Final Fantasy XIII News

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• Square Enix says it will 'consider' creating social games
• While Square Enix has made major strides this year by bringing Final Fantasy to new platforms like the Xbox 360 and the iPhone, the company isn't ready to commit to social gaming just yet.

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• Pay $9 to look at Final Fantasy XIII on your iPhone
• Square Enix has released a "Larger-Than-Life" Final Fantasy XIII screen shot/art gallery on the App Store today to celebrate the launch of the game, which occurred last week. It costs $8.99.

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• Final Fantasy ships 5 million units
• In a press release sent out last night, Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy XIII hit the 5 million unit mark for games shipped worldwide. Interestingly, 3 million of those units were shipped in North America and Europe.

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• GamePro's Final Fantasy XIII launch party report
• Final Fantasy XIII launched with a gala befitting the epic scope of the series. GamePro was at the game's official launch party, snapping pictures and keeping tabs on the night's events.

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• Kitase and Toriyama quash Final Fantasy XIII DLC speculation
• First it seemed like there would be DLC for Final Fantasy XIII, then it seemed like there's wouldn't be. Now Producer Yoshinori Kitase and Director Motomu Toriyama tell PlayStation Blog there is no DLC and there never was.

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• Square Enix mistakenly releases identical Final Fantasy images for PS3 and 360
• Two batches of similar images released for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of Final Fantasy XIII were mistakenly released to the press recently as the company did not mean to compare versions.

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• Microsoft and Square Enix releasing $400 Xbox 360 bundle, custom faceplate
• Final Fantasy is coming to the Xbox 360 in style, as Square Enix and Microsoft are releasing a console bundle that packages the game, two controllers, the largest hard drive possible, and if you're lucky, a custom faceplate.

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• NBA All-Star Celebrity Game to be sponsored by Final Fantasy XIII ... wait, what?!
• In one of the strangest video game sponsorships we've ever seen, Square Enix has announced that the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game taking place this Friday will be presented by Final Fantasy XIII.

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• Report: Final Fantasy XIII composer quits Square Enix
• Following the footsteps of Nobuo Uematsu before him, Square Enix composer Masashi Hamauzu is heading out the door.

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• Final Fantasy VIII PSN's top seller in December
• Somehow everything old is new again when it's Christmas Day and you need something to download and play.

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• Final Fantasy XIII road tour coming to San Francisco
• This is your chance to play the newest Final Fantasy before it hits shelves.

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• Final Fantasy XIII nearing 2 million sold in Japan
• The latest Final Fantasy game has sold more than 1.8 million copies in the four days since it's 12/17 release, but Yoichi Wada hopes to break 2 million (more than half of all Japanese PS3 owners) by 2010.

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• Isolated Lightning strikes Final Fantasy XIII box art
• Recalling the box art of Final Fantasy X, the newly-released cover of Final Fantasy XIII has only one character on it--Lightning.

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• Square-Enix giving away free chocobos to Xbox avatars
• Final Fantasy's ubiquitous ridable bird, the chocobo, will accompanying the avatars of Xbox users who sign up for the free gift online. Find out where to go to get it!

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• Final Fantasy XIII releasing on March 9, 2010
• The newest trailer for Final Fantasy XIII features more than just developer insight--it also reveals a March 9, 2010 U.S. and European release date for the game!

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• GDC News: Sony slashes PS3 price (sort of), Microsoft smack talks, PC rules?
• Here's the latest update on the headlines coming out of the Game Developers Conference.

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• No FFXIII for U.S. until 2010?!?
• Every now and then, I wonder: does Square Enix hate America?

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• Worst voice acting ever?
• It takes really bad voice acting to ruin a video game cutscene, but this little gem someone forwarded to us from GameTrailers is just downright hilarious.