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Order Of War Preview: Almost Everything Is In Order

Please forgive the author as her headline-writing guy seems to be out of the office at the moment, along with the chick who comes up with puns. Order of War is a World War II strategy game for PC with a slightly different angle than all the other WWII strategy games out there: it’s not…

Final Fantasy XIII Odin Summoned In Figure Form

Over the weekend, figure and hobby event Chara-Hobby was held at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. It’s the home of the Tokyo Game Show, you know. The event had loads of new figures on display, including this prototype of Final Fantasy XIII‘s Odin. Odin is the summon for FFXIII heroine, and this unpainted figure…

How Square Enix Ports DS Games To The Wii

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time was released on the DS and the Wii. How did Square Enix port it over? Easily. The game’s director Mitsuru Kamiyama explained at the recent CEDEC game conference in Japan, “The DS version was the original source code, we made a system that automatically generated the Wii version.”…

Final Fantasy XIII To Cost $89 In Japan?

That red kiosk is called “Loppi”. It’s located in Japanese convenience store Lawson. It’s a ticket selling machine, but customers can also go shopping and even pre-order video games and consoles. The Loppi screen lists the Xbox 360, the PSP 2000 1seg tuner and right below that? Final Fantasy XIII. The game is priced at…

Square Issues Order Of War This Month

Square Enix releases their first Western-developed game outside of Japan this month, bringing Wargaming.net’s World War II strategy title Order of War to North American PCs on September 22nd. Order of War is only the first of three Western-developed titles coming to North America via Square Enix and its new global agenda, along with Gas…

What Square Enix Games Are Playable At Tokyo Game Show?

This month brings the Tokyo Game Show to…Chiba, Japan. And what games is Square Enix bringing to TGS? Minus the Japan-only Lord of Vermilion II arcade game and Japan-only cell phone games like Kingdom Hearts: Coded, the list of Square Enix console games appearing at TGS are: Final Fantasy XI: The Vana’diel Collection 2: Trailer…

No Final Fantasy Versus XIII At Tokyo Game Show

According Square Enix game designer Tetsuya Nomura, Final Fantasy XIII will be playable. His title, Final Fantasy Versus, won’t be anywhere to be seen, however. Unlike last year, Square Enix will not be screening trailers for upcoming titles like Final Fantasy Versus XIII and instead will be focusing on playable demos for titles due out…

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”…

Guess Who’s Publishing Modern Warfare 2 In Japan?

Square Enix, that’s who. Known best for Final Fantasy, the Japanese game company is once again attempting to expand its portfolio by bringing eagerly awaited first-person-shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to Japan. The company has yet to make an official announcement, but there’s a teaser site with a large “2” that fades in…

ESRB Details Unannounced Raystorm, Thexder Revivals

While neither game has been officially announced to the best of our knowledge, both Raystorm HD and Thexder NEO have recently been fully described by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board. So you can expect their respective North American announcements soon. Both Thexder NEO and Raystorm HD appear to be remakes of the 8-bit and 32-bit…

Dragon Quest IX Sells Less Than 100,000 (Oh Noes!)

According to the Japanese sales figures released last week, DS title Dragon Quest IX sold 127,000. According to the ones released this week, it did not. The game moved 79,000 copies — making it the first time it fell under 100,000. The game has already sold 3.7 million copies, so who cares, right? 3.7 million…

New FFXIII Screens Show Different Angle of Glasses Lady

That’s Lieutenant Colonel Jihl Nabaat, Final Fantasy XIII‘s icy queen commander of the Holy Army. Famitsu has new screens of her, silver-haired Yaag Rosch, FFXIII heroine and her summon Odin in horsey Gestalt form. Final Fantasy XIII is headed for the PS3 in Japan this winter.

Square Enix Doesn’t See PS3 Price Cut Impact This Year

……but the company sees a big impact next year. When does Final Fantasy XIII come out again? Oh right, this winter. According to Square Enix honcho Yoichi Wada, the cheaper US$299 PS3 will spur game sales, but not enough for the company to revise this year’s financial forecast. “In terms of the impact (the PS3…

Square Enix Answer Final Fantasy VII Remake Question

Square Enix has remade numerous games in its back catalogue. One title that it hasn’t remade just yet is Final Fantasy VII. At the Gamescom convention in Germany, website VG247 asked Square Enix producers Yoshi Kitase and Motomu Toriyama about the possibility of a FFVII remake. The translator replied: There’s not official project that’s up…

Did Final Fantasy Artist Draw 2ch Bear Character?

There were four 2ch Japanese-style ASCII art characters that folks voted on. The most popular selection was drawn by Final Fantasy and Vampire Hunter D artist Yoshitaka Amano. The winning character? ASCII art character Yaruo. Below is Amano’s take on Yaruo. An exhibition of Amano’s art is being held in Tokyo’s Omotesando Hills until August…

Final Fantasy Artist Doing ASCII Art

Famous for his elegant Final Fantasy and Vampire Hunter D, artist Yoshitaka Amano will be drawing Japanese-style ASCII art. Folks will vote on which one of the four 2ch characters they want the famed illustrator to do his own interpretation of. The drawing will be shown live on Nico Nico Douga tomorrow from 8:00 to…

Will Final Fantasy XIII Be Playable At Tokyo Game Show?

A playable demo for upcoming role-playing-game Final Fantasy XIII has already been released in Japan. Bundled with Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete, it came out earlier this spring. And with the Japanese PS3 version being something like 90 percent finished, you’d think that the game would be in playable form at this year’s Tokyo…

Final Fantasy Versus XIII Dev Time “Comparatively Faster” Than FFXIII

Sick of looking at these same Final Fantasy Versus XIII screen shots? Yeah. Me too. Well, the good news is that development on Final Fantasy XIII is doing wonders for that other Fabula Nova Crystallis entry, according to the developer. Square Enix’s Yoshinori Kitase told us at Gamescom this week that development time on Final…

Final Fantasy XIII’s Paradigm Shift, Gestalt Mode & More

We’re just a few months away from Final Fantasy XIII’s release—in Japan anyway—giving Square Enix good reason to reveal more about the role-playing game’s battle system. We got a look at FF XIII’s goods this week at Gamescom. Final Fantasy XIII producer Yoshinori Kitase and director Motomu Toriyama walked us through a brief demo of…

Asking Dragon Quest Creator A Rude Question For Laughs

Yuji Horii has a spectacular comb-over. Something not lost on comedy program G-Tech when it had the Dragon Quest creator on to discuss DQIX. You ready for the what the Japanese internet is called an “unbelievable” question? G-Tech asked Horii, “Do you know what the bald-headed dance is?” To which the game designer replied, “I…