To coincide with this year’s 25th Anniversary celebrations, Square Enix has detailed a Final Fantasy box set that will include game discs spanning Final Fantasy I-XIII, a 128 page art book, a piano arrangement CD, and a double disc soundtrack selection that will feature the best music chosen from the entire series. To top it off, the collection will include an acrylic art stand (as pictured above).

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Here’s a blast from the past courtesy of Square Enix; their upcoming arrangement album for the Super Famicom series ‘Romancing SaGa’ has just had some music samples posted on the official website.

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Square Enix have released four samples from the upcoming ‘Secret of Mana Genesis’ arrange album on its official page. Composed and now rearranged by the series’ musical mastermind Hiroki Kikuta it provides 16 revitalised tracks from the game. It will be released on August 8 in Japan, there is no word of a worldwide release yet.

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OC Remix is launching a brand new album however this time, with the help of kickstarter, it will also be available in a hefty four disc edition physical copy.

Kickstarter has now firmly established itself as an excellent resource to gather funding for projects. Those that donate will get rewards. The more money you donate, the better the rewards.

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This year marks the 25th year of the Final Fantasy franchise and as a result Square Enix are producing a variety of products and events that celebrate the series.

Most recently, they uploaded the trailers of 14 Final Fantasy games onto their youtube channel  but there’s also some more specifically musical additions to the anniversary:

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Violinist Taylor Davis has just released her first album which features 14 arrangements for violin and accompanying orchestra. The album spans a whole host of landmark video game series including Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, and Zelda.

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<p>Square Enix has recently detailed three more remix albums forming their ‘SQ Remix’ range, with the somewhat strangely named <em>Beer SQ</em>, <em>SQ Chips2</em>, and <em>Battle SQ</em>. The series selects songs from various Square titles and remixes them with a common theme, here’s a little more info on each:</p> Read more →

Well, it’s that time of year again. E3 2012 is rapidly approaching, an event that arguably provides some of the biggest announcements from all of the gaming hotshots however this year there’s also something excitingly musical gracing the stage. Video Games Live (the brainchild of Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall) is coming to E3 for a special game music extravaganza with an enormous array of music, prizes, and an intriguing emphasis on audience interaction.

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<p>The music of the Final Fantasy series has long been the archetype of RPG composition with a huge global fanbase and numerous soundtrack albums and arrangement albums. So perhaps a game that features the music centre stage is somewhat overdue, however, <a href=”http://www.theatrhythm.com/” target=”_blank”>Theatrhythm</a> aims to aid these qualms.</p> Read more →