Dissidia: Final Fantasy seemed like every Final Fantasy fans wet dream. A fighting game featuring the protagonists and antagonists from the 12 numbered games does sound pretty awesome. And it was, garnering a metacritic score of 79/100.

And when games are popular and sell a lot of copies, there’s a high probability of a sequel being made. When asked about a possible Dissidia sequel in a Twitter interview (yes those exist), SqueEnix character designer Tetsuya Nomura had this to say:

“I’ll do my best for a sequel to Dissidia Final Fantasy!”

Note that he said “for a sequel”, hopefully meaning the guy will sell the idea to the Square top brass post haste. Though it does make we ponder which characters would star in a sequel to Dissidia.

Square Enix confirmed today that the release for Dissidia: Final Fantasy in Europe should be revealed in the next few weeks.

“We’ll be making an announcement on the release timing later this month,” a rep told the press today.

The PSP Final Fantasy fighting game, which has a rough “mind 2009″ release date in the US, was the biggest selling title in Japan for the month of January.

It’s Christmas already in some parts of the world, and it’s just around the corner for the rest of us. As such, the gang here at The Gaming Vault will be wrapping things up on the website until the new year.

From myself, and everyone else on staff, have a pleasant holiday season. May your next few days be full of cheer, happiness… and lots and lots of video games!

We hope you’ll join us back here in 2009, when we’ll be as active as ever. We have plenty of things planned for the start of the new year, including more additions to our extensive Dissidia: Final Fantasy guide, new instalments of our original Games ‘N’ Goblins video-cast, and a feature looking back at our favourite games of 2008.

And that’s only for the start of the year! Except much besides in the year ahead!

See you again in 2009, fellow gamers. Enjoy your holidays!

In our third Dissidia: Final Fantasy character guide, we take a look at Firion. This uniquely dressed hero, hailing from Final Fantasy II believes he’s so hardcore that he carries around not just one, not even two, but seven weapons in combat!

And we’re going to show you how to use them, and use them well.

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In our second Dissidia: Final Fantasy character guide, we take a look at Garland, the legendary villain of Final Fantasy I, who was hunkering around in metal armour and looking generally imposing long before the likes of Golbez and ExDeath came on the scene.

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Here you will find a detailed resource on the PlayStation Portable title Dissidia: Final Fantasy.

Updates will be daily, excluding weekends.

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In our first Dissidia: Final Fantasy character guide, we take a look at the character who jump started the franchise, the iconic Warrior of Light, who makes his appearance in Dissidia looking similar to how he was originally designed by Yoshitaka Amano, over 20 years ago.

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It looks like the PlayStation portable still has some life left in it yet. On its first day at retail in Japan yesterday, Square Enix’s Dissidia: Final Fantasy sold a whopping 350,000 copies!

40,000 of theses sales were of the 20th Anniversary Limited Pack, which came with a limited edition PSP-3000 system. This makes Dissidia’s launch equal to the success of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII — mind you, it doesn’t even come to the first day sales of Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G; an insane 670,000 units.

As you already know a US release date has already been confirmed for mid-2009. Here’s hoping it repeats the same success over here.

Running hot on the tails of Dissidia’s official release in Japan today, Square Enix has announced that the game will be released in North American regions in “mid-year 2009″.

“Square Enix, Inc., the publisher of Square Enix(R) interactive entertainment products in North America, announced that DISSIDIA(TM) FINAL FANTASY(R) for the PSP(R) (PlayStation(R)Portable) system will be available mid-year 2009 in North America.”

Could you be any more vague, Squenix?

Well, at least we know it’s coming out in the west, which will be joyous news for many of us.

In the meantime, you can get all the information you want on the game here on The Gaming Vault over the coming month, starting with our detailed Dissidia gameplay guide.

Kicking off The Gaming Vault’s month of dedicated Dissidia content, we start right at the beginning, with a detailed look at Dissidia’s gameplay mechanics and its battle system. We explain many of the game’s exhaustive features, as well as providing some advanced tactics for more skilled gamers to muse over.

Gameplay features outside of the main battle system will be detailed in later guides.

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It seems like forever since the game was announced, and us here at The Gaming Vault have made no secret of about being excited about the game, but the day has finally arrived… Dissidia: Final Fantasy has finally been released in Japan!

To celebrate the occasion, The Gaming Vault will be running features every day for the next month dedicated to the game, detailing the ins and outs of Dissidia’s gameplay, looking into all 22 major characters, and constructing an exhaustive guide of every facet of the game.

If you’re looking forward to Dissidia, and want all the information before anywhere else, you’ll find it here first!

This is it fans; the final official trailer for Dissidia: Final Fantasy, and with it comes the reveal that a character from FFXII has made the cut. Don’t watch unless you want to know who!

I’ll save the banter and just let you watch the trailer… enjoy!

In one of the latest videos for Dissidia, We get to see Sephiroth and Cloud battling it out in a similar re-enactment of the classic Final Fantasy VII Battle.

Instead of boring you with details, Just watch it, and see.

The video’s under the cut. Enjoy!

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This just in from the Tokyo Game Show; Bartz, Terra and Cloud (from FFV, FFVI, and FFVII respectively) have just been confirmed as playable characters for the upcoming Dissidia: Final Fantasy on the PSP.

Bartz appearance, as with the rest of the roster, is highy reminisce of Yoshitaka Amano’s original character design, and has a look inspired by ancient Roman history. Terra’s design is also identical to Amano’s original art, and as such she will be ditching the green hair for a more traditional blonde. Cloud will appear in his classic get-up, instead of his more recent Advent Children garb.

This news pretty much completes the 20 character roster for Dissidia. Now all we have to do is wait for the game to be released…

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Gametrailers has a new Dissidia trailer up – this time of the battle between Garland and the Warrior of Light.

The fight that started it all.

Still can’t wait for the game to be released. Nothing much more to say. Enjoy the video.

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