Amazon’s Gold Box is shining with Xbox 360 deals all day long. You can get Bioshock 2 for $39.98 and Mass Effect 2 for $37.98 right now.

Tri-Ace’s new RPG, Resonance of Fate, drops down the charts after debuting at #2, while God Eater makes its (somewhat) grand debut. Meanwhile, Brownie Brown’s latest DS game came and went, and no one cared…

As of last week, Star Ocean: The Last Hope is a multi-platform game. However, it took a year for the PlayStation 3 version to come out. How come?

Star Ocean 3 got a director’s cut, so will Star Ocean: The Last Hope get one too? A fan brought that question to Yoshinori Yamagishi, the game’s producer.

Star Ocean: The Last Hope and Star Ocean: The Last Hope International are pretty much the same game, but Square Enix is marketing the game differently on each platform.

Star Ocean: The Last Hope International has more than Japanese voices and anime portraits. Square Enix’s European newsletter slipped news that the PlayStation 3 port has “additional characters.”

Square Enix sent over new screenshots of Star Ocean: The Last Hope International which show something the international Xbox 360 version didn’t have.

Square Enix didn’t highlight the anime art as one of the features, but a battle screenshot with anime portraits was also included with the Japanese announcement.

Don’t worry about importing Star Ocean: The Last Hope International. Square Enix plans to release the PlayStation 3 version domestically.

Square Enix is raising the bar for their “international” editions, which usually have English voice acting and Japanese subtitles. Star Ocean: The Last Hope International also includes English subtitles.

Star Ocean: The Last Hope International, which is Star Ocean: The Last Hope with Japanese and English voice acting is slated for release in Japan on February 4, 2010.

Surprisingly, Square Enix commented on the Star Ocean: The Last Hope listing found in the PlayStation 3 section of Gamefly. A spokesperson said, “the posting on Gamefly.com was an error and had been taken down from their site.”

Square Enix’s first retail PlayStation 3 game might be Star Ocean: The Last Hope. Nothing official, but Gamefly has a listing for said title.

While we’re finished sailing through the galaxy, Europe still doesn’t have Star Ocean: The Last Hope. PAL territories won’t see the game in stores until June 5, but they get two versions of it.