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.
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
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.
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.
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
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!