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Final Fantasy XIII Fastest selling title in the franchise history in the UK

Yup, Square Enix has announced that their latest installment in the series, Final Fantasy XIII, is the fastest selling title in the franchise history in the UK. The game has already shipped more than 5 million units, and is topping UK charts and rockin’ the reviews (actually that’s not so good).

Either way, they’re pretty stoked about it. We’re pretty indifferent seeing as how it’s…yeah, is what it is.

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Final Fantasy XIII is on the bottom of Ray Muzyka’s “to-play” list

I’m going to go out and say that I don’t own nor have I even touched Final Fantasy XIII yet. I’m a huge RPG fan and a big fan of the series, but just because of my lack of time and moolah, I can’t afford to get it. It’s also…not something that I’m really looking forward to. Just from reviews and what people have personally told me, well I’ve just lost a lot of excitement.

It looks like Ray Muzyka, one of the head honcho’s over at BioWare is pretty not-so-interested in the game as well, expressing this in a Game Informer interview.

“I’ve been reading some reviews on that one. That may be on the bottom of my list right now”

“It’s kind of a question mark. It would have been right up there before I read about it, but some of this other stuff is probably more pressing.”

I can totally see where he’s coming from on it. Although it will be really interesting to see what he has to say once he’s got around to playing the game (although I’m not sure that he has that many pressing things to do).

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Final Fantasy XIII to hit Xbox 360 with 3 discs

According to Gamefly Final Fantasy XIII will be hitting the Xbox 360 with not one, not two, but three DVDs. That’s two more discs then its PlayStation 3 counter part which is on a single Blu-Ray disc. As of right now only the PlayStation 3 version of Final Fantasy XIII has been released in Japan, so at the moment we can’t have any side by side comparasions of the game on different systems. But we do know that the PlayStation 3 version will let you play through the entire game without moving once. Where as the Xbox 360 version is going to require you to stand up twice to swap the discs.

Also if you haven’t seen the real box art for Final Fantasy XIII yet, be sure to check it out.

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Square Enix reveals Final Fantasy XIII Collector’s Edition

Of course, as with every single article about collector’s or special edition video games, they have to come out with every fucking video game that is quasi-hyped at least. It’s fucking stupid. Half of them aren’t collectibles, nor are they special. OH YAY ART BOOKS. Jesus fuck.

I’m not saying this is true about Final Fantasy XIII though. It’s a solid series (albeit super hyped), and if they can last from the NES until now, I’ll give them the collector’s edition on their upcoming game. The package will include the Original Sound Selection, The World of Final Fantasy XIII (hardback art book), exclusive art prints, a decal. Well done Square Enix, well done.

I don’t know how much more the collector’s edition is gonna cost, but it is going to be available launch day in the states so if you’re interested go check it out.

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BAM! Final Fantasy XIII Racks up 1 Million Sales on First Day

Talk about making everything else look like shit. Square Enix has just announced that on the first day of sales for Final Fantasy XIII in Japan is totaling over 3 million not including the system bundles. That’s pretty fucking huge considering that there are only about 4 million PS3’s in Japan the last time I looked at numbers, so that’s a huge fucking attachment ratio. Kudos Square, can’t wait to try out the game!