Sony are dropping the PSP’s price starting this weekend.

Kain and Lightining confirmed as playable characters.

While the CESA’s piracy figures for certain DS and PSP games are quite alarming, they don’t really mean anything unless you have a sales figure to compare them to.

CESA has been tracking illegal downloads of top selling handheld games. Out of all the titles – DS and PSP – Dissidia: Final Fantasy was downloaded the most.

Tetsuya Nomura makes a positive comment about a Dissidia: Final Fantasy sequel over Twitter.

Square Enix is about to release Dissidia: Final Fantasy in North America this week, but you may want to hold off buying it.

Europe is the last region to get Dissidia: Final Fantasy in the world, but Square Enix is making it up to PAL territories with a limited collectors edition version of Dissidia.

“We made a game where characters from various FF games got together to battle, Dissidia, but that was a project we were originally thinking of using for KH. However, deciding it would be a bad idea to make Disney characters fight each other.”

Square Enix added a new feature to the North American version of Dissidia: Final Fantasy. Arcade mode is designed for quick play. The computer automatically sets your stats, attacks, and lines up five enemies to fight.

Choose your allegiance to Cosmos or Chaos with the Dissidia: Final Fantasy package art. One side has all the Cosmos and all of the Final Fantasy heroes as imagined by Tetsuya Nomura. Flip it over and you have villains.

Dissidia: Final Fantasy will let Final Fantasy fans set up dream matches between the Onion Knight and Exdeath on August 25. Don’t have a PSP? Sony has a bundle for you.

Sony and trendy bag company Porter have enjoyed a long partnership making fashionable PSP cases. Their latest PS Pictogram case invites Square Enix to the party.   This pouch has a silhouette of the Cosmos vs. Chaos battle from Dissidia: Final Fantasy on the flap. The 88mm x 185mm x 42mm case is designed to [...]

Square Enix knows how to profit from character goods. That’s why they took hero designs from Dissidia: Final Fantasy and made them into trading arts figures. Unlike Square Enix’s other trading arts toys these aren’t minuscule statues. Each pre-painted figure is around 5″ tall and goes for about $13 depending where you import them.   [...]

Someday digital downloads could replace UMDs. Not quite yet, though! Most PSP owners still get their games on physical media which means load times.   A few publishers are tackling the problem with the help of larger Memory Sticks on the market. Their trick is a partial data install similar to what a handful PlayStation [...]

Later this month Dissidia: Final Fantasy comes out in Korea. It won’t be fully localized like Persona 4, believe it or not there is a Korean text version of Persona 4 there. Anyway, Korea gets Dissidia: Final Fantasy before us. As a bonus anyone that reserves the Korean version gets a Dissidia: Final Fantasy desktop [...]

I’m way deeper into Dissidia: Final Fantasy now with multiple Destiny Odysseys cleared. Cloud’s was a piece of cake. I won’t spoil the story bits, but I think you can imagine what happens. Cloud is an in your face character. At level one he has one projectile, a fire spell, and one distance closing attack. [...]