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During Square Enix’s Conference all things Final Fantasy XIII, a few good news came out of it. One of these is a confirmed bundle for the Japan audience for a PS3 Slim and a copy of Final Fantasy XIII, with more details to come at Tokyo Game Show.

Square Enix is still aiming for a Spring Target release for the western market, meaning North America and Europe, possibly simultaneous. With more news on this possibly coming in Tokyo Game Show.

Last but not least the Japanese release date we reported earlier has been confirmed, available for sale on Dec. 17th.

Square has also shown a new trailer, but not available for public viewing, so we’ll have to wait.

Below are various clips from a showing at GamesCon for Final Fantasy XIV.

Lalafell Gameplay

Range Gameplay

Character Animations

Magic & Melee Gameplay

In a recent issue of V-Jump, a character seen in the E3 2009 Trailer has been revealed. The silver haired figure that can be seen at the bottom of the post is Yaag Rosch. He’s a lieutenant colonel, and is the rival against Lighning and her colleagues. His role in the game is closely similar to those of the Turks in Final Fantasy VII. He has the desire for peace with Cocoon’s citizens.

Also, the summon Odin Gestalt can transform into a lightning horse, much how like the Shiva sisters can transform into motorcycles. His list of attacks are Roaring Sword, Vacuum Breaker, Crying Heaven Ten Thousand Thunder. His signature attack has also made the return, Zantetsuken.

The game is continued for a Winter 09 release in Japan, hopefully a confirmation will arise within the Tokyo Game Show.

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The Japanese Playstation Store can expect to get Final Fantasy and will be added as a PSone classic on the 24th of June 2009. It will be the original, first Final Fantasy and will weigh in at just 60MB in file size. Price? 600 Yen.

It will probably make it’s way to other Stores later on in the year.

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A new trailer was shown for Square Enix’s much anticipated RPG, Final Fantasy XIII. The target release for the game is Spring of 2010. The voice over is in English also. 

With the timer hitting zero on the official Final Fantasy XIII website, a new trailer was shown. It showed the battle system that will be used in the game. You’ll see some familiar faces, and learn on what at least is happening in the game. 

Many of you probably haven’t heard of Square Enix’s tower defense game, Final Fantasy Crystal Defenders. It was originally a mobile game for cell phones in Japan only. Later on, it was made as an application for iPhone users. 

Crystal defenders takes place under Final Fantasy A2’s universe. The game will make an appearance next week for Wii users, only available to Japan. Square Enix is already hard at work on porting the game for the PlayStation 3, most likely in the PlayStation Network category. It will be titled Final Fantasy Crystal Defenders R1. This game will only be available to Japan, but their may be plans for a release out of Japan. It’s already localized to English. 

Nothing was released if the PlayStation 3 version will be an upgrade of the original mobile game. 

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A countdown on the official Final Fantasy XIII site has just appeared. We’ll be able to find out what it will be coming in roughly about 7 days. So let your thoughts out below. 

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Famitsu showed off some more new images of the new character from Final Fantasy XIII. Like last weeks revealment, it continues to show off his hairdo. 

Japan will be getting a new bundle this year. It’s going to be the Final Fantasy VII: advent Children bundle with a design on it. Included in the bundle is a 160GB PlayStation 3, copy of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children on Blu-Ray, and a demo of Final Fantasy XIII. Word is that there will be an english option for the movie. There’s a least likely chance of an english option on the demo, but if we hear otherwise, we’ll let you know. The price of this bundle is roughly $551 US dollars, or equivalent to ¥49,980. You’ll see a photo of the PS3 below. 

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The following images are relatively old, but they’re allot better than nothing, until we get official ones. You can click through the gallery to view the high resolution in game screenshots of Final Fantasy XIII. 

If you would like to see some others, click here.

In the latest V-Jump magazine in Japan, some new screens have surfaced for Final Fantasy XIII. A name of the red headed female has also been given, along with a battle sequence. The name revealed appears to be Oerba Dia Vanille. Click the gallery below to view them. 

Also, here’s the latest trailer for the upcoming PSP title Final Fantasy Agito XIII. 

Some new trailers surfaced from the DKΣ3713 event held earlier this year. So view them below. 

Final Fantasy XIII

Final Fantasy Versus XIII

In Japan, Sony awards titles that are hits in Japan. In order to get these awards, they had to meet a certain criteria for the company. The Gold award is given to games that have shipped 500,000-1,000,000 copies. While the Double Platinum award is given to those that achieved shipments of one million through two million copies. Here are the games that were recognized for their accomplishments: 

Gold Prize: 

Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots (PS3) 

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (PSP)

Phantasy Star Portable (PSP)

Winning Eleven 2008 (PS2)

Super Robot Taisen (PS2)

Double Platinum: 

Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP)

Remember when we told you about the first custom PSP-3000, well there is another one on it’s way. This time we can expect to see Amano-esque logo characters Cosmos and Chaos on either side on the back.
(click on the picture if you want to see the HD version of it)

This is a 20th anniversary exclusive project for the PSP.

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