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Recently, Squaresoft held a meeting for its investors to discuss the company’s plans for its future and the future of its series. From what we’ve learned, it looks like Square has some interesting, but not entirely radical things planned for the upcoming year.

First, don’t expect to see any more FF:Unlimited, or movies, or anything else. Square has announced they will not be focusing any of their funds outside of the video game realm for quite a while. They seem to have big plans for their video games, though, talking about re-releasing several of their older hit games, such as Chrono Trigger, Parasite Eve, the FFT release already scheduled for the GBA, and the Seiken Densetsu series. Whether the games will be released with revised graphics or simply released again in their original form, we can only speculate.

However, even with all the remakes, Square has announced the only major projects that they will be working on will be Final Fantasy projects. They have also announced something unheard of until this point: semi-sequels. Square seems to be planning to release “spin-offs” of upcoming Final Fantasy games that may focus on one or more characters from those games. While the name “Final Fantasy XII” was thrown around a bit, apparently, we still have no new details about what to expect from Square’s next offline Final Fantasy game.

In other incidental news, those of you who are looking forward to Final Fantasy XI might want to check out the “Vana’diel Tribune” on PlayOnline, Square’s online newspaper dedicated to their MMORPG. The paper will apparently report on the goings on of Vana’diel, and will also contain other feature columns and sections.