Square Enix

Last Friday Square Enix Presents featured the first Active Time Report with the latest news and footage of games that are currently in development. The first report was dedicated to Final Fantasy Type-0 HD and Final Fantasy XV.

The stream starts of with Shinji Hashimoto greeting everybody welcome. After that a message from Hajime Tabata is showed where he apologies for the delay of Final Fantasy Agito+, the PlayStation Vita version of the original game which was originally scheduled for release on 15 January 2015.

Next item is Final Fantasy Type-0 HD where footage is shown about the characters with French text and English voices (footage shown on Paris Games Week).

For the Final Fantasy XV part of the stream Yasuyuki Matsunami, map director, and Yusuke Naora, art director, joins the stream to show exploration footage of Noctis and team through the Duscae region. Later also Tech Demo #1 is showed with the current build of Luminous Studio engine version 1.4.

The next Active Time Report will be streamed during Jump Festa which takes place on 20 and 21 December.

During the press conference of Sony Computer Entertainment Japan that took place earlier today Square Enix has announced, together with Tecmo Koei, a new game in the Dragon Quest series: Dragon Quest Heroes. The game is currently in development by Omega Force (Dynasty Warriors) and will be a hack & slash game, which makes it the first in the series, and will be released on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4.

They've also announced that a special edition of the PlayStation 4 will be available when Dragon Quest Heroes will be launced that is dubbed the Metal Slime edition. This silver edition of the PlayStation 4 console and controller will be imprinted with slime characters. Even the slime at top will be part of the USB cover.

It's already a couple of days after gamescom. The line-up from Square Enix was not really big this year and they focussed on Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn and
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call. During the event Naoki Yoshida, producer and director of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn was present and players could play the game with him together. An other big event was the head-to-head battle between Yoshida and Ichiro Hazama, producer of Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call playing the new Versus Mode of the game. Also games like Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX and Nosgoth were playable on the booth.

Humble Bumble has joined forces with Square Enix to bring the Humble Square Enix Bundle. Never heard of Humble Bundle? Every two weeks a game bundle is offered for cheap and you can choose how much you want to pay for it and where your money goes (to charity, the developer or Humble Bundle). Previous week the Humble Square Enix Bundle has started with 16 games and today 4 games were added to the bundle which makes it the biggest Humble Bundle ever. All games can be redeemed on Steam.

The bundle consists of the following games:

Pay $1 or more

• Anachronox
• Daikatana
• Hitman: Codename 47
• Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
• Mini Ninjas
• Thief Gold

Pay more than the average of $8.63 to unlock (can change)

• Battlestations: Midway
• Deus Ex: Invisible War
• Deus Ex: The Fall
• Just Cause
• Hitman: Absolution
• Hitman: Blood Money
• Hitman: Contracts
• The Last Remnant
• Nosgoth Veteran Pack

Pay $15 or more to unlock

• Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut
• Just Cause 2
• Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
• Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light