The newly-announced Square Enix Security Token will keep dirty hacker hands off your hard-earned gil via the magic of the constantly-changing login password. Much like the Blizzard Authenticator released for World of Warcraft last year, the Square Enix Security Token is an actual physical device tha...

Personal branding is WoW and Final Fantasy; you just don’t know it yet. What is your goal when you’re playing a role playing game?  Your goal is to level up your character, unlock every secret, find every hidden weapon, beat every boss, and ultimately, beat the game with a 100% completion ratin...

Anyone who’s followed my robustly-photo-logged comic convention coverage knows that I don’t have the attention span or the desire to figure out the differences between the various Japanese animes.  When I see a themed cosplayer, I call it “Naruto” and move on with my life. H...

From the latest Japanese gaming and manga magazine V Jump, reveals the first black playable character since FFVII, Sazh Kalzroy. Known to the text, Sahz can’t get enough of chocobos, likes the color green, and dual-wields pistols. I can tell you right now this character with the bitchin’...

Square Enix have gotten around to opening up a dedicated website for Final Fantasy XIII. Within? Aside from the soothing piano score, there are more screenshots (not scans!) than you'll know what to do with. It's hard telling which are new and which aren't, what with the number of scans we've seen o...

When we were children, we wanted two things: a Super Mario Bros. movie and a Final Fantasy fighting game; we got one of those things, and it made us wish we were dead. Today, fifteen years later, we have the other one. Does it make us wish we were dead — or does it make us wish we were more al...

The Final Fantasy Tactics-themed iPhone game revealed in the pages of Famitsu back in October has now arrived, as Square Enix unleashes Crystal Defenders for the iPhone and iPod Touch. While the official title of this $7.99 iPhone game doesn't contain the words "Final Fantasy", Crystal Defenders is ...

A Japanese magazine scrounged some new screens of Final Fantasy XIII. Yes, the characters conform to the Squenix design standards, which mean either you can't tell their gender or they actually belong to both. A few sites got their grubby paws on 'em, Smashpad is one publishing in English, so let's ...

When I saw this comparison between the Final Fantasy and the battleship Yamato (the largest battleship ever made), I was wondering how the comparison would be drawn: the spectacular demise, perhaps? Not quite. Ray Huling argues that the next crop of Final Fantasy games will be, like theYamato, obsol...

concert review: Fucked Up, Final Fantasy, $100, Vivian Girls @ Sneaky Dee's (Toronto, Ontario), October 30, 2008 One of the most stacked indie rock bills took over Sneaky Dee's last Thursday night kicking off a 'Fucked Up Weekend', as you may well know was a series of shows local hardcore act Fucked...