Game News - New Kingdom Hearts And Xbox 360 Games From Square Enix?

Game News - New Kingdom Hearts And Xbox 360 Games From Square Enix?

   We thought that Square Enix' announcement of Dragon Quest IX for the Nintendo DS was enough of a shock for this last month of 2006. But immediately afterwards another couple of Final Fantasy Tactics games were also revealed, and guess what: there's more where that came from! The recent Jump Festa show in Tokyo played host to even more teasing from Square Enix, whose presentation concluded with the revealing message "New Project Starting in 2007". Why so revealing?

   Well, first of all because it followed right after the trailer for Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix (a Japanese release of the English version of Kingdom Hearts II), and also because the briefly shown text was decorated with sparkles a la Disney - making it a pretty sure match for a possible Kingdom Hearts III sequel.

   Nothing's certain, for now, but it's going to be interesting to see what platform they'll be making it for.

   In the meantime, another report coming from Japan (via TVG) claims that Square may be working on not one, but two unannounced Xbox 360 games! Is this just a coincidence? Quite likely. After all, it would be too much for the Kingdom Hearts series to leave the PlayStation 2 and hop right onto Microsoft's next-gen console, which has yet to be embraced by most Japanese gamers.

   Not even the Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XI wasn't received too warmly, so again - it should be interesting to see what they're cooking up.

P.S. Speaking of FF XI, word is the recent PlayStation 3 firmware update version 1.31 also added support for the likes of Final Fantasy XI, and other PS2 games that require a HDD attachment.

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