sifar 2003-09-17 0 comments
During its third annual Gamers' Day event in San Francisco, Sony Computer Entertainment announced that the 40GB PlayStation 2 harddisk drive will be available in the US sometime in March 2004 carrying a price tag of $99 US. It will ship with Square Enix's MMORPG Final Fantasy XI pre-installed. The PlayStation 2 version of the game will be published by...
sifar 2003-09-16 0 comments
Square Enix has added its PlayStation 2 strategy title Front Mission 4 as well as the Racjin-developed manga-based action RPG Hagane no Renkinjutsushi (Full Metal Alchemist) to its Tokyo Game Show 2003 line-up. Apart from these additions the company will exhibit the recently released Drag-on Dragoon (Drakengard), Shinyaku Seiken Densetsu (Sword of Mana), the PlayStation One remake of Front Mission...
sifar 2003-09-13 0 comments
Square Enix's Cavia-developed action RPG Drag-on Dragoon (Drakengard) has sold 76,438 copies on the day of its release, yesterday. Thereby the PlayStation 2 title reached a sell-through rate of 55.5%. Drakengard will be available on this side of the Pacific in early 2004, courtesy of Square Enix USA.
sifar 2003-09-11 0 comments
Square Enix has announced the UNLIMITED:SaGa Collectors Box for release in North America and Europe. The re-release will come with a special DVD containing the infamous prelude to Final Fantasy X-2, Eien No Nagi-bushi (More widely known as Final Fantasy X: Another Story). The trailer which was originally released in Japan as part of Final Fantasy X International in January...
sifar 2003-09-11 0 comments
Square Enix has released new bits of information regarding its recently announced PlayStation 2 title Front Mission 4. The game, whose development is currently 75% complete, will shed some light into what happened after the disguise of the halfman in the second game. There will be ten times as many maps as in Front Mission 3 and a new battle...
sifar 2003-09-10 0 comments
Square Enix has announced Final Fantasy X-2 International and Last Mission for PlayStation 2. Apart from the standard International version treatment a la Final Fantasy X International and Kingdom Hearts Final Mix, this new title will feature some entirely new elements: If there is no clear save data of X-2 available, players can only collect items in a bonus dungeon,...
sifar 2003-09-08 0 comments
Square Enix has announced its lineup for this month's Tokyo Game Show 2003 in Chiba's Makuhari Messe. The company will display the following titles, all of which have either already been released or announced in Japan. Final Fantasy XI (PS2/PC) Drag-on Dragoon (PS2) Front Mission 1st (PSOne) Shinyaku Seiken Densetsu (GBA) Kenshin Dragon Quest Whether Kingdom Hearts 2 or Final...
sifar 2003-09-05 0 comments
Square Enix has announced Front Mission 4 for PlayStation 2. The game will take place six years after the events of the original Front Mission. It will feature two main characters, Elsa and Daryl. The former yields from the French Army's Vancer unit and has been assigned to the new weapons technology research facility. She also has a very strong...
sifar 2003-09-04 0 comments
The people at Famitsu Magazine set up four reviewers who would each give the game what they thought it deserved. The numbers respectively were 8, 7, 7, 7 which totalled to around 29/40. The score is fairly decent but not the best at that since most Square games tend to get past the 30/40 mark. Nonetheless, the game does look...
sifar 2003-09-03 0 comments
Square Enix USA has announced that the sequel to its 2001 PlayStation 2 blockbuster Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2 will be available in the US in early December, carrying a retail price of $49.99 USD. This contradicts earlier unofficial reports speaking of an early November release date. Furthermore, the company announced that Final Fantasy X has been added to...
sifar 2003-09-03 0 comments
Namco's RPG Tales of Symphonia for GameCube and Square Enix's Shinyaku Seiken Densetsu (Sword of Mana) for Game Boy Advance, both of which debuted in Japan on August 29th, sold 166,752 and 165,069 copies respectively so far. Previously, Namco had mentioned it is projecting sales of 500,000 copies for the newest Tales installment in Japan. Tales of Symphonia will be...
sifar 2003-08-29 0 comments
Square Enix's Shinyaku Seiken Densetsu (Sword of Mana in the US) will be released in Japan on August 29, 2003 at around 5:00pm. The game's main selling point will be at Shibuya Tsutaya, an electronics retailer in Tokyo. For promotional purposes, Square Enix has set up a 5'7" Cactus doll to attract customers. Not only that, Square will also be...
sifar 2003-08-25 0 comments
The past few months have been fairly frustrating as Square Enix was not able to confirm if Kingdom Hearts 2's was going to be made or not. Yochi Wada, who wanted to make the game into a hit series, said that Disney had to approve of the sequel's production. Disney finally confirmed the production at the Games Convention 2003 which...
sifar 2003-08-24 0 comments
Square Enix announced that its latest PlayStation One title, the remake of the Super Famicom classic Front Mission 1st will be available in Japan on October 23rd. The title will also be on display at next month's Tokyo Game Show.
sifar 2003-08-19 0 comments
Square Enix has announced an event to commemorate the release of its Game Boy Advance RPG Shinyaku Seiken Densetsu (Sword of Mana) and its soundtrack in Japan on September 6th. At hand for the event, held in the event hall of Akihabara's Asobi City game store, will be producer Kouichi Ishii, composer Kenji Itou as well as character illustrator and...