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Welcome to the Midgar Press, the news column for the Final Fantasy Wiki. Here, special news pertaining the Wiki and the Final Fantasy series that grab our attention will be reported for all to read. Anyone can start a news report, but be sure to leave the date, location, source (if these two are possible) and sign your report with these ~~~~ before sending in to the printing press.

News report should be structured in a chronological manner, with recent issues posted at the top. To post a reaction or write a comment, follow the links provided according to the respective news link. Remember, only news related to the Wiki and to the Final Fantasy series are allowed. Our executive editor is Bluerfn.

Old news are in the Archives:


June 2008

FFTA2 is now available in Europe

27th June by Tex

Now the newest chapter in the Ivalice Alliance has crossed the Atlantic for all Europeans to enjoy. Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift, the long awaited sequel to Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, is now available in Europe for the Nintendo DS.

The newest game from the Ivalice Alliance has been released in the USA

24th June by Henryacores

Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift is the newest chapter from the Ivalice Alliance compilation. The sequel of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance for the Nintendo DS has been long awaited by the American public, and is now available in the USA.

Crisis Core has arrived in Europe

20th June by Henryacores

Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- has been released in Europe today. Finally, the continent can accompany Zack Fair on his adventure: the newest chapter of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII.

New Moderator!

17 June by 8bit_BlackMage

FFWiki's resident Gnome-in-chief, Yuanchosaan, has been bestowed the Moderator title! This was done after a nomination by Azul and BlueHighwind on CSM's talk page. With over 5,000 mainspace edits, the Wiki can only hope that Yuan continues to be a great contributor! Congrats!

New characters confirmed for Dissidia -Final Fantasy-

11th June by Bluer

The Japanese magazine Shonen Jump today revealed the newest updates for their PSP fighting game Dissidia. Two titular characters from Final Fantasy X, Tidus and Jecht will be fighting against each other in the epic struggle between the forces of good and evil.

More will be revealed soon.

Source: Jeux-France.com

May 2008

Square Enix Sites Updated

26th May by AJDurai

The official web site for Final Fantasy IV was updated today; the site now features the story section, the characters section and a trailer.

Also launched is the full web site for Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon earlier this week.

Sayonara Bluer-Kun

12th of May by Henry

Bluerfn, Admin and Executive Editor of this journal has declared that he will leave this wiki, as "I can't contribute new stuff because I can't access the newer games", though he said that "maybe I'll come back when someone other than Diablo catches up to my total edit count", words of his. Dear friend and great contributor to this Wikia, Bluerfn will surely be missed by the community. His final farewell words were:

わたしの貢献をおわります。みんな、幸運をお祈りしています。がんばってください。さよなら。
My services are over. Everyone, I wish you good luck. Please work hard. Farewell.

April 2008

Another FFIII walkthroughs Completed

26th of April by Hexedmagica

Today, Hexedmagica has completed his Final Fantasy III walkthrough, bringing the wiki's total of Final Fantasy III walkthroughs to two, one for each version.

A new edit space!

24th April by Bluer

A rising concern on personal walkthroughs written on Main namespace lead to the creation of the Walkthrough Namespace. One of the administrators, Bluer forwarded the suggestion of a walkthrough namespace to the Wikia staff, and hours later a Walkthrough namespace was created for the Wiki. To note, this Wiki is the only one with a walkthrough namespace so far. From now on, all Walkthroughs will be written under this namespace. Those who wish to write one must comply to the Walkthrough policies laid out by Administrators.

It's official

21 April, by Pablo618
It is now official that the fellow member of the wiki, Hecko X, has left the FFwiki for an indefinite time because of an argument between him, CSM and some other users on the Rin's Travel Agency. This was made official during a conversation via e-mail between users Pablo618 and Hecko X. Although Hecko X will still hang out on the IRC channel of wikia and he will probably continue to update his animoo rants.

Final Fantasy III/CL's "Walkthrough" Completed!

21 April by Chocolancer

Thanks to the dedication of a new user, FFwiki now has its own complete walkthrough for Final Fantasy III! This walkthrough covers the original NES version of the game. This user will take a short break before starting work on a second Final Fantasy II Walkthrough which will also cover the NES version, and is a part of Chocolancer's NES walkthrough trilogy.

Welcome! Our Second Bureaucrat!

20 April by Bluerfn

On this very fateful day, Diablo has been granted bureaucrat rights, effectively making him the second bureaucrat for the Final Fantasy Wiki. After the suggestion was opened at the Rin's Travel Agency, a community consensus has been reached, of which a sweeping majority was in favor of his bureaucratship.

As Bureaucrat, Diablo is sharing responsibilities with CSM, and CSM welcomes this move. Congratulations to Diablo, and may the Wiki fulfills its mission as a Final Fantasy database.

FFWiki's 14th, 15th and 16th Moderators

17 April by Azul

After a conversation between users on the forums, Crazyswordsman made 8bit BlackMage, TheSwordofDoubt and NeloAngelo the wiki's 14th, 15th and 16th Moderators respectively. Go congratulate them on their talk pages!

Final Fantasy IV in Dual Screen! And English!

10 April by Bluerfn

The April Fool joke is no April Fool joke, it seems. Square Enix has confirmed in its official site that the North American version of Final Fantasy IV will be released for the Nintendo DS on July 22nd, 2008. New additions have been confirmed for this release; such as:

  • Augment System – a dynamic system that allows the player to assign special abilities to characters,
  • Train and customize Whytkin by playing a variety of mini-games and challenge another player to head-to-head battle via local wireless connection!

More details on the press release. Leave your comments here!

FFWiki releases radio drama! Competes with the Aria!

8 April by Bluerfn

The first episode of Intangirs are VIndigo, the FFWiki's Final Fantasy VI radio drama has been released to the public on this date! Inspired by the Earthbound's fan radio play Fobbies are Borange! and Final Fantasy VI, it is the brainchild of Crazyswordsman, who announced this project March 14, 2008. The voice-acting auditions have taken place since its announcement, and so far two episodes are in the works.

Reactions have been positive overall; most found it hilarious, though insignificant audio problems plague the first episode of the production (I fixed them :D -CSM). Some even volunteered to lend their voice for Episode 3, of which auditions will be held in a later date.

Square announces Fanart contest on DeviantArt

4 April by Crazyswordsman

DeviantArt, that website with waaaay too many Final Fantasy fanartists is having a fanart contest for Square's upcoming Nintendo DS RPG, The World Ends With You. The game, designed by Final Fantasy veteran Tetsuya Nomura and the Kingdom Hearts team, will be released on April 22nd. DeviantArt obtained special permission to use Nomura's art for the contest. See the details here.

Final Fantasy II/HenryA's "Walkthorugh" Completed!

4 April by Henryacores

FFwiki finally has a walkthrough for Final Fantasy II. This new walkthrough covers the new PSP version of the game: Final fantasy II Anniversary, thus, covering the former versions of it. Players are guided through the main story of the game, as well as the optional dungeons Soul of Rebirth and Arcane Labyrinth.

Another chapter of the Final Fantasy Fables revealed

2 April by Bluerfn

Square Enix released a press release (no pun intended) on a new Chocobo series title, Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon. Slated for a North American release on July 8, 2008, this title exclusive for the Nintendo Wii, follows the gameplay of past Chocobo titles, Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon.

The story follows Cid the treasure hunter and his companion Chocobo who somehow stumble into a mysterious town where memories of its inhabitants are erased with every toll of the clocktower's bell.

See the press release here!

Final Fantasy IV DS in North America?

2 April by Crazyswordsman

This month's issue of Nintendo Power has the game on its cover, and ten pages devoted to it. They make no mention of a release date, but show English screenshots. Whether this is an April Fools joke on Nintendo's part or not remains to be seen, but we will update you as more information comes in. They also talk about a possible remake of the smash hit Chrono Trigger.

March 2008

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII is out.

25 March by Henryacores

The latest chapter of the Final Fantasy VII Compilation was released today on the USA. This game's release also celebrates the 10th anniversary of the release of Final Fantasy VII and serves as a prequel to the same.

The Staff increases with two Moderators and one Admin!

18 March by Blue

The Wiki's Staff has just been expanded on this day. We've received two new moderators and one administrator. Hexed and Good Drake has just been given moderator status by CSM. They do deserve the rollback rights; vandal fighting, article improvements, you name it, they've done it.

The admin count has also increased to six with Bluerfn given sysop rights by CSM. The Wiki needed one admin from the Asian time zone, and it was for this purpose that Blue was selected. Congratulations to our new staff, and everyone hopes the wiki will stay the same fun community fansite as it is now, if not better.

Pirated Ring of Fates give Thanks

13 March by Blue

And now something besides walkthrough news. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates was recently released to the North American market on March 10th. Several hours after its release, however, copies of the game's ROM were scattered into the Internet to be downloaded freely by players.

However, a rather cute surprise of the Moogle sort appeared to the players shortly after the downloaded ROMs are played. Some instances record as long as twenty minutes of gameplay, before the game screen suddenly switched to two Moogles saying "Thank you for playing" and returns back to the title screen. Players can still continue from where they left off, but it will be approximately twenty minutes before the two Moogles reappeared and the game resets.

No news has been delivered from the offices of Square Enix regarding what some believe to be a bug in the game. Then again, if you play the legit article, you shouldn't worry about such things... should you? ^_-

Final Fantasy V/BH Walkthrough Completed!

12 March by BlueHighwind

The Wiki's very first Walkthrough for the game Final Fantasy V has been completed after two and a half months of endless effort and toil. The Final Fantasy V/BH Walkthrough includes a complete walkthrough of the entire main game, all sidequests, and the optional dungeon - including the Cloister of the Dead (but that's not very good).

This is BlueHighwind's fifth walkthrough. After taking a short break he plans to begin work on his own version of a Final Fantasy Tactics walkthrough.

Final Fantasy Mystic Quest Walkthrough Completed!

5 March by BlueHighwind

Final Fantasy Mystic Quest doesn't get much love on this wiki. Everyone seems to either have never heard of it, never played it, or for those have played it, hate it. Mostly because its a bad rip-off of the Legend of Zelda Series. I did not know that before I read this: Final Fantasy Mystic Quest/Walkthrough by Drake Clawfang.

This is Drake 2's second walkthrough. And it is filled with endless sarcastic comments and hints of suicidal thoughts about having to walkthrough a game this bad. Something tells me that this is the last Mystic Quest Walkthrough this wiki will ever get.

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