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Daily iPhone App: Theatrhythm Final Fantasy

by Mike Schramm (Dec 13th, 2012)

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy is a really interesting gift from Square Enix for Final Fantasy fans. It's a music game that was originally released on the Nintendo 3DS earlier this year, in which players can play a touchscreen game with songs culled from Final Fantasy soundtracks, supported by a ...

Deepworld, You Don't Know Jack, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, and more available now

by Mike Schramm (Dec 13th, 2012)

We're deep in the holiday season at this point, and right now that means dozens (if not more) of game developers out there are getting their best and brightest titles out onto the App Store, making sure they're all ready to download when the Christmas rush rolls around. Here's a look at some of ...

Square Enix announces Final Fantasy 4 coming soon to iOS, along with big mobile sale

by Mike Schramm (Dec 7th, 2012)

Square Enix has announced a rare sale on its mobile titles, along with at least one big release coming soon: Final Fantasy 4, ported to iOS. This version is based on the 3D remake that came out in 2008, so it'll feature active-time battles, full-motion videos and a full orchestral theme. Should ...

DeNA and Square Enix to release new mobile Final Fantasy game

by Mike Schramm (Nov 29th, 2012)

DeNA is one of the larger social networks coming out of Asia lately (they're probably best known around these parts for buying mobile game developer ngmoco), and the company announced this morning that it's teamed up with Final Fantasy creators Square Enix to publish a new Final Fantasy-branded ...

Square Enix considers dropping iOS prices

by Mike Schramm (Oct 26th, 2012)

The Casual Connect gaming conference is going on in Kiev, Ukraine this week, and while there, Square Enix's General Manager of Mobile for Europe Antony Douglas expressed that his company is considering lowering its prices on iOS. By itself, that's not a very surprising notion: Most companies ...

Daily iPhone App: Party Wave is Final Fantasy creator's first iOS title

by Mike Schramm (Jul 25th, 2012)

Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Saganuchi's studio is called Mistwalker. It created the Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey RPGs for the Xbox 360 a few years ago. But the studio's latest direction, like a lot of big studios lately, is to create some smaller mobile games, and Party Wave, Mistwalker's ...

Daily iPad App: Final Fantasy Tactics

by Chris Rawson (Feb 27th, 2012)

Final Fantasy Tactics first came out for the original PlayStation in 1997 as a more strategic take on the famous roleplaying game franchise. I didn't get around to playing it until 2001, but when I did, it turned out to be a peerless game that still ranks among my all-time favorites. Between a ...

Final Fantasy's Hironobu Sakaguchi teases three new iPhone games

by Chris Rawson (Feb 17th, 2012)

During promotion for an upcoming Wii title, The Last Story, Final Fantasy series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi teased three new games pending for the iPhone. Sakaguchi only gave the scantest of details on the titles to GameCentral; he mentioned that the first title will be a "surfing game" rather than ...

Final Fantasy Tactics: First look

by Erica Sadun (Aug 4th, 2011)

The much anticipated Final Fantasy Tactics has finally hit the App Store. Retailing at a somewhat steep US$15.99, Square Enix brings The War of the Lions to the iPhone. An iPad version is due for release this Fall. I haven't had as much time to spend playing this as I might like, so this ...

Final Fantasy Tactics released for iPhone at last

by Chris Rawson (Aug 4th, 2011)

It's been over a year since Square Enix announced it was porting Final Fantasy Tactics to the iPhone. Following a series of delays (that Square Enix tried to say weren't really delays), the app has finally been released for the iPhone. Final Fantasy Tactics is one of my favorite video games ...

Final Fantasy Tactics supposedly coming to iOS this summer

by Chris Rawson (May 18th, 2011)

It's been nearly a year since Square Enix announced at E3 that it would port the venerable Final Fantasy Tactics to iOS. The original release date was supposedly September 15 last year, but Square Enix later backtracked on that and claimed "the wrong information about the FFT release date is ...

Final Fantasy I and II on sale, ESPN app free, Real Racing on sale this weekend

by Mike Schramm (Sep 29th, 2010)

Here's some good news about a few popular apps on the App Store: Square Enix has dropped the price on retro titles Final Fantasy I and II. The games were originally released at US$8.99, but to celebrate more widespread localization, the apps have dropped down to $3.99. Great games, nice price. ...

Interview with Penny Arcade game dev

by Mike Schramm (Sep 14th, 2007)

Gamasutra has a nice interview with Darren Evenson, the lead designer of the Penny Arcade game with the long title that's set to hit Macs at the end of the year. The interview's got me more excited than ever about this thing-- apparently Penny Arcade and Hothead studios actually polled people on ...