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Square Enix has put out three new images of the forthcoming tri-Ace RPG, Star Ocean: The Last Hope and they look very colourful indeed.

IGN has them so head on over there and take a look.

Star Ocean: The Last Hope is out next month in Japan, March in the US and is slated for an April released in Europe.

By Mike Bowden

Microsoft Japan has revealed two new bundles for potential Xbox 360 owners in Japan: Star Ocean 4 and Resident Evil 5.

Due for release on February 19, the Arcade Star Ocean 4 bundle is priced at ¥24,800 and comes with a Star Ocean 4 soundtrack and faceplate.

On March 5, the Resident Evil 5 bundle is a 60Gb Premium that will come with a 48 hour LIVE Gold member trial member card, and the RE5 deluxe edition with collector’s tin and soundtrack. This will cost ¥34,800.

Thanks, Kotaku.

By Mike Bowden

tri-Ace looks to be outdoing itself with this new trailer from the Star Ocean series.

It’s got someone called Edge Maverick in it, and some bird with green hair. Watch it here.

Game’s out March 3 in the US and February 19 in Japan. It will be on three DVDs, if that kind of thing floats your boat.

Now go watch.

By Mike Bowden

Square’s released some new Star Ocean: The Last Hope screens, decent versions of which can be found on Scrawl.

The JRPG’s out in the US on March 3, with a Japanese version preceding it on February 19.

Square’s put out a press release confirming its first quarter games for next year, confirming a few new DS titles for the period.

Star Ocean: Second Evolution (PSP), Star Ocean: The Last Hope (360), Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride (DS), and Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume (DS) will all make it out before March next year.

Full thing after the break.

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TGS is clearly the show that keeps on giving. GameInfoWire’s posted up a new set of shots for Star Ocean: The Last Hope, and extremely pretty they are too.

No fixed date for this yet, aside from “2009″. Take a look.

On IGN. There’s the RPG’s Tokyo Game Show trailer there, and two off-screen videos of gameplay. It does, in a word, look hot. See for yourself.

Microsoft just confirmed that Star Ocean: The Last Hope will release on February 19 in Japan and March 3 in America for 360.

It’s coming out in Europe as well, but no date was set.

The news comes out of Microsoft’s TGS keynote, which is ongoing.

Gamersyde has them and they’re looking lovely. We also got confirmation that the game will be playable at TGS so expect some footage to come out of that.

Also, maybe Square Enix will finally set the record straight in Tokyo as to whether a PlayStation 3 version is only the way after the company remained silent on the only on Xbox 360 stickers on Infinite Undiscovery game manual.

Images through the link. Thanks, Blerk.

By Mike Bowden

1UP’s posted more from today’s issue of Famitsu, this time translating a bunch of story information on Star Ocean: The Last Hope. Apparently:

Edge Maverick and Reimi Saionji, two childhood friends, are members of this elite team, with more characters joining them later on. Two new party members were introduced this week: Faize Sheifa Beleth, a rapier-wielding 18-year-old from planet Elder who’s cool, emotionless, and resembles a Japan-designed, blond-haired Mr. Spock; and Lymle Remli Phi, a villager from planet Remlik who’s gifted in magic and looks like a prepubescent young girl even though she’s 15 years old — not because the character designer’s a perv, but because some incident in her past caused enough emotional trauma that she hasn’t matured correctly. (Both of these characters’ native planets are new to the Star Ocean universe, and presumably we’ll be visiting both of ‘em as the game goes on.)

Loads more through there. The Square RPG’s a 360-exclusive (so far) heading west next year. It’ll be shown in more detail at TGS later this month.

Kotaku’s reporting that Square RPGs Star Ocean: The Last Hope and The Last Remnant will both be playable at Tokyo Game Show in October.

Both games were listed in the firm’s show list announcement earlier this week, but without any indication as to whether we were going to just get movies or hands-on time.

Now you know. More through the link.

Destructoid’s noticed an ad for Star Ocean 4 in the Infinite Undiscovery manual with the motif “only on 360″ in the lower right hand corner.

The last we heard on the exclusivity front was that there was “no plans” to bring the game to PlayStation 3. Looks like the firm wasn’t lying.

We’ll check with Square and hopefully get some clarification.

By Mike Bowden

Microsoft has put out a press release detailing all the game we can look forward to this year and next. You saw most of them this evening but there are a couple that didn’t make it. After the drop, if you please.

By Mike Bowden

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Square’s announced its E3 line-up, and it contains a few surprises.

As well as The Last Remnant, Infinite Undiscovery and Star Ocean: The Last Hope, the firm will show Star Ocean: First Departure and Star Ocean: Second Evolution, both for PSP.

Taito’s Exit DS and The Legend of Kage 2, again for DS, will also be shown.

Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest The Chapters of the Chosen, FFIV and iPod game Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes make up the rest of the list,

FFXIII isn’t mentioned, but we know it’s going to have presence at the LA show next week.

Press release after the link.

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Oh dear. Teh internets won’t like this. According to this Wired piece, Square Enix has issued a statement to Yahoo Japan saying there are “no plans” to bring Star Ocean 4 – now renamed Star Ocean: The Last Hope – to PS3.

The game was announced for Xbox 360 at a Microsoft event in Japan on Tuesday.

On Watch Impress. These came out of the Xbox 360 RPG Premiere 2008 event in Tokyo this morning.

After the link. All these trailers came out of this morning’s Xbox 360 RPG Premiere 2008 event in Tokyo.

As reported earlier, Last Remnant and Infinite Undiscovery will both release in Europe this year for 360, with Star Ocean 4 – now officially titled Star Ocean: The Last Hope – will make it over here next year.

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Press release after the link. All this information was announced this morning in Tokyo, but all this stuff’s directly related to Europe. One interesting point there is that Star Ocean’s not listed as an Xbox 360 exclusive – whereas Infinite Undicovery is – and no other platforms are mentioned.

Take a look.

Update: The issue of Star Ocean’s platforms has been clarified on IGN. From the site:

Square Enix producer Yoshinori Yamagishi cleared things up during a roundtable interview session that followed the press conference. Asked if the game is 360-only, he said, “We cannot announce anything on that. We can say that it will be released first [on the Xbox 360]. Whether we’ll release it on the PS3 is undecided. We may release it, we may not.”

Thanks, Psychotext!

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Square Enix has confirmed that RPG Star Ocean 4′s official title is Star Ocean The Last Hope.

The company gave the details at the Microsoft’s ongoing Xbox 360 RPG Premiere 2008 event in Tokyo, confirming that the game will release on Xbox 360 in 2009..

No other platforms were detailed, but neither was exclusivity.