Posts Tagged ‘Square Enix’

Final Fantasy XIV will limit the amount of time players can earn XP. This is a bad decision, and should not go through to the finished product. It just shouldn’t. Here’s why.

Square Enix aren’t sure where the future of Final Fantasy lies. I have a suggestion: don’t let it lie where the voice of internet criticism tells you it should.

Two big titles. Two big surprise moves to multiplatform development. Which marked a bigger shift in the games industry?

Will there be a Final Fantasy VII remake? No. Not if comments by Yoshinori Kitase are anything to go by – it would take 30-40 years to make, after all.

Square CEO explains how it could happen after the jump…

Final Fantasy is unlikely to see many changes as our Exclusive interview posted yesterday made clear, but speaking with the European PlayStation Blog FF XIII producer, Yoshinori Kitase, and director, Motomu Toriyama have said that Square Enix will be looking to change the way in which it makes its games in the future so as to avoid the long delays in bringing this game to market.

Square Enix has revealed that after only 24 hours on the shelves in Japan and released exclusively on the PS3, Final Fantasy XIII has already exceeded 1 million sales. The epic RPG sequel has made its mark as the biggest Japanese games release of the year, matching the performance of Modern Warfare 2 in the UK, which also managed to break the million mark in day one sales.

Someone in Japan has posted a live feed of themselves playing Final Fantasy XIII, which obviously may contain spoilers, but is also a novel way of taking a sneaky peak if you just can’t resist.

Square Enix has released a couple of screens featuring the Final Fantasy XIII version of the Adamantoise, an enemy that has appeared in every Final Fantasy game since Final Fantasy II

Square Enix is making the last adjustments to the European and US versions of Final Fantasy XIII according to the company’s president Yoichi Wada. This news comes ahead of a promised announcement this Friday regarding the western release of the highly anticipated Japanese blockbuster. It is widely believed that a western release date will be announced, if not on Friday, then very soon.

It has emerged that now defunct Swedish developer Grin were working on a new Final Fantasy project for Square Enix, codenamed ‘Fortress’. The spin-off title was to be an action game more in keeping with Grin’s own background and looked to be set in the Final Fantasy XII era. Grin began work on Fortress straight after finishing up Bionic Commando for Capcom, but went bust last month. With the company no more a great deal of concept art for the project is now surfacing giving us a glimpse of what we’re missing out on.

In an interview with Famitsu, Kingdom Hearts producer Tetsuya Nomura has revealed that in the tradition of the series, Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep (which is about to be released on the PSP in Japan) will feature a “secret movie” after the credits that’ll tease the next game in the series

Square’s Vagrant Story, a game described by Play as “one of the most sublime gaming experiences you’re likely to encounter on the PlayStation”, just went up on the Japanese PlayStation Store

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