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Before video game Final Fantasy XIII hits stores on March 09, 2010 it's publisher Square Enix will now promote the game through popular social networks. They will now launch the screen shots and little bits of interesting information on their Twitter account and Facebook Page. The long awaited revolution of the Final Fantasy series will now be coming to your PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The video and audio is compressed for the Xbox 360 DVD's but uncensored for the PlayStaion 3 and will be appear on a dual-layer blue-ray disc. So for all you Final Fantasy fans here are the links to their pages. On Twitter it is http://twitter.com/OfficialFFXIII and on Facebook it is Facebook.com/FinalFantasyXIII . By joining you can keep a track of updates and offcourse be able to connect with other gamers from across the Globe. An original post by Sociolatte