It's been over three years since the release of The Skies Above, the Final Fantasy rock album by Nobuo Uematsu's band The Black Mages. Looks like 2008 is a lucky year for Uematsu fans, however, as a new website has been launched for The Black Mages III: Darkness and Starlight.
While the site does not contain a track list, the news it contains is even better: the new album will be released on March 19th. The site also features a teaser in the form of a rockin' version of "Bombing Mission" from Final Fantasy VII, which promises to be one of many great remixes of popular Final Fantasy tracks on the album.
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It's been awhile since we've seen any new tantalizing shots of Final Fantasy XIII and its (cousin? brother?) counterpart, Final Fantasy Versus XIII. The good news is we've got four brand new, super high resolution scans from this month's V Jump magazine.
The bad news is that there's not exactly a huge amount of new information to go along with these scans. But the games are looking great--make sure to check out the summons in the third scan above. Shiva, Ifrit, Siren, and Carbuncle are all definitely making a comeback.
The final two scans, labeled "Versus XIII Content Pages" above, offer a rare glimpse at characters other than the brooding protagonist we've become familiar with since the game's debut.
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