Recently the Japanese magazine Famitsu published an article containing new information regarding four new job classes that will be appearing in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2.

The Hume’s race will receive the class Youjinbou, a sword-wielding job that other then it’s weapon nothing is known of. The magic using Viera’s race has a new Green Mage class that specializes in status-affecting spells. The race of Moogle’s inherited the Chocobo Knight job, which allows the Moogles to ride Chocobo’s and use their skills. The last job class was given to the Bangaa’s race, which was the Cannoneer job, specializing in long range cannon attacks.

You can be sure to expect more job classes to be announced and added to Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2 before the release of the game.

Also Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2: The Sealed Grimoire for the Nintendo DS has finally been given a release date for Japan, the set release date is 25th October 2007. Unfortunately no US or European release date has been set yet, but we will let you know as soon as it does!

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Square Enix has shed some more light on the story of its upcoming PlayStation Portable title Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII. As previously reported, the game’s story begins with Zack and Co. being dispatched to the town of Wutai to investigate the mysterious disappearance of SOLDIER 1st Genesis. Wutai of course happens to be the hometown of Final Fantasy VII’s Yuffie. Today’s update confirms that the self-declared materia hunter will make an appearance in Crisis Core as well. And apparently just like in the original game, she will cause trouble. Meanwhile, protagonist Zack’s senior, SOLDIER 1st Angeal Hewley apparently has to cut ties with Shinra Company for a certain reason. Subsequently, his former employer is going after him. As if this wasn’t already bad enough, Zack has to fight against multiple Genesis Clones. These clones of the MIA Soldier 1st possess an incredible fighting power, making them tough foes. Last but not least, a new character by the name of Shitsune has been revealed in today’s update. Zack meets this female member of the Turks after the Genesis Clones have attacked the city. Shitsune is the youngest person to ever become a Turk.

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII will be available in Japan on September 13th for 5,800 yen ($46.80 US).

Today, Square Enix revealed a new character in of their new game known as The Last Remnant to be released on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. The new character is Irina Sykes, the sister of the hero Rush Sykes, which will be captured by a mysterious organization. Rush Sykes will thus launch his research related to Remnants, powerful fragments of magic which create an imbalance in the world. Announced for a spring 2008 simultaneously in Japan and the United States, this new next-gen RPG will propose battles on a turn by turn of great scale with sometimes as much as 70 soldiers on the battle field.

Square Enix gives us a first look of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers for the Nintendo Wii in the Japanese magazine Famitsu. The game, using the Wii-mote will propose to the player the need to incarnate a super hero who will be powerful at the beginning of the adventure, rather then traditionally progressing your characters strength through-out the game. In addition, it would also be possible to control airships. It was planned to show a playable demo at the Square Enix Party 07, however due to lack of time only a video was shown. Therefore perhaps the playable demo will be available at the Tokyo Game Show 2007 this September.

Square Enix announced a new expansion for Final Fantasy XI today during the Square Enix Party 07. Final Fantasy XI: Wings of the Goddess will feature new areas, quests, jobs, battles, and the ability to travel through time. It will see a release in the United States, Japan, and Europe and will be available this winter for the Playstation 2, X-box 360, and PC.

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Lion’s War was released in Japan today. The PlayStation Portable title is a complete remake of the PlayStation hit Final Fantasy Tactics. The remake features two new jobs, the Onion Knight and the Dark Knight, cel-shaded cutscenes, a remastered soundtrack, wireless multiplayer, 16:9 display and comeo of Baltheir of Final Fantasy XII and Lusu of Final Fantasy Tactics: The Sealed Grimoire.

North American and European release dates have yet to be announced.

Square Enix has recently announced Final Fantasy XII: International Zodiac Job System for the Playstation 2. In the standard game, all the character abilities were managed on the License board - a checkered chart that decided what characters can and can’t do in the game. In the new version of Final Fantasy XII, there are 12 different layouts of the license board based on different jobs you can give to characters, opening up a whole new level of complexity to add to the epic game.

One new layout in a featured trailer looked like a spinning dial of sorts. Which job that layout pertains to is anyone’s guess. But from what we can glean in the details given, players can expect jobs like Monk, Red Mage and Uhlan to show up.

Other features include the original English voiceovers, as well as a 16:9 view mode that enables widescreen viewing. A new bonus DVD will accompany the package as well. But in the tradition of Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix + and Final Fantasy X-2: International Edition, Final Fantasy XII: International Zodiac Job System looks like a Japan only exclusive. Although no plans have been announced for a U.S. release date, we’ll keep an eye out for any changes.

With Square Enix holding their Pre-Conference today, quite a bit of info was revealed. The president of Square Enix opened up the conference with, “Thank you very much for participating despite your busy schedule. We’d like to share with you a lot of the initiatives we have embarked on today.” After his speech, they proceeded to show some videos for their upcoming games.

The first video was of Star Ocean, which now has three confirmed titles being released. There is Start Ocean: First Departure, which is nothing but a full remake of the very first Star Ocean game, an will be for the Sony PSP. Star Ocean: Second Evolution, which is a remake of Star Ocean: Second Evolution, and also for the Sony PSP. and last but not least, Star Ocean 4. The producer, Yoshinori Yamagashi, had this to say, “Star Ocean 4 is currently under development to meet the highest specifications, and is being developed by Tri-Ace.” Star Ocean 4 is expected to be available on the Playstation 3.

Chocobo Mystery Dungeon was another video shown at the Pre-Conference. It will allow Chocobo and his friends to explore the dungeon, and it is available for the Nintendo Wii. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates has also been given a date. It will be released in Japan on August 23 for the Nintendo DS. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers was also shown at the Pre-Conference. It features air ships and appears to be a nice adventure game that has many elements similar to Skies of Arcadia. Crystal Bearers will be available for the Nintendo Wii.

A magazine scan has surfaced for Dissidia: Final Fantasy and from the looks of things it appears the game is action-based rather then the traditional rpg. It seems Dissidia: Final Fantasy is set to chronicle all the Final Fantasy games from the last twenty years. From the scan you can see Zidane and Kuja fighting, and also a character from the original Final Fantasy game.

As the last two Kingdom Hearts titles were overrun with Disney characters, but no Disney keyblade heroes, Tetsuya Nomura stressed with the next Kingdom Hearts title, the subject and inherent storyline of the title.

“It is not Kingdom Hearts III, but it is an anecdote. I want to explain what Mickey did in the World of Darkness, and also how he got his keyblade. I want to make this [new project] slightly different from the Kingdom Hearts series, and change the system a little. The multi-developing makes me want to put it on something else. If we follow this idea, it would be hard to choose if to make the game for the “Sony PSP“, “Nintendo DS” or the cell phone.”