Lightning Return FFXIII - E3 Trailer (JP)

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iOS Final Fantasy Tactics 50% of the regular price

Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions has down to $7.99 on iTunes App Store now until 12th June 2013. It's rare to see Square-Enix's apps has discount. The price was $15.99 before the offer.

Download from App Store here


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New Final Fantasy for iOS release today!

Final Fantasy: All The Bravest just released into the App Store, selling at $3.99 with in-app purchase stuffs. This game using Active Time Battle system with the largest parties in FINAL FANTASY history, your can set up to 40 members in your party.

Visit official site for more information. iTunes store link here.


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Final Fantasy IV for iOS is up today!

New FF release, old FFs price dropped. The trailer above shows that will be more Final Fantasy coming for the smartphones. Keep updated on Square-Enix FF smartphone page at the URL below.


Final Fantasy Smartphones
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Girl Fight - Chun Li vs. Tifa Lockhart

Street Fighter series: Chun Li vs Final Fantasy VII Tifa Lockhart in real.


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Agni's Philosophy - Final Fantasy Realtime Tech Demo

Agni's Philosophy -- FINAL FANTASY REALTIME TECH DEMO


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Final Fantasy Dimensions new screens, and it's not gonna be cheap

FINAL FANTASY DIMENSIONS known in Japan as Final Fantasy Legends: Hikari to Yami no Senshi (ファイナルファンタジー レジェンズ 光と闇の戦士) is a role-playing video game developed by Matrix Software and published by Square Enix for mobile devices in 2012. Recently it's been announced for the iOS and Android will get a simultaneous worldwide release of 31st August 2012.

The story is about a great world war ended by the efforts of the Avalon Empire. In the present, two groups of youths meet each other: a group from a small, peaceful country, and a group from the harsh northern mountains riding an airship. When they meet, the Crystals give off a large burst of light around the world, "and then the world heads to light and darkness." The game focuses on two different groups, the "Warriors of Light" consisting of a boy named Sol and his friends, and the "Warriors of Darkness" consisting of another boy named Nacht and his companions.


FINAL FANTASY DIMENSIONS is delivered as episodic content. The prologue will be free for everyone to enjoy. You can purchase the first chapter for $2.99 / £1.99 / €2.39, chapters 2-4 for $9.99 / £6.99 / €7.99 each, or the entire collection of chapters for $28.99 / £19.99 / €22.99.



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Final Fantasy VII 2012 edition is available!

A quick info here, as mentioned before the Final Fantasy VII Online Edition for PC is coming soon, and now it's already available. Now PC Digital Download
Special launch price is only €9.99 / $9.99, and only vailable for a limited period of time. Original price is €12.99 in Europe and $11.99 in US. This special offer expires 12th September!


Check out the Europe Store here or US Store here
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Final Fantasy VII PC online edition!

One of the greatest RPGs of all time - Final Fantasy VII, was originally released on PS1, and lately it spins off the story's expansion to many other platform. The Windows PC edition of FFVII was released in 1998. The new edition of PC has been announced bu SQUARE ENIX Europe recently with several new features added such as:

- Achievements
36 brand new achievements to unlock. Share your profile with friends online to find out who is the ultimate FINAL FANTASY fan.

- Character Booster
When you stuck on a difficult section or lacking of support items, you can increase your HP, MP and Gil levels to their maximum, all with the simple click of a button, leaving you to enjoy your adventure.

- Cloud Saves
With cloud save support in FINAL FANTASY VII you can continue your game progress right where you left off no matter where or which PC you are using, all you need is an internet connection.

The Final Fantasy VII 2012 PC online will be available exclusively on the SQUARE ENIX Store soon!


Minimum System Requirements of the game:
- Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32/64-bit)
- 2GHz Processor or faster
- 1GB RAM
- DirectX 9-compatible graphic card



Check the official website for future updates.
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Final Fantasy VII world map "Earth" edition

Holiday with low activities scheduled, that's why this thing come cross my mind, "what does FF7 world look like... from a satellite?". If FF7 world is a planet just like Earth, orbiting a star like our Sun, in a distance where keeps water in liquid form and so on... the color and looks should be similar like our Earth (or I'm wrong?), so I put all the Earth-like texturing and color to similize the Earth, so hopefully it looks more like a real planet. And this is it, Final Fantasy VII world in the reality form.

Click the image to enlarge:


Credit:
The cloud texture originally created by Natural Earth III, I use a part of it into this map.


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Final Fantasy XIII-2 Collector's Edition for US release

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A very nice Collector's Edition for US release. It comes with 4-disc OST, 20 pages art book, game disc and manual.


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Final Fantasy XIII-2 - Change the Future Trailer

Final Fantasy XIII-2 - Change the Future 7 min trailer full (PS3, Xbox 360).


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Final Fantasyu XIII-2 E3 2011 trailer

At this E3 (2011), Square Enix show off outstanding technique again with their Final Fantasy XIII-2 trailer HD, and some gameplay footage. Check this trailer out!


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Final Fantasy Type-0 gamplay (5/21/11)

The upcoming game in Final Fantasy series, Final Fantasy Type-0 for PSP has a 20 minutes footage gameplay show off. This game set for release this summer in Japan, and will come on two UMDs.


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Lord of Vermillion Re:2's Crossover arcade

Square Enix's arcade followup Lord of Vermillion Re:2 would be seeing some big collaborations with Arc System Works, SNK Playmore, and Sega. It would be The King of Fighters '98, BlazBlue, Sangokushi Taisen, and Final Fantasy crossover!

We can see Kyo Kusanagi from KOF, Ragna from BlazBlue, Guan Yu from Sangokushi Taisen. Re:2 also does a full refresh for all 300+ cards from LOVII and adds some new ones as well. Among the new cards is Final Fantasy IX's Kuja. His card is drawn by Shuko Murase, main character designer for FFIX (below).



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Chocobo's Theme on STL Quadruple Ocarina

A classic Chocobo's Theme in ocarine version. Her name is Heather, if you're interested, find out more from her channel here.


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Big discount on the Square Enix's iOS games

In celebration of the release of Final Fantasy III, Square Enix is currently having a sale on just about every iOS game in their library. All games discounted 50% or even more from their price before.

Okay, perhaps it is not that "BIG" discount, but Square Enix rarely drop their games price don't you think so? If you looking for my suggestion, Secret of Mana and Chaos Rings are worth getting right now, and Song Summoner is secondary second when you have extra money to spend. As for those Final Fantasy games, they are worth only if you never played them on other platform. The rest of them didn't impress me.

iPhone/iPod Touch games:

- Final Fantasy, $8.99 → $3.99
- Final Fantasy II, $8.99 → $3.99
- Chaos Rings, $12.99 → $5.99
- Secret of Mana, $8.99 → $3.99
- Hills and Rivers Remain, $4.99 → $1.99
- Crystal Defenders, $7.99 → $3.99
- Sliding Heroes, 99¢ → FREE
- Vanguard Storm, $3.99 → $1.99
- Voice Fantasy, $2.99 → 99¢
- Song Summoner, $9.99 → $4.99

iPad games:

- Chaos Rings for iPad, $15.99 → $7.99
- Crystal Defenders for iPad, $7.99 → $3.99
- Chocobo Panic, $3.99 → $1.99


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Final Fantasy III - March 2011 on iOS

It was announced recently and now the official site is finally open. As we know FF3 has released on many platform with some differences (or many a lot), the latest version was on DS and I believe it's also the best edition comparing to other release, so for the iPhone/iPod release, we will see the DS edition.


Official Site (check back for future updates):
http://dlgames.square-enix.com/ff/ff3/jp/
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Work for Square-Enix can shorten your life?

Since Final Fantasy XIII was released, the game's director Motomu Toriyama and producer Yoshinori Kitase are still at Square Enix, as well as the game's art director and background graphics director. However, a chunk of the team apparently left after the game's release: battle planning director Toshihiro Tsuchida (who directed 1995's Front Mission for Square), background technical director Takashi Ohkuma (who quit Square Enix and moved to an island in Okinawa to blog about sunsets), composer Masashi Hamauzu (who had been with the studio since 1996), character art designer Nao Ikeda (who started designing characters for The Legend of Mana), among others.

Sure, turnover is high after game companies finish big titles. But what all these game developers have in common is that they were long-time Square Enix employees. Some of them went off, like Hamauzu and Ikeda, to found their own freelance operations. All of them leaving after Final Fantasy XIII was released.

Yoshinori Kanada, who was FFXIII's storyboard director, wasn't so lucky. The 57 year-old died of a heart attack in July 2009. Besides his work at Square Enix, Kanada also worked with Hayao Miyazaki on a slew films, including My Neighbor Totoro and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. It should be pointed out that Japanese anime is a tough business, and many don't make it to sixty. The Japanese game industry isn't a cake walk either.

Unconfirmed reports also surfaced depicting Square Enix as a dark place to work. Former Square Enix game developer Yasuyuki Honne tweeted that two Square Enix employees attempted suicide. One was apparently successful, while the other supposedly was not and is now in a vegetative state. "Another seems to have died from cancer...," Honne added via Twitter.

Honne's tweet has since been deleted, and he does not clarify when the deaths occurred, though it does seem recent as the last Square title he worked on was 1999's Chrono Cross. Also, with a company as large as Square Enix, there are bound to be troubled individuals — of course, as well as those unfortunate enough to be stricken with cancer.

While Final Fantasy Fantasy XIII might not have lived up to the hype, the game was more successful than Final Fantasy XIV, which continues to bleed players and flounder about, and successful enough for a sequel, Final Fantasy XIII-2. That game will be out later this year.


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A real Buster Sword!?

So is that Cloud's main weapon in Final Fantasy VII? It seems too heavy for human and... not that sharp at all?


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