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This week, we got updates on two upcoming Final Fantasy games that were announced earlier this year. While they're not big news because we knew they were coming, now's the chance to get ready for them to drop.

First, Final Fantasy V Pixel Remaster will be releasing on November 10, only a couple weeks away now. Preorders have been available for this one for quite a while, and the preorder bonuses on Steam are still up. The versions for mobile are, as usual, not available for preorder.

Also, as of today, pre-registration for Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier is ready to go. The exact release of the game is still no more specific than November 2021, but this Battle Royale-style game set in the Final Fantasy VII Remake universe can be accessed now in app stores and Square Enix are offering gifts to all players who pre-register based on the total number of users set up before launch.


Source: Square Enix

There are new concerts coming for both of the major ongoing concert series from our friends at Square Enix. We've got new shows in the "A New World" series and one brief but big update in the "Distant Worlds" subseries focused on Final Fantasy VII Remake, so here's a quick list of updates since our last catch-up so you can see if they're coming near you.

For the smaller-scale "A New World" series, there are a lot of shows showing up mostly in the first half of 2022:

• Fort Worth, TX (at Anime Frontier): December 5
• Berkeley, CA: January 14, 2022
• San Diego, CA: Two Shows, January 15
• Houston, TX: January 22
• St. Paul, MN: Two Shows, March 18
• Ann Arbor, MI: March 19
• Cleveland, OH: March 20
• Rosemont, IL (at ACEN): May 22

For the Final Fantasy VII Remake, I was actually too slow to post this so I missed the one this weekend - Yosh, vocalist for "Hollow," used as the theme of FF7R, performed live at the show in Los Angeles last weekend. But, still coming up, if you can get to Hawai'i for Thanksgiving weekend, you can see Nobuo Uematsu again! It's been a while, and good for him for being able to choose to attend a show in Honolulu.

There will not be a sweepstakes for tickets to that show at CoN. We tried... okay, we really didn't.

Source: A New World, Final Fantasy VII Remake Orchestra World Tour