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Square Enix celebrated today's Final Fantasy XIII release with a big countdown event in Shibuya. Producer Yoshinori Kitase was there, but director Motomu Toriyama was, strangely, absent. Toriyama may have been busy posting his latest contribution to the Final Fantasy XIII site's "message"...

One day, we're going to look back with nostalgia on the Final Fantasy XIII developer interviews that periodically appeared in Famitsu. Today, the latest such interview hit with the latest Famitsu, now just one week before FFXIII sees release. In the interview, producer Yoshinori Kitasei and...

Final Fantasy XIII fans expecting post-launch DLC could be in for a disappointment, if comments made by Square Enix producer Yoshinori Kitase are anything to go by. Speaking to CVG in a recent interview, Kitase told us: "Unfortunately, it has been decided that no DL contents will be available...

Square’s Yoshi Kitase and Motomu Toriyama told VG247 during GamesCom, that downloadable content is being considered for future Final Fantasy titles, but for now, nothing is set in stone for Final Fantasy XIII. “As far as DLC is concerned, there is no solid plan at the moment for FFXIII,” said...

At GamesCom, Yoshi Kitase and Motomu Toriyama from Square Enix told VG247 that Final Fantasy games shouldn’t take as long to develop in the future. During the conversation, we mentioned CEO of Square Enix Yoichi Wada’s comment regarding the firm “taking too long to produce games”, to see if...

Inevitably a question about an FFVII remakes had to asked at GamesCom, this time courtesy of VG247: VG247 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...

Square Enix's Yoshinori Kitase told Kotaku at Gamescom this week that development time on Final Fantasy Versus XIII will be "comparatively faster" than that of the core entry, Final Fantasy XIII. That reassuring update to the more action-oriented entry in the Fabula Nova Crystallis project came...

Can you talk about the personalities of the two protagonists, Snow and Lightning, in Final Fantasy XIII? Motomu Toriyama: Lightning has a very cool personality. Snow, meanwhile is a little on the hot side, he’s very passionate about things and outspoken, so a lot of the exchanges between these...

The 360 version of FFXIII will ship on multiple DVDs, producer Yoshinori Kitase confirmed to VG247 at GamesCom today. “This is not the final count as we’re still working on it, but we’re aiming for about three discs for the Xbox 360 version,” said the developer. Kitase went on to assure that...

Final Fantasy XIII’s story will last over 50 hours, not including side-quests, producer Yoshinori Kitase said at GamesCom today. There was also two new characters announced during a presentation of the game earlier. The first one doesn’t have a name for now, just that she wears a sort of...

Square Enix has revealed that work on the Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII began two months ago. "Up to the trial demo version that was released [in April] in Japan, [FFXIII] was PS3-only in terms of development," producer Yoshinori Kitase told Giant Bomb (spotted by vg247). "The Xbox...

source from QJ.NET: 'Playing favorites: Final Fantasy XIII to be best FF game ever' -------------------------------- What's your favorite Final Fantasy game? And compared to that question, lemme ask another slightly different one: what do you think is the best of the franchise? Best in terms of...

Square Enix hopes to release the European version of Final Fantasy XIII “sooner than a year later than the Japanese release”, producer Yoshinori Kitase has said. Traditionally, the North American version of Final Fantasy games is released about half a year after the Japanese version, with the...

Yoshinori Kitase, producer on the hotly anticipated Final Fantasy XIII, has told VideoGamer.com that Square Enix has no plans to release a Blu-ray demo of the game outside of Japan. A Blu-ray demo of the game was bundled with the release of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete in Japan...

'sigh' Your hopes are about ready to rise once again, but don't blame us if they all come crashing down for the umpteenth time. It may be the longest-running and most popular rumor in the history of video games: a next-gen remake for Final Fantasy VII. But every time we thought we saw new...

Kitase Interview "When I first saw the quality of Sahz' afro, I thought to myself that the PS3 really is different (lol)" The Characters that Paint the Story Dengeki: Being the first SE title for the PS3, there's no doubt that the demo arriving later this month is garnering world wide...

Kikizo, one of the better interview sites out there, has had the chance to talk to Shinji Hashimoto and Yoshinori Kitase about Final Fantasy XIII. The interview talks about all general aspects about Final Fantasy XIII including where they are at the moment, the changes in next generation...