Is there any truth that there's a bitter rivalry between Square Enix icons Yoshinori Kitase and Tetsuya Nomura? Is this the reason why they're supposedly working on separate Final Fantasy Versus XIII games? What does he think of former boss Hironobu Sakaguchi's work with the Final Fantasy franchise? All the answers in the full article.

Heads up, fans of the Blue Dragon series. We've recently found a press release indicating the Japanese release date for Blue Dragon Plus. Find out when the game will come out (and for how much) after the jump!

Last week, we had a mammoth of a game release with Devil May Cry 4. It's not going to be any different this time around, with the much-awaited Lost Odyssey by Mistwalker finally making its US debut. Other noteworthy games in this batch are Professor Layton and the Curious Village, Dungeon Explorer: Warriors of Ancient Arts, RPG Maker VX, and a slew of other titles. Hit the full article for the rest of the list.

* Article originally posted Feb 11, 2008 at 01:12AM

Nobuo Uematsu's record label Dog Ear Records just announced that The Black Mages' third album is finally nearing its release. The Japanese band led by the man behind Final Fantasy melodies we all grew to love is going to unleash The Black Mages 3: Darkness and Starlight, which will contain more than remixes of magical FF music. Learn more by checking out the full article.

Mistwalker fans better prepare for some disappointment today. AQ Interactive recently announced that Mistwalker's two upcoming Nintendo DS games, Blue Dragon Plus and Away: Shuffle Dungeon, have been delayed.

Find out why they're being delayed, after the jump!

The official website of the Nintendo DS title Blue Dragon Plus from game developers Mistwalker and Brownie Brown Inc. is now up. This newest game in the Blue Dragon series was announced recently in Shonen Jump so details about Blue Dragon Plus are still scarce. Check out the full article to read up on what we do know about the game.

Via Jeux France, we've recently found out that Mistwalker and Feel Plus are bringing Blue Dragonback into the fray. This time, however, they're taking those powerful blue shadows and bringing them to Nintendo's DS handheld.

Titled Blue Dragon Plus, the game appears to be a real-time strategy game that pits your shadow-enhanced party against small armies, with some armies being ruled by a boss-type monster. More after the jump!

After last week's new releases, it doesn't come as a surprise when Media Create's latest software sales chart for December 3 to December 9 is almost dominated by previously released titles. Some newcomers such as Tales of Innocence and Lost Odyssey, however, fought for the top ten and came close to claiming Wii Fit 's throne.

Find out what's hot in Japan by checking out the full article!

Mistwalker has finally officially confirmed that a Blue Dragon (working title) game is scheduled to come out on the Nintendo DS next year. Though the Xbox 360 version of the game has long been released now, DS owners finally get in on the action.

On top of the V-jump scan from a few days ago, only a minor few details about the coming game have been revealed now, and the folks at NeoGAF have been able the information out. The game is to be developed by FreePlus+ and published by AQ Interactive. In Japan, it's going to come out by March 2008 - no mention of any Western release.

The game is categorized under the RPG genre (could this mean that it's not a card game after all?), but whether it'll be the same kind of RPG system as the 360 counterpart had is yet to be revealed. Right now, no one really knows if it's a remake or a sequel of the 360 version, but what's clear is that the DS version will not be based on the original manga anime.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is in on the project, but strangely, there doesn't seem to be any mention of Uematsu and Toriyama.

Looks like nothing can stop Mistwalker and the love for Blue Dragon; a poster over at the NeoGAF forums was able to put up a V-jump scan revealing that Blue Dragon, former Xbox 360 exclusive, will grace the Nintendo DS. Unfortunately, we don't know much about how the game will be like.

From the scans that focus on the game's other goodies like its anime DVDs, there is a small confirmation that Blue Dragon will indeed appear on the DS. With the company lead by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi working on Ash: Archaic Sealed Heat for Nintendo's handheld, our fingers are crossed for a high quality game as a product of Mistwalker's expertise with the platform.

There is confusion about claims of Blue Dragon on the DS being a card game, but the images we see from the scan show promise of a full-blown adventure. We'll have to wait for any official confirmation before concluding if the game will be tied to the trading card game, or be an entirely new entry to the franchise.