With only just a month left to go until the exciting and anticipated release of Square Enix’s latest chapter to the long-standing pivotal Final Fantasy series, fans will be clamoring to gain access to the Final Fantasy XIII launch party.

Square Enix will be hosting a two-part event in honor of the game on March 8, 2010, in San Francisco, California.

The first, coined the “Final Fantasy XIII Experience”, is described as a fan-focused event that will take place in the day across two 2-hour sessions. There, attendees can enjoy playing the game first hand, browsing a gallery of artwork, viewing trailers, and meeting members of the development staff. This daytime event will also feature a raffle where lucky individuals will be able to win “fantastic” prizes, yet to be announced. During this time, a select group of guests will also be invited to partake in the second part of the two-fold event, the Final Fantasy XIII launch party that will occur later that evening.

While it must be admitted that Square Enix has not shown much love to the Xbox 360 by way of role-playing games aside from the MMORPG series Final Fantasy XI, Fall and Winter 2008 will bring a much needed end to the drought.

Click through for a look at the three RPGs coming from Square Enix this year: Infinite Undiscovery, The Last Remnant and, of course, Final Fantasy XIII…

It was obvious that Square Enix’s 2008 DKΣ3713 event would bring news concerning Final Fantasy XIII – the event even had a “13″ in the title to refer to the compilation of titles. The company didn’t disappoint, and the event showed off trailers, gameplay footage and announced a demo release date.

The FFXIII demo will come with Final Fantasy Advent Children Complete when it is released on Blu-ray in March, 2009 in Japan. As The Washington Post points out, Japan and the US have the same Blu-ray disc region code and the PS3 isn’t region-locked. So importers could purchase the Japanese version Final Fantasy Advent Children Complete and play it. Trailers for FFVersusXIII and FFAgitoXIII will also be on the Blu-ray FFACC release.

Every E3 there are plenty of announcements and everyone claims their is the biggest, most important and whatevertheheck else. There were fewer hardware announcements than most years with more concentration on games, developing console interfaces and content options.

Not too surprisingly, most of the staff picks for their favorite E3 2008 announcements were somehow related to Microsoft’s Xbox 360. There was, of course, a sole dissenter.

Give it a read and then let us know what your favorite announcement was from E3 2008…