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A bit of a continuation to my previous post. So I tried the updated demo out and I have to say; They managed to make the combat actually enjoyable. The camera is further away during battles and lock-on works a bit better now. You now have more combat actions available as well. You now have a...

During the summer of 1999, I bought a Playstation magazine. In the package with it was a demo disc featuring about 10-12 demos and a few trailers of upcoming games. One demo on that disc would change the way I play and see video games forever. It was a demo for Final Fantasy VIII. I had never...

Square Enix brought a revised demo of Final Fantasy XIII-2 to Tokyo Game Show. While it took place in the same map, Bresha Ruins, as the E3 build and didn’t have the Historia Crux system working, there were new monsters to play with. Serah, Noel, and an interchangeable monster make a party...

You might have suspected as much when Square Enix gave a name to the Final Fantasy Type-0 demo that was shown at an Odaiba event a couple of weeks back. Today, we have confirmation courtesy of Famitsu: that demo, known as "Natsubi," will be released as a free download. The downloadable...

A recent comment from Tetsuya Nomura regarding Final Fantasy XIII-2 has some players excited about the possibility of an early play opportunity. In an interview in this week's Famitsu (summed up at Sokuho), Nomura said that he believes players will have a chance to try out the game soon. The...

Lara Escapes Her First Tomb And Defeats Wolf With QTEs In Tomb Raider Square Enix brought Tomb Raider to E3 and showed the title behind closed doors with a hands-off demo. The game’s opening began with Lara hanging upside down in a cavern. Fire from red candles sitting on an altar was the...

We’ve mentioned Moon Diver, Kouichi Yotsui’s multiplayer ninja game, a couple of times on Siliconera. You know, the game that Yotsui says is serious business in single player mode. He doesn’t want players to escape with their lives. If that sounds a tad too hard give Moon Diver a test dive...

If you guessed the Duodecim Prologus trademark was for a paid demo, you were right! Square Enix formally announced Dissidia Duodecim Prologus at their press event. It’s coming to PlayStation Network now and it exclusively adds Final Fantasy VII character Aeris as an assist character to the final...

Nier has mixed reviews. Despite what reviewers had to say about the fetch quests (Nier, to some extent, is a Barbarian built errand boy), the story is interesting and drives the game. Maybe people will feel differently about it if they play it? Square Enix thinks so because they’re...

Square and Avalanche released another Anatomy of a Stunt video today for Just Cause 2, along with announcing that the game’s demo had been downloaded over 2 million times since March 4. Here’s the blurb from the PR mail:Since its launch on March 4th, the Just Cause 2 playable demo has...

Square Enix has just confirmed the Just Cause 2 demo will be released next week, March 4, on Xbox Live, PSN and Steam. The news comes from a tweet by SE UK community bod Mike Oldman, who had earlier given information of the demo in detail, saying it would cover 30 square miles of play area...

A Square Enix community manager’s dropped a ton of detail on an upcoming Just Cause 2 demo, saying the tester will feature around “35 square miles” of play area. Mike Oldman, told fan site Panau Island that the demo includes “approximately 35 square miles of sandy desert, featuring towns and...

Square and Valve jointly announced today an agreement to power the PC version of GPG’s Supreme Commander 2 with Steamworks. Supreme Commander 2 will get auto-updating, Steam Achievements, Steam support for in-game DLC, and through the deal, and if you want to try the game out – a demo is now...

The Eidos bit of Square Enix has announced on Twitter that there is a "Just Cause 2 demo on its way". Square Enix London Studios community manager Mike Oldman subsequent tweeted: "I'll have more news on the demo soon enough, for now though just relax safe in the knowledge that there's one on...

Square Enix PR Sonia Im has confirmed that anyone looking to go hands-on with the English version of Final Fantasy XIII will get to do so soon, but only if they live in San Francisco. Im tweeted earlier: “Official tomorrow but heads up! Bay Area folks will get a chance to play #FFXIII That is...

Sonia Im, Senior PR Manager for Square Enix America, has posted a very interesting update on her Twitter account tonight. Attached with the image above, Sonia wrote: “The memo inside hinted at something cool most of you can participate in a few days from now :)”. Zooming in on this memo, it’s...

For those attending the Tokyo Game Show next month, you may have a chance at playing a new demo for Final Fantasy XIII. According to Final Fantasy producer Yoshinori Kitase, Square Enix is looking to have the game playable one more time before releasing in Japan this winter. This is what Kitase...

Right now, there's only one way to get an early hands-on with Final Fantasy XIII: own the Japanese Blu-ray release of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete. Heck, you can't even go to a gaming convention to get a proper hands-on! Square Enix is undecided about releasing a playable demo of...

Yoshinori Kitase, producer on the hotly anticipated Final Fantasy XIII, has told VideoGamer.com that Square Enix has no plans to release a Blu-ray demo of the game outside of Japan. A Blu-ray demo of the game was bundled with the release of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete in Japan...

The magazine Famitsu Magazine gives us some more information on FFXIII's Demo that will be released with Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete. In the interview, Square Enix gives details on the battle system. Just some information about the demo seeing as it will be on sale in a few...