One of the best parts, arguably the best part about Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales, was online Pop Up Duels. After collecting and amassing a deck of cutesy esper cards from mini-games you could go online and challenge random players.
 
Pop Up battles have been a staple in Square Enix’s growing series of Chocobo titles [...]

A terse demo of Chocobo to Mahou no Ehon: Majiyo to Otome to Gojin no Yuusha went live on the Japanese Nintendo Channel. I grabbed it to see some of the new games in Square Enix’s new Chocobo mini-game collection and was entertained for about five minutes. Why so short? Square Enix only put two [...]

Over two consecutive years Square Enix has been the only developer at the Tokyo Game Show to devote a booth solely to its music department. Next to a rack of forty-four albums published by Square Enix and a three-dimensional version of the lime green cube familiar to visitors of the publisher’s website, promotion coordinator [...]

H.a.n.d. and Square Enix are stuffing over forty mini-games in Chocobo and the Magic Storybook: The Witch, The Maiden, and the Five Heroes which is scheduled to come out in Japan on December 11. Need more Chocobo themed mini-games? On the same day Square Enix will release Chocobo & Magic Books which has the [...]

 
The reception of the Final Fantasy Fables series has proven stronger on the Nintendo DS than on the Wii, which might explain the reasoning behind the port of Chocobo’s Dungeon for the portable console. In Japan it carries the elaborate title “Cid and Chocobo’s Mysterious Dungeon: Labyrinth of Forgotten Time +”. However, as not [...]

During TGS, a Square Enix representative shared some information on a feature of the two upcoming Chocobo titles for the Nintendo DS. Chocobo’s Dungeon and the sequel to Chocobo Tales will have Wi-Fi connectivity between them, allowing owners of each title to play card battles with one another.
 
The card battles are a [...]

Each year Square Enix prepares a Tokyo Game Show sampler CD with tracks from unreleased albums. The sampler is offered to visitors who make a purchase at the Square Enix Music booth, and this year marks volume number three. While the preview website implied that the disc would be rounded out by songs [...]

Red Mage. The boring, but versatile Red Mage class beat out Summoner, Bard, Engineer, and Hero X in a popularity poll where Square Enix members in Japan got to vote on what new job they wanted to include in the enhanced portable version of the game.
 
Cid is also a playable character in Cid and [...]

Chocobo to Mahou no Ehon: Majiyo to Otome to Gojin no Yuusha (Chocobo and the Magic Storybook: The Witch, The Maiden, and the Five Heroes) is basically a sequel to Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales. You’re not saving your feathered friends from a storybook with a voracious appetite this time. In this game Chocobo [...]

Square Enix isn’t being any fun. Their TGS 2008 lineup just went live without any slipped reveals. We’ll have to wait a little longer to find out if that Kingdom Hearts 3 rumor is true or not. The list is chock full of games we already know about like Final Fantasy XIII which is [...]