Hajime Tabata discussed in an Active Time Report stream that the 2.0 patch for the Episode Duscae demo of Final Fantasy XV would be released on June 9th, 2015. The patch would add improvements to the demo, as well as new features.
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You’re a young prince with an unusually deep voice. You and your motley crew of amigos are stranded as your car needs major repairs. So what’s a better way to make a quick buck than to hunt down a bounty? Mind you, so far you only exist in a demo, so how difficult can this be? ...

Recently I was challenged by Eyes on Final Fantasy member Freya to beat the first four Final Fantasy games while I was away from the site due to outstanding circumstances. In that time (which was supposed to be only a few weeks, but turned into a month) I took that challenge, playing the Dawn of Souls version of the first two games, the DS version of Final Fantasy III, and Final Fantasy IV Advance. ...

Japanese gaming site, Nishibun has reported that former Square Executive Vice President, Hironobu Sakaguchi, the man who was responsible for bringing to the world such great video game series as Final Fantasy and Chrono, is about to return to the company. No official title has been given, but it’s rumored that he will return to produce three more games before he officially retires from the gaming industry. ...

Even though we're a month into the New Year, it’s still a good time for people to think about the things they’d like to do for the rest of the year. Sure, we could all lose some weight. We could even try to become more assertive. Or we could just play more Final Fantasy. Here are five Final Fantasy related things you need to do this year, whether it’s for the first time, or you’re doing it again the fifth time.
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In a recent interview with Kotaku, Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata stated that the Final Fantasy XV world will be large and deep. "Originally, we were aiming so that the entire [FFXV] story could potentially be cleared within 40 hours," said Tabata. "But looking at the current volume of what's becoming available, it's looking harder and harder to clear within that time." ...

Warning: This article is filled with spoilers, theories (scientific & not so scientific), and half-baked ideas pulled from the author’s twisted mind. Reader discretion is advised.

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Sometimes when a game presents something, it just doesn’t seem to add up. In Final Fantasy X, we’re to believe that the Zanarkand Tidus hails from is in fact a dream of the Fayth, which oddly enough is “The City That Never Sleeps”. It is said to be a reproduction of the original Zanarkand, which was destroyed by Bevelle during the Machina War a thousand years before the game began. ...

Sony will unveil a special limited edition of their Playstation 4 console, inspired by the upcoming Square Enix game, Final Fantasy Type-0 HD. The 500GB console will sport a dark red body with super-cool logo, matching DualShock 4 controller, a copy of the game, as well as a download code for the much anticipated Final Fantasy XV and a 15 day trial of Playstation+. ...

Gematsu.com reported following Final Fantasy XV's latest appearance at Jump Festa this past weekend, Famitsu revealed a whole slew of news regarding this long awaited game.

The character models will be much more advanced than any other Final Fantasy before it. Data capacity for textures will be much higher. Each frame will carry 5 million polygons, with the inner hair of each character having 20k. Character models will each be supported by 600 bones, which is about 11 times the last generation's.

Restalm, the game's setting for the first half of the game, is inspired by the Bahamas. Towns will be filled with hotels and stores for your character to shop in, where one of the things that can be purchased are cooking ingredients.

Camps will be safe havens, and players will also be able to rent chocobos as well as ride in the car. The mechanic, Cindy, will move around the game as you do.

One of the biggest changes from the older Final Fantasy games is that Magic no longer consumes MP. Instead, it's used for special moves ...

Winter had just hit as the holiday season began in Midgar. Cid was steadily working on “Santa’s Sleigh”, helping his “old pal” Saint Nick, so he could make the long haul on Christmas Eve, delivering presents to all the kids around the world. On his radio played “Christmas Time Is Here”, the sounds of which flowed throughout the Sector 7 Slums. The somber but sweet melody calmed his old crotchety soul. ...

Throughout the ages people have viewed Piracy in many different ways. It’s been romanticized, symbolic of adventure and freedom. It’s been scorn as thieving, murderous, scrupulous. Pirates have been heroes, anti-heroes, and villains. For as many tales and legends there have been, there have been variations of the Pirate Mythos.

The Final Fantasy series has its own interpretation of it, as well. The first Pirates to appear in the series were members of Bikke’s Crew, who invaded the port town of Provaka. The heroes quickly dispatch of the large but seemingly inept crew and are awarded by the cowardly Bikke with his SHIP.

Bikke’s Crew represents the theme of Pirates being vicious and untrustworthy. Here they show typical Pirate traits such as plundering, harassing the locals, and most likely, getting drunk. Pirates represented in this vein tend to be swarthy outlaws, many times foreigners, who are only out for trouble.

This view of Pirates often emboldened xenophobic views. Barbary Pirates, whom operated along the northern coast of Africa, where thought to have invaded European towns, kidnapping Christians for the Ottoman Slave ...

Dogs are usually considered "Man's Best Friend". However, that's not always the case. As the species have evolved over these thousands of years, so has the relationship between canines and humans. The Final Fantasy series is no stranger
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Cynophobia is the psychological fear of dogs and it is brought on by either being victim to, or witnessing a bad experience with a canine early in life. Sometimes cynophobia may be taught, through a cynophobic parent or culture. Evolutionary theorists, though, claim that the fear of dogs may be hard wired into our systems, as early man needed fear to survive against large predators.

One of these large predators may have been the Grey Wolf, for which is theorized to be the ancestor to all domestic dogs this day. Wolves have been a popular enemy in the Final Fantasy series, dating to the original. Not only did you face common Wolves, but also supernatural versions like the Warg Wolves, Werewolves and Winter Wolves. Hyenadons, based on a prehistoric canine and Hell Hounds are two large canine foes encountered on the heroes' journey.


Final Fantasy XII offered a larger variety of wolf/hyena enemies ...

'Tis the season for everything ghastly, ghoulish and horrifying. One of the most popular types of horror are the reanimated corpses. Whether they're called zombies, ghouls, ghasts or revenants, you can find them all over the media. Whether it's classic films like Night of the Living Dead, the ultra popular television/comic book series The Walking Dead or in literature like World War Z. Final Fantasy is no stranger to this archetype.


Zombies, the most common of the reanimated corpses to appear in mass media, are inspired by Haitian Folklore. A bokor, a Voodou witch, would raise the dead to serve their own purposes. These zombies have no will of their own, as the bokor controls their souls.


Zombies that appear in most modern fiction deviate a bit from this origin. The Zombie Apocalypse has become a popular archetype, where a widespread outbreak of zombie attacks plauge the globe. When humans get attacked by zombies, a zombie virus will spread and infect them, turning them into the undead. This type of zombie is popular in the series The Walking Dead, as well as being parodied on an episode of Community.


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Square Enix announced today at both The Final Fantasy Fan Convention in Las Vegas and on Twitter the release of an expansion for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, called Heavensward. It's due to come out in the Spring of 2015. ...