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Final Fantasy Type-0 is playable at Square Enix Odaiba Expo 2011 in sunny (actually, if I recall correctly, it's usually not sunny) Odaiba. Famitsu has first impressions along with images from the event. The demo, titled "Natsubi" kicks off with an event, and leaves you at the gate of your...

After Hajime Tabata talked about The 3rd Birthday, I [Siliconera] came up to see how the game looks on a PSP screen and Tabata handed it to me. This isn’t a full hands-on because I only spent about a minute with the game, but I actually got to play a tiny bit of The 3rd Birthday. The level...

The first ten minutes of the English version of Final Fantasy XIII are now live. No Japanese. Just plain English. Get it over at MSXbox-World. Still the same old introduction we know, but ever so slightly easier to understand. Earlier, Square Enix released videos showing off the PS3 and...

When Rockstar Games unleashed Grand Theft Auto III on the world in 2001, the acclaimed title opened the floodgates to a new style of sandbox gaming, built around maximising player freedom away from linear shackles. Many games have since aped its structure, some admirably and others less so...

If you're currently living in Japan, chances are you're already grinding your way though Final Fantasy XIII from Square Enix. Unfortunately, the rest of us have been left waiting for the English-language version, which is due for release on March 9. To ease our collective pain, Square Enix...

The round table Q&A interview session that follows our gargantuan hands-on with the English language version of Final Fantasy XIII is strange. Normally in these things, questions centre on game mechanics, features, future plans, downloadable content and the like. But this one's different. Most...

Next month, Final Fantasy XIII will be released to great fanfare around the gaming world. Expectations are simply huge for a series that has consistently set the standards for role-playing games over the past 20 years. I was allowed a first play of the game a few weeks ago – today the embargo...

I’ve seen the phenomenal opening cutscene to Square Enix’s latest Final Fantasy title plenty of times now, having imported the Japanese PlayStation 3 version released back in December. However, this time around it was an entirely different experience for me. Not only was I seeing this entire...

Source: Digital Spy

Although Final Fantasy XIII is still one of the most anticipated Japanese role-playing games scheduled to launch in the United States and Europe this year, I was never terribly excited about it. I, of course, would feel a stirring in my chest whenever massive tradeshow monitors were ignited with...