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Several new Dissidia: Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep and Kingdom Hearts: Coded screenshots have surfaced on the internet. We’ve seen the majority of Dissidia, 358/2 Days and Birth By Sleep screenshots before, however all of the Kingdom Hearts: Coded screenshots are new.

Two of the Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep screenshots are of conversations during cutscenes, however the other two seem to show some kind of in game mini-game. It’s hard to tell what’s happening in the mini-game, but it looks as if Terra has to kill one enemy after another within a certain time limit. The ‘Time Limit‘ ring could be part of the battle system, but it’s more likely to be part of a mini-game.

The Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days screenshots don’t really provide us with anything new, they’re just high quality screenshots of those shown in Shonen Jump earlier this week.

As I said earlier, all of the Kingdom Hearts: Coded screenshots are new. From what I can make out, it looks as if Coded’s in game battle system will use a mobile phone’s arrow and letter keys to create combos. Whilst in a battle, Kingdom Hearts: Coded seems to use a 3D engine; however from the looks of things Coded’s field play is going to be 2D - reminiscent to titles such as Crash Bandicoot.

All of the Dissidia: Final Fantasy screenshots have been seen before, just not in as high quality. One of the more interesting screenshots features the recently announced Onion Knight.

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This month’s issue of Japanese gaming magazine, Famitsu featured several pages on Square Enix’s upcoming PSP Action RPG; Dissidia: Final Fantasy. The new magazine scans feature higher quality artwork and screenshots of Onion Knight and Cloud Of Darkness; the protagonist and antagonist of the 1990 Square classic - Final Fantasy III.

It seems as if Onion Knight will be able to change between his Ninja form, and a White Mage form. Check out the scans below for artwork and screenshots of the Final Fantasy III duo.

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With Square Enix’s DKΣ3713 Private Party that took place last weekend, it really comes as no surprise that Japanese gaming magazine; Famitsu have something to say about the titles featured at the event.

This month’s issue of Famitsu featured a two page spread on Dissidia: Final Fantasy, a two page spread on Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, and a three page spread on Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep. Due to our lack of knowledge when it comes to the Japanese langauge, we don’t actually know if the magazine scans contain any new information; however the scans do contain some new images so it’s worth checking out.

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The above photo was snapped at Square Enix’s DKΣ3713 Private Party that took place last weekend. The photo contains three concept box arts for Dissidia: Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days and Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep.

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With Square Enix’s DKΣ3713 Private Party now in full swing, tidbits of information are starting to surface on the internet.

First of all, we have some new details regarding the new Final Fantasy XIII trailer that was shown at the event. One of the scenes in the trailer features Final Fantasy XIII’s pig-tails girl wearing a hood, whilst stood in front of a casket. Also, a character that looked similar to Final Fantasy VII’s Sephiroth was shown in the trailer. Considering that Tetsuya Nomura was asked to create a next generation Final Fantasy VII with Final Fantasy XIII, it’s pretty much safe to say that this Sephiroth clone will be the villain - I mean, look what he did with Lightning; Nomura definitely didn’t stray too far away from Cloud’s design and personality.

On the Final Fantasy XIII front, four new pieces of Final Fantasy XIII artwork were shown at the event. This includes images of Cocoon, Carbuncle, Shiva and Ifrit; as well as a couple of other things that I don’t recognize. Check the images out below!

Yoshitaka Amano, the main character artist for Final Fantasy’s I through to VI has been working on some artwork for Final Fantasy Versus XIII, some of this art was shown at the DKΣ3713 event. We also have some details of a new character that was shown in the Final Fantasy Versus XIII trailer; apparently the girl was dressed in modern day clothing in an art gallery full of pieces similar to those done by Anamo.

Final Fantasy Agito XIII’s PSP release was further confirmed by the fact that the trailer showed the Sony PSP’s face buttons (X, Square, Triangle, Circle) throughout the Agito trailer.

During a Dissidia: Final Fantasy showcase, a series of villians from previous Final Fantasy titles were shown. To name those villains, those attending the event saw images of Sephiroth, Kefka, Golbez and Exdeath.