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Megaton? Maybe

Square Enix's CEO, Yoichi Wada, has said at Final Fantasy XIII's launch party that the company are to "explore the possibility" of remaking the insanely popular Final Fantasy VII. Before you get too excited though, the company prez did reserve that some complication as to "whether or not we're going to do it, if we're going to do it, and the platform." Platform?..

Final Fantasy Versus XIII's director Tetsuya Nomura has alleviated fears regarding the linearity of the next big-budget Final Fantasy release: the game will have a world-map

There'll also be airships with which you can use to travel around said map.“Not everything is connected together, so the various areas have different levels of progress. However, you can fly across the world map in an air..

Square Enix has announced that their innovative camcorder-eque co-op shooter, Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, will hit the US on August 24th

Europe will get in on the action just three days later on August 27th. IGN's got a new trailer which we've posted after the jump. Check it out. <object id="ignplayer" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"..

How short is too short in video games? Well, how short's a piece of string? It's astounding to see the number of people commenting unfavourably on God Of War III's length

"But God Of War III is only eight hours and Final Fantasy XIII is fifty - I'll rent Kratos' epic last hurrah instead." Quality over quantity - how many have heard that phrase? You should have, it's a popular comment and..

Square Enix has confirmed that Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep will hit the PSP exclusively in the US this Summer

They've since also confirmed that the game will hit Europe during the same period. According to Square Enix the Western release will have a few additional features including an "extra boss and a few additional multiplayer options". Kingdom Hearts fans are currently in a wild..

During a session at GDC last week, Final Fantasy XIII's director Motomu Toriyama announced that both Final Fantasy XIII offshoots - Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy Agito XIII - will be aiming to deliver story-driven gameplay

His GDC keynote seemed to suggest that both titles will take the linear story-telling approach found in Final Fantasy XIII, something we criticised heavily in our..

If you didn't know, the Final Fantasy timeline is kind of broken

Final Fantasy XIII is not a direct sequel to Final Fantasy XII, it's its own thing. So, if we were to get a direct sequel to Final Fantasy XIII, it would be called Final Fantasy XIII-2 or something. And it's something that sounds possible according to Yoshinori Kitase, "[Because FFXIII's engine is already built] if we could do a..

Final Fantasy XIII has shot straight to the top of the UK sales charts, with the PS3 version of the game managing 54% of the sales

Not the hugest of discrepancies between the SKUs, but it's often rare a PS3 multiplatform game outsells its XBOX 360 rival - particularly when Microsoft have broken the metaphorical bank marketing the game exclusive to their platform. Most exciting for us about this..

Square Enix has started work on a next-gen engine, and they've used an image of Cloud Strife to announce it

Take from that what you will. Check out Square Enix's recruit page to see the promotion. The company recruitment form reads:"At Square Enix, in anticipation of the appearance of next generation platforms, we've started development on a new generation game engine for competing beyond..

Square Enix has just announced that they've shipped 5million copies of their flagship RPG Final Fantasy XIII worldwide

Of that amount, 3million have been shipped to the US and Europe alone. The franchise as a whole has shipped a whopping 96million units since its inception 20 years ago. Of course, shipped copies don't necessarily mean sold copies. We're sure it's managed a truck load, mind.

Square Enix has announced a host of new Playstation Home content set to release this Thursday 11th March in order to tie in with Final Fantasy XIII's release today

The content includes a new Personal Space set on the planet Eden, alongside a slew of Final Fantasy XIII inspired furniture. You can get the full details over at the Playstation Blog.

If you've picked up Final Fantasy XIII this morning, you should probably know that there's an extra little surprise hidden in the box

If you take a little peek at the manual compartment, you'll note there's a Square Enix Members Card. This will allow you to register on the Square Enix Members website, and will earn you a bonus item in Final Fantasy XIV - the next MMO installment in the Final..

Just in case you were wondering/weren't quite sure: Final Fantasy XIII is available in stores across the West today, so if you're ready to get your melodrama on - you better head down to your local store

Of course, the likelihood is you're not reading this. You're instead listening to the annoying high-pitched vocal tones of Vanille and co. If you're yet to make up your mind about Final Fantasy..

Honestly, cross-game comparisons aren't our thing

But when it comes to such a high profile port as Final Fantasy XIII, it's very interesting indeed to note that the XBOX 360 version is a "lot worse than it should have been". The website writes:“The rumours are true. Final Fantasy XIII on Xbox 360 isn’t anywhere near as impressive as it is on PlayStation 3. The real kicker is that..

There's a reason Twiggy's had to halt progress on his Final Fantasy VII playthrough

Namely, we've been ridiculously busy behind the scenes. Why? Well, aside from it being game-a-geddon out there (where every major publisher decides to  release every major game in the span of three months), we got Final Fantasy XIII. And we've been playing it to death in order to bring you a review. Thus, we..

Shhh, let us tell you a secret: we're playing Final Fantasy XIII right now and

.. What's that? Oh yeah, we're still not allowed to talk about it. But we can talk about what other people say about the game. And that includes the opinion of Insomniac's James Stevenson, who reckons the PS3 version of Final Fantasy XIII is "superior" to the XBOX 360 version. Surprise! He Tweeted:“PS3 is..

It took about, ooh, five minutes

We were excited. We've wanted to play Yakuza 3 for a long, long time and finally we got to go hands-on. It took about five minutes and then it dawned on us. "Dude, we're playing Yakuza 3." SEGA's hesitation to release Yakuza 3 in the West rings loud in much of the game's design. This is Japanese, and it feels a far-cry from current Western Playstation 3..

Don't ask us questions

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In possibly the most bonkers promo video for a video game ever, you can watch Leona Lewis playing Final Fantasy XIII and telling you how amazing it is

The Internet are still debating which platform is actually being played, despite the prominent DualShock 3 — there's an XBOX 360 version too y'see.