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- Another MEGATON announcement
Famitsu writes that Square Enix plan to make a large announcement about Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles during the official unveiling of the title, which will take place before E3. The Japanese release date has been set for July 18.
- World poised on brink of war groans as someone hints at FFX-3
"According to the UK online trade journal Indie Magazine, Square Co. Ltd, in the wake of its extradorinary sales of Final Fantasy X-2, is planning a sequel temporarily called Final Fantasy X-3, IGN learned today." Kitase and previous statements from Square suggest that there will be no FFX-3, however. - Eggshots
Just what we all wanted, a movie of Hanjuku Hero vs 3d! - Square makes more money
Square revealed today that their expected net profits for the current financial year which ends on March 31 have increased from approx. US$40M to US$95.9M. Reasons for the gain are said to be due to excellent sales of Final Fantasy X-2 and Kingdom Hearts in the US. Gamefront - It's like FFIX all over again, but on Gamecube!
These new FF:CC screenshots show off some familiar styles that mostly remind us of Final Fantasy IX, but also of very early FF titles due to the crystal in the first shot. Look closely and you'll spot a sahagin and some coeurls, too.
- Videogame sales not influenced by war; US Navy playing games on submarines
"Last year, the Interactive Digital Software Association, a trade group for the U.S. industry, organized a drive to equip each of the 72 submarines in the U.S. Navy fleet with a video game console and 20 games each" Reuters - Quiter goes boom
Japanese gaming site Quiter, essentially to the Japanese what the GIA was to us Westerners, closed down today, displaying a "coming soon" message for its presumed successor. - US Navy deceives na?ve dolphin to do bidding
Among the arsenal of the United States Navy: Tomahawk missiles, B-52 bombers, and K-Dawg the Bottle Nosed dolphin.
- Final Fantasy Tactics Advance heading to America, and if they're lucky, Canada
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is heading to North America, says Gamefront. The title is reportedly being localized for a 2003 release, assumably sometime this fall.
- Japanese girls excited by Zelda, Link's balls
Gamefront says, "Mit der Gamecube-Version wurde ?berraschend viel Hardware verkauft: Besonders weibliche Spielerinnen kauften Gamecube und Soul Calibur 2 im Set.". Which basically boils down to: girls are buying a lot of the Gamecube/Soul Calibur 2 packs in Japan. Link's balls have been cited as a possible reason for the heavy sales. - New FFXI screens show off Ramuh, Dragoons, Crystals, other shit
This gallery of new Final Fantasy XI shots display a bunch of new stuff from what is presumably the Vision of Girat expansion, with funky new Ramuh designs, a dragoon who looks like Final Fantasy IV's Kain, and more. GameWatch
- Tecmo to gamers: "stop looking at our busty, voluptuous volley ball girls in a sexual, perverted manner, you fucking pervs"
Tecmo has released a plea to gamers who access the official Tecmo User Forums to discontinue discussion and/or posting of fake and/or real images of nude DOA: Extreme Volleyball girls. Tecmo has also reportedly send a personal cease and desist plea to Rahul Choudhury to discontinue his repeated pursuits at programming a nude code for Rygar. The Tecmo User Forums
- Amazon listing Kingdom Hearts 2
Amazon Japan is listing Kingdom Hearts 2 on their pre-order list, according to Gamefront. Square hasn't announced anything about its release, although it has been confirmed to be under development. KH2 pre-order
- Snake's badass stealth suit reinvented by Kazutoshi Obana
A coat with inbuilt camera that projects the image behind the person wearing it onto the front of the coat makes the bearer invisible, as far as Mr. Obana's technology states. "This is a kind of augmented reality," said Susumu Tachi, a Tokyo University professor of computer science and physics. It's an illusion with ninja potential! Optical camouflage coat
- New logos of 2003 suck ass even more as Square Enix follows Konami with "reinvention"
Preceding the April 1 merger of Square and Enix into Square Enix, the companies have revealed the new company logo, which.. really isn't that great. Oh well. Square Enix logo
- Square Enix opens Japanese, US websites
The assimilation of Square Enix became official today and the company websites have launched along with the merger. You can check out the US website at square-enix-usa.com and the Japanese at square-enix.co.jp. - Square Enix confirms Kingdom Hearts sequel (again)
Following today's merger between RPG giants Square and Enix to form Square Enix, the company confirmed development of a successor to last year's Kingdom Hearts. Full article - Fairplay campaign for cheaper videogames wusses out
UK campaign for cheaper videogames, FairPlay, which was met with critical success in the first week of December last year when they caused UK retailer GAME's shares value to drop by 80% when they asked people to not buy a single title for a week, has decided that "our work here is done" and listed a variety of supposed reasons that their campaign was a major success. While some are questionable, it does indeed seem like it mostly paid off, so here's to seeing them back someday, in some shape or form. We'll miss you. Fairplay
- 1:10 scale Yuna soon ready for 'consumption', no blow-up dolls planned
Square Enix president Yoichi Wada commented on upcoming game development for the company today, stating that new titles will be more "aware" of the networking capabilities (i.e. online) of PlayOnline. Additionally, developers from both Square and Enix have remained with the new company and will be meeting later this week to discuss new, original Squenix titles, of which we can expect to see on in around one year from now. Oh yes, and they also plan to release a 1:10 scale Yuna doll from Final Fantasy X-2.
- Panzer Dragoon Orta action figures
"What the hell is that?" "It looks like saliva moulded into the head of a dra-- oh, wait, it's the Panzer Dragoon Orta model series!" Click!
18 Mar 2003 by 
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