Final Fantasy XIII trailer from TGS

This year’s Tokyo Game Show’s biggest highlight, at least for me, was the Final Fantasy XIII trailer. For those of you who want a taste of the first FF game on next-gen consoles should really take a look. This one is obviously the Japanese version, but with subs.

The Hatred on PS3 Turns…. With 999% Goodness!

It seems like the PS3 has hit it’s bottom floor, and is quickly on it’s way back up again. The company has already boosted profits an amazing 999% up in the UK!

So it’s really like a few people bought the PS3. And then, after the price cut, EVERYBODY bought a PS3!

More importantly, however, the release date and price for Final Fantasy XIII has been set. The game will be out in stores on December 17th, 2009. BE WARNED though, the final price will be a whopping $97. There will also be a hardware bundle accompanying the game, yet no details have been released on that yet.

EVEN BETTER for PS3 owners today, Sony demoed a “High Res Image Enlargement Engine” that basically gives PSP and PS3 infinite zoom.

Gamer’s Update: August 20th

-Quite a few new Assassin’s Creed 2 screenshots have emerged. While they’re certainly beautiful, they also give new perspectives into fresh gameplay. Here’s one demonstrating new weapons:

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-A lot of people became worried when Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy XIII would be released on the 360 alongside the PS3 (not to mention the angry PS fans). The problem is that FF XIII is such a high caliber game that it requires a blu-ray disc to fit it all of the game onto 1 disc. Square Enix’s Yoshinori Kitase commented on this saying: “This isn’t the final count yet, but we’re aiming for about three discs.” The team also says they’re trying to compress it as much as they can, while still retaining the quality of the game.

-BIOSHOCK 2 is on the way, but it’s taking some time to complete the game. Expect to see it within the first quarter of 2010, or shown off at the PAX East show next year (in Boston).

-A while back we gave notice to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Mobilized for the Nintendo DS. Here’s the official trailer :

Square Enix not having FFXIII demo in US :(

Final Fantasy XIII demo came out in Japan with the Advent Children Blu-ray (Click Here for more on FXIII demo in Japan). It was suppoed to come out in June in US, but it looks the Advent Children Complete Blu-ray movie will be coming alone without the demo. Why? It is because Square Enix does not want Xbox 360 games to be left out since it would technically be an exclusive PS3 demo due to the Blu-ray content. Perhaps we will see FFXIII demo on XBL or PSN in US soon.