{"id":672517,"date":"2026-01-04T03:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/672517\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T03:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:49:12","slug":"dragon-quest-40th-anniversary-logo-revealed-expect-various-announcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/672517\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Quest 40th Anniversary Logo Revealed, Expect &#8220;Various Announcements&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Dragon Quest\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d998cd4ca481a\/dragon-quest.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dragon-quest.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"563\" alt=\"Dragon Quest\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2026 is a big year for video game anniversaries, and one of the many celebrations already getting underway is for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/dragon_quest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dragon Quest<\/a> series.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the long-running role-playing series will turn 40 years old. To kick things off, Square Enix and its official Dragon Quest social accounts have now shared a look at the official anniversary logo.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it features the well-known and recurring Slime monster, and also displays the date 1986, which lines up with the release of the original Dragon Quest title on the Famicom.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p>Happy New Year, Dragon Questers! <\/p>\n<p>This year marks the 40th anniversary of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DragonQuest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DragonQuest<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Please look forward to various announcements in celebration of the anniversary. Thank you for your continued support \ud83d\udc99 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cTU0S2meLC\">pic.twitter.com\/cTU0S2meLC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DRAGON QUEST (@DragonQuest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DragonQuest\/status\/2006757310673395980?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As you can see, there&#8217;s also a message attached, mentioning how fans can look forward to &#8220;various announcements&#8221; in celebration of the big occasion.<\/p>\n<p>One game due out next month is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/dragon-quest-vii-reimagined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined<\/a> for the Switch and Switch 2. It will follow last year&#8217;s release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/dragon-quest-i-and-ii-hd-2d-remake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dragon Quest I &amp; II HD Remake<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to the anniversary celebrations for Dragon Quest? What would you like to see? Tell us in the comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/mynintendonews.com\/2026\/01\/02\/dragon-quest-40th-anniversary-logo-revealed-announcements-planned\/\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mynintendonews.com\/2026\/01\/02\/dragon-quest-40th-anniversary-logo-revealed-announcements-planned\/\" target=\"_blank\">mynintendonews.com<\/a>, via <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/x.com\/DragonQuest\/status\/2006757310673395980\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DragonQuest\/status\/2006757310673395980\">x.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753583769_175_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Doolan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 is a big year for video game anniversaries, and one of the many celebrations already getting underway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[143423,123,270,613,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-672517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-dragon-quest","9":"tag-nintendo-switch","10":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","11":"tag-square-enix","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115834792693430257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}