Final Fantasy XI

Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urghan will be released this week, and will also be included in the Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XI. Ubisoft released these images from the expansion.

Microsoft started the press briefing this morning with their now familiar mix of upcoming games, this time for the japanese market. It's mostly old footage, but there may be a few new things in there.
Update : All videos have been removed at Microsoft's request.

Ubisoft announced that they will be the publisher for Final Fantasy XI in Europe when it's released in a couple of weeks, and released these four images from the game.

Square-Enix released this trailer for Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan, which will be released in around a month on both Xbox 360 and PS2. It's included in Final Fantasy XI 360, so 360-owners don't have to buy the expansion alone.
Update: 720p-version added.

Microsoft is a company known for not abandoning when they have a goal, so it's no real surprise to discover this brand new TV ad for the Xbox 360 featuring Blue Dragon, Final Fantasy XI, Lost Planet and Biohazard 5. Very nicely done too.

Asian Ruliweb put up this 10 minutes video of Final Fantasy XI beta. Even though it's supposed to look just like the PS2-version (with the same sloppy framerate), I'm still looking forward to it. Be ready to delete some demos though, as the game takes 5 GB to install. The beta is supposed to be released here in the beginning of january.

Microsoft keeps trying to sell the Xbox 360 in Japan with these two new TV ads. The first is for PGR3, and the second one for Ninety Nine Nights. Not bad at all!
Update : Added the Final Fantasy XI one.

Here are six 720p screenshots of Final Fantasy XI, Square-Enix's MMORPG. Some images are old, some are new. Quite low-tech, but its nice design and large depht of field makes it nice to look anyway. Better than noting, and it's still cool to have a MMORPG for launch day.

As usual for conferences, Microsoft showed a trailer regrouping all the big Xbox 360 games. You can know see this trailer, directly from Tokyo and exclusively on Xboxyde :)
Update : HD version online.

Microsoft published the list of upcoming japanese games coming to Xbox 360. Some games are still unnamed and are not listed here. Looks like some japanese developers are willing to let Microsoft get a second chance after the disaster that was the first Xbox in Japan.