Last year’s Chaos Rings told the story of five couples mysteriously transported to a place called the Arc Arena, where are forced to fight their way through a variety of dungeons until only one couple remained to claim the grand… [Kotaku]
Square Enix has finally made the third game in the Final Fantasy series available on the iPhone, and it’s pretty damn good. Is it $19 worth of good? [Kotaku]
Square Enix is dropping the prices on their iPhone/iPad games more than 50 per cent as incentive for their latest release – ;Final Fantasy III. Because the original prices are a bit high to begin with, and because Square Enix rarely does price drops anyway, this is a good chance to get in if you’ve been holding out. [TouchArcade]
Square Enix has revealed that it has created a new wholly owned subsidiary called “Hippos Lab”, that is dedicated to creating high quality original content for smartphones. [via GameBiz]
There’s been some great classic gaming on the iPhone already – Monkey Island comes to mind – but now the platform is getting a huge injection of gaming cred with Final Fantasy 1 and 2. Try to control your squealing. More »
Song Summoner was one of the few games released for the iPod—not the touch, but original clickwheel type. It was special, as a game, because it used your own music to procedurally generate enemies. Now, it’s on the iPhone. More »
Square Enix, the famed Japanese publisher behind all 3,000 Final Fantasy games, is hard at work on Crystal Defenders, a new game for the iPhone based on the FF universe. It’ll be a “defence simulation” game that utilises the touchscreen, so I’m guessing it’ll have more in common with Final Fantasy Tactics than Final Fantasy XII. It’s due to hit the Japanese App Store in by the end of this year, with no word on an overseas release. Hit the jump for some screenshots.
