Square Enix has finally pinned a release date on Final Fantasy X and X-2 HD Remaster - in Japan, that is. The Vita and PS3 games just sneak in before the end of the year, hitting retail shelves across the country on December 26.

We'd like to think this means a western date is forthcoming. It's been a two-year wait to return to Spira, and the remakes are pinned to arrive on western shelves later this year. Surely it can't be much longer before we can laugh with Tidus again?

There's one other bit of news from Japan's announcement, and it's good news. Over there, Square Enix is releasing a twin-pack of the two separately packaged Vita cartridges of X and X-2, and it's priced the same as the single-disc PS3 version. Again, hopefully we'll see that same sense reflected when the remasters head west.