Last week Square Enix released a brainteaser that promised to reveal important information concerning their much-anticipated RPG epic, Final Fantasy XIII. The answer to the puzzle, which was the anagram “A Henchmen Inventor Tent Unto”, was announced, as promised, this past Monday – “Announcement Nov Thirteenth”. But, of course, clever Square fans had already figured it out. Just like they had already figured out that the announcement would be the long awaited North American release date.
As expected, yesterday, Friday the 13th (spooky!), Square released a new trailer on their Final Fantasy XIII website and PlayStation Home. The trailer (which you can see for yourself below) features some gameplay clips, as well as interview segments with some of the games creators, including Producer Yoshinori Kitase. The big news came at the end when the North American and European release date was revealed: March 9, 2010.
So be sure to mark your calendars; the chocobos are back this Spring.
D3’s Puzzle Quest was addicting as all hell; slapping a lite-RPG skin over Bejeweled had to be a stroke of genius on the level of the first person to mix chocolate and peanut butter or hookers and blow. How do you top a formula that neared perfection on its first try?
You hand it over to Square Enix and PopCap. And have them add a dash of Pokemon to the mix.
We gamers love to play Square Enix games; but this time the Japanese developer is playing games with us. Oh, how the tables have turned. Square has posted a brief message on theFinal Fantasy XIII website which simply says:
“A puzzle for FINAL FANTASY XIII fans!
Solve this anagram to find out what lies ahead:
A Henchmen Inventor Tent Unto.
Check back on Monday for the answer!”
Not surprisingly, FFXIII fans have gone right to work on the riddle and have turned up at least one seemingly possible solution. “Announcement Nov Thirteenth”. Could this mean that a long awaited release date for FFXIII could be announced this coming Friday? I guess we’ll have to see on Monday.
Square would never tease us by announcing that there is an upcoming announcement… would they?
We’re a little late to the party posting these up, but they’re still worth watching. Prior to this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Squeenix hosted a Final Fantasy XIII premiere event in Japan. Industry coverage of it was mainly limited to people blogging about how awesome the new FFXIII trailer they showed was, followed by rambling, half-nonsensical attempts to describe it. In the end, it almost always came back to something along the lines of “Man, I wish you could see it!”
Well the trailer finaly got a full public viewing at TGS 2009, albeit in Japanese (naturally). For those without enough ranks in the Language: Moonspeak skill, it was just a lot of pretty moving pictures coupled with some vague notion of what was going on plot-wise, based on the emotions conveyed by the characters.
A hastily subbed version hit the net soon after, which at least gave Westerners a better idea of what was going on. Square followed that up by releasing a proper dub, using the localized English voice track. Now everything makes a lot more sense.
We’ve also included the original Japanese language version after the jump for those who want to experience its “pure” form. After all, as anime snobs have been telling us for years, the Japanese language track is always superior. Enjoy!
At Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XIII Premiere Party, held in Odaiba at at the National Museum of Science and Innovation, gamers finally got what they’ve been clamoring for – a release date for the game. Well, that is to say, Japanese gamers got one. For those of us outside of the home of giant robots and vending machine panties things are a bit more vague.
The publishing world just got a little bit smaller today with the announcement from GamesIndustry.biz that Japan’s Square Enix has officially bought out the UK based Eidos. Eidos shareholders voted with an overwhelming majority to accept Squenix’s 32 pence per share bid, giving the holders of the Final Fantasy franchise an 85% controlling interest.
Eidos will be delisted in late April and the unholy union will be complete in May. No word yet on Tetsuya Nomura’s “belts & zippers” redesign for Lara Croft just yet. However, a special internet task force has been deployed to create a new shorthand nickname for this behemoth, with Squeidox being the current frontrunner.
The publishing world just got a little bit smaller today with 
Zuri Grimm
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