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As promised, the guys over at PlayStation.Blog US have had their own chance to talk Final Fantasy XIII with the game’s Producer, Yoshinori Kitase, and Director, Motomu Toriyama. I know that those of you eager to get your hands on the game (as I am!) will relish this opportunity for more insight...

Source: Digital Spy

Source: Digital Spy

Although Final Fantasy XIII is still one of the most anticipated Japanese role-playing games scheduled to launch in the United States and Europe this year, I was never terribly excited about it. I, of course, would feel a stirring in my chest whenever massive tradeshow monitors were ignited with...

The first Final Fantasy XIII commercial in the United States aired during the NBA Celebrity All-Star Game. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5ABsJgxZH-Q&rel=0&color1=0x6699&color2=0x54abd6&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param...

Square Enix recently released some screens for the Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII. As it turns out, however, the images were actually from the Playstation 3 version of the game with the button layout altered for the Xbox 360. Sonia Im, the Senior PR Manager of Square Enix North...

The Final Fantasy XIII Xbox 360 bundle includes exclusive avatar items. Three of them, to be exact. Purchase the bundle and you can style your avatar with a Rosch outfit (left), Nabbat outfit (right), and the chocobo pet Microsoft gave out for free with their Twitter promotion. Square Enix...

Square Enix are to hold two special events on March 8th to celebrate the release of Final Fantasy XIII on the 9th. The first is called 'THE FINAL FANTASY XIII EXPERIENCE' and is a fan-focused, daytime event which will allow fans to go hands-on with the game, browse a gallery of FF13 artwork...

There's no launch quite like a Final Fantasy launch, and there's been no Final Fantasy launch quite like this one. The first ever multi-platform entry in the main series, the thirteenth game is also the first in this generation of hardware, arriving rather late after an epic development that, at...

Final Fantasy XIII was bundled with the Playstation 3 when it launched in Japan. This won’t be the case when the game is released in the west. Microsoft today confirmed, via a press release, that the Xbox 360 will be “the only console outside of Japan to be bundled with the game.” The...

Europe is getting a Final Fantasy XIII collector’s edition package. There haven’t been any announcements about a similar item in North America, but the press release announcing the Final Fantasy XIII Xbox 360 bundle may be hinting at another Final Fantasy XIII package. Here’s an excerpt from...

Someday the PlayStation 3 is going to support 3D TVs through a firmware update. A handful of games are being updated too like Super Stardust and Wipeout HD. What about Final Fantasy XIII? “We don’t know how possible it is to build the game in 3D but we are interested in it,” Yoshinori Kitase...

Part of Square Enix USA’s marketing strategy for Final Fantasy XIII is “prominent exposure” during the 2010 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game. Final Fantasy XIII will be featured on the court and on ESPN, which is broadcasting the game on network TV this Friday. Fans of basketball and transforming...

A Microsoft retail training site may have leaked a Final Fantasy XIII hardware bundle for North America. The Final Fantasy XIII special edition comes with an Xbox 360, 250 GB hard drive, headset, Final Fantasy XIII, and two wireless controllers for $399. While the picture shows a white...

During a chat with with the EU PS Blog, FFXIII’s Yoshinori Kitase and director Motomu Toriyama revealed that the game may help “resurrect” the Japanese game industry. “Some people have been saying that the Japanese game industry is dead, and all that… I dunno,” was the reply. “I will say that...

Final Fantasy XIII fans have been delighted by the extremely high quality of several figure recreations of the game’s summons, which even manage to replicate the slightly disturbing transformations of the originals: Shiva : Thankfully Snow is not included. Shiva is...

Troubled blockbuster corridor marathon Final Fantasy XIII is now the subject of humiliating ¥1,980 sales, whilst its sales figures have dropped to record lows. The sale in question, for new copies of the game: Presumably the store in question found itself completely unable to shift its...

Well this was posted yesterday & was seen as fake, but today more posts from people who got the magazine all over the internet on different gaming forums seems to confirm this score. Here is one of the threads: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genme...topic=53391708 Source: FinalFantasy-XIII...

Over at the European PlayStation.Blog, SCEE Social Media Manager Jem Alexander was able to get a small question and answers session with producer, Yoshinori Kitase, and director, Motomu Toriyama regarding Final Fantasy XIII. As you know we’ll be exactly a month away from the western release as...

Square Enix Holdings Co. this week said Final Fantasy XIII for Sony Corp's Playstation 3 and Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360 holds 10 hours of cutscenes in the final product. The title is said to hold 50 to 60 hours of gameplay, including the cutscenes. The publisher added that the title includes...