Our intern is back to discuss some big problems that have been plaguing "Final Fantasy XI." Read more...

Square-Enix has presented an offer to buy Eidos, raising the prospect of the Japanese house of "Final Fantasy" and "Dragon Quest" absorbing the British publisher being Lara Croft's adventures and the "Hitman" series. Square-Enix pitched the stock offer to Eidos on January 7 and an official order, presented in rich detail in filings today, will now be presented to shareholders.

The "Final Fantasy" publisher is in hot water today, reports Bloomberg, after Square Enix stock fell 11% on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the lowest for Square Enix in five years, after delaying a report on its earnings results by a week. Read more...

There's been plenty of pretty pre-rendered footage from Square Enix's next opus, "Final Fantasy XIII," but today's new trailer has what we've been waiting for: gameplay. Ready to see how "Final Fantasy XIII"'s combat looks? Head to Square Enix's website for now; we'll embed the trailer when it's available.

Square Enix might be taking their time with "Final Fantasy XIII" on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but "Final Fantasy" fans don't have to wait much longer for their RPG fix, as the publisher announced today that "Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time" is coming to Wii and DS simultaneously on March 24. Read more...

Updated info regarding the release of "Final Fantasy XIII" serves as an extraordinary reminder of just how slowly major game publishers have gotten into this console generation. Read more...

Video games have a large presence than ever before at Comic Con 2008, but I didn't expect to learn more (if only a little) about Square Enix's largest in-development RPGs. Yet, the publisher unveiled to wandering fans figures for "Final Fantasy XIII," "Star Ocean," and "The Last Remnant" to be sold later this year and beyond.

More pics of Square Enix figures after the jump...

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At E3 last week I talked to PlayStation marketing man Peter Dille about a range of topics, the first of which, naturally, had to be the announcement by Microsoft that the formerly PS3-exclusive "Final Fantasy XIII" was also going to debut on the Xbox 360.

Did the announcement hurt Sony? I asked, and he said...

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The Microsoft media briefing ended with a bang this morning by showing a new trailer from "Final Fantasy XIII."

Immediately following the briefing, Square Enix held a press conference about the game, where "FFXIII" producer Yoshinori Kitase and Square Enix exec Shinji Hashimoto answered all the questions they could in 45 minutes.

Here's a round-up of the facts so far from the brief Q&A session: Read more...

Since the last entry..

*I got to the bottom of my new-game stack and reached into my old-games-I-need-to-mess-around-with pile. In there I found "Silent Hill 4," "Rogue Galaxy," and "Final Fantasy XII" all for the PS2.

I tried them each but don't plan on finishing any of them unless any reader of this diary can change my mind.

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