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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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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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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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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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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 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, the Japanese role playing game from Square Enix, has not managed to live up to the pre-release hype but it seems that despite its clear failings one of the leaders of the team who worked on it believes that it should have been released earlier.Yoshinori Kitase, who is the leading producer working ... |
22 November 2011
15:11 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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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 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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Video game publisher Square Enix has announced that the Japanese gamers who have missed out on Final Fantasy XIII until now will be able to pick up a lower priced version of the game for both the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony on July 21.
Those who plan to play the game on the Sony home co... |
10 May 2011
13:31 GMT |
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One of the listings linked to an official Square Enix event strongly suggests that the publisher is getting ready to announce a new title in the Fabula Nova Crystalis series of video games, which so far has spawned Final Fantasy XIII.
Square Enix is apparently set to talk about the new game at an event called Firs... |
18 January 2011
03:24 GMT |
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Publisher Square Enix has announced that it will be holding an event on January 18 in Tokyo, named the Square Enix 1st Production Department Premier, which will deliver a lot of information on two of the games that fans of the company are interested in, Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy Agito XIII.
The e... |
5 January 2011
16:31 GMT |
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The end of 2010 is coming closer and the rest of December and early January 2011 will be linked to a lot of award ceremonies as people try to create hierarchies out of the titles launched in the last 12 months and Sony got a head start with its PlayStation Awards ceremony, which was held in Japan. It is designed to s... |
7 December 2010
02:53 GMT |
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The creators of Final Fantasy XIII, the Square Enix made role playing game that was launched earlier in the years, have confirmed that the game will not be getting any downloadable content while also saying that the Xbox 360 version of the title will arrive on December 16 on the Japanese market.Motomu Toriyama, who i... |
14 September 2010
03:10 GMT |
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Square Enix, one of the biggest publishers in Japan, has announced that it has made a profit of 1.8 billion Yen, the equivalent of about 20.9 million dollars, for the first fiscal quarter of the current year, which ended on June 30. These are pretty good results considering that for the same period of 2009 the publis... |
10 August 2010
16:51 GMT |
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Final Fantasy III is a role playing game developed by Square in 1990 that was remade for the Nintendo DS. This was not a simple graphical overhaul like in the cases of the first two installments in the series that received the remake treatment, but it was a complex port, designed to take advantage of the capabilities... |
16 July 2010
02:08 GMT |
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A class action suit was filed against Sony and Square Enix by a Daniel Wolf from San Diego, California, on the 2nd of June, 2010. The plaintiff claims that his PlayStation 3 has been broken by the copy of Final Fantasy XIII he bought and that he is not the only one in this situation, as many other users have suffered... |
7 June 2010
04:12 GMT |
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A remake of Final Fantasy VII would take much longer to be developed than Final Fantasy XIII took, according to Yoshinori Kitase, the producer of Final Fantasy XIII. Considering that the latest installment in the Final Fantasy series took around four years to make, this paints a pretty grim picture for Final Fantasy... |
31 May 2010
15:51 GMT |
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Square Enix has recently revealed that the last financial year ended in record profits. The company's net income for the financial 2009 (April 2009 to March 2010) is of 9.51 billion yen, that is 102.7 million United States Dollars. The games that have increased the Japanese publisher's worth are Final Fanta... |
20 May 2010
02:50 GMT |
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BioWare's Daniel Erickson, currently writing director on Star Wars: The Old Republic, has recently declared, in an interview for Strategy Informer, that he does not consider Final Fantasy XIII to be a role-playing game. When asked about the relationship between gameplay and story, with the interviewer suggesting... |
19 May 2010
02:40 GMT |
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It's hard to launch a role playing game in the West in the beginning of 2010, developed by a Japanese company and exclusively for the PlayStation 3 from Sony. The reason is called Final Fantasy XIII and although the Square Enix game did not exactly live up to expectations, it also led to limited attention toward... |
23 April 2010
05:40 GMT |
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March has been an interesting month for videogames, with quite a few high profile launches happening, and the NPD Group figures which came out show that God of War 3, the ending of the revenge saga featuring Spartan Kratos, managed to be the best sold game of the month in the United States, selling about 1.10 million... |
16 April 2010
05:21 GMT |
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Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy XIII has managed to sell no less than 1 million units in the first five days on sale, becoming the best selling title in the history of the franchise in the United States. The game was launched on both the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and on the PlayStation 3 from Sony, also a ... |
22 March 2010
06:40 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII has not been very well received by reviewers, with most of them criticizing the complete linearity of the initial stages of the game, yet it still managed to have a great first week on sales, reaching the first position in the United Kingdom videogame chart. The Japanese role playing game developed... |
18 March 2010
14:01 GMT |
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Sony continued its bonanza of announcements built around the GDC press conference by saying that the Home social network environment would get a new version, numbered 1.35, coming with important new features and a host of fresh content supporting the launch of Final Fantasy XIII on Western markets.The 1.35 update to ... |
11 March 2010
16:31 GMT |
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It seems that while a rebound in the videogame industry is still planned for 2010, it will probably not happen in February. The NPD Group is set to deliver the sales numbers for the United States market later this week and should point to a slowing down of sales when compared with the same period of 2009, which itsel... |
10 March 2010
03:43 GMT |
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This week has been all about BioShock 2, the return to Rapture engineered by a variety of 2K studios and Digital Extremes, and we've got four videogame diaries to show after playing the title, talking about Sophia Lamb, the mini last stand battles and the city of Rapture itself. But we also have our regular Week... |
21 February 2010
11:01 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII was announced as making the transition from being a PlayStation 3 exclusive title to also appearing on the Xbox 360 at the E3 trade show last year and a lot of fans were shocked to hear the news. And after making that change and actually delaying the Western release of the game to put the finishing... |
19 February 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII, the Square Enix-made Japanese role-playing game that is set to arrive on Western markets on March 9 on both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, has been under development for more than four years, with the title initially being created on the PS2 before making the switch to the current Sony home c... |
18 February 2010
14:11 GMT |
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Microsoft seems determined to limit the storage space of most Xbox 360 gamers to 120 GB. The 250 GB hard drive, initially released as part of a bundle that also included Modern Warfare 2, the biggest selling game of 2009, is set to also appear as part of a bundle with Final Fantasy XIII, the Square Enix-made Japanese... |
17 February 2010
13:11 GMT |
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Motion controllers are the brand-new rave, the gimmick that every game needs to support so that people will see it as the title that's coming from tomorrow, which has that glossy shine of the new. However, some developers tend to be either a bit skeptic about the new input method or simply not impressed by it, b... |
17 February 2010
03:21 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII, the game that rocked a lot of boats in Japan when it was launched in December, last year, is just three weeks away from its North American release, and Yoshinori Kitase, its producer, really praised the PlayStation 3 and the part that the console played in shaping the title. Originally, it started... |
15 February 2010
04:26 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII is set to arrive in North America and in Europe in March 2009 on both the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and on the PlayStation 3 from Sony. But, unlike Europe, which gets a Collector's Edition, with all the usual goodies like a soundtrack and concept art included, and unlike Japan, which received a ... |
11 February 2010
05:14 GMT |
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Since Final Fantasy XIII started out as a PlayStation 2 game, it's no surprise that it ended up staying in development for over five years, for it was eventually carried over to the PS3. And it seems like, while everybody at Square Enix is overjoyed with how well the title was received in Japan, as far as critic... |
9 February 2010
09:12 GMT |
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Square Enix's plans of world domination seem to be going just fine, and the somewhat recently purchased British publisher, Eidos, is pulling its weight. The big Japanese publisher has just announced its financial report for the year, and has revealed that the company has a 68-percent increase in operating income... |
9 February 2010
05:26 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII is set to arrive on Western markets on March 9 on both the PlayStation 3, the traditional platform for the Japanese role playing game from Square Enix, and the Xbox 360 home console from Microsoft.The problem with going multiplatform has been the amount of data the new Final Fantasy title comes pac... |
4 February 2010
08:54 GMT |
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The game has already been released in Japan and the word going around is that it's a gem polished to near perfection, so its long development time would be explained. But it looks like a lot of this time was spent not on polishing the title, but on porting it from the PS2 to the PS3. As an original design, the g... |
1 February 2010
05:55 GMT |
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Square Enix has announced that when Final Fantasy XIII arrives on the Western market on March 9, 2010, nearly three months after the Japanese release of the latest installment of the huge franchise, a Limited Collector's Edition will also be offered for the real Final Fantasy fan. Square Enix is saying that it w... |
26 January 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Figures offered by the Dengeki magazine in Japan and by its publishing company, ASCII Media Works, are showing that the videogame market for the Land of the Rising Sun shrank pretty dramatically last year while also showing Dragon Quest IX, the Japanese role playing game published by Square Enix for the Nintendo DS, ... |
4 January 2010
04:09 GMT |
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If Capcom has a hard time blurring the line between the East and the West, Square Enix doesn't have a problem in working with both markets. It already proved that when it bought Eidos, but it seems even more determined to make its open mindedness very clear to everyone. If we need proof, we need not look any fur... |
29 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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It seems that Final Fantasy XIII might be one of the biggest games of the year even if it is only released in Japan and on a single platform, the PlayStation 3 from Sony. The game, which was released on December 17, has managed to sell more than 1.5 million copies in just three days, topping the sale chart for the ma... |
23 December 2009
14:51 GMT |
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Square Enix is saying that Final Fantasy XIII, the latest installment in the long running Japanese role playing game series, has managed to sell more than 1 million copies in its first day on sales on the Japanese market.The game is selling for the equivalent of about 100 dollars in Yen and Square Enix has shipped ab... |
21 December 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII might have made news when Microsoft announced that the long running series would no longer be a PlayStation exclusive and would also appear on the Xbox 360 but there's a good chance that when Final Fantasy XV comes around, in five or six years, the game will be playable not just on home gaming... |
18 December 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Square Enix has really gotten into this year's holiday spirit, and has decided that there will be no Scrooge, or Grinch from the company this Christmas. Final Fantasy is the treat it has installed for us, and it's in plentiful numbers. First, Final Fantasy XIII was just released in Japan and, while American... |
18 December 2009
04:15 GMT |
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While Final Fantasy XIII is the Square Enix game that has the world in an uproar, it doesn't meant that the rest of the franchise isn't getting any more love. FF XIII might have been released in Japan today, but North America will have to wait until March, and, if these gamers need a fix for their Final Fan... |
17 December 2009
04:58 GMT |
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Square Enix, the Japanese developer and publisher responsible for high profile franchises like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, has announced that it has shipped around 1 million copies of Final Fantasy XIII to retailers in Japan, where the role playing experience is set to be released, exclusively for the PlayStation... |
16 December 2009
09:01 GMT |
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