Final Fantasy VII re-release confirmed by Square Enix

Square Enix has confirmed it is bringing Final Fantasy VII back to the PC, 15 years after its original PC and PlayStation release.

The Final Fantasy VII PC website, registered by Square Enix, highlights only that the game is "coming soon", but teases several new features. The game will get unlockable achievements, "cloud" saves (hopefully the pun is intended) as well as something called Character Booster.

Character Booster will allow players to automatically max out their in-game health, experience and Gil (Final Fantasy cash, to the uninitiated) in order to cruise more easily through the game's legendary story. It's not clear if that will involve micropayments or not.

Cloud saves will let players save their games to Square Enix servers, so it can be continued on more than one home PC or laptop. This is not dissimilar to Valve's Steam Cloud on the Steam digital distribution platform, and comparable features on Xbox Live and PlayStation Plus.

These three features never existed on the PC or PlayStation release of the game. But "PC" is the keyword here though, as Square Enix has not confirmed a Mac OS X release. (Boo!)

It will also be released via the Square Enix store only, via download. No Steam, no Games For Windows, and no price has been confirmed. The game will also land on the PS Vita in the near future.

We have contacted Square Enix for more information and will update this story as and when it arrives.