Square Enix just dropped a hot little data packet into our private uplink node and what do you think we found inside? We can tell you for the right price… eh, y’know what? Because we like you, we’ll give you this one for free. How about some shiny new Deus Ex: Human Revolution screenshots?
Flip up those implanted mirrorshades and take a gander for yourself. Some beautiful environmental stills, a few action shots; just enough to make your mouth water for more. Makes waiting for next year all the harder, doesn’t it?
Final Fantasy XIII has been out for a few months now (and even longer than that in Japan), but a late review is better than no review, right? Besides, I’m not as young as I used to be, and I can’t polish off these epic JRPGs in a week or two like I could in the good ol’ days. It’s been a long time since the last true Final Fantasy title was released, and as the first (and perhaps only, at this rate) entry of the series to be made for the current generation of consoles, FFXIII faced some lofty expectations. How well does it live up to the Final Fantasy pedigree? Well…
It’s weird when you think about it, really. So many of the things that were predicted in cyberpunk fiction two decades plus ago have since come to pass in one form or another that at times the once-edgy genre seems almost quaint at times.
Then we got ahold of the new trailer for Deux Ex: Human Revolution.
Welcome to William Gibson’s wet dream in video form. Suddenly it’s 1985 all over again and I’m ready to get slotted with cyberware and fight the megacorps from the shadows.
Seriously – how freakin’ cool does this look? Sure, it’s only CG cinematics and the voice acting is pretty awful, but strictly from a visual design standpoint? It looks amazing! I’m already sold and I never even got around to playing the first two Deus Ex titles!
Tomb Raider was the shiznit during the early PlayStation era. This is fact. The series kinda fell off after Tomb Raider 2. This is also fact. Although Laura has made some decent attempts recently in her bid to reclaim her glory days atop the pile of video game heroines, none of them have quite captured the magic we felt during her first tomb raiding excursions.
Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix are taking things down a slightly different rubble-and-trap strewn path this time around, however. Laura Croft and the Guardian of Light is different in several notable ways: a) it’s a downloadable title, b) it features co-op gameplay, and c) it eschews the traditional 3rd person behind-the-back camera for a top-down, isometric view.
And we now have an official premier trailer to share with you all, showing us Laura and her new Mayan buddy, Totec, jumping, flipping and shooting their way through all-new levels. What do you think?
Laura Croft and the Guardian of Light hits PSN, Xbox Live Arcade and Steam in Summer 2010.
I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a huge Kingdom Hearts fan. I’ve played them all and while I’d like to say that I’ve finished them all I can’t. Although the GBA and the DS titles captured the feel of the series, I didn’t like the gameplay, especially the combat, and as such I just couldn’t bring myself to finish them. The controls and camera were clunky and although Square Enix did an admirable job graphically, the games fell short of what I came to expect from Kingdom Hearts visually.
That being said I’ve been waiting for quite some time for some new KH news and Square Enix has finally announced release information for Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep outside of Japan. I’ve always felt that the PSP was the perfect platform for Kingdom Hearts and coming this September it will finally get an installment.
The opening sequence of Just Cause 2 gives you a pretty good indication of how off-the-wall crazy-delicious the disc you just popped in is going to be.
Flying above a fictional Southeast Asian island called Panau, crucifix-wearing protagonist Rico Rodriguez is immediately tasked with jumping out of a helicopter to recover extremely sensitive information. That info was previously sitting next to an open door and securely fastened…
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.
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