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E3 09: Final Fantasy XIII on Xbox 360 footage shows off Odin

I love the fact that the Entertainment Software Association gets together every year to organize and fund what really amounts to a giant, industry-wide case of blue balls. Take, for example, this...
Japan gets Chocobo Racing as a PSN download

The level of win in the photo above is somewhat beyond my ability to comprehend, but it seemed an ideal photo to use to celebrate the re-release of the Playstation 1 classic Chocobo Racing on PSN...
New Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers video doesn't suck

Sorry for the unimaginative post title, but Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers has such a long-ass name that I didn't have room for any extra words other than "new,"...
Check out this bird's Final Fantasy jam session

 People that say animals are dumb can suck it. Seriously. This little bird jams out for the next three and a half minutes to a very familiar tune -- one especially beloved to me, in fact. Th...
More, please! Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales 2 trailer

Guess who's excited about this.You'll never guess.Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales 2 comes out in Japan this December 11th. There's no US release date yet, but considering a sequel was produce...
Never enough Chocobo: two new Chocobo DS titles in the works for Japan

So yeah, I like chocobo. A lot. Sure, they're cute, but the incarnation of Chocobo that you know from Chocobo Tales and Chocobo's Dungeon has more than just the adorable factor going on -- his se...
Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon screens

Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo’s Dungeon is a mouthful. Luckily, it is also an upcoming RPG for the Wii. Today, developer Square Enix gifted the gaming world with 15 new and exciting screens...
RetroforceGO! Episode 43: Squaresoft

So does anyone know a good tax attorney? It's getting precariously close to the 15th of April, and lazy Dyson hasn't even bothered to total up his expenses for the year. You can claim Pizza Rolls...
Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon confirmed for US release

Wasn't I just recently bemoaning my sad fate if the most recent entry in the Chocobo's Dungeon series didn't make it to the US? I choose to believe that Square heard my desperate plea, rather tha...
Interview with Chocobo Mystery Dungeon developer h.a.n.d.

We talked about the announcement of Chocobo no Fushigi na Dungeon: Tokiwasure no Meikyuu way back in September 2007, where I performed the accurate amount of screaming in joyful anticipation and ...
Final Fantasy fan alert: Chocobo Tales keychains

[As originally posted on Tomopop] Usually I privately rebel against blind boxed toys. Despite the fun factor of not knowing what I'm getting, sometimes I just don't want to blow my money on ...
Square Christmas card has snow, chocobo, cuteness

Posting on Christmas Eve has its advantages. You have a captive audience, since everyone is either traveling somewhere or waiting to be attacked by waves of relatives, with nothing to do in the i...
New Chocobo game for the Wii comes with contests, launch events and more

Square-Enix's recent updates to their website prove that Chocobo games are indeed aimed at kids, which points out that I am clearly perfectly happy being a thirty year old kid. They are offering ...
New Chocobo's Dungeon trailer, also release date

We haven't seen any major updates on the new Chocobo's Dungeon title coming for Wii, so I was thrilled to find this floating on the old interwebs. Plenty of new CG to google over and a confirmed ...
Want a White Mage chocobo? Here you go.

Meeting in the Square-Enix Boardroom, 1 pmJapanese guy in suit: So, we need to launch some new product for the holidays. We don't have any major titles launching so we need a way to rake in money...
TGS 2007: Chocobo's Dungeon trailer (I died of delight, by the way)

 I know you're thinking to yourself: Didn't she just talk about Chocobos? Why yes, I did. Now, I'm going to do it again, since the trailer for Chocobo's Dungeon is now available for me to wa...
TGS 2007: Chocobo Dungeon: Toki Wasure no Meikyuu coming to the Wii

I will complain about Square-Enix releasing too many titles and sullying their good name to no end, but when a chocobo game is released, I just lose all my steam and become a cooing dove. I love ...
New Famitsu Scans: Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon

For where there is Chocobo, evil dares not tread. The prophecy foretells of a time when the yellow-crested harbingers of Instrumentality will stride forth as heralds of joy across the marshes and...
FF Tactics PSP footage: yup, this one's British too

The above video popped up on Youtube yesterday and it appears to be the first fully-English cutscene from the upcoming Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions. Honestly, I was excited enoug...
A wild CHOCOBABY appears! What will you do?

I pretend I'm rational, pragmatic, unsentimental. I deal with the issues, man, the core of our intellectual relationship with games, the subtle layers of gamer psychology. And I feign androgyny;...
E3 2007: Oh yes, FF RTS on your DS. New Revenant Wings trailer

Who would have thought? The Final Fantasy XII world of Ivalice has been shrunk down to pocket size. Fans have been keeping an eye out for Final Fantasy XII Revenant Wings ever since we heard ab...
Fake game Friday: Chocobitch Tales

Here at Destructoid, we love it when our readers do the work for us -- case in point, this week's fake game idea. Conceptualized and Photoshopped by forumite BFeld13, it's called Chocobit...
Squenix Online Store opens US branch, in response, America opens a Starbucks

Square-Enix is a company waist-deep in adorable mascots and eyeball-deep in Japanese folk who, instead of eyeballs, have constantly rotating, glowing dollar signs (yen signs?). As such, the good ...
Bowser Bento Box: You are what you eat

 Until I see a fully 3D represantation of Midgar as my wedding cake, this wins as one of my favorite food interpretations of video games of all time. Apparently on Live Journal you can mak...
Square Enix Party '07 confirms company's terrifying omnipresence

While we've already reported on a couple of Square Enix's latest plans for parting you from your cash, a report at Japanator on the Square Enix Party '07 reveals a nefarious multi-f...
Kooky Japanese marketing strikes again via Square Enix

Japan is the mother of the whore we call merchandising, and Square Enix its squalling child. You want a Buster Sword? King Slime ashtrays? Neon FF7 logo sign for your bar? All these items and mor...
Into The Pixel: more evidence for games as art

Art being subjective and all, it's easy enough to say something is art when it's really just a pile of festering dog crap you passed on your way to buy beer. Add games into the formula, a...
FFXI gets chocobo racing; feed them your nuts at your own risk

(Yeah, that headline was kinda childish, but you have no idea how hard I giggled after I came up with it. Besides, aren't the "Final Fantasy is for girls and guys who look like girls&quo...
Chocobo tales website goes live

Manly men the world over can raise a pint and rejoice, as the official website for the upcoming Nintendo DS title Chocobo Tales is now up and running. Those of you who have been anticipating this...
Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales comes to the US

Square has announced that Chocobo to Maho no Ehon for the Nintendo DS will come to the US under the new moniker of Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales. There is an official website (although all ...




 
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