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Square Enix has announced a livestream to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Final Fantasy 7, which will be packed with “lots of information” regarding an unveiling.Announced today (June 10), Square Enix invited fans to “join us next week for around 10 minutes to celebrate 25 years of Final Fantasy 7.”The stream will take place on June 16 at 11PM BST / 3PM PT / 6PM ET and will be available to watch on Square Enix’s official YouTube and Twitch channels.Join us next week for around 10 minutes to celebrate 25 years of @FinalFantasy VII: https://t.co/y074ldZMhgCo-stream the broadcast and share your reactions with #FFVII25th. Please be excited.

Final Fantasy 7 Remake part two is set to be revealed sometime this year.During the Final Fantasy 7 25th anniversary event held in Japan today (January 31), the game’s original director Yoshinori Kitase stated that he was going to reveal the first details about Remake part two during the event (thanks, VGC).“We are hard at work on Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisis, so please look forward to that. In addition, with regards to the long-awaited Final Fantasy 7 Remake [part two]… there will be more information… this year if we can,”  Kitase said, in a translation provided to VGC by PushDustIn.Additionally, Kitase also confirmed that the game will be revealed this year, saying, “Well yeah.

Square Enix, Final Fantasy 10’s Tidus was originally designed to be a plumber. The revelation comes from a Famitsu article (thanks, Kotaku) that aimed to celebrate Final Fantasy 10’s 20th anniversary. Character designer Tetsuya Nomura says he originally drew Tidus as a plumber, adding that the overalls the character wears are a sort of reference to that.Writer Kazushige Nojima supported the change as he said: “To get the character in the water, for the initial plan, there was a time in which Tidus was to be an underwater plumber.”Tidus was later changed to a Blitzball player, a sport created for Final Fantasy 10 that has players in the water.

Stranger Of Paradise: Final Fantasy creative producer Tetsuya Nomura has revealed that the game was originally not supposed to be under the Final Fantasy brand.In a new interview with Japanese magazine Famitsu, as translated by Square Enix, the producer shared that his original concept idea for Stranger Of Paradise would not have used the Final Fantasy brand.“Personally, what I was envisioning was a Final Fantasy game that wouldn’t specifically use the Final Fantasy name,” Nomurau said, “under a completely new title, Stranger Of Paradise, that would feature action gameplay focused on fighting your way through dungeons.”He then added that the final concept for Stranger Of Paradise: Final Fantasy is “a result of… [further] refining” by

Square Enix has revealed a first look at a brand new Final Fantasy game: Stranger Of Paradise – Final Fantasy Origin.Stranger Of Paradise – Final Fantasy Origin is a brand new action game from Square Enix and Team Ninja that will release on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC and PS5.Long-time Final Fantasy developer Tetsuya Nomura has commented that “the trial version will be released shortly for a limited time.”The official description shares a little on what players can expect:“With the memory of their struggle buried deep in their hearts… Jack and his allies, Ash and Jed, burn with resolve to defeat Chaos as they throw open the gates to the Chaos Shrine.

Final Fantasy VII Remake Director Tetsuya Nomura has confirmed that he will not be directing the next installment of the Remake series.In an interview with Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, Nomura confirmed that the co-director of the Final Fantasy VII Remake, Naoki Hamaguchi, will take over the job of directing Part 2, and Nomura himself will step back into a creative director role. Explaining the reason behind stepping down, Nomura said that handing duties off to Hamaguchi was due to him working on an “unprecedented number of projects” in relation to Final Fantasy.Nomura continued to explain that, “the base game of “FFVII REMAKE” was solidified in the first work,” before concluding, “I myself I will be involved as a creative director

Square Enix’s Final Fantasy VII Remake is “already underway”, according to co-director Naoki Hamaguchi.In a new interview with Japanese magazine Famitsu, Hamaguchi revealed that production on the sequel has started and his team is “putting their all into the advancement of the game”, as translated by Twitter user aitaikimochi.Game director Tetsuya Nomura also added that he would “like to deliver [the sequel] as soon as possible”.

Square Enix's video gameFinal Fantasy VII Remake, which has been near the top of many video gamers' list of most-anticipated releases of 2020, is being shipped extra early in Europe and Australia amid postal delays due to the novel coronavirus, meaning some gamers will get it ahead of the April 10 launch date. "We had some hard decisions to make during the final few weeks before launch due to disruption to distribution channels caused by the spread of the COVID-19 virus," the video game maker said in a statement attributed to the game's producer Yoshinori Kitase and director Tetsuya Nomura.

Square Enix’s latest mobile game, Kingdom Hearts: Dark Road, has finally been released after a brief delay.According to the publisher, the new storyline will focus on the adventures of a teenage Xehanort, one of the central antagonists of the Kingdom Hearts saga, on his path to become the Seeker of Darkness.“Together with a teenage Xehanort, a young Master Eraqus, and a cast of newly introduced Keyblade Wielders, players will travel through familiar Disney worlds to defeat Heartless and uncover the mysteries surrounding Xehanort’s past,” Square Enix said in a press release.Game director Tetsuya Nomura also explained the game’s focus on Xehanort in a statement on Twitter.