kula shakerz 2009-09-16 6 comments
Square Enix has announced that Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope is coming to North America on February 9, just 5 days after the Japanese release. As previously mentioned, the title includes both Japanese and English audio and Japanese, English, French, German and Spanish menus/subtitles. No European release date has been announced so far but its probably comming pretty soon...
kula shakerz 2009-09-15 10 comments
Square Enix has announced that Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope is heading for the PS3. This new version of the game will be named Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope International and will feature reworked menu screens and a tweaked battle system with auto-targeting. The game will also include both English and Japanese audio. The game will hit the...
Xin 2009-09-12 2 comments
With the Final Fantasy XIII Premiere Party is behind us and Tokyo Game Show is just around the corner, more of this role-playing epic's cast is beginning to come to light. Warning, Spoilers abound if you're trying to keep everything a secret. First we meet the adorable baby boy of Sazh Katzroy - his son, Dahj. He lost his mother...
kula shakerz 2009-09-10 0 comments
Symphonic Fantasies, a concert entirely dedicated to music from Square Enix, will take place in the Kölner Philharmonie this Saturday at 8 p.m. CET. The performance will include many new orchestral arrangements of compositions from popular series such as Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Mana and Kingdom Hearts. Jonne Valtonen, the main arranger of Symphonic Shades - Hülsbeck in Concert, will...
Xin 2009-09-07 3 comments
With SquareEnix holding a big Premiere Party for Final Fantasy XIII later today in Japan, many speculated a release date was, at long last, upon us. Luckily for us, Square seems to have the same plumbing as Sony, as the Japanese release date for the game has leaked via these neat little ads featured on YouTube. Did you click it?...
kula shakerz 2009-09-02 2 comments
Tokyo Game Show 09 is only 22 days away and here's the current list of games that you'll be able to find at the Square Enix stands. Sadly it does not look like there will be any demo of Final Fantasy Versus XIII this time either. Final Fantasy XI: The Vana'diel Collection 2: Trailer Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles The Crystal...
kula shakerz 2009-08-25 7 comments
Looking forward to Final Fantasy Versus XIII? Well the good news is that development on Final Fantasy XIII is doing wonders for that other Fabula Nova Crystallis entry, according to the developer. Square Enix's Yoshinori Kitase told Kotaku at last weeks Gamescom that development time on Final Fantasy Versus XIII will be "comparatively faster" than that of Final Fantasy XIII....
kula shakerz 2009-08-20 9 comments
Final Fantasy producer Yoshinori Kitase told VG247 that Final Fantasy XIII will get released in Europe and North America simultaneously on both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 during spring 2010. "We don’t have the actual month down yet, but in Japan it’s scheduled for a winter release, and in Europe and North American territoriers it’s spring 2010," said the producer....
Xin 2009-08-20 2 comments
In a story first reported by Destuctoid and expanded upon by members of NeoGAF, SquareEnix seems to have been planning a return visit to Ivalice sometime in the next few years. For now however, it seems that trip has been canceled. Recently closed development house GRIN appear to have been working on an action oriented title set in the FFXII...
Xin 2009-08-20 0 comments
With Final Fantasy XIII, things have already deviated from the path of the last few iterations in the series. Ride-able, transforming Eidolons, worlds within worlds, and perhaps most significantly, a female lead character. Scans from today's issue of JUMP however also reveal that the female soldier seen in various trailers is in fact the game's villain, a Lieutenant in the...
kula shakerz 2009-08-19 4 comments
Two new Final Fantasy XIV videos from GamesCon 09 have been uploaded at GameTrailers. The first video shows the new and improved character animation of the game. While the second video shows some Taru Taru Lalafell gameplay. Video 1 - Character animations Video 2 - Lalafell gameplay Update: Two additional trailers have been uploaded. One of them features magic and...
Xin 2009-08-04 8 comments
The first set of of scans for Final Fantasy XIV are starting to appear on the internet, straight from Famitsu to your computer. Although pretty low quality, they do fill us in a bit more about the game's races and class system. For those wondering, these are in-game character models, not CG renders. Races Lalafell - The Taru's are returning...
Brendan 2009-08-04 2 comments
Kotaku has an interesting story up about the changes that Final Fantasy XIII as gone through during the development process. It examines stills from last and earlier to stills taken this year and highlights the differences. At some point, most of us have seen the majority of new and old but it casts light on how interestingly memory works. FFXIII...
Xin 2009-08-02 0 comments
The Sept.09 Issue of Famitsu Wave features an interview with the Director of Final Fantasy XIV, Nobuaki Komoto. Below are a few highlights: The World + Eorza is actually a region of the world where FFXIV takes place, and as a whole, is smaller than Vana'diel. The world featured in FFXIV is actually named Haiderin. + Aiming for a more...
Brendan 2009-07-31 8 comments
Teaser Site. There's the link to Square Enix's latest countdown website for something new and unusual. Any ideas? Throw them out in the comments below.