Yep, whether we secretly wanted it or quietly wished for it (or really didn't ask for it at all), here it comes.

What we know so far:

• Square Enix announced Final Fantasy XIII-2 for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
• During a Square Enix 1st Production Division event in Japan, producer Yoshinori Kitase revealed this title to be a direct sequel to last year's Final Fantasy XIII.
• It will be directed by Motomu Toriyama.
• While Japan will be able to pop this into their personal choice of non-Wii console by the end of this year, the rest of us will be able to play this for ourselves sometime "next Winter". My guess is that means this time next year or perhaps February of next year.

TRAILER *Spoiler alert - Includes snippets from XIII's ending*

Who knows what characters will return? Who knows what the story could be? That guy's an entirely new character. I personally wonder what the battle system will be like. X-2's was nothing like X's and I actually really liked all the Dress Sphere changing.

In other news, Final Fantasy Agito XIII, the game that once was the PSP's entry in the Fabula Nova Crystallis series, has recieved a name change. Agito XIII is now...

Why the name change? Director Hajime Tabata has gone on record as stating that it seemed appropriate given how different the more action-oriented design of Type-0 had become from Final Fantasy XIII. Sure makes sense to me. You don't want people playing through the game trying to figure out where the ties to FFXIII are when there really aren't any.

The game is still slated to be released exclusively on the PSP, though it's now known that the game will ship on two UMDs. The doubled storage will accommodate over 30 voiced characters. The game also seems to feature multiplayer battles.

Personally, I've never known that a PSP game could take up more than one UMD disc. I didn't know that was even possible.

Though the game has only really had one or two trailers and I personally haven't heard much at all about the game's story or game mechanics, it ships in Japan this summer. Cruelly, there is still no word on whether or not the U.S. will be seeing this game come overseas. It's not as much of a shoe-in as a direct sequel to a flagship FF title would be, since it's a spin-off title and there are plenty of FF-related games or Square Enix games, for that matter, that have not seen a release outside of Japan.