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If you've been playing online game Final Fantasy XIV, you know there are eighteen in-game worlds. That is going to change. Soon there will be ten. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5883645&view=rss&microfeed=true Agent 47 may just look like a bald guy in a suit from the front but that iconic barcode on the back of his neck lets you know that there's something different about him. Something deadly. More »
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PlayStation 2 title Super Galdelic Hour is nuts. It features females dressed as animals on a game show playing whack-a-mole with giant suckers and throwing pies in each others' faces. You cannot take enough acid to reproduce a game like this, let alone the color palette. More »
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Comics aren't the centerpiece of comic-cons anymore. For better or worse, the nerd gatherings that bear that nomenclature feature all sorts of pop culture, but I guess "culture-con" doesn't roll off the tongue quite so appealingly. More »
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I'll give E3 this: It's colorful. We did a few laps to see the big dogs: Square Enix, Activision, Ubisoft, Konami, Sony Ericsson, Microsoft...Robot Entertainment. (I can't help it. Orcs Must Die looks really fun!) Photos by our fearless photog, Isaac Viel. More »
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With Blizzard reluctant to nail down the release of Diablo III, Dungeon Siege III is increasingly looking like the computer game that will be satisfying my clicky dungeon brawler itch this spring. More »
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Cosplay, the art of dressing up like somebody else, is normally happy just looking like the character. Canadian Sheila isn't happy just looking like the character. She has to look like screenshots. More »
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Enix, which joined with Square to form Square Enix in 2003, is beloved in Japan for its Dragon Quest games. Children and adults alike adore DQ. Enix's earliest games, however, are anything but wholesome. More »
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Square Enix, the Tokyo-based game company behind Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy, is launching a pink web promotion for its massively multiplayer online game Fantasy Earth: Zero, complete with suggestive YouTube clips of ladies eating corn flakes and exercising in a low-cut dress. More »
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In 1995, Enix America closed, throwing plans for an English release of Dragon Quest VI into doubt. "I may not live long enough to see Dragon Quest VI," wrote one fan. She wasn't exaggerating. She was 76 at the time. More »
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Today is the official launch day for Final Fantasy XIV Collector's Edition purchasers, and since we technically count in that group, we're giving folks who opted to purchase the normal edition a glimpse of what they're missing. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5645344&view=rss&microfeed=true When you can tie a man to the back of a fighter jet and take to the sky with him screaming behind you, does your game really need a plot? More »
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Final Fantasy XIII might be out in Japan, but Square Enix has another new FF title in the pipeline: online game Final Fantasy XIV. A trio of new screenies have hit the official site. Check 'em out. More »
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It just wouldn't be TGS without a new Final Fantasy trailer now, would it? Here's one for Final Fantasy XIV. More »
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With Gamescom just two weeks away, the recently transplanted show is heating up to outshine its already white hot predecessor in Leipzig. More »
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PopMatters recently posted an extremely in-depth look back at Final Fantasy VIII, exploring the themes, emotions, and insight into human behavior that make one of the most neglected entries in the franchise great. More »
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Yoshinori Yamagishi, Square Enix's Star Ocean series producer, has confessed his desire to make erotic games. More »
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Gamasutra posted a great breakdown of one of my favorite series, Dragon Quest (née Dragon Warrior), all in a mere 10 pages — lengthy, but worth a read through if you're a fan of the games. After a flying introduction on why Dragon Quest has been very popular, the author takes a detailed look at each installment of the series. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=354584&view=rss&microfeed=true Dragon Quest IV hasn't been remade once, but twice. The NES game's first remake was for the PlayStation back in 2001, and it's latest is for the Nintendo DS. (It also spanned a bunch spin-offs, but that's neither here nor there!) So, instead of comparing the game's graphics, we're comparing the games' Japanese tv ads. Which one is the best? Like most things, the original. More »
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Jesus! Dreadful! Bio-Monster! Years back, developer Enix (of current Square Enix fame) released a Famicom text-based survival horror game called "Jesus: Kyoufu no Bio Monster." The game is set in 2061 when Halley's Comet has changed direction and starts heading right for earth! The nations of the world, who banded together to create the space station "Jesus," must figure out how to stop the comet. Players are the Japanese rep. and military cadet Hayao Musou. While our usually rule of thumb is that no way a game with that kooky title can be any good, Jesus: Dreadful Bio-monster is apparently fairly decent. The game's music was even composed by Koichi Sugiyama, who's behind the instantly recognizable Dragon Quest theme. Jesus: Kyoufu no Bio-Monster never saw an English translation. How sad! More »
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Good news, Square Enix figurine collectors! Squeenix is going to open up their own online shop to sell their wares directly to the consumer, bypassing other stores. They wanted to make sure they could have the collectibles online and available at launch to make available to collectors. A spokesman said: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=278455&view=rss&microfeed=true Thanks to the insidious software piracy movement for first warezing Final Fantasy XII a month before release and then uploading the opening movie to YouTube. I have no real comments, except, you know, it looks like Square-Enix isn't skimping on their past design methodology of having more CGI than gameplay. Also, with the appearance of the rabbit-eared women, Final Fantasy finally gets furries. Florian Eckhardt More »
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I'll admit to being very likely to buy Final Fantasy XII upon release. I've been looking for a good, repetitive, random-battle RPG for quite sometime, and I haven't played any Final Fantasy titles since the seventh. More »
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To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the juggernaut known as Dragon Quest, Square Enix is releasing a board game. Called Dragon Quest Dungeon R, the limited-edition game is a reworking of Battleship in which a dungeon screen divides the boards. The game goes on sale in The Land of the Rising Sun on November 18th for 6,090 yen (US $51). With "Dragon Quest" being Japanese for "smash hit," expect these to fly off store shelves. Brian Ashcraft More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=199982&view=rss&microfeed=true What did Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within have to do with the Final Fantasy video game series? The hell if I know... in response to my question "Where the hell was Cloud?", I vaguely remember the fan boy ramblings from my friend John about "materia" and "Mother Gaia" when we wandered out of the matinee, but ultimately, I like to think the answer is "nothing at all." More »
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Yesterday, we posted a rather neat video of Square-Enix's upcoming Final Fantasy III. It showed us that the long loading times of old FF3 builds for the DS have been reduced from long, chunky grindings of internal DS cogs into brief flashes of existential white space. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=187312&view=rss&microfeed=true There's some new Final Fantasy III footage up. It looks absolutely swell: the animations are smooth, the art style appropriately bobble-headed, the synonymous battle theme swells underneath a cliched battle between pixy and goblin. Unfortunately, I just don't like Final Fantasy. Better start learning, though, I guess... I don't see any other Triple A, or even Triple D, RPGs on the DS horizon. Florian Eckhardt More »
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The Magic Box has posted some new and beautiful shots from the upcoming PS3 title Final Fantasy XIII.Some of them are obviously CGI and some of them look like CGI with the interface overlayed. Still, no one can say that Square Enix don't make a pretty game. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=175619&view=rss&microfeed=true You've got to love the sort of heroine who can hover upside down in the air for over thirty seconds, shooting a stylized Uzi, yet whose billowy skirt never once falls down over her waist to reveal the fact that the Square-Enix designers failed to model her with panties. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=172417&view=rss&microfeed=true Sephiroth and Riku get gay in the Sims 2. What is it with Squeenix fans anyway? Half of them seem to think they've been beamed straight from a homoerotic, bobble-headed universe where Riku and Donald Duck share a special, furry bond. More »
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Remember when Final Fantasy 3 very clearly referred to Final Fantasy 6, but no one knew it? More »
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