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No Final Fantasy Versus XIII At Tokyo Game Show

6:00PM Brian Ashcraft | According Square Enix game designer Tetsuya Nomura, Final Fantasy XIII will be playable. His title, Final Fantasy Versus, won’t be anywhere to be seen, however. More »
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Kingdom Hearts Conceived With Chainsaws

3:00PM Brian Ashcraft | That’s how Square Enix designer Tetsuya Nomura first pitched the character’s weapon to Disney. More »
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Tetsuya Nomura On Kingdom Hearts 3

9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | One new Kingdom Hearts game, KH 358/2 Days, has been released in Japan. Two more Square-Enix-meets-Disney mash-ups are forthcoming: Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep for the PSP and Kingdom Hearts: Coded for cell phones. More »
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How’s Final Fantasy Versus XIII Coming Along?

12:20AM Brian Ashcraft | With the Final Fantasy XIII hype machine in full gear, we haven’t heard about that other Final Fantasy PS3 game, Final Fantasy Versus XIII. More »
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Update On Final Fantasy XIII And Final Fantasy Versus XIII

5:00PM Brian Ashcraft | In a recent Famitsu article on Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete, Square Enix designer Tetsuya Nomura talks FFVII: ACC. We know about that, tell us about those unreleased Final Fantasy games! More »
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Square Enix Has Future Plans For Final Fantasy VII Series

7:00PM Brian Ashcraft | As Blu-ray movie Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete readies for release, Square Enix’s Tetsuya Nomura talks about the film and the franchise. More »
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The Chances Of A DISSDIA Sequel…

6:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Want a DISSIDIA sequel? Square Enix game designer Tetsuya Nomura says there are “no plans” currently. But, hey, plans can change. More »
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‘Abolutely No Final Fantasy Xbox 360 For Japan’

4:00PM Brian Ashcraft | An issue of Dengeki PlayStation that goes on sale August 29th in Japan, Final Fantasy XIII director and writer Motomu Toriyama and FFXIII Versus director Tetsuya Nomura talk about the possibility of Japan getting a Final Fantasy XIII Xbox 360 version. Nomura says that he himself was “surprised” at the FFXIII Xbox 360 Asia version news, saying that Microsoft’s comment (”It would be nice if the game came out”) was taken to mean that it was actually confirmed for Asia. More interesting than that clusterfuck is Toriyama’s comment about whether or not Final Fantasy XIII will be released in Japan on the Xbox 360 platform: More »

DISSIDIA: Final Fantasy Half Done

3:00PM Brian Ashcraft | DISSIDIA: Final Fantasy? 50 percent done. So says the game’s character designer Tetsuya Nomura in the upcoming issue of Japanese game mag Famitsu. This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise as only half the cast has been revealed. That, and Square Enix does like to take its sweet time putting out its games. There’s no rush, we guess. Dissidia Final Fantasy [Videogamerx via PSP Hyper via PSP Fanboy] More »