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by Published on September 7th, 2012 22:42- Categories:
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It’s one of Japan’s biggest gaming exports and has sold over 100 million units worldwide. In January 2007, it was listed as the third best-selling video game franchise in the industry. It’s branched from role-playing games to tactics, action, MMORPG, third-person shooter, fighting and rhythm genres. And it’s just about to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
The series has been both commercially and critically successful and is synonymous with quality, innovation and visuals. It’s also a huge brand that goes beyond games and into merchandise, jewelry, perfume, concerts, soundtracks and even movies. It is, of course, Final Fantasy.
In its 25th year, Square Enix has already released two games, Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, digitally re-released the most popular entry, Final Fantasy VII, for PC and Square Enix announced it was rebuilding its latest MMORPG after disappointing fans. What else does the firm have planned for this mammoth franchise?
“We’re preparing to unveil a Final Fantasy exhibition here in Japan,” said Square Enix’s senior executive managing officer Shinji Hashimoto. “Plans for anniversary projects in Europe and America are also underway and we’d like to extend an invitation to all our fans to celebrate this special year with us.”
There’s already a teaser site online hinting at a possible new entry to the Final Fantasy XIII series, the PS3 exclusive Final Fantasy Versus XIII is still in development and there’s surely something more to that impressive tech demo from this year’s E3.
What’s impressive is that an essentially Japanese franchise has managed to gain commercial success worldwide.
“Perhaps it’s the avid enthusiasm the creators have invested in the Final Fantasy titles and the desire to realise exciting new elements in the series which has captured the imagination of players everywhere.
“There could be a variety of different factors involved as to why it’s done well in Europe especially. A couple of important points to consider would be carefully localising the game and ensuring there is as little difference as possible in the release dates across Japan, Europe and America.”
With the launch of Final Fantasy XIII-2, DLC was introduced for the first time in the main series adding costumes, new story sections and bosses to fight in the game’s coliseum area but it didn’t always go down well with fans.
“Each batch of DLC we released for Final Fantasy XIII-2 was received differently by players. However, this helped us to learn and deliver better results. Our goal now is to pay strict attention to user needs while planning future DLC releases.”
Final Fantasy has a reputation for being a very pretty franchise. But Hashimoto hopes there’s more to Final Fantasy’s legend. “Although we talk about Final Fantasy as a franchise, it’s important to consider the different producers and directors behind the games, all of whom have left their mark by evolving the series in their own ways.
“The tactical style featured in Final Fantasy XII’s battle system or the fast-paced fighting found in XIII have all contributed to the many assets that have accumulated and allow the series to flourish up to now. We intend to continue with this evolutionary approach to keep taking the series forward.”
New Final Fantasy continues to come thick and fast, and with its stunning E3 tech demo, it appears Final Fantasy will stay in the leading for a while to come.
“The tech demo we revealed at E3 is one indicator of the direction the series is taking. I believe we have continued to explore every possibility for advancing the series while always scrapping and rebuilding the Final Fantasy design,” Hashimoto added. “This is also something very unlikely to change in the future.”
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/happy...antasy/0102537 ...by Published on September 5th, 2012 23:05- Categories:
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Sony has knocked 25 per cent of the price of an annual PlayStation Plus subscription.
Running for two weeks until September 19, the offer lets you to pick up a 365 day PS Plus pass for £29.99/€37.49, down from the regular price of £39.99/€49.99.Annual subscriptions will stack, so current subscribers can also take advantage of the reduced price.
During its Gamescom conference last month, the platform holder revealed plans to bring PlayStation Plus to Vita later this year.
Sony has also kicked off a Retro Games Sale on PlayStation Network today to celebrate the recent launch of PSone support on Vita.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...-next-2-weeks/ ...by Published on September 2nd, 2012 15:31- Categories:
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Square Enix today announced the Final Fantasy 'Ultimate Box' compilation set, as part of the series' 25th anniversary celebrations. The compilation, priced at roughly $450, includes every main series game up until XIII (no dash-twos for you) and is available in Japan from December 18.
Square Enix unveiled the box set at today's opening of the Final Fantasy Gallery in Tokyo. The first nine Final Fantasy games included are PS1 copies, with the exception of Final Fantasy III on PSP. Final Fantasy XIII is on PS3, and the rest on PS2, with XI as the 'Vana'diel Collection.'
Andriasang reports the compilation's extras include a commemorative DVD, an art collection, and a two-disc soundtrack among other goodies. Ultimate Box releases in Japan for ¥35,000, which translates into just under $450.
Square Enix also announced four 'Ultimania' encyclopedia-like books, which cover the entire main series of games and include previously unseen artwork. They too become available on December 18.
We've reached out to Square Enix to see if any of these products are headed west. Meanwhile, look out for some pristine photos of the compilation after the break.
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/08/31/fi...an-priced-aro/ ...by Published on September 2nd, 2012 15:20- Categories:
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Earlier today Sony revealed an 84 inch HDTV with four times the resolution of today's top television sets.Due later this year, the Bravia KD-84X9005 has an insane resolution of (3840 x 2160) and will be able to upconvert existing shows, movies and photographs. It also comes equipped with ten speakers, creating a virtual 5.1 surround sound field.No price has been announced, but we reckon it will probably cost at least four figures and a kidney or two.Now, can you imagine playing Journey on that set? Oh my!
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...4-inch-4k-hdtv ...by Published on September 1st, 2012 21:11- Categories:
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Bethesda has admitted that Dawnguard, the first DLC expansion forThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, may never make it to PlayStation 3 due to technical problems encountered in development.
Those playing Bethesda's sprawling RPG on PS3 have long since accepted they drew the short straw. Shortly after Skyrim's launch last November PS3 players spotted that the game all but ground to a halt once save files passed 5MB in size - an issue it took Bethesda three months to fix.
While the game itself is playable on PS3 these days, it appears Bethesda is still struggling with developing for Sony's system, and in a post on its official forums admits that, despite ongoing efforts, the company can't be sure Dawnguard - or the new Skyrim DLC, Hearthfire, announced this week - will ever make it to PS3.
"Skyrim is a massive and dynamic game that requires a lot of resources, and things get much more complex when you're talking about sizeable content like Dawnguard," the post reads. "We have tried a number of things, but none of them solve the issue enough to make Dawnguard good for everyone.
"The PS3 is a powerful system, and we're working hard to deliver the content you guys want. Dawnguard is obviously not the only DLC we're working on, either, so the issues of adding content get even more complicated.
"This is not a problem we're positive we can solve, but we are working together with Sony to bring you this content."
Technical problems are one thing, but arguably the bigger issue here is one of trust. What chance is there that PS3 players will be prepared to forgive and forget when Bethesda's next big multiplatform game comes along? Dishonored is the publisher's big 2012 bet, and is being developed externally, at French studio Arkane, and the PS3 release will need to be technically on par with the Xbox 360 release for Bethesda to have any hope of repairing its relationship with a huge number of players.
http://www.edge-online.com/news/skyr...er-make-it-ps3
...by Published on August 30th, 2012 23:55- Categories:
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Team Bondi has confimed that Whore of the Orient will be a next-generation IP.
The official blurb reads as follows:
“Shanghai, 1936. Whore of the Orient. Paris of the East. The most corrupt and decadent city on the planet, where anything can be had or done for the right price. Plaything of Western powers who greedily exploit the Chinese masses. Boiling pot of Chinese nationalism, with the Kuomintang ruthlessly trying to suppress Communism and the labour movement. Home to the International Police Force, a group of Western cops hopelessly trying to keep the lid on and keep the peace.
“From the development team who brought you LA Noire and The Getaway, along with the Academy Award winning film production team of Kennedy Miller Mitchell comes a completely new and original IP being developed for next generation games consoles and PC.”
We’ve seen plenty of games that seemingly are in development for next-gen machines (Watch Dogs, Star Wars 1313) although Bondi has become the first studio to come out loud and proud about its development plans.
The announcement reinforces two notions.
- That the next-gen consoles are very close now
- That the industry is becoming impatient with Sony and Microsoft’s unwillingness to announce them
Don’t be surprised to see other developers to follow where Bondi is seemingly leading.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/la-no...orient/0102061 ...by Published on August 30th, 2012 23:32- Categories:
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Assassin's Creed III, the cover star of E245, is no mere sequel with a new setting, according to the team who've spent the past three years working on Ubisoft's biggest-ever project. Instead, it's intended as a reinvention, rather than mere iteration, of the multimillion-selling series.
Whereas previous Assassin's Creed games have built upon an existing foundation, adding new mechanics and ideas but keeping to a broadly similar scope, the third game proper is rebuilt from the ground up - starting with brand new engine AnvilNext.
"When we started Assassin's Creed III, right after Assassin's Creed II, we knew Brotherhood was starting, and Brotherhood was a much more direct iteration on [the series]," lead design technical director Marc-Antoine Lussier tells us. "[The Brotherhood team's] guideline was, 'don't reinvent too much, use everything we know, and use the fact that we know how it works to make it even better, but faster'.
"Whereas our challenge was, 'reinvent everything, if possible'."
It's a daunting task. The Assassin's Creed series has hardly lacked ambition over the years, and nor has it held back in terms of the technical demands it placed on the current generation of consoles - a generation that's beginning to creak under the weight of ever larger, and more elaborate, worlds.
"The final product had to be revolutionary," Lussier continues. "On the same consoles, on the same hardware, we had to make sure that we had the power we needed. Also, the fact that we knew the team would be much bigger, that's another aspect - we had to make sure that [AnvilNext] was solid enough and efficient enough to be used by a much larger team."
The engine not only has to survive being pushed and pulled in various directions by hundreds of development staff, and draw the game's 18th century America environments at a decent lick, but also handle an uncommonly expressive protagonist - placed back to back, the 5,000 new animations for Assassin's Creed's main character Connor Kenway would take an hour to watch.
"And there's no cinematic in that - it's just the behaviour when you play," Lussier enthuses. "So there's a lot of new stuff. Everything's changed."
Productions of such scale are becoming increasingly rare, with more developers turning to simpler, more lithe development projects - the charge led, perhaps, by Curiosity, Peter Molyneux's first 22Cans experiment - and the industry becomes ever-more polarised. It's a fact not lost on creative director Alex Hutchinson.
"We're the last of the dinosaurs," he says. "We're still the monster triple-A game with very large teams [and] multiple studios helping out on different bits. There are fewer and fewer of these games being made, especially as the middle has fallen out."
http://www.edge-online.com/news/assa...ent-everything ...by Published on August 30th, 2012 00:23- Categories:
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Sony has confirmed details of the latest European PlayStation Store content update.
This week's highlights include Rock Band Blitz and Mass Effect 3's Leviathan DLC, while footy fans can also download an improved version of the PES 2013 demo.
Here's the full list of new content:
PS3 Games
- Dungeon Twister (Trial & Unlock)Price: £7.99/€9.99/AU$15.95
- Anomaly Warzone Earth (Trial & Unlock)Price: £7.29/€8.99/AU$14.45
Availability: Not available in BE, DN FI, NL, NO, PT, SW - Lights, Camera, Party! (Trial & Unlock, PS Move Required)Price: £23.99/€29.99 - 50% off for PS Plus
Availability: Not available in AU, NZ - Rock Band Blitz (Trial & Unlock)Price: £8.79/€10.99/AU$17.45
Availability: Not available in BU, CR, CZ, GR, HU, IN, IS, KU, LI, PL, QT, RU, SA, SL, ZA, UA - Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HDPrice: £11.99/€14.99/AU$23.95
PS3 Demo
- PES 2013 Final Demo
PS3 DLC
- Damage Inc.
- European Plane Pack (£7.99/€9.99/AU$15.95)Availability: Not available in AU, BE, DN, FI, LU, NL, NO, PO, RU, SW, SZ, UKR
- Mass Effect 3Mass Effect 3 - Leviathan
Prices: £7.99/€9.99/AU$15.95 - Max Payne 3Disorganised Crime Pack
- Rock Band Network
- Discord (The Living Tombstone Remix) (£0.59/€0.79/AU$1.30)
- In The Wake Of Evolution (£0.99/€1.49/AU$2.45)
- Moments Of Clarity (£0.99/€1.49/AU$2.45)
- Radiant Light (£0.99/€1.49/AU$2.45)
- The Thief In The Night - Part II (£0.59/€0.79/AU$1.30)Availability: AU,AT,BL,DK,FI,FR,DE,IL,IT,NL,NZ,NO,PT,SA,ES,SE,CH and UK only.
- Saint Seiya - Sanctuary Battle
- Full Set (£15.99/€19.99/AU$29.95)
- Libra Dohko (£3.99/€4.99/AU$8.45)
- Odin Robe Seiya (£3.99/€4.99/AU$8.45)
- Seadragon Kanon (£3.99/€4.99/AU$8.45)
- Siren Sorrento (£3.99/€4.99/AU$8.45)
- Unicorn Jabu (£3.99/€4.99/AU$8.45)
- Wyvern Rhadamanthys (£3.99/€4.99/AU$8.45)
- New Bronze Cloth Set (£3.99/€4.99/AU$8.45)
- Spelunker HD
- Battle Arena EX-02
- Battle Arena EX-03
- Battle Arena EX-04
- Battle Arena EX-05
- Battle Arena EX-06
- Battle Arena EX-07
- Battle Arena EX-08Prices: £1.59/€1.99/AU$3.45 - Spelunker HD and each pack available at 50% off for PS Plus members
- Tales of Graces F
- Chain Capacity +1 (£1.59/€1.99/AU$3.45)
- Double Enemy Item Drops (£1.59/€1.99/AU$3.45)
- Double Skill Points (£1.59/€1.99/AU$3.45)
- Dualize Discount (£1.59/€1.99/AU$3.45)
- Level Up +5 (£2.39/€2.99/AU$4.95)
- Mixophile's Set (Free)
- Quick-Costume Set: Asbel (£1.59/€1.99/AU$3.45)
- Quick-Costume Set: Hubert (£1.59/€1.99/AU$3.45)
- Quick-Costume Set: Malik (£1.59/€1.99/AU$3.45)
- Quick-Costume Set: Pascal (£1.59/€1.99/AU$3.45)
- Quick-Costume Set: Sophie (£1.59/€1.99/AU$3.45)
- Tough Kids Clothing Set (Free)
- Upgrade Eleth Mixer (£1.59/€1.99/AU$3.45)
- Uncharted 3
- Aesthetic Emblem Bases (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Aesthetic Emblem Parts (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Ammo Vest (Custom Hero) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Ascot (Victor Sullivan) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Aviators (Nathan Drake) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Ball Cap (Nathan Drake) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Beast Bling (Victor Sullivan) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Biker Jacket And Holster (Custom Hero) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Bowler Hat (Suited Sully) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Cat Ears (Elena Fisher) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Champion'S Ring (Victor Sullivan) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Charlie Cutter Skin (£0.79/€0.99/AU$1.75)
- Chloe Frazer Skin (£0.79/€0.99/AU$1.75)
- Collector'S Edition Decals Pack (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Combat Leather Pants (Custom Hero) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Cowboy Cattle Boots (Custom Hero) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Cowboy Cattle Gloves (Custom Hero) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Cowboy Cattle Hat (Custom Hero) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Cowboy Cattle Shirt (Custom Hero) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Cowboy Cattle Trousers (Custom Hero) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Cowboy Rider Boots (Custom Hero) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Cowboy Rider Gloves (Custom Hero) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Cowboy Rider Hat (Custom Hero) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Cowboy Rider Shirt (Custom Hero) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Cowboy Rider Trousers (Custom Hero) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Dark Vest (Custom Hero) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Desert Drake Skin (£0.79/€0.99/AU$1.75)
- Doughnut Drake Skin (£0.79/€0.99/AU$1.75)
- Elena Fisher Skin (£0.79/€0.99/AU$1.75)
- Emblem Sweater (Custom Hero) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Emblem Tank Top (Custom Hero) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Exemplary Emblem Parts (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Fedora (Victor Sullivan) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Glasses (Victor Sullivan) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Goggles (Desert Drake) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Head Wrap (Desert Drake) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Impressive Boots (Custom Hero) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Impressive Emblem Parts (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Impressive Gloves (Custom Hero) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Marco Polo Skin (£0.79/€0.99/AU$1.75)
- Monocle (Suited Drake) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Mountain Jacket (Custom Hero) (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Nathan Drake Skin (£0.79/€0.99/AU$1.75)
- Quality Emblem Bases (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Quality Emblem Frames (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Quality Emblem Parts (£0.40/€0.49/AU$0.90)
- Quality
by Published on August 29th, 2012 21:52- Categories:
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Sony has revealed its extensive content slate being added the PSN this week… and Counter Strike: Global Offensive is highly conspicuous by its absence.
The game was supposed to arrive on both Xbox 360 and PS3 last week. It turned up on Xbox Live, as planned, but failed to materialise on PSN in Europe. It did appear on the North American arm of PSN.
Although no set deadline was announced, the presumption was that the game would appear on this week’s update. Alas not.
"I know a lot of you were hoping for news on Counter Strike: Global Offensive but I'm afraid I've no new information to share today," a statement on the EU PlayStation Blog read. "Rest assured we'll update you as soon as possible."
The Walking Dead: Episode 3 is another title that has been released on PSN in American but is still awaiting approval from Sony Europe.
As you might expect, fans have reacted angrily in the site’s comments. Perhaps the most frustrating this is the lack of explanation, with Valve remaining doggedly tight-lipped about the cause of the delay.
“No CS:GO and Walking Dead Ep.3?” one commentator wrote. “Hate to say, VERY DISAPPOINTING SCEE!”
Another added: “No Counterstrike: Global Offensive and no information on Counterstrike: Global Offensive.
“I’ve been playing CS in various forms for twelve years. I’m late thirties, and so are most of the people I play with. A lot own a PS3, PC and 360. All of them have now gone with the PC or 360 versions because of this delay. You are losing customers to other platforms, losing money, and losing potential player base which would support this game in years to come.
“Please have a little consideration for your loyal customers and at least tell everyone officially why there is a delay and a legitimate ETA on a release date. It doesn’t take much for loyal customers to go elsewhere, and it’s happening already.”
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/count...tion-3/0101987 ...by Published on August 28th, 2012 23:53- Categories:
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A YouTube user found a way to transfer more PlayStation 1 games to the PlayStation Vita using yesterday's firmware update, as opposed to the nine listed on the PlayStation blog. YouTube user FistFullofPotions discovered that downloading PSOne games to the PS3, leaving them uninstalled, then transferring them from the PS3 to the Vita seems to work across the board. As he notes in the video above, this is done at your own risk as these games haven't gone through Sony's quality control. We've confirmed the method with a couple of games, while NeoGAF and Twitter users also had success with it.
The workaround does more than enable more PSOne games on the Vita – it serves to highlight the strangely low number of PSOne games available on Vita in the US, especially when compared to the 129 listed in Europe and the 200+in Japan. We also discovered at least a couple of unlisted games, Cho Aniki andMoney Idol Exchanger, can be downloaded to Vita the usual way and apparently run OK. These games can be downloaded from the Vita PS Store. As long as there is a download button next to a PSOne game on your download list, it can be downloaded straight to Vita, no PS3 required. This is the same 'side-loading' method used to get PSP games that aren't available on the Vita store onto Vitas
Update: NeoGAF has a users-confirmed list of PSOne games that can be transferred using the PS3, and those that can be downloaded from the Vita store as well (in bold). The full list is after the break
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