Square Enix's Yoichi Wada has just confirmed that Final Fantasy Versus XIII is very much alive and well, and even said the "regular Versus meeting" had just ended. Will it grace TGS? Apparently the presentation of the city in FF Versus XIII is enough to "knock you off your feet" twittered the boss. All that talk of it getting canned is just a "false rumour" that's flying around.
Square Enix has announced that the Final Fantasy XIV is being re-launched as a fully redesigned title, rebranded as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn; Square-Enix had previously referred to the reboot as "Version 2.0".
What has Square Enix got primed for August's Gamescom in Cologne, Germany? A leaked list reveals all, if it proves true. The MMO reboot Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn will be there. Also making the rounds will be Hitman: Absolution, Tomb Raider, Sleeping Dogs, Final Fantasy VII, Quantum Conundrum and others. They've a "host of highly original content" to treat us with.
Square Enix Japan will be releasing a version of Final Fantasy 3 for the upcoming Android-based OUYA console, which has so far raised $5,813,379 from Kickstarter with 8 days left. Final Fantasy 3 would serve as a launch title for the OUYA which is due to debut in March 2013. Square also promised to back more content for the new home console platform in the future.
Final Fantasy XIII and XIII-2 producer Yoshinori Kitase has announced that at the upcoming FF series anniversary event, Square Enix will make an announcement regarding the "Lightning Saga".
The re-release of Final Fantasy VII on PC in the US over the weekend was a mistake, informs a company dealing with the trouble. Its SecuROM DRM failed to authenticate the copies. This is because the Final Fantasy VII re-launch isn't actually ready yet, they continued. A number of fans snapped up the HD FFVII for $12.50 only to find it wasn't working.
UPDATE: Square Enix has just released Final Fantasy VII for the PC, which can be downloaded from Square's Store for £7.99. Ratings board PEGI has the release date for Square Enix's Final Fantasy VII on PC marked for today, accompanied by an age rating of 12. The PC release is exclusive to the Square Enix Store.
The years-long disaster that was Final Fantasy XIV may be coming to a close from a technical standpoint, but producer Naoki Yoshida states that winning trust back from gamers will be an even harder task.
Once upon a time publisher Square, before they became Square Enix, was working on an English translation of Final Fantasy 2 to be released on the NES. The project however was scrapped. Instead they opted for an English Final Fantasy 4 on SNES. Someone happens to have the "only legitimate copy" left of Square's work and they're selling it. How much? That'd be $50,000.
Square Enix has launched a teaser site for Final Fantasy XIII.
Neither Final Fantasy XIII nor ingenue star Lightning will go away as Square Enix has announced an unprecedented second sequel to the RPG, though rather than call it "Final Fantasy XIII-3", they elected to dub it Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII and promise it'll be the final chapter of that particular series.
Japanese mag Famitsu has fresh juicy details of Square Enix's Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13 project, with is said to be almost a third of the way complete. We're promised a 'happy ending'. Lightning Returns is said to be "World Driven" whereas FFXIII was story driven and FFXIII-2 player driven. Lightning is on her own in battle, and is "considerably more refined" as a person.
Think you are a dedicated Final Fantasy nerd fan? Well one Jamie Colliver has painstakingly surrendered six month's worth of his free time to reimagine Final Fantasy VII in LittleBigPlanet 2.
His work spans 20 levels of LBP2 using the officially released FFVII costumes for the sackboys. Colliver has aired his work through six YouTube clips containing two hours of gameplay.
A bunch of key dates have been revealed for Final Fantasy XIV players.
Square Enix has announced a DLC sale for all things FFXIII-2.!
The product page for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII has popped up on Amazon, with a 29th March 2013 release date attached to it.
Final Fantasy XIV will close on the 31st October, as the Sevent Umbral Era descends on Eorzea, according to publisher Square Enix. It'll wrap up that story line, and all character data will be saved.
Final Fantasy XIV producer and director Naoki Yoshida claims in an interview that the reason the badly launched MMO isn't free-to-play and is sticking with a premium subscribership is that it's the best way to "regain trust" with fans.
Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn's second lease of life is extremely important for Square Enix. Director Noaki Yoshida has discussed the title's original failure, and how a repeat could destroy the company for good.
Square Enix has confirmed that the company has cut a significant number of staff from its offices in Los Angeles. This confirmation came after MMO site Massively received anonymous tips about the layoffs.