The NA/EU release for Final Fantasy XIII has been announced for March 9, 2010. Much sooner than expected.

Just got home from the Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy concert, with long-time music director for FF, Arnie Roth, conducting, and composer Nobuo Uematsu in the audience ( Read more... )

I downloaded trailers for Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete on Friday night ( Read more... )

Japan is so lucky to be getting all those new limited edition Playstation 3s with special embossings. The one for Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 with the dragon tattoo designs was especially pretty.

While the special "Cloud Black" PS3 for Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete looks sedate in comparison, it's still a pretty baby. I don't doubt that the ( Read more... )

Distant Worlds - music from Final Fantasy Asia concert tour will make its way to Singapore on May 22-23, 2009 as part of the Singapore Arts Festival. Tickets on sale from March 2009.

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Square Enix left no stone unturned (or rather no clothes unshed) when it came to pushing Dissidia: Final Fantasy.

In coming up with alternate costumes for the cast of heroes and villains, fans will be treated to Topless Sephiroth...complete with one wing!!!!!

This game is going to blow everything else off the charts come Dec 18.

Namco Bandai seems to hate their Tales franchise.

They released Tales of Vesperia on the Xbox360, which injected much needed life for the console in Japan, but didn't help sales of the game.

This afternoon, they announced that they're delaying the much anticipated release of Tales of Hearts on the DS by a week to Dec 18. Dec 18 also happens to ( Read more... )

The new PSP-3000 series will be launched in Japan on Oct 16 at 19,800yen (or 24800yen with 4GB memstick). Colours limited to Piano Black, Mystic Silver and Pearl White. Well, no girly Blume colours = no sale where I'm concerned.

On the good side, Dissidia Final Fantasy has been dated for 18 Dec in Japan. There'll be a psp bundle for the game. ( Read more... )

Yep, Xbox360 gamers in North America and Europe will get to play Final Fantasy XIII. Fine by me, as long as Square Enix isn't gimping the game because of the multi-disc problem. The act of changing discs isn't an issue; it's when the game has to be pared down towards the end because developers can't fit in the data that it becomes a problem. For ( Read more... )

First Dissidia hands-on impression.

Better graphics than Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core and the ability to execute acrobatic moves as seen in Advent Children and FFXIII? If the impressions are true, this game is going to move more PSP systems than Crisis Core.