Yesterday Square Enix has released their latest action-RPG called "Nier":

NIER presents the despairing story of a world afflicted by an apocalyptic plague and a father's desperation to protect his daughter from the dark denizens of this frightening future. Armed with mighty weapons and powerful magic, players take control of the title character, Nier, as he battles alongside formidable allies against waves of enemies and giant bosses in an effort to discover the truth about the plague, his daughter...and himself.


"NIER's unusual characters, mesmerizing storyline and engaging Action-RPG gameplay have tantalized gamers for months leading up to today's release," said Ami Blaire, Vice President, Marketing of Square Enix, Inc. "What exactly is the Black Scrawl? Who is this Shadowlord? And, what role will Nier play in his world's eventual salvation... or destruction? Now gamers can finally sink their teeth into the finished product, and uncover the countless intriguing mysteries that this game has to offer."


About NIER

The latest offering from the RPG-masters at Square Enix, NIER is an Action-RPG that blends traditional RPG gameplay mechanics with intense, bloody combat and powerful magic to create an action-packed single-player experience where players explore and discover a future lost to a shadowy past.

Developed by cavia inc, NIER delivers on Square Enix's renowned pedigree for creating unique storylines coupled with deep character development - a pedigree that has kept gamers around the world enraptured for decades.


FEATURES

* Utilize more than 30 weapons, including quick one-handed blades, powerful two-handed swords and far-reaching spears as well as hand-to-hand combat techniques to vanquish hordes of enemies
* Cast dozens of powerful offensive and defensive magic spells, including Dark Execution, Dark Hand and Dark Wall to supplement your martial skills
* Discover more than a hundred mysterious Words throughout the game, and attach them to the names of Nier's weapons and spells to gain significant enhancements and new abilities
* Fight alongside and interact with several companions throughout your adventures, including the enigmatic Kainé and the dry-witted Grimoire Weiss
* Interact with dozens of NPC's, including shop owners and quest givers. Purchase new weapons, crafting supplies as well as city and adventure maps. Discover dozens of side quests and secondary storylines throughout the world



NIER is rated M (Mature). Please visit the Entertainment Software Rating Board website at http://www.esrb.org for more information about ratings. NIER is now available for the PlayStation 3 system and Xbox 360 at North American retailers nationwide for the suggested retail price of $59.99.

Source:S-E Official website

Although Final Fantasy XIII has been released internationally for less than a week, there are already rumors circulating about a possible sequel to Square-Enix's most recent installment of the series.
During an interview with Dutch OPM Kitase stated,"In the past three years we worked both on the world and on the various systems. Creating these systems isn't very glamorous and can frankly be a bit boring. If we could do a XIII-2, we could direct all our attention to the story and refine what we have already built."
Could Final Fantasy XIII-2 be in consideration already?
Source(s): Final Fantasy Union

Square-Enix has released new images of Final Fantasy XIV, their most recent online effort. To view the images and learn more about the upcoming game check out the Official Final Fantasy XIV website.

FFXIII Has finally been released worldwide. I am pretty sure the most of you know it and are probably playing it. Just wanted to make an announcement for those of you living under a rock.

With a big thanks to Serah, our lovely content writer, we now have new Final Fantasy X intro and character pages, as well as Final Fantasy XIII introduction and character pages.

She's done a magnificent job in giving a new type of design to content and tables, and we will try to integrate the style and colors in more pages of the website. For examples of what I mean, check out the Final Fantasy XIII introduction page.

On another notice, we've made the game links, that link to the games with more then avarage content, bold, so they can be distinguisht way better. THis is in light of future updates, in which many more games will be added.

Three cheers for Serah!

Over the course of this weekend ) meaning I did some friday, some today' I have uploaded some more of Serah s brilliant amazing written Final Fantasy VIII content. First of all we've split up the load of information on the characters pages, so we have a seperate section for weapons, as well as limit breaks. Besides those pages we also have some new content, namely Seed Salary's, Seed Test Answers, Magazine locations and Lyrics!

Weapons
Limit Breaks
SeeD Test Answers
SeeD Salary
Magazine Locations
Lyrics

Stay tuned for more updates, with the next one being based around the Final Fantasy X game!

A message from Final Fantasy XIII director Motomu Toriyama has been released today.
In his message he communicates his anticipation for the worldwide release of the 13th installment in the Final Fantasy franchise and addresses Final Fantasy XIII's "linear" gameplay.

He explains that the begining of the game, which takes place in Cocoon, was developed to be drama and character driven to ensure that the player was able to connect with the story and characters with minor interruptions. They made the gameplay linear to help ease players into the battle system and to learn about the character's skills and strengths in battle. Motomu Toriyama states that the second part of the game, which takes place in Gran Pulse, is designed to be less linear and more exploratory driven.

To read the whole message click here.

Had to take some time, but I finally done some updates again!

I updated the Final Fantasy 8 menu to display all characters, as well as updating the Final Fantasy 3, Final Fantasy 9 and Final Fantasy 10 pages to the new setup.

Tomorrow I will add the Final Fantasy 10 characters as well as 2 or 3 more page revamps.