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5 Square Enix titles this year in Japan

Posted by Zidane007nl on 24 January 2007, 19:56 - 0 comments

In an interview with the Japanese magazine Famitsu Tetsuya Nomura from Square Enix has said that this year 5 titles will be released in Japan for sure that he will be the director from. This is the list:
- Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix + (PS2)
- Subarashiki Kono Sekai: It's Wonderful World (NDS)
- Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (PSP)
- Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete (Blu-ray Disc/Movie)
- A not yet announced title

The big game that is not on this list is Final Fantasy XIII which will probably not be released this year in Japan.

Source: 
GameFront

Final Fantasy: number 3 best selling videogame franchise ever

Posted by alexanderpas on 11 January 2007, 12:04 - 0 comments

Final Fantasy reports on the third spot as best selling videogame franchise ever with 68 million reported sales beating other popular franchises like The Sims and Grand Theft Auto.

The number 2 and 1 are (with insane distance) Pokemon and Mario with 155 and 193 million respectively.

The full top 20 list, with sales figures, is as follows:

  1. Mario, 193 million
  2. Pokémon, 155 million
  3. Final Fantasy, 68 million
  4. Madden NFL, 56 million
  5. The Sims, 54 million
  6. Grand Theft Auto, 50 million
  7. Donkey Kong, 48 million (centre)
  8. The Legend of Zelda, 47 million
  9. Sonic the Hedgehog, 44 million
  10. Gran Turismo, 44 million
  11. Lineage, 43 million
  12. Dragon Quest, 41 million
  13. Crash Bandicoot, 34 million
  14. Resident Evil, 31 million
  15. James Bond, 30 million
  16. Tomb Raider, 30 million
  17. Mega Man, 26 million
  18. Command & Conquer, 25 million
  19. Street Fighter, 25 million
  20. Mortal Kombat, 20 million

source: CVG

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Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales Teaser Website Launched

Posted by alexanderpas on 11 January 2007, 11:45 - 0 comments

The official teaser site for Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales is now open an can be found here:

Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales Teaser Website (try clicking the feather).

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Rumor: Square Enix selling 2 series?! (Updated)

Posted by Zidane007nl on 9 January 2007, 23:24 - 0 comments

According to the German website Wunderlampe Square Enix is going to sell 2 of their series. This is because of the high development costs the company has. Buena Vista Games is one of the companies that can take over the Kingdom Hearts series and Mistwalker the Chrono series rights. Let's just hope this is a rumor.

-- addition by alexanderpas: --
Wunderlampe doesn't state anything which franchises will be sold nor who the buyers are, just offered some possibilities
However! GameFront say that it could be the Mana and Kingdom Hearts franchise, which will go to Disney, because they started their own developement studio named Fall Line in November 06. Now for the wildest thing (imo) in this speculation: Fall Line was created to produce for Wii, DS and GBA.

thanks to NeoGAF

Jump Festa Report

Posted by alexanderpas on 17 December 2006, 00:00 - 0 comments

The main highlight for this years Jump Festa was definitely the Square Enix booth, where a huge chunk of their upcoming lineup was on display, including Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix as well as a trio of games never before shown in playable form -- Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII for PSP, and Seiken Densetsu: Heroes of Mana and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates for Nintendo DS. Unfortunately Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings wasn't playable, nor was the recently announced update/port of Final Fantasy Tactics: The Lion War for PSP (though they did show a nice video).

SE also had a private movie theater showing footage from many of their 2007 games, including Final Fantasy Versus XIII for PS3 and Final Fantasy Agito XIII for cell phones. Interestingly enough, at the end of the reel they showed a very brief (like one second brief) clip of the face of an armored man grimacing at the camera on what looked like some sort of battlefield. It was followed by the text "And something new coming in 2007." What it was is anyone's guess; Time will tell.

They also showed a new trailer for Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors for Wii, which will be the first Dragon Quest game ever in Japan to feature voice acting (the US version of Dragon Quest VIII was fully voiced, but the Japanese one was text only).

Source: 1up

Two Final Fantasy Tactics games announced

Posted by Zidane007nl on 13 December 2006, 21:52 - 0 comments

According to reports out of Japan, the new Jump magazine will contain information about two new Final Fantasy Tactics games.

The PSP will get Final Fantasy Tactics: Shishi Sensou which is an updated version of Final Fantasy Tactics on the PSone. The game will feature new jobs and some slick cell shaded movies. Also Final Fantasy Tactics A2 Fuuketsu no Guurimore will be developed. Nothing is known about this game yet, even its platform.

Both games will fall, together with Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings, under the project called "Ivalice Alliance".

More information will hopefully be released at the Jump Festa that will start this Saterday.

Source: IGN

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates teaser site

Posted by alexanderpas on 12 December 2006, 04:28 - 0 comments

Square-Enix has opened the Japanese teaser site for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates. The site only has one placeholder image for now, and that’s it.

» Check out the teaser site here

Jump Festa 2007 lineup [update]

Posted by Zidane007nl on 25 November 2006, 12:18 - 0 comments

Square Enix has announced their lineup for this years Jump Festa, that will be held on December 16th and December 17th.

29/11 UPDATE: Games are listed into playable and video presentation. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII will be playable for the first time.

Playable and video presentation
 - Chocobo to Mahou no Ehon (NDS)
- Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (PSP)
- Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker (NDS)
- Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors (Wii)
- Front Mission 1st (NDS)
- It's a Wonderful World (NDS)
- Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix+ (PS2)
- Seiken Densetsu 4 [Dawn of Mana] (PS2)
- Seiken Densetsu: Heroes of Mana (NDS)

Video Presentation
 - Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete (Blu-ray Disc/Movie)
- Final Fantasy XII Revenant Wings (NDS)
- Final Fantasy XIII (PS3)
- Final Fantasy Versus XIII (PS3)

Source: GameFront

Progress on Projects Square Enix

Posted by Zidane007nl on 27 October 2006, 00:51 - 0 comments

The Japanese magazine Otona Fami 2006 has released some details about the progress of various projects Square Enix is currently working on:

- Final Fantasy XIII (PlayStation 3): 13%
- Final Fantasy Versus XIII (PlayStation 3): 1.3%
- Itadaki Street DS (Nintendo DS): 50%
- Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings (PlayStation 2): 40%
- Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix (PlayStation 2): 130% (2 games)

So don't expect to be playing Final Fantasy XIII soon.

Source: JeuxFrance

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Heroes of Mana confirmed to be a Nintendo DS game

Posted by alexanderpas on 13 September 2006, 11:57 - 0 comments

Heroes of Mana has been confirmed by the latest issue of Famitsu to be a DS game.

The game is a combination of Real Time Strategy and RPG elements (expected to be the same as the other mana installments).

Producer of the game will be Koichi Ishii who was also involved in Legend of Mana
Scenario will come from Masato Kato who was involved in Chrono trigger and Seiken Densetsu 4.
Character designs are done by Ryoma Ito (Final Fantasy Tactics Advance) and Akira Oguro (Final Fantasy X)
Music is composed by Yoko Shimomura (Mana series, Parasite Eve)

A release date hasn't been announced yet.

Source: 
GoNintendo

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