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Susan Calloway is well loved by the Final Fantasy fandom. She is, of course, known for being the vocal talent behind the popular Final Fantasy XIV songs Answers, Dragonsong and Revolutions, as well as for her well-received performances at Distant Worlds concerts. Her solo, non-Final Fantasy...

With Final Fantasy XIII-2 complete, Square Enix’s 1st Production team should be drafting ideas for the next game in the series. Speaking with Square Enix Members, producer Yoshinori Kitase shed some light on how the team creates a new numbered Final Fantasy game. "There are two things that I...

Square Enix has thus far said that Final Fantasy Type-0 has twelve main characters in addition to Machina and Rem (who are also main characters, but have special standing so they're counted separately). It turns out that rather than twelve, the number is actually thirteen. Director Hajime...

A couple of weeks ago, [Siliconera] reported a few details from a Famitsu magazine interview with Tetsuya Nomura, discussing the Kingdom Hearts games and what’s next for the series’ story. That interview has been translated by SQEX GAL. Speaking to what Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance’s...

It looks like those reports from last week about Final Fantasy Type-0 having its very own "Crystarium" system were accurate. Dengeki has details this week, and Sokuho@Hokanko has, as always, provided a detailed summary. In Final Fantasy XIII, the Crystarium was a graphical growth system for...

This week's Dengeki PlayStation has a huge feature on Final Fantasy Type-0. Joining first details on the game's magic and Crystarium system, which we summed up here, the magazine also has an interview with director Hajime Tabata and art director Yusuke Naora. Here are some of the major points...

Final Fantasy XV and Dragon Quest X have yet to be shown to the public. But Famitsu decided to jump ahead a few numbers for some interviews it held with Square Enix's production staff for company feature that appeared in Weekly Famitsu a couple of weeks back. The magazine asked a few producers...

Final Fantasy XIV producer, Naoki Yoshida, put another of his developer columns up this week on the game’s forums. Yoshida starts out by teasing something with pictures of Roegadyn in swimsuits. This is part of some sort of upcoming summer celebration event in Final Fantasy XIV. Moving on...

Despite the rocky launch of the PC version, the PlayStation 3 version of Final Fantasy XIV is far from cancelled. An interview with producer Naoki Yoshida, published by the official Final Fantasy XIV community team, confirms that the PS3 version of the game will come. “Of course,” said...

Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection may be another remake of Final Fantasy IV, but Takahashi Tokita, the lead designer for the original game, created a new brand new story. The Interlude episode takes place between Final Fantasy IV and its sequel The After Years. During the 15 hour...

With only a few days until Dissidia 012[duodecim]: Final Fantasy arrives in North America, we caught up with Mitsunori Takahashi, Director, to discuss how he designed the game. Dissdia 012[duodecim]‘s story takes place before the events of Dissidia: Final Fantasy, but manages to expand the...

After finishing Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Hajime Tabata went on to reimagine Aya Brea, the lead character in the Parasite Eve series. Since ten years have lapsed since the last game in the series Tabata and the team decided to focus on Aya’s return. The Parasite Eve series has many fans...

We all love it when Japanese games get released in English, because they sometimes come with odd and amusing subtitles. Tactics Ogre is no exception with its quaint subline, “Let us Cling Together.” We’re not sure what we’re clinging onto, but let’s do it together. The funny thing about this...

A brand new Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep trailer exclusive to Gamespot.com has been released, showing off never before seen English cutscenes and battle sequences. This game is really shaping up to be something special! Along with the trailer comes an exclusive interview with Square Enix...

If you’re sick of hearing about these same Final Fantasy Versus XIII scans, this looks like it’ll be the last time you see them. The high-res scans have finally released, showing off each of the three screenshots in their highest scanned glory. Q: Is this a real-time screenshot we’re...

Wait, Eorzea's not a world, it's a landmass... The feel of... the landmass of Eor... ah, ok, that just kind of sounds dumb. I'm sorry. Let's try this again. Iwao says stuff! You read! You love it! MANLY Dengeki Interview Part 2: Planner Kenichi Iwao It’s the little things that make a big...

Here's the first interview in the June 11th issue of Dengeki PlayStation. The second one will be up when the translation is finished. Enjoy! Special Developer Interview Part 1: Hiromichi Tanaka and Nobuaki Komoto Servers slowly stabilizing Dengeki PlayStation (DP): What’s the current...

Bits and pieces of a Tetsuya Nomura interview from the newly published Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Ultimania guide book leaked out yesterday. Today, FF Reunion delivered a more detailed report from the interview, this time taken first hand from the book. Before discussing future plans...

Heartstation.Org's at Rebirth:Wings has posted a transcript of an interview with Kingdom Hearts music composer Yoko Shimomura, which appeared in a special booklet that came with this month’s edition of Famitsu magazine. Although it isn’t strictly about Kingdom Hearts, it is an interesting...

Tell us, key man! As a main planner, he was in charge of regulating each section - the main specifications, data production - so that everything ran smoothly. Square Enix's Jun Kato THE LATEST AND FIRST STORY -- Tell us about the features of this game. Kato: Like previous games in the...