Okay, so they call it a “Committee to preserve the quality of future games in the series,” but I like the way I put it better. Anyway, Square Enix has assembled a group of internal series veterans with the aim of quality control for the Final Fantasy series. What this entails has not been specified, but the group’s members include Hajime Tabata (Type-0‘s director and XV‘s co-director), Motomu Toriyama (XIII saga director), Yoshinori Kitase (XIII saga producer), and Naoki Yoshida (XIV‘s lord and savior director and producer).
Source: Gematsu
No need for bombs, when hate will do.
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The next entry in the Harvest Moon series has been announced. Harvest Moon: Linking the New World hits the 3DS in February in Japan, priced at 5040 yen.
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Thanks to a recent patch, Dragon’s Crown now supports cross-platform multiplayer between the PS3 and PS Vita. At present this only affects Japan; a global update is likely but not confirmed at this time.
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Square Enix has announced that Drakengard 3 will be released in North America and Europe. Retailing at $49.99, the title launches sometime in 2014, though an exact date is not yet known.
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Tales of Hearts R, the Vita remake of Tales of Hearts, is now available on iOS, though currently in Japan only. For the game’s release week, the price has been set at 1800 yen; after October 15, it will climb to 3800 yen.
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Bravely Default: For the Sequel will introduce a new feature called “Bravely Second,” a means by which players can stop time and attack their enemies. This allows them to break the normal damage cap for a single attack, as players spend SP to land several attacks at once. Oddly enough, this SP is accumulated while the 3DS is in sleep mode, or players can buy an SP Drink through the e-Shop for a quick recharge.
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As the title may have suggested, Rune Factory 4 will hit European shelves in spring of 2014.
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Nintendo has set the European release of Bravely Default: Flying Fairy as December 6. The North American release will follow, with a window of the first quarter of 2014.
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Acttil, recently founded by former NIS America employees, will be co-developing its first RPG with Elemental Labs. Titled Reborn, the game will be a real-time sci-fi action RPG set in the year 2188, centering on a futuristic version of the famous swordsman Musashi Miyamoto.
Reborn uses the Unreal Engine, and Elemental will be launching a Kickstarter campaign to seek $150,000 for funding. The game is planned for a 2014 digital release on both PS3 and PS4.
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Making the announcement at the Tokyo Game Show, Capcom revealed that their upcoming RPG Deep Down will be free-to-play. A beta test is scheduled for February 22, coinciding with the launch of the PS4 in Japan.
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Gust announced that it is developing Ar no Surge, a companion RPG to its life simulation game Surge Concerto: Ciel no Surge. The RPG is reportedly set in the same universe – which itself has ties to the Ar Tonelico series – but in a different time period. Main character Delta, a trained combatant discharged from his host organization, makes ends meet working in a restaurant and somehow winds up protecting a heroine who fights via song magic.
Ar no Surge hits the PS3 in Japan on January 30 for 7,140 yen. No global release was announced. The presence of a hot tub based team-building mechanic has also not been confirmed.
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Dengeki Playstation revealed additional tidbits about Natural Doctrine, Kadokawa Game Studios’ upcoming RPG. The game will feature solo and multiplayer modes, both co-op and versus. Battles are also turn-based, with players able to command several units in a single turn.
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I’ll take seven sacks of Eli Manning, thank you.
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Persona 4 Arena will be getting a direct sequel, Atlus announced recently. So titled Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold, the game will add Yukari and Junpei from Persona 3 as fighters, and will hit Japanese arcades sometime in Winter. PS3 and 360 versions are also planned, though no dates have been given and no global release has yet been confirmed.
Source: Gematsu
Ubisoft has announced that the Obsidian-developed South Park: The Stick of Truth will launch on December 10. Apart from the standard edition, a Grand Wizard Edition will include a six-inch Grand Wizard Kidrobot Cartman figure, a Kingdom of South Park map, and the Ultimate Fellowship pack add-on for the price of $79.99.
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Valhalla Knights 3 will launch on October 15, according to XSEED Games. The PS Vita RPG will be available at retail and via Playstation Store for $39.99.
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The steady drip of Pokemon X/Y information continues, with new details on starter and mega evolutions, new Pokemon, and the Pokemon Global Link. Of particular note are the following.
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XSEED Games has set a release date for Rune Factory 4‘s North American release. The farming-sim-slash-dungeon-crawler hits US 3DSs on October 1.
Source: Gematsu
Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy Type-0 will be getting a mobile phone adaptation, amusingly titled Final Fantasy Agito (recall this was part of the original title of Type-0). Although it appears to be an updated port with additional features, such as a new character, the story is reportedly broken into chapters to be released every two weeks. The game will feature optional microtransactions for game items, abilities, and to reduce downtime from mission failure.
Source: Gematsu
