Square Enix is working to promote upcoming PSP title Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together with a different kind of contest which they've named Tactics Ogre Mission HQ. This contest has fans jumping into online missions that will relive the history of the Final Fantasy Tactics series as well as display some of the features of Tactics Ogre. Missions will come twice a month, and the first one starts now.
The prize for this first mission is pretty nice! If you will you'll get a copy of Final Fantasy Tactics for the PSP as well as the super rare PlayStation original, as seen in the image above. The whole thing kicks off with this screenshot caption contest. This "mission" ends on October 25th, so get going!
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As part of the Distant Worlds: music from Final Fantasy world tour, the game music concert will be stopping in Sydney in April of 2011. There’s going to be two performances starting on the 15th, and concert tickets for the event go on sale early for fans next month, starting on October 15th.
This could really be the ultimate Distant Worlds concert. Get this: It’s taking place at the Sydney Opera House, it’s played by the Sydney Symphony, and composer Nobuo Uematsu will be in attendance. If that’s not enough, there’s new music from both Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIV.
If you’re looking to nab tickets early (and you should!), you’ll want to visit sydneysymphony.com on the 15th of next month. Input pre-sale colde 2665 to order your tickets.
If you’re in Australia and you miss this, I won’t forgive you.
This one-off of a PlayStation controller was created by Sunflex in partnership with Square Enix for the upcoming MMO Final Fantasy XIV. I’m sure it functions nicely, but it’s really ugly. I think the handgrips kill me. A commenter on the Kotaku source story ’shopped the controller picture to show that they were thinking the exact same thing I was. The numbers on the buttons (and below the “select” and “start” ones) are so generic looking that I feel like they didn’t even bother to make this thing attractive.
The controller will be available on the day of launch for Final Fantasy XIV, September 30th. This is the first item to come from a licensing agreement between Square Enix and Sunflex.
Oh shista, it’s Crysta!
Crysta sounds like a bad porn name, but it’s also what Square Enix is calling their new currency for the upcoming online game, Final Fantasy XIV. It’s also the name of the subject of this fan page. Wow.
You’ll convert your IRL money into this Crysta, which Eurogamer says will go for the rate of 100 Crysta to £1 or €1, depending on your location. Your money will be wasted changed in blocks of 500, 1000, 2000, 3000, 5000 or 10,000, and they say that there will be a cap on how much Crysta your account can hold at one time.
What did they have against Gil?
When I first heard about Final Fantasy Legends, I wasn’t at Tokyo Game Show. It was on the train. There was a little billboard for the game, which sort of blew my mind. I’m sure that sort of thing is normal for citizens of Tokyo, but I’m still getting used to seeing advertising for cell phone games in public places.
As for the game, it looks a lot like Final Fantasy 4: The After. It’s SNES-era Final Fantasy sprite work on an oblong screen, with some frame rate issues depending on how powerful your phone is. From a gameplay perspective, it’s old-school Final Fantasy. You start this off as a teenage-looking boy, walking through the woods. Then some man jumps out of the bushes at you, and before you can say “discrete encounter”, you get into a standard turn-based Final Fantasy 4-style battle. Exchange a few blows, and then a cute girl shows up, and the three of you form a traveling party. From there, it’s off to the over-world, where you get in more fights (mostly with bees) and head off to public attractions such as the local castle and its ajoining towns.
If you’re not burnt of retro Final Fantasy yet, you could do a lot worse than Final Fantasy Legends, especially if you’re into the job system stuff. The game is said to have it in droves. Lets hope this one makes it outside of Japan in some form or another.
Seriously, Square Enix? You’re calling it Dissidia Duodecim: Final Fantasy? Really!? I thought the increasingly pompous Kingdom Hearts names were bad enough, but this is reaching the point of self-satire. Oh well, that’s what the follow-up to Square Enix’s PSP brawler is called and we’ll have to deal with it now.
Dissidia 012 features new characters, two of which have been shown in this meager portion of new screens. Final Fantasy IV’s Kane and XIII’s Lightning have both been shown off and look pretty much how you’d expect.
Check out the small screens in our gallery, and feel free to ask, as I have, why it’s too much for Square Enix to title its games sensibly.
[Via Andria Sang]
Well, this is embarrassing. This week was supposed to mark the beginning of a new direction for the series. We got writers, a set, a wardrobe consultant, and most importantly, celebrity guests. Unfortunetely, due to Sagat’s incredibly unprofessional treatment of Hugo Andore Jr. (our special celebrity guest), he had to be let go.
We fired Sagat.
That means that we need a new star, and it could be you. After what I saw at PAX 10, I know there are a lot of cosplayers out there. This is your time to shine. Dress as your favorite video game character, talk about videogames, shoot it on video, and send it to me at [email protected]. If your video is good enough, it could make it on to next week’s show.
You can do it green screen style like most of this series, do something like the Balrog episode, go for the “at home” stuff as seen in the Felicia and Sagat segments, or something totally different. It’s all up to you. The only rule is that you must be a videogame character, and you must talk about videogames. Go nuts.
I can’t wait to see what you guys come up with.
Sundays with Sagat: What’s a videogame for?
Sundays with Sagat: Mario 64 Vs. Mario Galaxy
Sundays with Sagat: The Hardcore/Comedy Conundrum
Sundays with Sagat: Uncharted 2
Sundays with Sagat: Redefining “Hardcore Vs. Casual”
Sundays with Sagat: Guest Starring Birdie
Sundays with Sagat: What’s in a name?
Sundays with Sagat: Final Fantasy
Sundays with Sagat: Grand Theft Auto V Casting Call
Sundays with Sagat: Alan Wake, Depression, and Meows
Sundays with Sagat: How about a shower? Sound good?
Sundays with Sagat: Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom Vs. Birdie
Sundays with Sagat: Ape Escape 4 fears and Felicia
Sundays with Sagat: Nice tan, Kyo
Sundays with Sagat: Dead Rising and dead Birdie
Are you f*cking with us, Square Enix?
Final Fantasy Versus XIII producer has confessed that he can’t commit to a 2011 release date for the PS3 game, which has been in development for roughly eight thousand years. The game has been in perpetual delay, with only slivers of information being drip-fed to us over the centuries.
“We have no release date information to update,” says Kitase. “Unfortunately we can’t say anything about that. We can’t commit ourselves to 2011 either.”
This is honestly ridiculous. Square Enix has a bad habit of announcing a ton of titles at once, and I am beginning to think that the company reveals title names before it even has any idea of what the games themselves will be like.
Seriously, Square Enix, stop trying to make fifty games at once, and maybe you’ll get a few of them finished. Usually I think delays are fine, but not when you’re simply trying to develop too much at once because you have the restraint of a three-year-old.
Square on Versus XIII: “We can’t commit ourselves to 2011″ [VG247]
GameStop appears to have jumped the gun and prematurely revealed a brand new PlayStation 3 SKU. The North American retailer boasted a page on its website that featured a “just announced” 160GB PS3 that was shipping immediately. The page was promptly pulled.
Sony has a gamescom press conference coming up, and it would appear that one of its major announcements has just been spilled. Looks like somebody at GamesStop got a little too eager with their clicking finger and set this live before its time, but don’t be surprised if this announcement is cemented a little later today.
There are also hints that a 320GB PS3 is on the way, but we’ll have to wait and see for that one.
