January 2010

Here you can find news items that were posted on Hell and Heaven Net in the past.

Final Fantasy XIII Limited Collector's Edition announced

Posted by Zidane007nl on 26 January 2010, 23:13 - 0 comments

Square Enix has announced the limited collector's edition of Final Fantasy XIII which will contain the following items:

FINAL FANTASY XIII Original Sound Selection: a soundtrack CD including a selection of tunes from the game, especially chosen for this Limited Collector’s Edition by composer Masashi Hamauzu. The CD is presented inside a slipcase featuring artwork from FINAL FANTASY XIII, with liner notes written by the composer himself.
The World of FINAL FANTASY XIII: an exclusive hardback book featuring characters artwork, CG rendered images and environments from across the game production.
Exclusive Art Prints: 3 highly collectable art prints showing artwork of the Eidolons, powerful summoned allies of the lead playable characters of FINAL FANTASY XIII.
Unique ‘Brand of the l’Cie’ decal: Collectible decal featuring this most iconic symbol from the game storyline.

Source: PlayStation.Blog.Europe

Final Fantasy VIII hits Euopean PSN 4 February

Posted by Zidane007nl on 26 January 2010, 22:26 - 0 comments

While American fans can download Final Fantasy VIII from PlayStation Network for a month now, European fans are still waiting for an European release date, untill last week.

Mike Kebby from SCEE commented on the European PlayStation Blog that the game is released on 4 February.

"FF8 is coming on the 4th of February, this is a confirmed date now. Hooray!"

If you haven't played this game, you should. It's a classic.

Source:

PlayStation.Blog.Europe

Masashi Hamauzu leaves Square Enix

Posted by Zidane007nl on 20 January 2010, 13:46 - 0 comments

Masashi Hamauzu, the composer of Final Fantasy XIII has left Square Enix. There's an exodus going on at the sound team, since Kenichiro Fukui en Junya Nakano left the company before Hamauzu.

Masashi Hamauzu

Masashi Hamauzu composed the soundtrack of games like Tobal No. 1, SaGa Frontier 2, Final Fantasy X, Unlimited SaGa, Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII, and his latest work Final Fantasy XIII, which he was praised for. He also worked on the International version of the game.

Square Enix can look for a new sound team, since this is not the last composer that will leave the company.

Source: Square Music Online

Final Fantasy XIII International trailer

Posted by Zidane007nl on 14 January 2010, 23:36 - 0 comments

Square Enix has released a new English trailer of Final Fantasy XIII as part of Square's Lucky 13 Campaign. The trailers featires English voice acting, you can see the movements of the month has been synchonized, and My Hands, the title song of the game performed by Leona Lewis. Although the music sounds a little too loud, it's still a great trailer to watch.