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"Little Big Planet 2 has had a whole host of DLC that has allowed gamers to customize their Sacboy character with skins from other popular video games. Sony has just announced the upcoming release of even more DLC packs with character skins from Final Fantasy VII, inFamous 2, and Killzone 3. Check out the news below."
"Proof of Final Fantasy VII and VIII's existence on Steam can easily be found by anyone who has Steam installed and up to date - you just need to download the "Steam Registry Toolkit" client. This allows curious types to poke around in Steam's files. We advise you look, but don't change anything - Users who download that merely need to point it to the "ClientRegistry.blob" file in their Steam Install Directory and then open the "ContentDescriptionRecord"."
"A character’s name can be a powerful tool to shape how people react to him or her. Charles Dickens was a master of this trick, using bizarre and memorable names to summarize a person’s character perfectly even before they spoke. Others don’t quite have it mastered. Here are some heroes whose names go right past “distinctive” and come back around to “silly.”"
"Yoichi Wada, CEO of Square Enix, has revealed that the Japanese giant plans on “exploring” the possibility of remaking the PSone RPG classic, Final Fantasy VII.
Speaking with the chaps at Siliconera, Wada commented, “Right now we don’t have a clear direction, but many fans have requested we remake Final Fantasy VII.”
“We’re going to explore the possibility – whether or not we’re going to do it, if we’re going to do it, and the platform.”"
You would think Square Enix have a pretty good idea of how high the demand for a Final Fantasy VII remake is.
Apparently not.
A few days ago, on their official Twitter account, Square Enix asked for fans' opinions on a possible FFVII remake. The Twitter page was then flooded with so many positive answers, Square Enix had to ask people to stop posting comments because they were so overwhelmed by the response!
"Yoshinori Kitase also explains that such a problem relates to being unable to currently consider the continual requests for a Final Fantasy 7 remake.
He explains, “This issue is related to whether a Final Fantasy 7 remake will happen or not. It is very hard to make games on PlayStation 3 in the same style as the games in that era had. Making graphics will take enormous time.”"
"The latest Playstation Store update came with a current list of the top downloads on the Playstation Store.
The first two spots are occupied by two of the most popular games on the original Playstation: Final Fantasy VIII and Final Fantasy VII. For Final Fantasy VIII, this is the first time the PSOne Classic has become the #1 download."
In an interview in the latest issue of Japanese magazine Famitsu, Tetsuya Nomura says that the Final Fantasy VII remake is currently not in development.
"Last month, in support of the upcoming release of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers exclusively on Wii, Akitoshi Kawazu and Toshiyuki Rahans (producer and director of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers respectively) were interviewed at Square Enix in Paris by French Final Fantasy fansites. After some time discussing Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers and earlier titles in the bloodline series, Kawazu and Rahans were questioned about th..."
"Below is a list of the top downloaded items from the PlayStation Store for the week ending October 22nd. This week Call of Duty: World at War and Fallout 3 both dominate the chart. The number one spot is occupied by the latest COD: WAW Map Pack for the second straight week. Fallout 3’s add on content has been very popular over the past few weeks. Check back each week for the lastest and most popular downloads from the PlayStation Store."
Three years ago, Square Enix showed off a tech demo of Final Fantasy 7 running on a PS3. The footage got a lot of people excited for a possible remake of the game. Recently, Final Fantasy XIII producer Yoshinori Kitase revealed that, while they currently have no plans for a remake, news of a Final Fantasy VII remake would “perhaps” come soon.
"Here, we have a handful of straws. You’re welcome to grasp at some, should you feel the need.
Us at GamesCom: Will we ever see a remake of Final Fantasy VII?
FFXIII’s Yoshi Kitase and Motomu Toriyama, speaking through a translator: There’s no official project that’s up and running for a remake of Final Fantasy VII at this point. Both Toriyama-san and Kitase-san were involved in the development of the game, however, and it holds a special place in their hearts. They do talk about it on a..."
It didn’t take long for Final Fantasy VII to become the fastest selling PSOne Classic title on the Playstation Store of the PSP and Playstation 3. The classic RPG, first released on the original Playstation in 1997, has been downloaded more times than any other PSOne Classic so far.
"Originally released in 1997, Final Fantasy VII is widely regarded as one of the greatest Role-Playing Games (RPGs) ever made. Delivering an unprecedented scope and ground-breaking pacing throughout the storyline, Final Fantasy VII casts the player as the inimitable Cloud Strife, and hosts an assortment of other memorable characters."
We learned three days ago that throughout E3, the PlayStation Store would be constantly updated. Sony has fulfilled that promise, adding the Uncharted 2 E3 trailer, Final Fantasy VII for the PS1, and tons of other things.
It was made available on the JP Playstation Store back in April, and announced that it would be coming to the NA Playstation Store soon, and today it has been confirmed at the Sony Press Conference, that FFVII will be coming to the NA PS Store, and not any later than this week.
One of the best and most popular RPGs of all time is becoming a PSOne Classic in North America. Final Fantasy VII just got an ESRB rating for the PSP and Playstation 3. The game can already be downloaded from the Japanese Playstation Store since April 16, 2009.
"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."
"We’ve all had the same thought. With the enourmous library of PlayStation One titles at Sony’s disposal, why haven’t more PSOne Classics made their way to the PS Store?
Well soon enough, you won’t have to ask that question again, as the word is that Sony will be bringing a big chunk of PSN classics to the North American PS Store."
People have been asking for it for awhile now and Square Enix have answered. Let's just hope it eventually makes its way to the NA and PAL PlayStation Stores.
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...
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Brought to you by Square Enix Music comes a brand new soundtrack directed and composed by the legendary Nobuo Uematsu and remixed and produced by Ante / Ian Hartley & mattb: FINAL FANTASY REMIX, featuring 12 classic Final Fantasy tunes remixed.
Catch the track list in the quote. You can check out the official site for FINAL FANTASY REMIX here where you can listen to short samples for all the tracks. The soundtrack retails in Japan for 2500 Yen, and is also available on the iTunes Store.
"We've seen this sign popping up over the weekend on the internets, and now reader and Best Buy employee Boomy (possibly a pseudonym) sends this snap from his iPhone of a coming soon sign misprint that is set to disappoint a lot of people come August 16th. At least we assume that this is a misprint. Either that, or Square Enix has developed Apple-levels of secrecy over the past few years...somehow I doubt it.
It's just odd that such a screw-up would occur with nothing even vaguely FF-relate..."
Square Enix plans to reveal exceptionally big news on August 2nd in terms of the game's future on if there will be a spin off or a remake of the game. It's also been rumored that the original FF7 will be available for purchase off Playstation Network or even XBox Live Arcade, so fans of the series also have that to look forward to.
"Veteran Square Enix character designer Tetsuya Nomura has revealed to Dengeki magazine that they're prepping quite a doozy of an announcement right alongside the release of the Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children Complete movie.
According to translations, FF7ACC is pretty much done now and they're just about to announce the Japanese release date for that movie. And when they eventually do, they'll be dropping one Jenova Mother of a bomb. All sources point towards the upcoming DKΣ3713 event, o..."
Folks over at Gamernode have the wonderful idea of allowing readers to sum up their opinion on popular games with a single world. This week they've picked Final Fantasy VII, and below you can see what some readers decided on for their succinct reviews.
Me, I'd choose "pioneering", or maybe "significant." Sure, it hasn't aged as well as some others in the series, but it surely helped set the groundwork for a zillion other games since.
Japan's Dengeki Online recently polled it's readers about the games they want remade the most.
Nobody will be surprised with the game that appears at the top of the list.
What is the main reason Japanese gamers want these games remade? Better graphics, of course.
And what is Japanese gamer's main worry for their favorite games getting remade? A changed/different storyline.
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...
After years of off and on rumor and speculation that Square might remake their beloved cash cow Final Fantasy VII for the PlayStation 3 with with the company only regarding it as a possibility, they've finally snapped and decided to give in to the overwhelming demand. That's right - Final Fantasy VII will be remade for the PS3!
Attached images are from the technical demo Square-Enix released back in 2005. Source: IGN
"According to a reliable source at SCEJ, Square-Enix has something big planned for The Last Remnant's release. Or rather, they have two "something bigs" planned. First up: they will be including a 22-minute playable demo of Final Fantasy XIII with the PS3 version of The Last Remnant. This demo lets us play through a section of FFXIII that doesn't occur until a good 20 hours into the game, which leads us to believe the developers are progressing nicely. Heck, they might even be ahead of schedul..."
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."
Yes, that's right. The Shenzhen Nanjing Technology Company have released a remake of Final Fantasy VII ... On the NES!
Of course, it's completely unofficial. But what makes this fanmade game so amazing is that most of the FFVII game is exactly identical to the original. The storyline, the Materia System, the Gameplay ... It's all there! The only major thing that is missing is Yuffie and Vincent, but I guess they had to make sacrifices.
Look at some of the screenshots, and see if you can...
Are you having trouble keeping up with the presidential elections? Well gamewithabrain.com has just made it simpler for us gamers to understand, having compiled a list of each presidential candidate and the games they are most similar to.
Barack Obama's game alter-ego is apparently Final Fantasy VII, while Hillary Clinton seems to bear similarities to Donkey Kong Country 3. Read the article to find out why.
(go to source for full list)
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...
So if Link from Legend of Zelda and Cloud from Final Fantasy every have a battle, who do you think will be the superior? Head over to IGN and vote now, although there is quite a large number between how many voted for Cloud and how many voted for Link.
"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 ..."
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?
In an online petition to Square Enix to remake the ever so popular Final Fantasy VII, over 20,000 signatures (23,943 as of this post to be exact) have been signed.
The petition was sent in to Square Enix and their response from them however is not the best thing for a fan to hear.
Today in Tokyo, Square Enix opened their Final Fantasy VII 10th Anniversary Gallery, which will be running from August 31st to September 2nd.
The gallery featured material from the original FFVII, the popular Advent Children movie, and other FFVII Compilation titles.
Fans will be happy to see various Figurines from the Compilation, Art, Memorabilia ... Even a model of Midgar city.
But the real show-stealer was the never-before-seen Posters of the characaters in their original outfits f...
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's new North America online merchandise store will be opening on August 20th, this Sunday.
For the opening new merchandise has been announced, including:
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 October, Square-Enix is planning to release a series of Final Fantasy miniature trading figures. The first volume of the 60mm tall, pocket-sized characters will presumably form part of a growing collection of releases in the future. The pieces are limited in availability, so GamerSquad would advise acting with haste come October if you fancy grabbing them and a factory sealed container to hold them in."
Yet more information about the Final Fantasy VII Anniversary is surfacing from this month's issue of Gemaga magazine. This time it's an interview with Yoshinori Kitase (the FFVII director and scenario writer), Yusuke Naora (the FFVII art director), and Tetsuya Nomura (the FFVII character desinger).
The three men discussed the original development ideas for Final Fantasy VII. Interestingly enough, the original FFVII story was going to be a "detective story, with characters such as: a detecti...
More rumours are now swirling around about Final Fantasy VII is being made for the PS3 only. As the rumours increase my hope increases also. Plus this time it's come from a reliable source. So we can only hope for the best.
A french RPG magazine called Gameplay RPG had a official statement from Square Enix saying "remake from very appreciated FFVII on PS3, only". And what makes it more interesting that the magazine says Square Enix should also have another demonstration demo at it's next S...
Today a rumor has again has risen again about Final Fantasy VII remake. According to a Konami insider, a Final Fantasy VII remake has been confirmed for the PlayStation 3.
First of all we have the 1UP release date that was added sometime ago and now this. Information is coming from a Konami Insider, the very same guy that brought you the Pro Evolution Soccer 7 news earlier on. He has said that he heard the news from the developers meeting.
Proof that he is some what reliable here is a ...
Either the staff at one of the world's biggest gaming websites has gone mad, or they know something we only dream of. For some reason, Final Fantasy VII's page at 1UP.com has a release date inside: January 1, 2008. I highly doubt the release date is real, but are 1UP.com hinting that we should expect a remake announcement soon?
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