Square Enix announces Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, coming in 2013

Square Enix has promoted the heck out of Final Fantasy XIII character Lightning, and love her or hate her she's getting one more game coming to the Xbox 360 and PS3 in 2013. Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII will be the final chapter in the Lightning saga, featuring a new story, world and characters with an enhanced gameplay system.

Lightning will be a playable character and Square Enix is promising fans that they will experience an "active and expansive environment like never before." To date, the Final Fantasy XIII franchise has shipped more than 9.6 million copies worldwide. I'm not the biggest Final Fantasy fanboy, but having played through XIII and XIII-2 I'll probably be playing this one, too, even though the storyline is so crazy and complex.

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