If you’ve been an ardent follower of Square-Enix news, then you know that Kojima having dinner dates with the staff at Square-Enix is nothing particularly new. In fact, we speculate that this have brought about the inception of Square-Enix producing Metal Gear Solid figures under it’s PlayArts brand, but only speculation. However, Mr. Kojima and his art director Yoji Shinkawa recently had dinner with president Yoichi Wada, director Tetsuya Nomura who is also known for his character artwork.

Kojima relayed that he passed along various messages by his Twitter followers to ask Square-Enix including a message for them “to remake Final Fantasy VII”. While we can’t imagine this would be something Square-Enix hasn’t thought about already at some length (and they’ve commented several times upon), Mr. Nomura said he “pass it along” to the rest of the staff.

Tetsuya Nomura updated the official Kingdom Hearts twitter today with the news that prolific Japanese voice actor Nachi Nozawa passed away yesterday at the age of 72 after losing his battle with lung cancer. Nozawa’s body of work included voicing Professor Hojo for the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII titles: Last Order: Final Fantasy VII, Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII, and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII; he was also cast as the Organization XIII member “Vexen” in the Kingdom Hearts series.

Nomura wrote of Nozawa: “Nachi Nozawa, who gave life to Organization XIII’s No.4, Vexen, and FFVII’s Dr. Hojo, has passed away. It’s a real pity. We thank him and pray for his happiness in the next life.”

According to this week’s Famitsu Jump, an international version of the PSP title Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII will be showing up soon as a direct download title. The game will include a gallery. More info will be posted here as it breaks.

UPDATE: Looks like it’s fake.

Via: FF-Reunion

Square Enix is known to lay down pretty big bombshells on Twitter nowadays, and today is no different. After this morning’s Nintendo 3DS Conference, [a Japanese event where Nintendo formally unveiled 3DS details such as price, release, and available titles] where we got a small look at Chocobo Racing 3DS, Square Enix producer Hajime Tabata, director of the extremely popular Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core for the PSP, updated Twitter with his consideration for a good title for the Nintendo 3DS.

“If I were to do something on 3DS, it’d be a Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII remake I guess, completely changing the scenario composition and game design for the 3DS, if it were an action RPG BCFF7 that lots of Turk players could simultaneously play at a dizzying pace, wait a second this work is not an official announcement of course.”

Obviously this is not an official announcement of the title, but it’s good to know they are already considering the option. For those unaware, Before Crisis Final Fantasy VII is a prequel to Crisis Core only released on mobile phones in Japan. It’s a title that went deep into the overarching history of the Final Fantasy VII compilation, and starred the notable Turks as the main cast.

I for one desperately hope Square Enix goes through with this. Before Crisis, being on mobile phones, had a gameplay element that made use of the phone’s camera, allowing players to create magic by taking pictures of certain colors. This would be perfect, as the 3DS has a built in camera. Furthermore, it would finally give this last VII Compilation title the ability to be released in the west!

Via: Siliconera