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- Square has released some new details for their upcoming MMORPG Final Fantasy XI for PlayStation 2, include details on Costumes, Time Release Monsters, Long Range Attacks, Chocobos, Shadow Dragon, Length of the Game, TP Gauge, and Weapon Skills. You can customize your character with many different costumes, new ones can be purchased at shops or acquired from dungeons. The appearance (hair style, skin color and even facial features) of the character may completely change with different costumes.....

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- Monolith Soft's producer Hirohide Sugiura mentioned that the sequel to Namco's newly released RPG Xenosaga is already under development. In addition to Xenosaga Episode II, Monolith Soft is also working on another secret title which cannot be revealed yet. (From GPara)

- Sega Rosso has confirmed a PlayStation 2 port of their arcade racing game Initial D: Arcade Stage.

- Irem Software Engineering will release the PlayStation 2 survival adventure game Zettai Zetsumei Toshi in Japan on April 25, for 6800 yen. The game will support Sega's Rez peripheral Trance Vibrator. In this game you have to rescue town people after the town suffered from a natural disaster (earthquake). You can perform many different actions in the game, include Straddle, Walk, Run, Hang On, Jump and Cry (search for survivors).

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- Treasure announced a home version of their Naomi arcade shooting game Ikaruga, the game will be coming to both PlayStation 2 and Dreamcast. The Dreamcast version is scheduled for release on May 30.

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- Here are some screen shots of Sierra's GameCube first person action game Die Hard: Vendetta, the game is being developed by Bits Studios, scheduled for release by the end of the year.

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- The Dengeki Console Chart is updated. Over half of the entries are occupied by new game titles released this week. The top selling game is Square and Disney's Kingdom Hearts, sold 415,900+ units, following by Banpresto's Super Robot Taisen Impact, Namco's Tekken 4 and Nintendo's Fire Emblem: Sealed Sword. Sega's last major Dreamcast title - Sakura Taisen 4 has dropped back to No. 13, sold 238,400+ units to-date; and Capcom's GameCube Biohazard remake has dropped back to No. 9, sold 134,400+ units to-date.