLC and find out why they went with Yuffie over Cid and Vincent.

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

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Paramount Pictures and eOne have unveiled the first glimpse at their upcoming fantasy film Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves via a series a shots showcasing the cast of the film in full costume.

The images, which feature stars Hugh Grant, Michelle Rodríguez, Chris Pine, Justice Smith, and Sophia Lillis, can be seen in the gallery below.

Little is officially known about the film, but an apparent synopsis discovered back in 2021 indicated the plot would involve a thief assembling a crew in the wake of a botched heist, in order to rob a traitorous
conman who stole all his loot.

Hugh Grant has been confirmed to be playing Forge Fletcher, the main villain.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves will release on March 3, 2023 after several years of delays.

To hear more from some of the cast and crew of the film, IGN will be hosting a TikTok Live at the Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Tavern Experience at San Diego Comic-Con on Wednesday, July 20.

Luke is Games Editor at IGN's Sydney office. You can chat to him on Twitter @MrLukeReilly.

Spider-Man Remastered is swinging onto PCs soon, and today, the official PlayStation blog revealed some of the new graphical features that will be available, assuming your PC can keep up with all the web slinging.

Spider-Man will look extra smooth swinging through the Big Apple thanks to DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling). DLSS “increases graphics performance using dedicated Tensor Core AI processors found only on GeForce RTX GPUs, boosting frame rates with uncompromised image quality.”

If you’re a person with many monitors, you’re in luck! Spider-Man Remastered will support a number of display rations including NVIDIA Surround multi-monitor setups, ultrawide 21:9, and panoramic 32:9. You’ll also be able to customize a number of graphical options including SSAO, texture filtering, LoD quality, shadows, and more.

For gamers who haven’t gotten a chance to experience the scope of the PS5’s DualSense Controller, the game will support adaptive trigger feedback and haptic response as you take down baddies. This, however, will require the controller to be connected via a wire to experience the full set of the controller’s features.

Insomniac's Spider-Man games have been a huge hit – reaching 33 million units sold in June. Be sure to check out today’s trailer that dropped showing off a number of the features on the PC version of Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered. The game’s spin-off, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, is heading to PCs sometime this fall.

In our review for the PlayStation version of Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered we gave it a 9/10 and called it “the definitive version of one of the best superhero games ever made.” Spidey web slings onto PCs August 12, 2022.

Casey is a freelance writer for IGN. You can usually find him talking about JRPGs on Twitter at @caseydavidmt.