Japan Game Music Festival 2013: line-up includes Sega, Square Enix, Taito musicians

JAPAN Game Music Festival 2013 is a music festival where bands and composers of this genre get together to perform live. Wouldn’t it be interesting to listen to something you are so familiar to being performed live?

Square Enix starts closed beta for The Thousand Year Hero ~Guides Through Time~

Square Enix’s new browser based game The Thousand Year Hero ~ Guides Through Time~ (Sennen Yuusha ~Tokiwatari no Tomoshibito~ [千年勇者～時渡りのトモシビト~]) has entered its beta phase as of April 26, 2013.

New information on Gyrozetter’s Albatross mech

Famitsu has revealed more information on Square Enix’s Chosoku Henkei Gyrozetter RPG for the 3DS. The official release date of the game has now been revealed to be June 13 under the title “Chosoku Henkei Gyrozetter: Wings of the Albatross.”

Review: Tomb Raider (2013)

A gun totting female explorer in search of lost tombs with mystical powers. Lara Croft has changed the image of… Read More »

New Dragon Quest VII Live-Action commercials

Dragon Quest’s official homepage had streamed promotional videos for the remake of Dragon Quest VII: Warriors of Eden. The live-action commercials are titled “Town Square,” “The Mysterious Stone,” “The Adventure Begins,” and a 56-second web long version that combines the… Read More »

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII’s release date refined to Autumn 2013 [New Trailer]

And so, the slow drip of info for Square Enix’s highly-anticipated (or not-so-highly-anticipated) PS3 and X360 RPG Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, begins.

Square Enix’s ’1.17′ teaser site is for iOS game Final Fantasy All the Bravest [launch trailer video]

Final Fantasy All the Bravest, a “a touch-action RPG in which you continuously battle enemies to advance through the game’s many stages”, is out right now for the iOS. Here’s the launch trailer in both English and Japanese.

Review: Be bald or bold, with the new Hitman Absolution

The classic bespoke suit, the fiber wire, and those twin Silverballers.

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII — ‘Styles’ take the place of ‘Paradigms’, costume colours can be changed

In Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, you do not have Paradigms to shift into. Instead, you create various “Styles” that you switch during combat, each style comprising of a weapon, a shield, accessories and abilities you set beforehand

This is what Sora, Riku and Kairi look like in Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix

The 3D character models for Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix‘s main characters Sora, Riku, and Kairi (and possibly the other Disney characters as well) were done from scratch, this week’s issue of Jump magazine reveals in a brief one-page feature on… Read More »