sifar 2003-01-24 0 comments
The products that Japanese manufacturers come out with for the Final Fantasy series never seem to end. This time, Kadokawa Publishing Co. Ltd made a Final Fantasy Tactics Advance school binder which has a whole lot of goodies inside of it. The binder will be available in two colours, black and gold. Both will have FFT Advance's logo on the...
sifar 2003-01-24 0 comments
The DMA (Digital Media Association) announced the winners of the eight AMD awards and Square definitely was among the list. Squaresoft's Final Fantasy XI was given the award titled "Overall Grand Award" and also recieved the "Best Music Award". The award ceremony will take place in Tokyo on February 5, 2003.
sifar 2003-01-23 0 comments
PlayOnline's site for Nobuo Uematsu gave us the links to some samples of his upcoming CD set titled "The Black Mages". The CD set will consist of remixes of previous Final Fantasy battle themes. The track sample made available is called "Those who fight further". It is a remix of Final Fantasy VII's boss battle theme. The sample track is...
sifar 2003-01-23 0 comments
MediaWorks published new software sales figures for the Japanese market. The data refers to the time period from January 13, 2003 to January 19, 2003. In 5th place came Kingdom Hearts Final Mix which sold 15,974 copies. In total the game has been sold 313,102 copies in the Japanese market. KHFM dropped from its #4 spot last week. In 11th...
sifar 2003-01-23 0 comments
Squaresoft has announced many "firsts" for the game Final Fantasy X-2. For example, FFX-2 will be the first Final Fantasy game to feature a lead female character. More "firsts" have been released today as Square unveils some more information to us about its upcoming release of FFX-2's soundtrack. This time Square has decided to publish the OST with company Avex,...
sifar 2003-01-22 0 comments
FF Tactics Advance's OST will debut in the East on February 19, 2003 for a price of 2,913 yen. There will be 2 CDs in the set and a total of 74 tracks on them. 42 tracks will be originals (which would sound exactly the way they do on the GameBoy Advance like midis), and the remaining 32 tracks would...
sifar 2003-01-21 0 comments
Computer and Videogames.com has made available a 30 second commercial of the new GameBoy Advance SP which will be released on the same day as when Final Fantasy Tactics will be released. The commercial contains some advertising on the part of Final Fantasy Tactics. The download link is below, just right click, and "save target as". Note though that the...
sifar 2003-01-21 0 comments
New information about Final Fantasy X-2's gameplay has been released in the recent V jump magazine. There are two new job classes which are "dark knight" and "gambler". Not much is known of these two jobs. It is only known that the "dark knight" is normally also known as a dark horseman and has very high HP, allowing him to...
sifar 2003-01-21 0 comments
Square and Enix's merger is being worked very hard on by the executive committee members of both companies. The whole agreement was done within the executives and no information was given to the employees of both companies. It was not until November 26, 2002 that the public and the employees both found out about the companies' plan to merge. This...
sifar 2003-01-20 0 comments
New details about Final Fantasy Tactics Advance have risen from Famitsu.com. The new strategy RPG game by Square will offer three display modes. One, for the original GBA, the other for the new GBA SP, and finally the third for your big screen TV. The strategy guide has already become available in Japan and fans are anxious to get their...
sifar 2003-01-19 0 comments
Gamespot has released the best games of 2002 as stated by its readers. For the PlayStation 2, Kingdom Hearts came runner up in the PS2 game of year category. It came 2nd only to Grand Theft Auto : Vice City. In the best PS2 RPG category, Suikoden 3 took the prize. Kingdom Hearts did not fit into the category and...
sifar 2003-01-18 0 comments
Many changes have happened in the past few years for Squaresoft. The launch of the PlayOnline services, the Square-Enix merger, Square's development of games for Nintendo. Also, after releasing its latest RPG for the PS2, Unlimited SaGa, Square is now looking forward to releasing its first title for a Nintendo console after many years, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. Yasumi Matsuno...
sifar 2003-01-16 0 comments
According to sources, the blonde man who appears in the FFX2 trailer at the end of KH : FM is called Nuuji. He is the one who wears glasses and is considered as being the leader of the "youth union". This was also mentioned in Another story, about how many groups had formed after the decay of Yevon. In the...
sifar 2003-01-16 0 comments
Manufacturer of the Kingdom Hearts Final Mix game guide, Bentstuff, has had to start production of more game guides due to the previous batch selling out. The game guide was titled Ultimania, and the new batch has to be printed by the end of this month or else, stores will not be able to keep up with the demand. Not...
sifar 2003-01-14 0 comments
Avex TRACK, the company, will be publishing the original sound track of Final Fantasy X-2 which will be released in Japan on March 31, 2003. It will cost approx. 3,500 yen. Avex is also releasing a single CD with the title song of the game on the same day worth approx. 800 yen. Koda Kumi sings and dances for Squaresoft...