Just a quick update on the release dates of the coming Square Enix games.

North America
Dragon Quest Swords, Wii, February 26th
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates, DS, March 11th
The World Ends With You (Subarashiki Kono Sekai), DS, Spring

Europe
Final Fantasy I, PlayStation Portable, February 8th
Final Fantasy II, PlayStation Portable, February 8th
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings, DS, February 15th
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, PlayStation Portable, Spring
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates, DS, Spring
The World Ends With You (Subarashiki Kono Sekai), DS, Spring
Dragon Quest Swords, Wii, Spring
Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker, DS, early 2008
Odin Sphere, PlayStation 2, early 2008

RPG Fan

Now that we all know Crisis Core is coming out in the first quarter of 2008, the official site is now open, though there’s not much there now.

North American Crisis Core Official Site

New Years’ coming up and the site now has a… not-so dark look. (I’d like to think so.) There’ll probably be several tweaks here and there but I don’t think I’ll be making another design for awhile. News updates will be coming back more frequently, depending on how much news Square actually releases to the press, etc.

However, this look is just a front cover–well, for the news page. I’ll still be in the process of recoding everything else, hopefully before the ball drops for 2008.

And Happy (belated) Holidays from me because I did not have internet access due to some circumstances.

With Jump Festa onto its 2nd day, more info leaks out on Square Enix’s latest titles. This time, more on the three new Kingdom Hearts titles: Birth by Sleep, 358/2 Days and Coded.

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There’s new info coming straight from Jump Festa, thanks to Maiki, and it’s all about Final Fantasy XIII.

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It’s been a long time since we’ve actually gotten any news on Dissidia (even I forgot about it) but the wait is over. Jump Festa is tomorrow and there should be news to come as well as some on the gameplay because the demo is available, according to Square’s JF08 site.

News scans of Dissidia featuring the previously announced Squall (FFVIII) sporting another design by Nomura and Firion (FFII). A new character appears among the to-be large cast in the game: Sorceress Ultimecia, the antagonist of Final Fantasy VIII.

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For those of you in North America anticipating more Square Enix games for your portables, good news!

Crisis Core -FINAL FANTASY VII- has been set to release on March 25th on the PSP next year.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates for Nintendo DS is expected on March 11th.

Square’s new IP, The World Ends With You (release in Japan as It’s a Wonderful World), is also expected to be released sometime next spring.

Source: 1UP

In case word hasn’t already gotten to you, there are two extended trailers for Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy VERSUS XIII that were released on the web today.

From the uploader:

…taken from the DVD that was given with early copies of the Final Fantasy “Cloud” book. It shows off most of what was originally seen in the first public trailer, as well as a lot of never-before-seen footage.

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In an interview in the latest issue of Famitsu celebrating twenty years of Final Fantasy, translated by Develop, series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi has spoken candidly about the development conditions that surrounded the birth of the series’ first outing.

Read the interview after the jump.

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