Versus XIII will finally get its proper reveal today!
You're reading an article that will, at some point in the evening, become a live blog from today's Square Enix 1st Production Department Premier.
I'm not attending the event myself, but similar to the Nintendo Conference event from September, I'll be live blogging second hand.
The reason I'm posting the story so early is because people have already started posting stuff via Twitter and so-forth.
This story will be switched into live blog format closer to 18:00, meaning text updates will stream in automatically. Until then, refresh the page every now and then to see if anything new has surfaced.
While you wait for full coverage to begin, check out these resources:
- All current articles and headlines from the event
- All our Final Fantasy Versus XIII coverage
- All our Final Fantasy Agito XIII coverage
- All our Kingdom Hearts 3D coverage
- All our Dissidia Duodecim Final Fantasy coverage
09:16 -- A Tweet from Tetsuya Nomura posted at 5:00 in the morning. Apparently, Nomura had just returned from a test and rehearsal session for the event's video component. Adjusting the sound for the event is apparently very difficult, and when Nomura left, the staff was continuing their work. Nomura is also presumably going to attend the event, as Square Enix's 1st Production Department might as well be called Square Enix's Tetsuya Nomura Production Department.
09:10 -- A Tweet from Hajime Tabata telling fans that he believes they'll have fun at today's event regardless of whether they attend in person or watch the live stream (I'm in the latter category, but unfortunately the live stream is only for the event's second showing). Tabata is the director of Final Fantasy Agito XIII, so he will presumably be attending the event.
09:05 -- I'm not sure if Square Enix has invited press to the first showing or the second showing of today's event (for the DKS something something event a couple of years back, they were jerks and invited the local media to the first showing and the overseas media to the second showing). Regardless, the guy who runs Square Enix super fansite FF-Reunion did get into the first showing and will be posting live updates via his Twitter (although I imagine he'll have to be sneaky about making live posts unless he's press).
09:02 -- Just in case you chose to ignore the introduction paragraph, I'm posting this story so early because information is slowly beginning to trickle in. Until 18:00 or so, there probably won't be too many updates, so refresh the page every now and then to see if anything has happened. Post 18:00, this article will become a proper live blog, with streaming text updates.
http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/01/18/square_enix_premier_live_blog/