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Nearly a year ago, we covered Square's plan to release new mobile titles in 2015. Between then and now, I missed that Portal, what I previously described as the "helper app," was released. The main app is a news and information aggregator, but apparently within its framework is the capacity to serve games. A new version of Triple Triad is the first of those games.

This version has both single- and two-player modes, so one can play against the CPU or other folks online. The cards are similar to the Final Fantasy XIV version, pulling characters and such from the entire canon of Final Fantasy games. It's free-to-play, with microtransactions and time gates dictating how often you can play. The player starts with five "stamina crystals," and each game uses one of the five. Restoring a crystal requires either a microtransaction of a thirty-minute cooldown.

If you're a Final Fantasy XIV player, you will soon be able to link your Portal Triple Triad games to your XIV account, likely for in-game rewards or achievements in the latter. That functionality is not yet up and running.

Both Portal and Triple Triad are free to download and available for both iOS and Android.

Source: Siliconera

Speaking of the Portal app because I can't find a thread talking about said offer, the Portal app now offers Final Fantasy II for free for a limited time, on both iOS and Android. Notice that the compatibility is very spotty, so it may work on your device, and it may not. It didn't work on my Galaxy Win, but it did on my Archos Gamepad 2. Either way, if you have root, use Titanium Backup to backup the data of the FF Portal App as once you lose access to FFI and/or FFII, you cannot re-obtain it for free without said backup.

That offer is ongoing for a limited time. So capture it quickly.

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