Hori, one of the Japanese leading third party accessory producers, today announced it will be making a new line of PlayStation 2 memory cards. The new line will be released on March 16th, same day as Final Fantasy XII. Along with the memory card, the limited edition bundle will also include a memory card case capable of holding two memory cards and 6 stickers. The sergested retail price is 3, 200 Yen ($27 US, £15.60 UK).
Sony Pictures Entertainment has released the packaging for the US version of Advent Children for both UMD and DVD below.
After many months of speculation and rumors, SquareEnix has finally given an official US release date for April 25th for both DVD and UMD as a special double disk set. About Time!
Source: Advent Children.net
SquareEnix has removed more than 700 accounts on the Final Fantasy XI servers. The accounts have been linked to "real money traiding" where the accounts are used to make larger amounts of gil which is then sold on. This marks the end of a long investigation. "Thanks to these measures, more than 300 billion gil has been removed from circulation, and the overly inflated prices of items have begun to fall to more realistic levels," said the developer in a statement.
SquareEnix have clearly got their work cut out for them as a quick search on Google, Yahoo! and MSN shows there are lots of online stores still happy to sell you gil in amounts between 1, 000 and 10, 000 for up to $175, and with 24 hour in-game delivery.
Source: EuroGamer
SquareEnix and Buena Vista Games have announced a lot of the voice actors for the US release of Kingdom Hearts II. The three main characters, Sora, Riku and Kairi are played by Hayley Joel Osment, David Gallagher and Heyden Panettiere. Roxas will be played by Jesse McCartney and Namine will be played by Brittany Snow.
Christopher Lee will voice Diz while Steve Burton will become Cloud. The Final Fantasy VII girls will be played by Rachael Leigh Cook (Tifa) and Mena Suvari (Aerith). From Final Fantasy X-2 Yuna played by Hedy Buress, Rikku by Tara Strong and Paine by Gwendoline Yeo.
Some big-name celebrities will return to their former roles from the films. Ming-Na will play Mulan, James Woods will be Hades and Zack Braff will be Chicken Little.
Source: RPGFan
After much secret wraps, the Official PlayStation Magazine (PSM) has brought out more details concerning Sony’s next generation Console, PlayStation 3. Stated within the article gives information on Sony’s approach to XBox Live, PlayStation Network! What is PlayStation Network, it is the online service to rival XBox Live by not only being a Sony related network, but offering much more. Current details stat the service will include an “iTunes-type store that lets you download films and music, and you’ll be able to use the console as a Location Free Player”- EuroGamer.
So cool, but what else? Adding to the excitement of the online service came further details of the PS3 acting like a video recorder like a TiVo recorder for example. What does that mean? When watching TV, you can then use your PlayStation 3 to record that show and watch it whenever. In addition, you will have the power to use your PSP to control the DVR function.
Even more great news states that even though the PS3 will be using Blu-Ray discs, it seems that the Cell and RSX can take control most of the time, thus the price shouldn’t be pushed too much as people have anticipated. Even more details state that the Development kits are running faster than expected and there are MANY games in development. Release Date? Due to recent hintsSony has told developers to be prepared for Fall 2006, hinting the USA release is late 2006.
Source: EuroGamer
After a long silence about the US release of of Advent Children a little information has been reported on a number of sites including 1up.com and Gamespot. Sony has said it plans for release on DVD "by the end of 2006", make of it what you will.
Source: Advent Children.net
