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Square Enix aren't the only ones remaking Final Fantasy 7. A group of fans are now building Final Fantasy 7: Re-imagined, a 2D action game based on the classic RPG.

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Can't wait for the FFVII remake? Well, this might help stave off the hunger (...or just whet your appetite for more).

Developer PD Design Studio in Singapore has recreated the opening level of FFVII into a sword-slashing, fist-cracking side-scrolling beat-'em-up aptly named FFVII: Re-Imagined. It's a fan project that won't be seeking profit in any way, which will hopefully prevent Square Enix from sending those cease-and-desist letters.

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Dragon Quest XI can bring back old-school Japanese role-playing games in a big way, but Square Enix first needs to give it a chance in the West.

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Edge: Over the past decade, many of Square Enixs best-known designers have left the company and none more high profile than Hironobu Sakaguchi. He joined Square in 1983 as a part-time designer, going on to become its director of planning and development, and ultimately its US president. Yoshinori Kitase, one of Sakaguchis protégées, is among the few remaining staff from the glory days when the company established and expanded the Japanese RPG blueprint. Hes worked on titles such as Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 7 and Squares high-profile collaboration with Disney, Kingdom Hearts. Today, he pilots the Final Fantasy brand Sakaguchis creation and a series that has sold more than 100 million units to date and is Producing the much awaited remake of Final Fantasy 7. Its one of the most senior creative positions in games, but holding it was never Kitases goal.

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Last year, Square Enix launched their Dive In streaming service in Japan, which is similar to Gaikai or OnLive, and brought games like Final Fantasy XIII to tablets and smartphones. Gamer reports that the service will end next month. To give you a little more detail on the Dive In streaming service, all of their games were rentals with prices as low as 150 yen plus tax to access games like Season of Mystery: The Cherry Blossom Murders, or Final Fantasy VII International for three days at 200 yen. After a delay from its original launch date on October 9, 2014 in Japan, the Dive In service officially launched in December 3rd of last year, without any word on whether it would make it outside of Japan.

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For the first time in franchise history, Square Enix will be releasing Final Fantasy XV simultaneous around the globe. "Up until now in previous Final Fantasies, we've never attempted a complete global worldwide release with them," game director Hajime Tabata told IGN. "It's always been the export model, where it comes out in Japan first and is then exported to other territories. We're not doing that this time; we want to go full global release."

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There are few video game franchises as iconic as the Final Fantasy series, and while most of the games have released on console over the decades, they have slowly been re-released on mobile devices in recent years. Well, for those that believe that Final Fantasy games belong in the living room on the TV, youll be happy to know that Final Fantasy III through VI are now available to be played on the Android TV. Square Enix announced the update earlier this week and to celebrate has discounted all four games.

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Western gamers won't be looking at those in Japan with envy as they wait for Final Fantasy XV to be localized. Nope, Japanese gamers won't be getting preferential treatment this time around, as FFXV will be getting a simultaneous release all across the globe sometime next year.

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Einhänder is a pretty unique side scrolling shooter by Square that was released in 1997 for the Sony Playstation. It never got a sequel and was only re-released on PSN in Japan WAJG describes Einhänder and discusses why there was probably no sequel and how Einhänder could return today.

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Einhänder is a pretty unique side scrolling shooter by Square that was released in 1997 for the Sony Playstation. It never got a sequel and was only re-released on PSN in Japan WAJG describes Einhänder and discusses why there was probably no sequel and how Einhänder could return today.