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Quick Look: Final Fantasy XIII-2 Demo (with Gameplay Video)

Final Fantasy XIII was a half disappointment for Square Enix but the team behind the long running Japanese role playing game series has promised that the upcoming XIII-2 sequel would fix everything that was flawed in the original release.Based on the demo that has just arrived and I have played on the PlayStation 3 h...

12 January 2012
18:31 GMT

New Final Fantasy XIII-2 Shows Lots of Moogles

Video game publisher Square Enix has launched yet another trailer for Final Fantasy XIII-2 which focuses solely on Moogles, which some players have complained have had a much too limited presence in the previously released game in the series.The Moogles, who are a combination of a mole and a bat from an etymological ...

6 January 2012
05:07 GMT

Square Enix Deliver Cast Presentation from Final Fantasy XIII-2

Video game publisher Square Enix has launched a new trailer for the upcoming Japanese role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII-2 which is specifically designed to show off the entire cast of characters that will play a major role in the game. Those who have played the previous entry in the long-running series will meet ...

22 December 2011
02:27 GMT

Final Fantasy XIII-2 Time Paradox Story Is Easy to Follow

Final Fantasy XIII-2 aims for accessibility and one of the main focuses for the team working on the title is making the narrative line easier to understand, while also offering depth for all long term fans of the franchise.Speaking as part of a bigger interview with the Members club of Square Enix fans, Motomu Toriya...

21 December 2011
16:31 GMT

Star Ocean Developer Worked on Final Fantasy XIII-2

Video game developer tri-Ace, the company behind titles like Star Ocean and Resonance of Fate, has announced that it has worked with Square Enix on the development of Final Fantasy XIII-2, although it’s not clear if gamers will be able to detect the company’s contribution.One of the developers working on ...

20 December 2011
15:01 GMT

Final Fantasy XIII-2 Guided Video Tour Presents the Upcoming JRPG

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

3DS RPG Beyond the Labyrinth Has Deep Tactical Battle System

The Nintendo 3DS has suffered from a lack of quality titles when it was originally released and Nintendo recently stepped in to deliver some high quality games but the platform is still lacking some quality third party titles.This might change with the early 2012 launch of Beyond the Labyrinth, the tri-Ace created ro...

7 December 2011
03:23 GMT

No Visual Difference Between Xbox 360 and PS3 Versions of Final Fantasy XIII-2

Final Fantasy XIII-2 is close to launch date and the developers have said that they have succeeded in making the version of the game launching on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft close in terms of visual quality to the core version that runs on the PlayStation 3 from Sony.Yoshimori Kitase, who is the producer of the Final...

24 November 2011
22:11 GMT

Square Enix Confirms Final Fantasy XIII-2 Story Is More than 30 Hours Long

The Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu has announced that the single player story of the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII-2 will take between 30 and 40 hours to complete by a player who has medium skill.After the game is over and done gamers can also choose to reload save game data and begin playing again from a save point ...

23 November 2011
12:11 GMT

Developer Says Final Fantasy XIII Should Have Launched Sooner

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

Final Fantasy Brand Greatly Damaged by FF XIV

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

Final Fantasy Characters Design Is Not Focused on Looks

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

Final Fantasy XIII-2 Will Show More of Lightning

One of the main developers working on the newly announced Final Fantasy XIII-2 has offered a series of details on the new Japanese role-playing game, saying that requests from players have been one of the main reasons for the new game set in the same world. Motomu Toriyama, who is the director at Square Enix worki...

1 February 2011
17:51 GMT

Final Fantasy XIII-2 Is Now Official, Arrives Next Winter

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

Nintendo Brings Dragon Quest IX to the West

Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies has been out in The Land of the Rising Sun since July 11, 2009 and it has been a great success, selling more than 4 million copies until the beginning of 2010. And now, Nintendo has announced that it will be taking over publishing duties for the North American release of...

25 February 2010
14:31 GMT

Final Fantasy VII Remake Seems Pretty Unrealistic

The evidence is mounting that Square Enix, the Japanese publisher in charge of the Final Fantasy franchise, is not at all interested in offering gamers a remake of the seventh main game in the series, which many consider to still offer the most developed Japanese role playing experience. The latest piece of evidence ...

22 February 2010
08:52 GMT

No DLC Planned for Final Fantasy XIII

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

Motion Controllers Would Have Been 'Too Exhausting' for Final Fantasy XIII

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

The Future of Final Fantasy Is Unclear Even to Square Enix

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

The Final Fantasy JRPG Saga Could End with XIII

As a new-year resolution, Square Enix seems to have set for itself a higher standard. As Japanese companies have a habit of doing at the beginning of a new year, Square has announced its intentions for the following 12 months and revealed that it plans to broaden its activity. Considering that most of the developer&#...

7 January 2010
04:08 GMT

Final Fantasy XIII Breaks Records in Japan

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

Ubisoft Wants to Get in the RPG Business

In a relatively short period of time, Ubisoft has managed to present itself as a capable developer and producer, generating a lot of successful games and lengthy franchises. And one thing it's especially proud of, and proud enough to plaster this as an intro message on some of its titles, is that Ubisoft games a...

23 December 2009
04:57 GMT

BioWare Looks at Japan and Its JRPGs

As far as the gaming industry goes, the really big developing fields are America and Japan. While there is no real competition between the two, and both tend to stay out of each other’s way, western games tend to have a North American release while Japanese ones also tend to be localized. When a title truly hit...

21 December 2009
14:01 GMT

Final Fantasy XIII Sells One Million Copies

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

Square Enix Ships 1 Million Final Fantasy XIII Copies

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

Final Fantasy XIII Got Reviewed by Famitsu

Final Fantasy is without a doubt one of the most popular gaming franchises around, so the fact that its latest installment, FF XIII, has generated a huge amount of attention is no surprise. Everyone is dying to get their hands on it, but, for now, they'll just have to settle for Famitsu's review, the first ...

9 December 2009
13:01 GMT

Final Fantasy XIII Is at Least 50 Hours Long

Japanese and Western fans of the Japanese role playing genre should be happy to learn that Final Fantasy XIII, which is set to arrive for the PlayStation 3 in Japan this year and for the Sony platform and the Xbox 360 from Microsoft in March of 2010 on Western markets, should take at least 50 hours of their time.The ...

2 December 2009
09:52 GMT

Star Ocean: Last Hope Gets a PlayStation3 Release Date

Initially announced as an Xbox 360 exclusive, Star Ocean: The Last Hope finally received an official release date for the PlayStation3. With this, Star Ocean returns to its most familiar grounds, as all previous installments of the franchise have only wooed Sony's console owners. Right from the start, the game&#...

17 September 2009
06:33 GMT

Final Fantasy XIII Priced, Western Date Mentioned

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

Final Fantasy XIII Arrives on December 17

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

No Clear Plans for DLC for Final Fantasy XIII

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

Dragon Quest IX Looks Like a Big Hit

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

Storytelling in Games Can Be Better than in Movies

At the moment, one of the biggest debates in videogame development is this: “What's more important, the storytelling or the gameplay?” There's almost a universal agreement on the fact that the average quality of the stories told in videogames is not up to par with what movies and books offer to ...

6 March 2009
16:51 GMT

Microsoft Deal Delays Worldwide Release of Final Fantasy XIII Until 2010

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

Gurumin Available on the PlayStation Store

If you are a fan of Japanese role playing games (JRPG) and you own a PlayStation Portable from Sony, you probably already know about Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure, Mastiff's title. The game, which brings conflict and fun altogether, has managed to enter the PlayStation history by becoming the first ever third-p...

2 July 2008
12:06 GMT

Rune Factory Frontier Moving to the Wii

Marvelous Entertainment is announcing that Rune Factory Frontier is coming to the Nintendo Wii. The Rune Factory saga features two other games, both released for the Nintendo DS, and the move to the Wii might prove a big hit for the series, as the game will surely attract more players interested in virtual match maki...

6 June 2008
14:06 GMT

Anime RPG Announced for Playstation 2

You have to love that naive, big-eyed, zany hairstyles and overall erotic appearance. This is what anime is, after all: innocent looking chicks doing some really nasty jobs (and I'm not talking about hentai-like stuff). Of course, such characters will always be noticed and people will buy the games in which they...

9 April 2008
03:07 GMT


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