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"We all have our favorite video game character, right? But what character is the top character of all time? Guinness World Records 2011 Gamer's Edition (out now, $12.99 for ebook, $14.99 for print) chimes in with its Top 10, voted on by more than 13,000 fans on the Guinness website. And Mario takes the top spot.
Nintendo had 11 characters in the Top 50, followed by Sony and Capcom with six and five, respectively. Five characters came from the year 1966, followed by 1987, 2001 and 2007 with ..."
"Zack Fair, from Final Fantasy VII and Crisis Core, will make an appearance in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. Like Cloud Strife, he’s in the Olympus Colosseum. The scan from Shonen Jump shows Ventus and Zack as friends while Zack clashes with Terra.
When Terra (the character who looks remarkably like Zack) and Zack settle their differences they can team up for a Dimension Link attack called “Heroes Pride.” Dimension Link attacks are sort of like summons. You can link up with characters fro..."
"Square Enix's Yoshinori Kitase has admitted that the Japanese software giant may end up developing yet more additions to the Final Fantasy VII universe, despite the fact the release Advent Children Complete on Blu-ray was supposed to signal the end of any FFVII-related productions."
Within the past several years, Square Enix has been on the ball with remakes of their classic Final Fantasy games. And rumors of a remake for the huge and popular Final Fantasy 7 have been been buzzing around the net.
Square Enix president Yoichi Wada explains how there has been a remake boom lately, "The price of games is high, and consumers tend to be wary of buying games they are unfamiliar with".
That's an interesting reason for the increase of remake talk, but SE fans hope they do...
Last year it was announced that Japan would be recieving 77,777 limited edition silver Crisis Core PSP bundles. The rest of the world sighed in disappointment at not recieving any Crisis Core specials, (unless you were an American who recieved the 'bonus' UMD case.
Well it looks like Europe gets a surprise for having to wait so long for the game. They are getting the limited edition PSP bundles too!
The Crisis Core bundles go on sale this month.
The official UK Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core website is finally up and running. If you have been living under a rock for the last few months, the website details everything a newcomer needs to know about the game...
http://www.crisiscoregame.co.uk/
Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core is set for release in PAL regions later this month.
Square Enix has been kicking out with Final Fantasy for 18 years and it has proven to be quite successful...until now. Their decision to try Final Fantasy on the Playstation Portable hasn't quite paid off with Crisis Core selling a mere 380,000 in it's first month in America. Looking at the chart at the source, it is nowhere near to what they've sold before on other Final Fantasy games. You can't blame it on the PSP due to the fact that America has 3 million more PSP sales than Japan. The cha...
Crisis Core could have been a a next-gen game, but the PS3 wasn't avaliable at the time. Yoshinori Kitase and Producer Hideki Imaizumi could have made the switch to the PS2, but they wanted a new platform so they decided to do a PSP version of it. Kistase said they would need the core members from the original team but they are all busy with Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII so there might not be a remake any time soon.
PocketGamer (www.pocketgamer.co.uk) has done an interview with Square Enix's producer Hideki Imaizumi and executive producer Yoshinori Kitase on the ongoing preparations for the game that will be coming out in UK.
In this interview, they are given the question "If you'd known the DS was going to be as popular as it is, would you have chosen to make Crisis Core for it instead?" and give the answer "It really wasn't an option to begin with and it wasn't something we regretted later because w...
"Square Enix has confirmed that announcements regarding European launch details for both the westernised version of Final Fantasy IV for DS and Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII are imminent.
Regarding both your questions, we should have some announcements being made public very soon"
A recent interview with Crisis Core's game director Hajime Tabata gives us some very interesting information about the game and it's development. But one question in particular caught my attention. When asked whether Crisis Core would be the finale to the Final Fantasy VII compilation Hajime answered "No, it does not. The Compilation's finale will take some other form."
Trust Square Enix to make a big deal out of their game launches. With Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core set to be released in a week, Square have decided to throw a proper launch party at Sony Metreon Centre in San Francisco. And if you're one of the first 100 people to arrive for a copy of Crisis Core, you will also get a nice bunch of FF-related goodies too.
About Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation Portable. The game is a prequel to Final Fantasy VII and is also the fourth entry to the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII series, which also includes the games Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII and Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII, as well as the CGI movie Final Fantasy VII Advent Children and the anime, Last Order: Final Fantasy VII.
Its official the English Final Fantasy 7 Crisis Core Website is up. With some good goodies like Trailers and Character profiles and even a profile of famous flower girl Aerith Gainsborough. And thats not all some hints of more stuff to appear on the website around March. So keep your eyes peeled and see what comes up next before the release date of the game.
English Website
The rumor of a remake of Final Fantasy 7 has been running wild ever since the release of Square Enix's tech-demo a few years ago and this rumor has been put down and recovered numerous times over the past years.
This time however, we get probably the most definitive answer yet, until the game is either officially announced or officially canned.
This makes the most sense, the possibility of a FF7 remake is completely dependent on Square-Enix's schedule. Mostly the completion of FF13 and...
When Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core was first released in Japan, 77,777 lucky people got their hands on the special Crisis Core bundle that was also being offered. The bundle included: A limited-edition silver PSP, a special Crisis Core themed PSP case, the game itself, some small Crisis Core accessories, all wrapped up in a Crisis Core box. Pretty spiffy, huh?
Well ... It seems America won't quite be getting the same perks that Japan did. For anyone who was hoping for a similar bundle to...
The official Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Complete Guide is now available on Play-Asia and Amazon.jp.
Although the guide itself isn't much use to people who can't read Japanese, the artwork alone is worth taking a look at.
Just yesterday the PAL version of Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core got an official release date, and today Gamespot has some more news for Final Fantasy fans in the PAL region ... Their version of Crisis Core will be getting some "additional gameplay challenges not included in the original Japanese version."
It looks like North America misses out on these bonus features.
"Specifically, Japanese gaming giant Square Enix has this week confirmed that Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII will be released exclusively across all PAL territories this coming spring on Sonys slick and sexy handheld.
Set to arrive as the fourth entrant in the hugely popular Final Fantasy VII series - and also a direct prequel to the original PlayStation classic - Crisis Core will likely provide all the trademark excitement, grandeur, and exhilaration of the Final Fantasy franchise while ..."
"The game that sold hundreds of thousands of PSP systems in Japan and is poised to do the same when it hits U.S. soil in late March has been officially, if somewhat vaguely, dated for Europe! Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII has been officially granted a Spring 2008 release by Square Enix, which means anywhere between March 21st and June 21st, giving them a nice little three-month window to cram all of those extra languages into that tiny little UMD. Here's hoping it's closer to the beginning of..."
Square Enix has now announced that Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core will be coming to the United States on March 25th. The game is a prequel to Final Fantasy 7, and has recently become Square Enix's best selling game of this year.
It is not known yet when the special edition Crisis Core PSP bundle will hit the US though.
We have another pretty slow week in Japan, with DBZ: Sparking! Meteor for the PS2 being the top seller with 204k units sold. Then, the number drops down to 86k for Gundam Battle Chronicle for the PSP. The rest of the top 5 rounds out with Archaic Sealed Heat (DS - 50k), DBZ: Sparking! Meteor (Wii - 40k) and Jikkyou Powerful Major League 2 (PS2 - 35k).
Also noted, #1 on last week's list, Halo 3, isn't in the top 30 this week. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Time and Shadow and Crisis Core: Final...
Yet more Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core news...
The official soundtrack has been released today, and already the CD is proving to be very popular on sites such as play-asia.com.
The CD features the theme song, "Why", sung by popular Japanese artist Ayaka. As well as various remade tunes from the original Final Fantasy VII...
Xbox360's newest and most famous title, Halo 3, has surged to the top of the Japanese sales charts, selling 58,672 copies in it's first week.
The 360 itself has also had a burst of popularity, selling 5,215 units in the same week as Halo 3's release. Coincidence? I think not!
In other news, the vastly popular Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core has become a major driving force in the fast selling of Playstation Portable units in Japan. Square Enix's limited edition Crisis Core PSP sold out on...
Square Enix have announced that they will be releasing yet another FFVII Compilation booklet, this time it's the Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core Ultimania guide.
The booklet will be 592 pages long, and will include anything you would expect from a typical Square Enix book ... Including Character Profiles, An in-depth story analysis, Interviews with the staff and voice-actors, New images and screenshots, and much much more!
"Story: Crisis Core focuses on Zack Fair, who's part of a military organization called SOLDIER, trying to earn a First Class ranking. He's joined by the world famous Cloud Strife, the main character in the original Final Fantasy VII title, the blond character being an average Shinra Guard. The Shinra Electric Power Company rules all of the world's continents by force and with the aid of their technological superiority. Shinra uses Mako energy to fuel all of its gear, power plants and buildings..."
During the Tokyo Game Show, Gamespy were lucky enough to get their hands on Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core ... and they were impressed with the results! Impressed enough to give a VERY positive preview of the game, as well as going as far as to say that the vastly popular Monster Hunter 2 Freedom "seems near average compared to Crisis Core."
So will Crisis Core live up the the hype? We will have to wait and see ...
"Square's big budget fan service film, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, is heading to Blu-ray and it's going to provide much more than an HD transfer. A new trailer showcased at TGS shows a few new scenes that expand upon the film's storyline. One scene took place in the alleys of Midgar as children afflicted with Geostigma appear to be melting goo. Another sequence shows Sephiroth stabbing Cloud through the chest, skewering him and swinging him like a piece of dead meat. Not only will the ..."
"From our oh-so-short play session with the game, the long wait for Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII was most definitely worth it.
While I'm sure my words are riveting you right out of your seat, there's no way they're as cool as the actual cinematic looked on the PSP in my hands. After the opening train sequence was over it was time to actually take control of our main character.
Gone are the days of pre-rendered backdrops and loading times in between fights. As Zack moved around the tra..."
It seems that Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core is living up to it's hype. On the first day of it's release, around 350,000 copies of the game were sold ... and the number is still climbing!
With the soaring sales, high Review ratings, and good publicity of Crisis Core, Square Enix are hoping to double their takings by the end of the week ...
As many Final Fantasy fans would know, the rumours surrounding the possible Final Fantasy VII remake have almost gotten to the point of being ridiculous. PS3 Tech Demos, new FFVII character models, confusing Square Enix interviews, and now a mysterious TGS poster sporting the words "We hope to meet FFVII again" ...
Will Square Enix ever put the fans out of their misery?
The newest issue of Dengeki PS2 has released brand new Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core screenshots, including images of Cloud Strife visiting Icicle Inn (a location made famous in the original Final Fantasy VII).
But the fans' focus wasn't on these new screenshots...
An interesting interview with Square Enix staff members, Nomura and Tabata, revealed many new secrets about the soon-to-be-released game. With such an emotionally charged theme, they expect Final Fantasy fans to be in tears a...
Square Enix will soon be holding a Final Fantasy VII Anniversary exhibition to commemorate the last ten years of Final Fantasy VII. The exhibition will revolve around a gallery of Final Fantasy VII: Compilation images for fans to browse through.
For the lucky people who happen to be in Japan from August 31st - September 2nd, they can pop around to the Aoyama spiral garden of the Tokyo, Minato-ku, to check out the sights. Admission fee is free.
Studio BentStuff have released more information regarding the official Final Fantasy VII 10th Anniversary Ultimania booklet. This time, information on the books' content has been revealed: Unlike previous Final Fantasy VII books, The Complete Dismantling and Ultimania Omega (which is a strategy guide and full analysis book), will be a memorial book, dedicated to the ten years that Final Fantasy VII has spent in the limelight, (and possibly another ten years to come, according to Square Enix)....
In celebrating the 10 years of Final Fantasy VII, Sony and Square Enix have designed a new PSP to mark the occasion which will be part of the Limited Edition Game Bundle. The FFVII Silver PSP will cost 25,889 Yen (approx £108) and will be shipped on September 13 though no release date in Europe have been stated. The bundle will come with Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core and a headset and wrist strap that are based on the Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core game.
In a recent interview with LEVEL magazine, Square Enix, the creators of Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core have divulged some minor tid-bits of the game.
Although the main focus of the interview was on Final Fantasy XIII and Versus XIII, Tetsuya Nomura and Hajime Tabata hinted that fans are likely to see some familiar faces in FF: Crisis Core, and also revealed just how much time and effort has been put into this game.
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