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We already knew that Final Fantasy XIII would be release sometime this year in Japan, but what about America and Europe?

According to Guardian, the 13th game will be released sometime after April 2010 in American and Europe.

Square Enix also plans to launch the next version of “Final Fantasy” in 2009 in Japan, further strengthening its product lineup.
Overseas launches of the latest “Final Fantasy” game will come in the business year from April 2010 or later, Wada said.

They mentioned that the US/EU version will be for both PS3 and Xbox 360 and will remain exclusive to PS3 in Japan.

Famitsu, a Japanese magazine has revealed that Final Fantasy fans can expect the13th in the series to receive a global release date before the end of this year.

RPGfan.com has managed to translate the Final Fantasy article from the magazine and it basically confirms a pre-2010 release date.

Final Fantasy XIII is set to hit retail store shelves on both sides of the Pacific sometime later this year.

Let’s hope this is true.

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When Square Enix announced that a playable Final Fantasy XIII demo will be available and exclusive to the Playstation 3, they didn’t mention which continents will receive the demo. According to VG247,Sqaure Enix has confirmed that the demo will be Japan only.

At present the FINAL FANTASY XIII demo will only be available in Japan with the Blu Ray release of Advent Children Complete,

We hope to have further news in the coming months.

When the demo is released, check eBay out, i’m sure it will be swarming with Japanese FFXIII demo’s

Final Fantasy XIII is a long time from release, well for America and Europe anyway, it will be released in Japan next year. For those of you that are wondering what the battle system is, or just want to learn about it, here’s some info from Kotaku.

Command Stock: Players selection which action they’d like to from a cluster of five “Action” slots.
Cost: Each of these five actions has a number attached to it and denote the number of slots a particular action requires.
Enhanced ATB (Active Time Battle): This refers to the bar under Lightning’s name (the one with “444″). Players can perform various actions before it is empty. Commands with higher “Cost” drain the ATB bar faster.
Symbol Encounter: Enemies appear on the game’s map. There is no battle screen transition.
Chain & Bonus: Found at the screen’s top right. “Chain” refers to the number of consecutive hits inflicted. It’s not clear what “Bonus” refers to, but Famitsu thinks it’s related to Final Fantasy VII’s Limit Break.
Enemy HP: The HP and names of your foes are displayed — unlike previous games.

Sounds alot like Xenogears to me. Is that a good thing?

The Tokyo Game Show 2008 is underway and information has been revealed regarding the characters in Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII. Not a great deal, just some names.

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Lightning might be voiced by Akeno Watanabe. Nomchan seems to have a name, it’s Sarah or Senon.

FF Versus XIII

The Prince is named Noctis, and the heroine is Stella.

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Final Fantasy World was able to get some new images on Final Fantasy XIII. The images are real in game, using the Crystal Tools Engine. Click through the gallery to view them. 

Here a couple of real time screenshots from Final Fantasy XIII. All were made from the Crystal Tools engine. 

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A user named Shuyu from FFXIII.net has some scans of the article. The article is an interview with compilation developers Yoshinori Kitase, and Shinji Hashimoto. 

The PlayStation 3 release hasn’t been affected by a port to the Xbox 360. The scenario for the game is complete, and the artsy side is about 80% complete. 

In the interview they reassure Playstation 3 owners that their version of Final Fantasy XIII hasn’t been delayed at all and that the Xbox 360 version won’t even be started until the PS3 release is burned to Blu-ray. As well as that, Kitase has given an update on the progress of development stating that the Scenario for Final Fantasy XIII is complete and the Artistic Side is 80% complete. To read the full interview, view the scans below.

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According to Nomura in a recent interview with Dengeki, the Final Fantasy XIII demo might be sold seperately some time after Advent Children: Complete’s release.

This sounds like Square Enix are thinking of every possible way to make revenue and this strategy could possibly work. Everyone wants FFXIII and people will pay for a demo.

No word on pricing or an actual release date though.

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In a recent interview Tetsuya Nomura confirmed in the latest issue of Dengeki Playstation that Final Fantasy Versus XIII will be release worldwide only on the Playstation 3. This means that you will find FF Versus XIII on the PS3 anywhere in the world no matter where you live. The Xbox 360 version isn’t being released at all.

This is what Nomura said:

[Playstation 3 Only World wide] appears at the end of the trailer
Nomura: As the director of FFv13, i have already stated that this game is [Playstation 3 Only World wide].

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According to the Famitsu Magazine in their upcoming issue, the Final Fantasy XIII demo will take you more than 2 hours to complete. This surely is going to be a very big demo, currently exclusive to the Playstation 3.

The demo will be bundled in the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete Blu-Ray movie and will be available in March 2009.

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Here’s a development video of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XIII. Quality isn’t top notch but you can see what is going on. Enjoy.

Here’s 4 screenshots of upcoming RPG from Square Enix, Final Fantasy XIII. The game is due out 2009 in Japan, and most likely 2010 for everywhere else.

4 new FFXIII screenshots

Final Fantasy XIII will be playable at the Tokyo Games Show 2008 which starts in September. The Playstation 3 version of the playable demo at TGS is more likely because development on the Xbox 360 version hasn’t started yet and will not be released in Japan at all.

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Square-Enix has announced at DKΣ3713 that Final Fantasy XIII will be released in Japan suring 2009.