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GRIN’s Ill-Fated “Fortress” Still Under Development
Citing unnamed sources, GamesIndustry.biz says the Final Fantasy spinoff codenamed “Fortress” has not died along with original developer GRIN. When the Stockholm studio closed, Fortress had already been taken back by Square Enix. GRIN shut down last month, after a lackluster year that saw Terminator: Salvation, Bionic Commando and Wanted: Weapons of Fate all fail…
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A Final Look Inside GRIN’s “Fortress”
An anonymous tipster attended GRIN’s going-out-of-business sale at the closed studio’s offices in Stockholm and snapped several pictures that seem to be of its work on, among other things, the Final Fantasy game it was rumored to be making for Square Enix. UPDATE – While some of this art is from the Final Fantasy game,…
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A Look at Final Fantasy XIII’s Combat System and Strategy
The English localization is almost done. But the Japanese build of Final Fantasy XIII, shown off at Gamescom, gives you a good idea of what to expect in the gameplay when the title releases next year for Xbox 360 an PS3. FFXIII’s developer notes the game’s combat mechanism employs something they call the “paradigm shift”…
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This Is What You Missed At The Distant Worlds Concert
Renowned Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu rocked San Francisco last Saturday along with Grammy award-winning conductor Arnie Roth at the Distant Worlds concert. It wouldn’t be Distant Worlds without the music of Final Fantasy and it wouldn’t the music of Final Fantasy without Spehiroth’s theme from Final Fantasy VII, One Winged Angel. There have been…
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Final Fantasy IV Gets OverClocked
OverClocked Remix, the cooperative dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of video game music, has just released an arrangement of 46 tracks of the Final Fantasy IV musical score. OC ReMix bills the album as a tribute to Nobuo Uematsu, the eminent composer of all the Final Fantasy scores. The three-hour, three-disc project are arranged…
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Nobuo Uematsu Sells Out San Francisco
If you missed Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu in Seattle last weekend and you don’t have tickets to this weekend’s show in San Francisco, you’ll just have to move to Japan and stalk him. The July 18th San Francisco performance of Distant Worlds: the music of FINAL FANTASY sold out within weeks of the tickets…
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At Long Last… Moogle Shoes! Sort Of
It’s no secret that I have a thing for gaming-themed shoes (it’s a chick thing), so I simply have to blog about Daniel “Brass Monki” Reese’s custom video game shoes — featuring Moogles. Normally, you don’t see Moogle-related fashion items when searching for Final Fantasy apparel. I had a particularly fruitless search for someone’s Christmas…
By AJ Glasser