Hello members of Square Insider! In celebration of our upcoming sixth birthday at the turn of the year, Gideon Emery, voice actor for Balthier in Final Fantasy XII (FFXII), has taken a moment to “sit down” and chat with me about his experiences in voice acting; working with Square Enix; and being apart of the mania that surrounds a Final...
Brendan 2006-11-16 0 comments
Square announced today that they're bumping up their numbers for the six-month fiscal period that terminated on September 30, 2006. They expect their total earnings to tally up at about $27.9 million USD. The company attributes this primarily to the unexpected success of Advent Children, and some complicated tax-policy shift in the accounting department. Go figure. Square Enix can just...
Brendan 2006-11-16 0 comments
If you* aren't still recovering from Final Fantasy XII CE, then head on out and get yourself a copy of Final Fantasy III DS. For those of us without money, or a Nintendo DS, we'll sit over here in our corner and grumble about how we prefer Final Fantasy XII anyways... This all new game sports too many features to...
Brendan 2006-11-14 0 comments
In last week's issue of Dengeki Playstation magazine, it was reported that Disney--with one of the most lucrative and cherished RPG franchises of all time at their finger tips--has been mounting ever more pressure upon Tetsuya Nomura and the Kingdom Hearts team. Nomura, however, expressed that developing KH3 is not on his agenda at the moment, and left it at...
Brendan 2006-11-14 0 comments
In a recent issue of Dengeki, FFXIII director Motomu Toriyama and FF Versus XIII director Tetsuya Nomura popped a squat to talk about the ongoing development of the two games respectively. Among other things, both directors commented on the hurdle that transitioning from PS2 to PS3 has been. Reportedly, the gap that they had to bridge was wider than that...
Brendan 2006-11-14 0 comments
An interesting romp through unfamiliar locales that ultimately fails to deliver what fans were expecting, in the omnipresent shadow of its predecessor. Welcome to Dirge of Cerberus, the PlayStation 2 debut of gun-totting Vincent’s back story. Set a year after the events of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, and thusly three years after the original PlayStation installment, Dirge of Cerberus...
kula shakerz 2006-11-13 0 comments
Japanese retailers recently announced that Square Enix is going to release platinum (budget) versions of Final Fantasy X International and Final Fantasy X-2 International. Both games will be released on the 25th January 2007 and the suggested retail price is 2,800 yen ($23.82 USD).
Brendan 2006-11-13 0 comments
On the heels of Square Enix launching a massive campaign against third-party tool users, the company is bundling the world of Vana'diel into one single package to entice new players into the stand alone Final Fantasy XI: Online. FINAL FANTASY XI Vana’diel Collection 2007, shipping to retailers across the world exclusively for Windows, offers the original Final Fantasy XI, and...
Brendan 2006-11-13 0 comments
Charts are in again this week for Famitsu, and FF13 is yet again reigning supreme. Such spectacular news brings to mind the question of whether the air is thin atop that high and mighty throne of #1 Most Wanted Game? Oh bother, do we really care? No! As long as FF13 doesn't take three years (which is most likely will...
kula shakerz 2006-11-11 0 comments
Dengeki Playstation recently had an interview where character designer Tetsuya Nomura and Final Fantasy XIII director Motomu Toriyama revealed a few new details regarding the two Playstation 3 titles they are working on. Both games will run on the same "White Engine" that Square Enix is currently working on. Nomura said that the battle scenes in Versus would be similar...
kula shakerz 2006-11-11 0 comments
The official release date of Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus in Europe is finally confirmed. Its not the 3rd November as previously announced but Friday 17th of November.
Brendan 2006-11-08 0 comments
Square Enix announced today that they have shipped 1.5 million units of Final Fantasy XII to North American territories, just in time for the winter shopping season. These numbers on right on par with amount of units expected to be sold by the end of this month (about one million), with a little left-over for Christmas shopping, and any subsequent...
Brendan 2006-11-08 0 comments
New scans of the Square-Enix title "Dragon Quest Swords" have surfaced this week, as Square Enix continues its surge of content for the Wii. Besides the fact that the game has been pushed back for a 2007 release in Japan, hideously few details exist, though we know that the Wii controller will function much like a sword instead of a...
Brendan 2006-11-04 0 comments
Enix is pulling out all the stops to make 2006 one of the most memorable, and profitable, years for videos games in the company's history. In addition to a round of new Final Fantasy titles, Valkyrie Profile ports and sequels, and a bunch of new and ambitious projects announced, Square's pumping out a fourth installment in its underdog Action-RPG series...
Brendan 2006-11-03 0 comments
On the heels of the FF12 release--and while many of us are still recovering from the price tag of the CE and the CE Strategy Guide--is the GBA North American port of Final Fantasy V, due out this coming Tuesday. Despite the clamor that retro-Final Fantasy fans everywhere may be making, the numbers out of Japan after the first few...