Final Fantasy Versus XIII Lives, If You Can Call What It’s Doing Living
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Well, Kotaku was wrong, apparently — Square Enix head honcho Yuichi Wada just tweeted “?????????????????????????????????..????????????????????????????????????????????w.” I guess that answers that, right? Oh, maybe you want the translation: “There’s someone making a false rumor that Versus was cancelled. Haha…Just a minute ago, the regular Versus meeting ended. If you saw the presentation of the city, it’d knock you off your feet.” That’s good news, although it still doesn’t explain why the game has taken six years to partially make, or where the hell it’s been for the last year. Also, it doesn’t really explain why Squenix took a full week to refute the rumor, especially when Kotaku asked them whether the game had in fact been canceled last week. Hey, Square — if you really want to prove the game exists, feel free to put out a new trailer or a couple of screenshots or something. Just sayin’.
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