News archive:-

For previous news listing, follow the link to this post:

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?post=3173608&page=29&postnum=1

Contained below is the new news that has come to light in the last page:

Pre-order FFXIII's epic soundtrack

S-E: Leona allowed us to reach out

FFXIII NA Special Edition announced

Previews:

For previous preview listings follow this link:

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?post=3173608&page=29&postnum=1

Contained below are the new previews that have come to light in the last page:

1up Preview

Blog update from 1up reviewer

Interviews:
Final Fantasy XIII 's Motomu Toriyama and Yoshinori Kitase - Interview
TeamXbox Interview: Final Fantasy XIII Development Leads
DigitalSpy: Final Fantasy XIII Interview
Gaming Target: FFXIII interview
CVG: Final Fantasy XIII Interview
Final Fantasy XIII developer interviews discuss franchise history, new battle system and favourites
The Examiner: Q&A with Final Fantasy XIII devs
Bitmob: Final Fantasy 13 Interview: Modern Warfare Influences, DLC Possibilities, and More
todojuegos: Interview with Yoshinori Kitase and Motomu Toriyama
Final Fantasy XIII devs talk: Challenges, future, and DLC
GamesRadar: Final Fantasy XIII interview
PlayStation Blog: Final Fantasy XIII: Your Questions Answered

Videos:
New videos on GameSpot
First FFXIII U.S. Commercial is for Xbox 360 only
GameSpot: New Final Fantasy XIII videos (spoilers)
Final Fantasy XIII X10 Gameplay (English version)

New MSWorld Videos, including first 10 minutes of the game & 4 gameplay videos (spoilers)

More videos here, here, here, here, here and here.

Games/Activities:-

1- Rate every Final Fantasy game you have played, give it a rating out of 10 in order from highest to lowest, lets see which FF game has the HIGHEST Average Score!

The scores (Average)
Click here

2- Ask eachother Final Fantasy Questions, from Past FF's, spoilers are allowed for past FF's. Lets see who can answer the MOST questions!
The Results so far:- 

Carl -- 41
Lestatdark -- 29.5
Fab_GS -- 22.5
Darthdevidem01 -- 18.5
Jneul -- 10
iLLmaticV3 -- 10
Wagram -- 7.5
Boutros -- 1
Crystalchild -- 0.75

3- Post your favorite Final Fantasy Scene & your most HATED Final Fantasy scene!

4- Name a crush that you have from any Final Fantasy game & give a reason.(post a picture of them if you want)

5- Post a music piece from any Final Fantasy, everyone else must guess WHICH part of that game the music piece is from!

6 - Final Fantasy Summon Battle

UPDATE

You can vote every 2 hours.

Odin - 27

Bahamut - 15

Alexander - 12

Pandemona - 12

Ifrit - 12

Anima - 11

Diablos - 11

Phoenix - 11

Siren - 11

Ultima - 11

Adrammelech - 10

Ark - 10

Chaos - 10

Chocobo - 10

Doomtrain - 10

Famfrit - 10

Gilgamesh - 10

Hashmal - 10

Hectatoncheir - 10

Leviathan - 10

The Magus Sisters - 10

Shemhazai - 10

Yojimbo - 10

Zeromus - 10

Zodiark - 10

Cerberus - 9

Zalera - 9

Exodus - 8

Ixion - 8

Mateus - 8

Hades - 6

ELIMINATED:

Cúchulainn (NEW)

Carbuncle

Valefore

Ramuh

Shiva

Belias

Titan

Kjata

Madeen

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Last Vote - Fab_GS

I don't think that is the NA version Darth. It has the PAL logos on the box. and I am seeing no sites having the pre-order for it up.

James Stevenson: Final Fantasy XIII superior on PS3

Final Fantasy XIII Logo

Square-Enix

James Stevenson, Marketing Manager for Insomniac Games, recently posted on his Twitter account how he feels about Sony's first-quarter line-up and all the big games they have released in the opening months of 2010. With titles like Heavy Rain, MAG, and White Knight Chronicles already out -- or will soon be in Heavy Rain's case -- Sony has released some major players for 2010. He later comments that the remaining games, MLB 10: The Show and God of War III continue that onslaught of releases. Interestingly, he refers to Final Fantasy XIII as the superior version of the title. In response to his Sony praise, he also stated that Mass Effect 2 is one of his all-time favorite games for the current gen.

There has been a lot of talk about the two versions, with the main course of action being if you own both systems, get the PS3 version, while if you only own an Xbox 360, the game will perform and look fine for you to enjoy. Final Fantasy XIII is the first main series Final Fantasy title to launch on multiple platforms. Aside from a slight graphical difference, the game is expected and said to perform identically to the PlayStation 3 version.

Final Fantasy XIII will launch on the Xbox 360 and PS3 on March 9th.

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-12218-Video-Game-Examiner~y2010m2d22-Jame-Stevenson-Final-Fantasy-XIII-superior-on-PS3

From the way the article was worded I thought it was the NA version, as the EU version has been announced since some weeks now....hmmm

Also do you know if reviewers have to do a domestic review of XIII if they only did an import?

ALL so far have done an import review

so all the scores you see on gamerankings & metacritic (except for gameinformer I think) will be changed when the same sites put a review up of the western version :)

lets hope they rate it higher (the ones that rated it below 90 or 80)

Can their scores be taken down if they don't do a western review?

No it can't be taken down.

The ones that hav explicitly stated its an import review are:

PSM3 Mag UK -- 7/10

BUT they had it in the "march issue" of the magazine, so I dunno if they will do another review....but as they have STATED its an import review they probably will, also I hope they will as a 70 is just lol :(

Play UK -- 7.9/10

Again they have stated its an import review

RPGFan -- 85

again its an import review, stated, will be changed, RPG fans ones are always changed as they do an import review for all RPG's

Official PS Mag UK -- 90

Stated to be an import review, this should be redone as they didn't even mention they reviewed FF13 on the front cover so it was clearly a "hush hush review"....then again they had a HUGE preview/Review section in the magazine

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Ones that haven't stated their review is an import review:

gameinformer -- 9.25/10

Everyeye.it -- 85/100

GamesmasterUK -- 81/100

James Clark of w\e is a pretty harsh reviewer.