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Are you still down from Final Fantasy XV being delayed until November? Have you been hoping that Square Enix’s delay might lead to some interesting FF-related merchandise or bundles in the meantime? If you have wanted exactly that, you might be in luck.

Over at the Tokyo Game Show expo, Square Enix premiered a flashy, brand new FFXV trailer to keep tantalizing you every step of the way to its release date with that flying car and gorgeous locales. I would talk more about it here, but why? See for yourself!

Square Enix also took this TGS opportunity to announce a new Final Fantasy XV-themed PlayStation 4 bundle, promising to be the definitive one-stop shop for all things FFXV related, and just in time for the holidays.

Here is what you get:

• Final Fantasy XV (of course) with an exclusive SteelBook
• A Blu-Ray copy of Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV
• Downloadable Content: Royal Raiment Outfit, Masamune Weapon & Leviathan Regalia Skin
• DualShock 4 Controller
• 1TB Hard Drive
• A super fancy box with FFXV Luna imagery!
• Said FFXV imagery also on the PS4 front! Can you say collector material?
• Bragging rights that your PlayStation 4 is the greatest, better than that loser neighbor of yours down the street who thought he was so cool with his Uncharted 4 bundle

But wow, look at that price tag! It is available for $449 USD, and only at GameStop. Well let’s see, the game has been in development for nine years, so if you were prudent and decided to save as soon as you heard the announcement to the tune of $4.16 a month give or take, your patience will have paid the price of this bundle! You would even have some money left over for energy drinks needed to pull the all-nighters that follow.

The Luna Edition launch will coincide with the release of Final Fantasy XV, with an expected date of November 29th. We are getting closer and closer!


Source: Gematsu, Gematsu, Gematsu PS4 Luna Picture Gallery

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Tokyo Game Show is next week, and to build anticipation, Square Enix have announced an announcement: there will be a new "action game" revealed at the show on September 15. Yes, that's pretty much all the detail, though they did mention that the announcement will take place at 11pm Eastern time (on the 14th, here in the US). There's no news currently whether it's a new IP or a sequel or sideline to existing IP, but once the game has been announced, it will be shown live at TGS and on stream via YouTube and Niconico. Here are the other games you will see via the TGS streams, with various demos, panel discussions, and gaming events:

• World of Final Fantasy
• NieR: Automata
• Final Fantasy XIV
• Dragon Quest X
• Akashic Re:cords
• Rise of the Tomb Raider
• Brave Exvius
• Fantasy Earth Zero
• Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 3
• Final Fantasy XV
• Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
• SaGa: Scarlet Grace
• Mobius Final Fantasy
• Final Fantasy: Record Keeper
• Dissidia Final Fantasy: Opera Omnia

Gematsu has the entire schedule. Watch this space for more information both before and during TGS as we can swing it.

Source: Gematsu

Want to see some live Final Fantasy XV music performed? Easy, just be at a video-playing device tomorrow, and you can see the London Philharmonic play at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London. The show will feature selected tracks from the upcoming game over the course of an hour, as well as an appearance by the game's composer, Yoko Shimomura.

The stream will begin at 2pm Eastern tomorrow, September 7, and will be streamed live over both the Final Fantasy XV YouTube channel and the official Squenix Twitch channel as well. Or, hey, embedded right here when it starts!

We last talked about Dragon Quest XI in January, in the context of Square Enix aiming to release before the franchise turns 31 years old. Back when the game was first announced, series originator Yuji Horii suggested that the game would be released for PlayStation 4, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo NX, but his parent company quickly backtracked on the latter.

Now, though, in an early-released interview from the October issue of Japanese magazine "Nintendo Dream," Horii is again quoted confirming the game for the new Nintendo system. Not only that, his team is doing both 2D and 3D versions of the game for the 3DS. Now, it's not clear yet whether this means that there will be two completely separate releases, whether the 2D version is specific for the 2DS, or even if the 2D version will be a top-down JRPG like the original Dragon Quest games, but this does mean that they're putting a great deal of effort into the game. Additionally, Horii commits to a simultaneous release on all platforms.

Nintendo are aiming the NX for March 2017, and the end of the Dragon Quest 30th Anniversary year is May 27, 2017. The margins are thin to make this happen!

Source: Gematsu

If you were on the internet over the weekend, you surely saw the rumors. I tend to not report on rumors no matter how credible they are (also, because I've been lazy and traveling for most of the last month), but this one's no longer a rumor: Final Fantasy XV has been delayed from its global release by two months, from September 30 to November 29.

The news was confirmed earlier today in a video direct from Hajime Tabata, and was chalked up to the desire to avoid a "substantial" day-one patch to the game (and to give more time for QA testing on what will represent the Gold phase of the game's production). Of course, having done this, it's not necessarily the case that the eventual release won't have a smaller day-one patch required, but perhaps this delay will make the release go a bit more smoothly.

At this moment, this delay will have no impact on the digital release of Kingsglaive, currently scheduled for August 30, though Polygon reports that it might impact the disc-based release, as well as the scheduling for future episodes of the Brotherhood anime.

What do you think about this delay? For me, I actually like the timing of it - it makes it more likely that I actually have a system on which to play it by the time it comes out, and the current schedule will still hit the holiday buying season, which should avoid hurting the game's numbers. Fingers crossed that this is the last delay, though, for everyone's sakes.

Source: Polygon