Ultimate Hits, Eternal Hits, and Legendary Hits are different Square Enix budget labels. We’re going to add one more to this list – Square Enix Masterpieces – a brand for budget PC games in PAL territories.

Before reading, curb any excitement. OK, ready? This isn’t something to jump out of your chair for about, but Amazon Japan suddenly has the PlayStation 3 version of The Last Remnant in their catalog.

Square Enix developed The Last Remnant with elements for the East and West. Rush Sykes was designed as your typical J-RPG protagonist. The Conqueror was made to appeal to the West. Which region bought the most copies?

The Last Remnant will be distributed via Steam shortly after the Windows version arrives in stores on March 24. A Japanese press release clued us into the news last night.   A US press release confirming the Steam distribution adds another note, “Square Enix will continue to add to its roster of games on Steam, [...]

Square Enix’s RPG made for the world is getting another worldwide release. On April 9 the PC version will come out in Japan and the rest of the world as a Steam download. A price has not been announced at this time.   A boxed copy of The Last Remnant will cost 8,190 yen ($86) [...]

Before the Last Remnant comes out on the PlayStation 3 it’s hitting PCs. The Games for Windows release comes out in Japan on April 9 and Square Enix suggests purchasers have a PC at least equipped with a 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo / AMD Athlon X2 processor, 2GB of RAM, and an Xbox 360 [...]

The Last Remnant feels like a run-of-the-mill PS2 RPG dressed up with eye-popping Xbox 360 textures and graphics. Its load times are atrocious when playing the game off the disc; it takes a few seconds to load each battle as well as a few seconds to load the interior of buildings and different parts of [...]

We still don’t know when The Last Remnant will be ready for the PS3, but if you have a Windows ready PC you can get The Last Remnant this Spring. Square Enix notes the PC version “will include features previously not available on the original Xbox 360 release.” However, they don’t outline what these features [...]

Square Enix will roll out downloadable content for The Last Remnant starting next week and the good news is almost all of it is free. On December 1st Xbox Live Gold Members can download Purgatory’s Sins, a challenge pack with new guild tasks, and the Key of the Ancient Ruins which opens up ancient runes [...]

If you want to get the Last Remnant on day one and save some money head to Amazon. Over there the game is being sold for $39.99 (thanks Clark!!) and you get the pre-order bonus downloadable content too. Right now other retailers are sticking to $59.99 for The Last Remnant so this might be an [...]

According to a representative who walked us through several of the titles on display at the Tokyo Game Show, The Last Remnant represents a concerted effort by Square Enix to position the game developer as a global company. Central to the aim of creating “an RPG for the world” is figuring out what kind of [...]

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 from The [...]

Like Infinite Undiscovery before it, Square Enix has plans to release downloadable content for the Last Remnant. If you pre-order the game you will get a download code for the March to War Set, a package of three rare battle formations. It isn’t clear how the Goblet, Scatterswarm, and Catapult formations will affect the tide [...]

Microsoft must be pleased the Last Remnant will be released on the Xbox 360 first. If you can’t wait for the PlayStation 3 version and have a hankering for a Japan region coded Xbox 360 there is a hardware bundle for you. The Last Remnant Premium Pack comes with a 60GB Xbox 360, wireless controller, [...]

It looks like the Last Remnant includes reaction commands during battles. The screenshot above shows a player blocking an attack by pulling the right trigger. Interesting, but the Last Remnant’s combat system still doesn’t sound that different from other RPGs. Instead of commanding individual party members you bark orders to unions (read: parties) like “attack [...]

During combat you don’t control a handful of god-like warriors in the Last Remnant, you control multiple parties each consisting of up to five characters. However, the command system is quite similar to your run of the mill turn based RPG. Instead of selecting fight you give each union commands like “time to get physical!” [...]