Final Fantasy IV headed to iOS on December 20, Android version to follow in 2013

That Nintendo DS re-make of Final Fantasy IV may add 3D graphics, a variety of bug fixes, and a fresh localization, but who wants to lug around their old Nintendo DS? Thankfully, it won't be much longer before the same version of FFIV ends up on iOS, as spotted by the folks at gaming forum NeoGAF. The game arrives on the iOS App Store for both iPhone and iPad starting on December 20, and is headed to Android sometime next year. As of now, it's only got a Japanese pricing of ¥1800 ($21.77), but we expect it'll cost about $17.99 when it launches Stateside. In anticipation of the pending release, Square's marking down prices of its other iOS FF games (which are usually priced absurdly high), so now's a good time to snap them up on the cheap. If you'd like to take a gander at the first images of the iOS port, Japanese publication Gamer has a first-look.

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Why does Facebook want its employees to dump iPhone for Android?

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Once upon a time Facebook used to give its employees iPhones. But now suddenly it wants them to switch to Android. A TechCrunch report noted that a number of ‘vaguely propagandistic’ posters had appeared around the Facebook campus, asking them to switch.

This comes in the wake of a similar report by CNet all the way back in August which said, “Facebook employees were being “nudged, cajoled, and even ordered to give up their iPhones for Android devices”.

But what’s up with that? Is the company losing money after its disastrous IPO? Is there some sort of shady deal with Google afoot?

Nothing so dramatic it seems.

The company merely wants more people using Android phones so that more employees are using, and therefore testing, the Facebook app for the OS. This is a technique known as ‘dog-fooding’ in which employees are encouraged to use their own products.

TechCrunch notes, “If the social network wants to give Android users the best experience, it needs a fair portion of the company testing its Android apps and brainstorming what could be done next with the operating system’s flexibility.”