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The following video, featuring news coverage of Square Enix’s recent DKΣ3713 Private Party was spotted on Sony’s PlayStation TV in Japan. The video shows some new footage, and some previously shown footage.

The majority of it’s not breaking news, though we do briefly see some game play footage of the Dissidia: Final Fantasy demo and the Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep demo. We also see some footage from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete.

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Just after Square Enix’s DKΣ3713 Private Party, you might remember Famitsu announcing that they’d be featuring a blow out on the event during a mid-August issue of the Japanese gaming magazine. Originally, the magazine was intended to be released on the 19^th August; but it would seem that scans of the magazine have already been leaked onto the internet.

The Famitsu scans contain a lot of new information and screenshots on the Fabula Nova Crystallis compilation, on the Final Fantasy XIII front we have several new screenshots of a black soldier holding up Lightning. (Killzone anyone?) Furthermore, Famitsu continued to say that the Final Fantasy XIII demo that is set to be released along side Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete won’t be on the same Blu-Ray disk - meaning that western gamers will get the oppurtunity to play the game in March, if they so wish.

Famitsu have also said that the Final Fantasy XIII demo will be longer than Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, meaning that we’ll be getting at least 90 minutes worth of Final Fantasy goodness crammed into the demo.

We all knew that Final Fantasy Versus XIII was going to be dark, but we’ve just learned that the people of Final Fantasy Versus XIII’s world will be worshipping a Shinigami that will be designed by veteran character design, Yoshitaka Amano. For those of you who don’t know, a Shinigami is a death god - think Bleach or The World Ends With You.

New Final Fantasy Versus XIII screenshots suggest that characters will change costumes throughout the game, especially during specific cutscenes - though that could be expected. It’s also worth noting that the Prince’s eye colour has been changed from red to blue.

Final Fantasy Agito XIII will be using a similar battle system to that shown in Square Enix’s Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII. Of course, Agito won’t be featuring the dreaded Digital Mind Wave; but the actual game play mechanics will be similar - only of a faster pace.

Agito XIII will be multi-player with character development strongly focusing on the summon system seen in previous Final Fantasy’s such as Final Fantasy XII. It’s not confirmed, but we’re thinking that summons could be specific to specific characters, just like with Final Fantasy XII’s License Board.

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Those of you that play Square Enix’s MMORPG, Final Fantasy XI may know that a patch was recently released that added a series of new bosses - including the infamous Pandemonium Warden boss.

A guild named Beyond the Limitation decided to take the task of defeating Final Fantasy XI’s ultimate boss, and after 18 hours of hardcore game play; finally decided to call it a day. According to the guilds leaders, “People were passing out and getting physically ill. We decided to end it before we risked turning inot a horrible new story about how video games ruin peoples lives.“

Furthermore, the guild leaders went on to say that beating Pandemonium Warden would’ve taken them an additional five or so hours, on top of the 18 that they’d already been fighting. Every few hours Pandemonium Warden changes form, Beyond the Limitation managed to get the boss to it’s 20th; and apparently final form - but beating that final form would’ve meant playing Final Fantasy XI for an entire day solid.

There are glitches in Final Fantasy XI that allow players to defeat Pandemonium Warden illegitimately, though no one has actually managed to defeat the boss legitimately.

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Several new Dissidia: Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep and Kingdom Hearts: Coded screenshots have surfaced on the internet. We’ve seen the majority of Dissidia, 358/2 Days and Birth By Sleep screenshots before, however all of the Kingdom Hearts: Coded screenshots are new.

Two of the Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep screenshots are of conversations during cutscenes, however the other two seem to show some kind of in game mini-game. It’s hard to tell what’s happening in the mini-game, but it looks as if Terra has to kill one enemy after another within a certain time limit. The ‘Time Limit‘ ring could be part of the battle system, but it’s more likely to be part of a mini-game.

The Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days screenshots don’t really provide us with anything new, they’re just high quality screenshots of those shown in Shonen Jump earlier this week.

As I said earlier, all of the Kingdom Hearts: Coded screenshots are new. From what I can make out, it looks as if Coded’s in game battle system will use a mobile phone’s arrow and letter keys to create combos. Whilst in a battle, Kingdom Hearts: Coded seems to use a 3D engine; however from the looks of things Coded’s field play is going to be 2D - reminiscent to titles such as Crash Bandicoot.

All of the Dissidia: Final Fantasy screenshots have been seen before, just not in as high quality. One of the more interesting screenshots features the recently announced Onion Knight.

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This month’s issue of Japanese gaming magazine, Famitsu featured several pages on Square Enix’s upcoming PSP Action RPG; Dissidia: Final Fantasy. The new magazine scans feature higher quality artwork and screenshots of Onion Knight and Cloud Of Darkness; the protagonist and antagonist of the 1990 Square classic - Final Fantasy III.

It seems as if Onion Knight will be able to change between his Ninja form, and a White Mage form. Check out the scans below for artwork and screenshots of the Final Fantasy III duo.