Nineteen new FFXIII scans for your viewing pleasure

Nineteen new scans of Final Fantasy XIII hit the internet today out of Weekly Famitsu, depicting some new scenes and some new in battle footage of Fang and her fal'Cie Bahamut. Also depicted are Sazh and his fal'Cie Brunhilde, and some new cutscenes that involve Fang and the rest of the party.

Check them out at Kotaku.

Four Warriors multiplayer details emerge...

The upcoming DS title "4 Warriors of Light: Final Fantasy Gaiden" looks to return to a simpler time in the franchise. But not so traditional is the addition of a multiplayer wi-fi option in which players will be able to traverse the overworld and spelunk into dungeons in turn-based random encounter deliciousness. It's not revealed yet if players will be able to trade in-game commodities but I'm more than willing to say it looks like a go.

The official site updated with this information, check it out here.

(Thanks to Athel of Kingdom Hearts Insider for the heads up!)

New FFXIII character revealed: Oerba Yun Fang "Fang"

In the new issue of Shonen Jump, the black-haired woman we saw in the TGS2009 trailer is given a name, and we see a glimpse of her summon. Is it Bahamut? Also, it's confirmed that she works for Sanctum, and that Sazh's summon is NOT named Ifrit.

View the scan.

SOURCES: Shonen Jump

Love SQ announced

Square Enix has announced a compilation soundtrack titled Love SQ (album art can be seen here). It will contain arrangements by various musicians from classic Square titles such as Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger, and will be released on November 25th.

Tracklist

• Final Fantasy – Main Theme (PE'Z)
• Final Fantasy III – Yuukyuu no Kaze (De De Mouse)
• Chrono Trigger – Chrono Trigger & Toki no Kairo (Novoiski)
• Chrono Trigger – Harukanaru Toki no Kanata e (livetune)
• Chrono Trigger – Kaeru no Theme & Sentou Shori (Sexy-Synthesizer)
• Final Fantasy – Chocobo no Theme (Good Luck Heiwa)
• Romancing Saga – Medley (note native)
• Seiken Densetsu Legend of Mana – Medley (muZik)
• Final Fantasy – Battle Medley (Pia-no-ja)
• Final Fantasy – Prelude (no.9)

The official site for the upcoming album can be found here. There's a requirement to get in too, and I'm not talking about the Japanese!

SOURCE: andriasang.com

Engilsh FFXIII TGS trailer online

New today is the English dubbed trailer for Final Fantasy XIII, certainly up quicker than what we'd normally expect.

View the English trailer.

SOURCES: GameTrailers

Final Fantasy XIII TGS 2009 trailer goes live

On Square-Enix's website, they have made available the trailer that was shown at TGS this year.
Click here and go to the Trailers section to view.

Final Fantasy VIII hits Japan PSN

Like Final Fantasy VII at E3 before it, another PlayStation Final Fantasy was announced and made available during the press conference at Tokyo Game Show. It's Final Fantasy VIII's turn this time around, and by downloading the title from the store you can play it on your PlayStation 3 or transfer it to your PSP for mobile play. No word yet on when it will come to US and European PSN, but I'm more than willing to bet that it will eventually.

New 4WoL details

• Can be completed in 40 hours (originally 30 hours during development)
• Each character can only carry fifteen items
• Items don't stack (think Earthbound)
• Auto-targeting will make battles go by more quickly
• Lots and lots of optional sidequests not part of the main story
• Also like Earthbound, you can swap out items you're carrying with items from a previous inventory using hiding places

SOURCES: NeoGAF via GoNintendo (Dengeki Magazine)

TGS '09: Events as they unfold...

So at this point, I'll keep a little "liveblog" of stuff that comes out of E3. Keep refreshing and I'll post what I find as it happens.

9:31pm : Montage of games in Sony keynote, FFXIII present.
10:01pm : Final Fantasy IV: The After Years trailer.
10:10pm : New Crystal Bearers trailer, click the Multimedia section.
10:21pm : New Final Fantasy XIII floor footage.
10:26pm : Snow, Sazh, and Vanille battle in a the temple, Shiva is summoned.
11:01pm : FFXIII, summoning Odin and driving mode.
11:22pm : FFXIV TGS trailer.
12:01am : FFXIII special edition "Lightning" PS3 announced. It is pink and white with 250GB hard drive.
12:34am : FFXI expansion A Shantotto Ascension trailer.

Side note, we have six new in-game shots of FFXIII:
◆ #1: Lightning riding Sleipnir in Driving Mode.
◆ #2: Lightning and Odin in battle.
◆ #3: Snow and Serah.
◆ #4: A close-up.
◆ #5: Serah being engulfed.
◆ #6: Snow reaches out to Serah.

1:15am : Lightning and Hope battle underground.
1:20am : The official site will have the FFXIII TGS trailer in about 3 days, countdown was added.
2:20am : Snow party, first look at the menu system.
7:44am : Crystal Defenders heading to PSP.
12:23pm : Final Fantasy Versus XIII makes a secret appearance.
12:31pm : Hands on with Four Warriors of Light.
5:05pm : More footage from last night, Vanille is monsterbait. And the ensuing battle.
10:14pm : More escapades with Lightning.
1:03am : Snow nipplage. This is from the trailer that's coming out in a few days. (Hope for a leak.)
5:28am : Snow's party, seven minutes of gameplay and airship chase. Beautiful.
3:38am : The new "tattoo-girl" character?

Pre-TGS festivities: Vanille and Serah scan

In leading up to Tokyo Game Show 2009 (which starts later tonight) we have a new scan of Vanille and Serah in an in-game cutscene (below). Hopefully, the new trailer we'll see at the event will be online for viewings relatively quickly. But stay tuned for updates!

◆ Scan

SOURCES: 2ch