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Masashi Hamauzu, the composer of Final Fantasy XIII has left Square Enix. There's an exodus going on at the sound team, since Kenichiro Fukui en Junya Nakano left the company before Hamauzu.

Masashi Hamauzu

Masashi Hamauzu composed the soundtrack of games like Tobal No. 1, SaGa Frontier 2, Final Fantasy X, Unlimited SaGa, Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII, and his latest work Final Fantasy XIII, which he was praised for. He also worked on the International version of the game.

Square Enix can look for a new sound team, since this is not the last composer that will leave the company.

Source: Square Music Online

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In the latest Famitsu Square Enix has announced that the new Lufia game The Lands Cursed by the Gods will be a remake of Lufia II and will be released on the Nintendo DS.

Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals was orginally released in 1996 on the Super Nintendo and was an turn based RPG. The remake will be an action RPG, and will feature 3D graphics and voice acting. The game will be released in Japan on 25 February 2010.

The official website will be launced on the 25th.

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In the upcoming issue of Famitsu Square Enix has announced that a new game in the Lufia series is coming. The game will be developed by the same team who did the first game.

In 1993 Lufia and the Fortress of Doom was released on the SNES and 2 years later Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals. They were developed by Neverland and released by Taito. But since Taito has been taken over by Square Enix they will release the new game in the series.

Estpolis: The Lands cursed by the Gods

Not much is known about the game, only that it's called Estpolis: The Lands Cursed by the Gods. (the Lufia series in known as Estpolis Denki in Japan). More information is coming on 19 November.

Vagrant Story

In the latest newsletter that was sent today Square Enix has announced that Vagrant Story will be released on the European PlayStation Network soon.

"Way back at the dawn of time (better known as the year 2000), a certain video games company called SQUARE made a game called VAGRANT STORY, which stormed the charts, became a genre-defining classic and, amongst other things, garnered a perfect score from Famitsu magazine - so pretty much business as usual for character design god Akihiko Yoshida. But the great news is that SQUARE ENIX are bringing it to the PS3 and the PSP - no confirmed date yet, but it'll be soon!"

At first Square Enix said that the game will be released tomorrow, but it seems the date was wrong.

Square Enix has announced their lineup for the E3 that is taking place from 2 till 4 June.

- Dissidia: Final Fantasy (PlayStation Portable)
- Final Fantasy IV: The After Years (Nintendo Wii)
- Final Fantasy XIII (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers (Nintendo Wii)
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord (Nintendo Wii)
- Front Mission Evolved (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC)
- Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days (Nintendo DS)
- Nier (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)
- Order of War (PC)
- Supreme Commander 2 (Xbox 360, PC)

A couple of games that aren't present are the other Final Fantasy titles (Versus and Agito) and Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. Hopefully some interesting news will be revealed during the press conference of Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony.

Square Enix has revealed a teaser page to a new game that they are developing. The URL is called mystery and the title says New Game.

The teaser shows a science-fiction version of New York that is being attacked with a quote from John F. Kennedy.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.

» Japanese teaser website

Square Enix has announced that next to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 Final Fantasy XIII will be released on the Nintendo Wii. Motomu Toriyama, director of the game: "We at Square Enix has decided to bring our next installment in the Final Fantasy series to the Nintendo Wii, because of the good use of the Wii-mote in the battles." The graphics of the game will be changed to make it compatible with the Nintendo Wii. Also the length of the game will be reduced to fit on one Wii Optical Disc. When the game will be released has not been released. Happy April Fools everybody!

Square Enix announced today at the Game Developers Conference that they will release Final Fantasy IV: The After Years and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord for WiiWare and that the classic Final Fantasy games will be released on the Virtual Console.

Final Fantasy IV: The After Years is the sequel to Final Fantasy IV, which was released on mobile phone in 2008 and has already been downloaded over 3 million times.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord is the sequel to FinalFantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Kingwhich was released for the WiiWare in 2008.

After many remakes on other consoles, the classic Final Fantasy games can soon also be played on the Wii Virtual Console. Only the Japanese release has been announced, which will take place in May 2009.

Square Enix has offered 84.3 million pounds ($120 million USD / €93.5 million EUR) to acquire Eidos. The offer has been accepted by the board, but not yet by the stockholders.

Eidos is responsible for the Tomb Raider series, which has been successfull in the part. Only the sales of the last game of the series, Tomb Raider: Underworld, were much worser than expected.

If you're wondering what Eidos has to do with Square: in the past they released the PC version of Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII.

The takeover fits in a recently released strategy to aim more to the West.

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It looks like Square Enix wants to get stronger in the Western market. They have make a bid at Eidos, the company famous for its Lara Croft franchise.

Square Enix is not the only company who wants to get a hold of Eidos. Warner Bros already owns 20% of the company and Electronic Arts and Ubisoft are also interested in SCi, the current owner of Eidos.

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