Is it really going to be almost four years from when Final Fantasy 12 was released to the upcoming release of Final Fantasy 13? *Checks calendar.* Indeed.

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Yoshi Kitase and Motomu Toriyama from Square Enix have gone on record saying that future installments of the main Final Fantasy games should should not take as long as they have in the past. Now that their teams have the ins and outs of the hardware down, the process is expected to quicken. This is promising as now we might get to see Final Fantasy 30 (aka XXX for you perv-loving Roman numeral fans) during our lifetimes. [VG247]

Left for Dead 2's cover art appears to have been edited for Japan just like the first game. Apparently there's a bit of cultural sensitivty to missing fingers since the Yakuza have been known to cut off fingers as a form of appology. Makes you wonder if the fingers were missing before or after some of the zombies came to be.  [Kotaku]

Alex Seropian, the founder of Bungie Studios has been picked up by Disney to help them expand and improve their game development teams. Disney looks like they mean business when it comes to being a video game powerhouse, though Executive Vice President and General Manager of Disney Interactive Studios Graham Hopper says that they "don't have the ambition of trying to unseat the top players in the industry." Does this mean we're finally gonna get a Hannah Montanna game for hardcore gamers? [CNBC]

The new Today and Tomorrow Channel for the Wii comes out in Europe on Sept. 9th. Based off of your birthday it will give all sorts of horoscope advice and life improvement tips. We can only pray that the US release will add a cootie-catcher function. [CVG]

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