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Steam News · Jun 24, 2021
There are beloved boutique Japanese studios, and then there's Falcom; a true grandee about to celebrate its 40th anniversary, the company traces its beginnings back to a hobbyist shop selling PCs and Apple IIIs as well as the curious games people were coding for them, before turning to making those games themselves. The studio has stayed purposefully modest ever since, still employing just over 60...
Steam News · Oct 6, 2019
Founded in 1981, Falcom is the longest-running RPG developer in Japan, even though it's dwarfed by its closest rivals in terms of size, production values, and international recognition. Today, the company remains a modest size of 62 employees, perhaps attributed to its founder Masayuki Kato, who often joked that he didn't want to make it any bigger because he didn't really like people. But when yo...
Steam News · Nov 5, 2018
Hi everyone! We have released an update for Trails of Cold Steel 1, bringing it to version 1.6. This version adds a highly requested new feature, some smaller bug fixes and improvements, and surprise leaderboards. New features: - Added an option for Japanese voice language. - Added 4 Steam leaderboards. Compare your scores against your Steam friends -- and everyone else -- in Total Battle Victorie...
Steam News · Feb 17, 2018
Localisation studio Xseed Games is doing a stellar job bringing Nihon Falcom's JRPGs to PC, and the latest has just arrived. 2014's The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 2 is now out on Steam, GOG and the Humble Store. It's in no small part thanks to Peter 'Durante' Thoman—the modder that fixed Dark Souls on PC—who has worked with Xseed on numerous ports...
Steam News · Jan 27, 2018
The PC port of JRPG The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 2 will release on February 14, localisation studio Xseed games announced in a livestream of the game yesterday. It was the first time we've seen a good portion of it running on PC, and it went smoothly—if you were a fan of the previous game, it might be worth a watch, and for anyone not familiar with the series it's a ...
Steam News · Dec 19, 2017
Durante keeps making PC gaming better. The modder who fixed Dark Souls, has analyzed PC ports here at PC Gamer and written about the features all PC games should have , has more recently been working with localization studio XSeed to improve their PC games like Little King's Story and The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel. He's also working on the PC port for Trails of Cold Steel 2...
Steam News · Dec 4, 2017
Patch notes courtesy of Durante Hi everyone! I just released a new patch which makes a number of improvements. Bug fixes Fix rendering bug affecting "stealth" effects (i.e. Airgetlam fading in/out) Fix Z ordering error with some transparent effects when HBAO is active (this error was introduced in 1.4) Fix camera positioning issue at 60 FPS in a Chapter 5 cutscene (Eisengraf) Graphics improvements...
Steam News · Aug 14, 2017
Patch notes courtesy of Durante. Hello again everyone! Version 1.2.1 contains several bug fixes, some optimizations, and a few new features, including the highly requested autosaves! The full changelog from version 1.1 follows: Bug fixes Fix unlocking of "Cold Steel Conqueror" achievement. (Note: should retroactively unlock as soon as you start the game if you fulfill the prerequisites) Fix potent...