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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This is for all you FFVII fans out there who were anticipating the Play Arts action figures for the game. No price has been announced for this yet but Cloud, on his bike–Hardy Daytona–is soon to be available for you collectors to import.

By Kotobukiya, the figure’s 8 1/4″ and is fully articulated, while the bike’s got all its proper working bits like moving, rubber tires, springy shocks, etc.

Source: Kotaku

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As you may have noticed, news updates have been rather slow here. Due to personal reasons, things will be going quite slow here until I get everything sorted out. However, I will be redesigning the site by New Years for sure.

Anyway, to the latest news:

Square Enix has announced its financial report regarding the midterm sales of the year. You can read their update from the article on IGN.

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With Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions shipped on Oct. 9, the people of 1UP interviewed Ivalice Executive Producer Akitoshi Kawazu, Final Fantasy Tactics PSP Co-Producer Shingo Kosuge, Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings Writer and Director Motomu Toriyama and FFXII International Zodiac Job System Producer Hiroyuki Ito about their latest releases.

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As many of us should know, Square Enix is one of the biggest videogame publishers in the world and is made up of two of the oldest and most-revered gaming companies. The pair has weathered many changes in the gaming industry, both separately and together. Now the union is preparing for the next phase in its grand plan: to significantly increase its presence outside of Japan.

Regarding this plan, IGN had a chance to interview the CEO of Square Enix North America and European operations & Executive Officer in Japan, John Yamamoto.

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Adam Riley, an editor of Cubed³, interviews Yuki Yokoyama, the producer of Chocobo Dungeon that was shown this year at Tokyo Game Show.

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There was an interview with Tetsuya Nomura in Gemaga Magazine not long ago. IGN has posted a new article regarding the interview, the new Kingdom Hearts games revealed at TGS this year and possibly a Kingdom Hearts 3.

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At this year’s Tokyo Game Show, GameSpy got to see a trailer of the upcoming Xbox 360 RPG Infinite Undiscovery under development at tri-Ace, the same folks that brought you Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile. After the presentation, they got to chat with Director Hiroshi Ogawa of tri-Ace, and Producer Hajime Kojima of Square Enix, about their latest adventure.

Due to the length of the interview, it can be found under the cut.

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Are you one of those die-hard FFVII fans who’ve desperately wanted the remake of this game on the PS3? Well, this is probably the most concrete answer Square will ever give on the matter.

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Yesterday afternoon in Japan, Square Enix held a brief press conference, shortly after the final episode of Before Crisis was made available for download.

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