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High Definitions graphics have quickly become one of the most important selling points for modern video games, but at least one legendary developer hailing from Japan believes that game structure and storytelling are more important than looks even on modern home consoles. Speaking to Satoru Iwata, who is the leader ... |
7 February 2012
15:11 GMT |
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The Final Fantasy series has been less than successful in the last few years and it seems that the team at publisher Square Enix is getting ready to launch a whole new intellectual property in order to plug the gap in their launch line-up.Speaking to Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, Tetsuya Nomura, one of the leadin... |
31 January 2012
02:58 GMT |
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Square Enix has just deployed a brand new video with gameplay from next week’s Final Fantasy XIII-2 title, this time showing off the more offbeat adventures players can have in the role playing game.
Square Enix is bent on making sure that potential customers interested in next week’s Final Fantasy XIII-... |
27 January 2012
04:21 GMT |
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Square Enix has confirmed that fans of its Final Fantasy series will be able to check out its latest iteration, XIII-2, later this week, thanks to a free demo that will appear both on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
After the original Final Fantasy XIII disappointed gamers, Square Enix is trying hard to show them th... |
9 January 2012
05:15 GMT |
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What we know: Final Fantasy XIII-2 is a Japanese role playing game, developed and published by Square Enix, which aims at solving the variety of issues that plagued the lackluster Final Fantasy XIII, which appeared back in 2009. The action takes place three years after the last game, with its protagonist, Lightning... |
4 January 2012
08:59 GMT |
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Brace yourselves, future Final Fantasy XIII-2 owners, as Square Enix has confirmed that downloadable content for the new Japanese role playing game will be released soon enough, with varied add-ons being designed to enhance your experience.Final Fantasy XIII-2 has already been released in its native Japan last month ... |
3 January 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Video game publisher Square Enix has announced that a ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal in the United States has absolved its North American division of all charges included in a class action suit that was launched against the company because of the Final Fantasy XI MMO.Square Enix stood accused of “d... |
27 December 2011
07:40 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII-2 is getting ready to be released on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 early next year, so a brand new video comparison between the two versions of the Japanese role-playing game has just appeared on the web.
While Final Fantasy XIII-2 is set to appear in North America and Europe at the end of Januar... |
21 December 2011
02:34 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII-2 is getting ready for its release early next year, so Square Enix, its developer, has started talking about its various special features, and how the new game will try to build upon the legacy of the first XIII, which wasn’t that well received when it first came out.We’ve already seen ... |
20 December 2011
20:11 GMT |
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Square Enix is getting ready to deploy its next big release, in the form of Final Fantasy XIII-2, the sequel to the lackluster XIII, with which it hopes to delight fans of the long running Japanese Role Playing Game series and once again prove that it’s a worthy contender for Western franchises like The Elder S... |
13 December 2011
15:41 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIV hasn’t exactly been the most successful release made by Square Enix, but the Japanese company is confident with the current state of the online game and confirmed that it’s going to start charging a monthly subscription on January 6, 2012.Final Fantasy XIV was hyped as one of the biggest... |
9 December 2011
04:36 GMT |
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Square Enix has deployed a brand new trailer for Final Fantasy XIII-2, this time focusing on its environments and how the virtual world of the Japanese RPG will deliver a more enhanced experience than its predecessor.Final Fantasy XIII was a decent game, but it didn’t really impress the legions of fans from all... |
8 December 2011
20:31 GMT |
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Square Enix is working hard on bringing the finishing touches to Final Fantasy XIII-2, the sequel to Final Fantasy XIII, which continues the story seen in that role playing game. A couple of months ago, however, the Japanese company registered a special domain name for Final Fantasy XIII-3.This prompted quite a lot o... |
5 December 2011
03:41 GMT |
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Speaking to investors as part of a financial briefing Yoichi Wada, who is the president of Square Enix, has stated, “Regarding yet unannounced IPs, we should certainly be able to announce two to three titles to everyone within a few years.”The executive also believes that his company would be best served ... |
1 December 2011
09:28 GMT |
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We’ve heard and seen quite a lot of things about the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII-2 role playing game from Square Enix and now, after some very impressive cinematic trailers, the Japanese company has finally treated us with a gameplay video, showcasing its enhanced battle system.Final Fantasy XIII was a pretty s... |
1 December 2011
03:47 GMT |
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Square Enix has once again talked about the oft rumored Final Fantasy VII remake, saying that it would take a lot of time to bring that huge amount of content into a new graphics engine and recreate that same experience, time that the company doesn’t really have.Square Enix has been releasing plenty of new Fina... |
29 November 2011
19:51 GMT |
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A story in Famitsu talks about a new Square Enix developed Japanese role playing game that will be using the Unreal Engine and will be aimed more at Western audiences.It seems that the game will be using the Unreal Engine 3 to power its world and that development is being led by Ryutaro Ichimura, who has previously w... |
29 November 2011
10:15 GMT |
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Square Enix is getting ready to deploy a new installment in its long-running Final Fantasy JRPG series, this time in the form of XIII-2, an attempt at continuing the story from the original XIII last year while fixing a lot of issues that plagued the first game.
While the jury’s still out in concern to the act... |
25 November 2011
02:35 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII-2 is about one month away from the Japanese launch date and the publisher Square Enix has put out a new trailer which shows off some in game footage and also offers some glimpses into the story of the new installment.Sazh, one of the more controversial characters from the first game, with his choco... |
22 November 2011
11:51 GMT |
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Video game developer Epic Games have announced that it has signed a deal with publisher Square Enix that will see the Japanese company use the Unreal Engine 3 technology to create a number of new video games.The two companies have not mentioned the names of the new projects and there have been no hints about what gen... |
18 November 2011
22:01 GMT |
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The developers of the long running Final Fantasy series have acknowledged that gamers seem to be moving away from the turn based structure to what is called the action role playing game genre but they are sure that their games still have plenty of appeal for the fan base.Yoshinori Kitase, who is one of the main desig... |
16 November 2011
22:41 GMT |
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Video game publisher Square Enix has released a video which shows off ten minutes of footage taken from Final Fantasy Type-0, allowing fans to get a glimpse of the game mechanics and the story telling.The name Opening is a sign that this is how the game starts off but Square Enix is also saying that this is a special... |
27 October 2011
05:16 GMT |
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Square Enix has confirmed that it's close to implementing some major changes to its Final Fantasy XIV MMORPG, and that its free-to-play period is ending soon so players are going to have to decide if they want to pay a monthly subscription to enjoy it.Final Fantasy XIV was eagerly awaited by a variety of the fra... |
17 October 2011
12:51 GMT |
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Square Enix has detailed the variety of pre-order bonuses now available for the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII-2 role playing game, which is set to appear at the end of January, 2012.Final Fantasy XIII wasn't the huge success Square Enix had hope for and, coupled with the pretty big failure of Final Fantasy XIV, th... |
4 October 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada has admitted to investors that the company's hugely successful Final Fantasy franchise has been "greatly damaged" by the recent release of Final Fantasy XIV, the online RPG that suffered from a variety of problems and is still being fixed by its development team.Final Fantasy XIV beca... |
28 September 2011
03:06 GMT |
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Video game publisher Square Enix has announced that it has set the release date for its Japanese role playing game Final Fantasy XIII-2 in North America for January 31 of 2012, with the game playable on both the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and on the PlayStation 3 from Sony.The company has also announced that the theme s... |
22 September 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Video game publisher Square Enix has announced that a full team of developers is now working on Final Fantasy Versus XIII and that the team is also working hard on completing Type-0, two of the titles that are part of the Fabula Nova Crystallis series.Yoshinori Kitase, who is one of the producers working on the games... |
13 September 2011
09:51 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII-2 has finally received a concrete release date in North America, with its developer and publisher, Square Enix, confirming that the new role-playing game will be out in January, next year.
Square Enix's Final Fantasy series hasn't been doing so well, with the last big installment, Fina... |
19 July 2011
12:51 GMT |
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Square Enix is thinking about bringing its highly successful Final Fantasy XI online role-playing to the PlayStation Vita, at least according to a statement from the former leader of the project.
Sony presented the PlayStation Vita portable console at last month's E3 2011 conference and wowed the audience wit... |
15 July 2011
04:40 GMT |
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Square Enix showcased quite a few titles during the E3 2011 conference, with the new Tomb Raider or Hitman Absolution receiving plenty of details, but the company also presented the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII-2 RPG it currently has in development.
Final Fantasy XIII wasn't the huge success Square Enix had ho... |
10 June 2011
02:30 GMT |
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The two founders of video games developer GRIN has blamed publisher Square Enix for the bankruptcy of the company, saying that the requirements that they needed to meet were impossible and that Square was actively trying to get them out of the business.
The pair says that GRIN could have been kept afloat as long a... |
30 May 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Square Enix has just announced that it is currently working hard on bringing back the classic Japanese Role Playing Game Final Fantasy V onto the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles via the PlayStation Network.
Square Enix is continuing to bring back its first iterations in the massively successful Fin... |
6 April 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIV, Square Enix's newest online MMORPG, will continue to be free-to-play until the Japanese company will manage to fix all of its issues and adopt a concrete payment plan for all of the players.
Final Fantasy XIV was officially launched back in September of last year with a free 30-day trial fo... |
5 April 2011
02:35 GMT |
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The Final Fantasy series is well known for the way its characters look, with fans paying special attention to the design of the female cast, but one of the main developers working on the video game series says that the team always began the creation process with the personality and not the looks of the character. Mo... |
31 March 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Square Enix has recently revealed a names change for Final Fantasy XIII Versus, which is now known as Type-0, and the move seems to have sparked the publisher to deliver more information about the video game, starting with the all important battle system, which was revealed as featuring Experience Points.
In an in... |
2 February 2011
04:08 GMT |
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Square Enix has announced at an event that the video game formerly known as Final Fantasy Agito XIII is now officially renamed to Final Fantasy Type 0, using a trademark that was initially registered a few weeks ago and that many fans thought to be linked with an entirely new video game in the long-running franchise.... |
20 January 2011
03:17 GMT |
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Square Enix, in his role of publisher, has officially confirmed the existence of Final Fantasy XIII-2, a new Japanese role-playing game that is being build on the foundation of the 2010 release and will offer a brand new story set in the same universe with an evolved battle system and with a cast of returning charact... |
19 January 2011
05:32 GMT |
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Publisher Square Enix has filed a trademark for the name Final Fantasy Type-0 with OHIM, the official European Union body that handles trademarks, suggesting that the company is preparing yet another game in the very popular series that has not been mentioned before.
The trademark includes a logo for Final Fantasy... |
4 January 2011
17:41 GMT |
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Sales tracking company Media Create has just published a chart with the best selling games of the year in Japan.
It's been a good year for games in the land of the rising sun, as the country flocked to purchase lots of huge games, most of them coming from Nintendo or other local companies, like Capcom or Kona... |
30 December 2010
02:35 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIV isn't going through the best of times these days, and now, Yoichi Wada, the boss of its developer and publisher, Square Enix, revealed that the whole team had been restructured and that the PlayStation 3 version of the online game has been delayed.
For those not familiar with the project, Fi... |
14 December 2010
15:51 GMT |
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Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada has just revealed that his company wants to earn back the trust of PC gamers who recently purchased its newest game, the Final Fantasy XIV MMORPG, after the title's troubled launch.Final Fantasy XIV was set to be Square Enix's big push into online gaming, after the surprising suc... |
8 November 2010
04:27 GMT |
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A new survey conducted among Internet users in Japan has shown that the Super Mario franchise is the one that the respondents would like to see make the jump to three dimensional gaming, with the Super Mario series itself taking the first spot in preferences while Mario Kart took second.The survey was conducted by th... |
26 October 2010
18:11 GMT |
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Nintendo has once again updated its WiiWare and DSiWare online digital download services, as well as the Virtual Console section with new titles, including Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest and many other titles.First off, the Virtual Console gets Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest, Square Enix' attempt at bringing a simpler... |
19 October 2010
14:21 GMT |
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Satoru Iwata, who is the president of Nintendo, told the Japanese news service that in order to “expand into elaborate games targeting serious gamers,” his company is working closely with developers to make sure that the Nintendo 3DS, the new handheld set to offer full three-dimensional gaming without the... |
6 July 2010
15:11 GMT |
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Square Enix, the Japanese publisher best known for role playing series like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, has announced a new game it is working on for the PlayStation Portable, called Lord of Arcana. The title is set to be launched at some point in late 2010 on the Japanese market and the publisher is not talking ... |
1 July 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII is now out all over the world and some important resources at publisher Square Enix must be moving to the development of Final Fantasy Versus XIII, the next segment of Fabula Nova Crystallis that will be accessible to gamers. And it seems that with the series for the first time arriving on the Xbox... |
19 May 2010
05:23 GMT |
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Tops are always a controversial topic, mostly because they're meant to reflect a very subjective opinion. People vote for who their favorite character, item, product, etc., is, with the biggest thing to keep in mind being "their." But even so, ranking at number one, regardless of the nature of the top, is an imp... |
11 February 2010
06:39 GMT |
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Gamers are rather sentimental beings and the first experiences they had with a console or with a series stick with them for quite some time. And it only makes sense for videogame publishers and developers to cash in on that nostalgia by offering them experiences that are similar to those in the past while allowing th... |
8 February 2010
14:51 GMT |
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The gaming industry got hit pretty bad last year, with a lot of studios having had to cut down on their working force and firing a lot of people to try to keep the company afloat. Another thing companies went for was an attempt to increase their sales by appealing to the grown masses of casual gamers. As such, in a v... |
27 January 2010
02:59 GMT |
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The NPD Group data for December was released at the end of last week and it showed the PlayStation 3 selling better than Xbox 360 for the month, although by a slim margin. Still, the 1.36 million units sold in one month is a good result for Sony and points to a 2010 when Microsoft and Sony will struggle to get the se... |
20 January 2010
02:52 GMT |
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