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This Sunday, you can check out the Softpedia review for Modern Warfare 2, which is already selling like hotcakes, read the journal related to playing Dragon Age: Origins, read a Weekend Reading piece linked to videogames and movies or check out the EndWeekGame piece we've put together. But you can also take a lo... |
22 November 2009
09:41 GMT |
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Recently, Square Enix confirmed the release date for Final Fantasy XIII, its upcoming Japanese role playing game blockbuster, for the markets in North America and Europe. The title is set to arrive on March 9, 2010 for those who live outside Japan, while the lucky gamers who live in the island nation will be able to ... |
19 November 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Square Enix, the Japanese publisher that has recently bought Eidos, has announced that it will be releasing Final Fantasy XIII, the latest Japanese role playing game in the long running franchise, in the West on March 9, 2010, on both the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Xbox 360 from Microsoft. The game will be outed... |
16 November 2009
05:04 GMT |
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We already know that Final Fantasy XIII is set to be launched in Japan on December 17 in what is sure to be one of the biggest and most lavish releases of a JRPG ever. The game will only come on the PlayStation 3 at that date and Square Enix has not said when the game will arrive on Western markets, where it will be ... |
29 October 2009
14:41 GMT |
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With Halo 3: ODST now out, it seems that Modern Warfare 2 from Activision and Infinity Ward is the videogame that players are most interested in picking up in the coming period, at least according to the GamePlan Insights study conducted by OTX, whose aim was to compile a list of the most attractive titles to be rele... |
1 October 2009
16:21 GMT |
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Square Enix is the king of the Japanese role playing games and its biggest franchise worldwide is Final Fantasy, even if Dragon Quest seems to be the series dominating the Land of the Rising Sun. And now, the company has estimated that it will sell more than 6 million copies of the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII, which ... |
30 September 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Square Enix has held its long awaited press conference designed to announce the date on which the PlayStation 3 version of Final Fantasy XIII would arrive on the Japanese market. Thanks to a bit of shady Internet work from the people in charge of the web sites of the publisher, we already know that the long expected ... |
10 September 2009
16:21 GMT |
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Square Enix has revealed the launch date for Final Fantasy XIII through an online add campaign that was initially only intended to serve as a teaser.The publisher is set to put out the Japanese role playing game on December 17 but this date is only for the Japanese market, where the game can be picked up only for the... |
8 September 2009
03:05 GMT |
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The entire gaming industry seems crazed with downloadable content lately. Bethesda has put out no less than 5 decently sized DLC packs for Fallout 3, extending the interest in their post apocalyptic role playing experience by about one year.Other titles almost obligatorily get one DLC pack and some of them have even ... |
3 September 2009
12:49 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII is coming along nicely and Japanese gamers should get a chance to play the new role playing game before Christmas this year on the PlayStation 3, if all goes according to plan. And the creators of the videogame are now talking more about it and about what players will be up against in this fresh sp... |
27 August 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Square Enix is by far one of the most well-known Japanese video game developers and publishers out there, owning franchises like Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest, which have made JRPGs popular all around the world, not only in its native Japan. One of the most popular titles, even though it is quite old, was Final Fant... |
27 August 2009
02:20 GMT |
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Halo 3: ODST continues to be the videogame that most players are interested in picking up once it is released, according to new data provided by OTX through its GamePlan Insights program to consumer site Gamasutra. Still, its lead over Modern Warfare 2 from Activision seems to be shrinking, while Assassin's Cree... |
26 August 2009
14:41 GMT |
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Square Enix is one of the most respected Japanese game developers of all time, owning what might be the most successful and well-known franchise coming from the Land of the Rising Sun, Final Fantasy. The series made the JRPG genre famous and took Western markets by storm thanks to a few popular iterations. But with ... |
26 August 2009
02:41 GMT |
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Square Enix has announced that, for the financial quarter that went from April to June, it has seen revenue go down by about 1.2% over last year, reaching the equivalent of 303 million dollars, while the company has registered a loss of 17.22 million dollars, which is pretty bad compared with the 29.68 million profit... |
12 August 2009
04:48 GMT |
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Dragon Quest IX was released in Japan this Saturday and the game looks set to be one of the biggest hits ever put out by publisher Square Enix. Initial reports show long queues where the game went on sales while more than 2 million gamers will be coming up to pick up their pre-ordered copies.Dragon Quest IX with the ... |
14 July 2009
02:27 GMT |
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Square Enix has released financial information for the fiscal year that ended on March 31 and both sales and profits went down for the Japanese publisher during that period. Overall sales went down by 8% to reach 135.69 billion Yen, which is the equivalent of 1.44 billion dollars.Net income went down by more than 31%... |
26 May 2009
02:44 GMT |
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It seems that the decision to bring Final Fantasy XIII for both the Xbox 360 console from Microsoft and for the PlayStation 3 from Sony might have some consequences that will lead veteran fans of the series to move to the PS3 version. One of them is that the Japanese voices, usually included with the Western release ... |
14 May 2009
18:31 GMT |
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We live in a very advanced world where transport and localization for different products can happen in the blink of an eye. This is especially true with video games, which appear on the same day or with a few days between launches all around the world. But one company doesn't seem to follow that trend, namely S... |
11 May 2009
13:11 GMT |
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This week, we've been busy playing Resident Evil 5 in cooperative play. It's been an interesting experience, to say the least. We've detailed it, talking about Chris' body, the problem with cutscenes and QTEs and about the missing horror element in the game. But other things have occurred this wee... |
9 May 2009
09:31 GMT |
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Square Enix is saying that the Blu-ray demo for FF XIII will not be released in the West but that it is looking into other options for delivering the same content as the Japanese have already seen to all the fans of the Final Fantasy series.Yoshinori Kitase, who is a producer on Final Fantasy XIII, stated that &ldquo... |
7 May 2009
16:41 GMT |
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For any remotely hardcore gamer, when you say Square Enix, he or she immediately thinks of the hugely successful and very long Final Fantasy franchise of J-RPGs (Japanese Role Playing Games). The series has shaped its specific genre in the country and ever since the release of the first game, other developers have be... |
7 May 2009
15:01 GMT |
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The biggest announcement at the 2008 edition of the E3 trade show was that Microsoft had persuaded Square Enix to also bring Final Fantasy XIII to the Xbox 360. But the Japanese role playing game is still more interesting to those who plan to play it on the PlayStation 3, according to data compiled by research group ... |
6 May 2009
17:41 GMT |
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What do people, in this case, gamers, want? Research firm OTX was interested in the question and delivered data showing that Halo 3: ODST from Bungie and Microsoft, which is set to come in late summer, and Modern Warfare 2 from Activision and Infinity Ward, arriving in time for Christmas, are the most eagerly awaited... |
4 May 2009
18:01 GMT |
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The Sony made PlayStation 3 managed to sell better than the Nintendo Wii for the second month running. The claim comes from the data gathered by Enterbrain, the publisher of the Famitsu gaming magazine, and is backed up by the weekly data offered by Media Create, another company that is watching the videogames market... |
4 May 2009
04:41 GMT |
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Square Enix has announced that the acquisition of the United Kingdom publisher Eidos is now complete and that all the assets of the former company are the property of the Japanese publisher. The company has also revealed a set of numbers related to sales of videogames, showing the strength of its various franchises.F... |
27 April 2009
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2008 was supposed to be the year of the PlayStation 3, yet the Sony console did not manage to perform particularly well. Now, Sony is again talking about how its flagship console will be revitalized this year, with new and exciting titles coming to it and with more features added to attract potential customers. Still... |
22 April 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Sony has always maintained that the PlayStation 3 is a more powerful gaming console than the Microsoft manufactured Xbox 360. But until now, no game has been able to translate that copious amount of power into much improved graphics or into massively changed gameplay.Still, Sony has great hopes that the PlayStation 3... |
17 April 2009
04:44 GMT |
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As previously reported, Final Fantasy XIII, the next great role playing game from developer Square Enix, is set to get a demo version out when the Advent Children Blu-ray is released in Japan - tomorrow, April 16. And it seems that the demo itself is confirming that the videogame will be released in “winter 200... |
15 April 2009
06:23 GMT |
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Sony has just released Final Fantasy VII, from developer Square Enix, on its PlayStation Network service. The game can be downloaded for both the PlayStation 3 console or for the PlayStation Portable handheld and is priced at 1,500 Yen, which is about 15 dollars. At the moment, it cannot be downloaded in North Americ... |
14 April 2009
12:31 GMT |
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Since it's the week that follows the Game Developers Conference, some of the headlines came out of that meeting of minds, while others were completely unexpected or unannounced, like the new site for Assassin's Creed 2. Take a look at the most interesting stories of this week.On Monday, we spotted a trailer... |
11 April 2009
08:51 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII is certainly one of the biggest titles due for release in 2010 and there is already a huge amount of hype surrounding the game, which is set to use the full power of the PlayStation 3 in order to create a groundbreaking game. And it seems that, for the first time, the development team at Square Eni... |
8 April 2009
18:21 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII is shaping up to be the game that will make or break the PlayStation 3. Sony is already betting big on the title, even if it is no longer an exclusive, saying that it will show all players what the home console it produces can do. The developer of the title is playing up the same angle.The Japanese... |
1 April 2009
15:51 GMT |
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It's now pretty much official. Eidos has announced that its shareholders, who have seen their company felled by financial problems, have approved the take over by Japanese publisher Square Enix. A little over 85% of those still holding on to Eidos shares have voted yes. They will get a little less than half a do... |
31 March 2009
03:28 GMT |
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Square Enix has announced that the PC version of The Last Remnant is set to arrive in Europe on March 20, complete with total support for the Games for Windows service. This new version of the game is set to bring a host of improvements, including new and much smoother character animations, faster gameplay during bat... |
23 February 2009
03:12 GMT |
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You can count on Japanese publishers to toy with fans of their games long before release dates. Last week, Square Enix pulled the old trick of putting up a countdown on its site, pointing to something big that was set to happen this Wednesday. It was Final Fantasy XIII related, so all the fans of the series were up i... |
29 January 2009
04:25 GMT |
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Fans of Japanese role playing games all over the world must be mad. And if they are not yet, they will be as they learn that Final Fantasy XIII, set to be the biggest JRPG released in quite some time in the series that basically defined the term, will only be released in North America, Europe and basically everywhere... |
16 January 2009
04:54 GMT |
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Square Enix just wrapped up an event called DK Sigma3173 Event and they could not stop talking about Final Fantasy XIII, which might be the company's biggest hit to date. They talked about cross platform development and about the plans they have for the run up to the launch of the game. The major Xbox 360 relate... |
8 August 2008
19:21 GMT |
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Everybody thought that Square Enix emptied their surprise pack for the year when they announced Final Fantasy XIII for Xbox 360 consoles during the E3 media summit. Apparently, the company still had other surprises, but wanted to wait a bit more to reveal them. The time has come: Final Fantasy XIII has been officiall... |
24 July 2008
03:58 GMT |
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Square Enix is in the center of attention by saying that it would bring Final Fantasy XIII to the Xbox 360 gaming console after the game was previously announced as being a PlayStation 3 exclusive. Now, the company is trying to make people more interested in the game itself than in the platforms on which it will be r... |
18 July 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Maybe the biggest announcement to come out of Microsoft's E3 presentation was the fact that the long awaited Final Fantasy XIII, developed by Square Enix, is no longer a PlayStation 3 exclusive. The game will also be launched on Microsoft's own Xbox 360 and there's even some talk that the developers ha... |
17 July 2008
03:54 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 is looking very strong, after witnessing the presentation that Microsoft had at E3. We've already talked about Fable 2 to some extent and we knew most of the stuff that was shown in relation to Gears of War 2, but there's plenty more games to talk about when it comes to the Xbox 360.In a major ... |
15 July 2008
09:59 GMT |
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This may be the most wanted PS3 title, or should I say series of titles, since FF XIII is going to comprise more than the two games we've already heard of: the Final Fantasy XIII title in itself and Versus. We're happy to announce that a couple of brand new scans are available for us to drool upon and to a... |
21 January 2008
03:38 GMT |
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Back to the 2008 preview of all major events and some important releases of both console and games! In case you've missed the calendary for the first six gaming months of the year, HERE it is, summing up everything from January till June. The idea of this fictional calendary came up as I was checking out a simi... |
4 January 2008
06:32 GMT |
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We've barely entered 2008 and we're already talking about next-gen consoles and the titles destined to surface for the acclaimed devices. One of the most awaited next-gen title if surely Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII follows it, as Square-Enix's upcoming masterpiece. While waiting f... |
3 January 2008
04:49 GMT |
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In case you're a fan of Square-Enix's work, you'll surely be familiar with the fact that at the end of this year, Final Fantasy's creator will be hosting a great event, Jump Festa 2008. This means that we'll get to check out tons of FF-related content, plus Kingdom Hearts goodies and some Dr... |
4 December 2007
03:33 GMT |
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Once upon a launch date MGS 4 and FFXIII were PS3 exclusive titles, but now it seems that "exclusivity" is only a word, as the producers of major titles tend to shift their platforms according to the console's sales. At first, Metal Gear Solid 4 and FF XIII were announced as 100% PS3 titles, but a couple of mon... |
15 October 2007
09:30 GMT |
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Square-Enix is always the center of attention at any major gaming convention and this year's Tokyo Game Show was not exception. They've delivered many new trailers and details about their upcoming blockbuster, the list featuring no less than 3 brand new Kingdom Hearts games. It's weird, but predictabl... |
5 October 2007
04:45 GMT |
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This is not just a fanboy speaking, when I say that Final Fantasy VII has made the long-running series what it now is: the definition of the perfect RPG. It did miracles, ten years ago, when it surfaced, boosting the PSX sales and making the players who have never heard about Squaresoft (at the time, Square Enix now... |
7 September 2007
04:31 GMT |
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