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- No hard drive needed for North American Final Fantasy XI?
North American Final Fantasy XI beta testers apparently won't require a PS2 hard drive to operate. Full Article
- Sega and Namco discuss merging
Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun reports that Sega and Namco are currently discussing the possiblities of a 2004 merger, creating an entity that would topple Konami as the largest third-party publisher in Japan. According to reports, Namco would be completely absorbed by Sega were the merger to happen, with the subsisting conglomerate grossing about $3 billion a year in world-wide sales. Gamers.com - Shinyaku Seiken Densetsu will feature co-op play
Shinyaku Seiken Densetsu [news|coverage] will reportedly include a two-player feature where two players can link up via GBA link cable and play coperatively. Accordingly, the same mode of play will also be enabled for gamers via Gamecube GameBoy Player
- Washington state makes selling murder simulators a class 1 civil infraction (a really bad crime)
"The Washington state Senate approved a bill Thursday to make selling M-rated videogames a crime. If the bill is passed into law... it will be the first time that the Entertainment Software Ratings Board ratings have been backed by the force of law." Gamers.com
- Mario Kart GCN apparently not online, but Nintendo has another God-damned, mother fucking peripheral for you to buy anyway
According to Special Reserve, obscure, unreliable UK retailer, Nintendo has completed Mario Kart for Gamecube and is reading eight-player support for the title. Players can reportedly link up two gamecubes for two-tv split-screen karting action, which would obvioulsy require you to purchase an additional peripheral.
- Sony confronts bump in the PS3 road
IBM's proposed Cell chip won't be ready in time for Sony's planned 2005/6 launch of the PS3, and as a result, Sony has instead announced that they will be using a different chip set to power the PS3. Which ship they will be using, however, has yet to be decided. IBM's Cell chip architecture is reportedly 100 times more powerful than that of Intel's Pentium 4 and 7 klopogillion times the power of the Turbografix 16. Games Are Fun - The Getaway and Tomb Raider 2 movies develop
Sony is finalizing its sales of the rights to the Getaway movie, which should be ready for a release simultaneously with the Getaway 2 at the end of 2004. Tomb Raider 2 is also under progress, as it will apparently be more closely related to the games this time round, with Angelina Jolie featured in a variety of funky locales under direction of Twister-dude Jan de Bont. - Capcom shares drop 16% as it slashes 18 projects
Sales of Capcom games have been severely underperforming as Capcom's losses for the fiscal year increased by 50%, leading it to cut 18 upcoming games from its development list - games including new Breath of Fire, Clock Tower, Devil May Cry, and PN03 titles. Whether this means the permanent end of the popular series hasn't been established, however, Megaman still seems to be going strong, ironically. Gamesindustry.biz - Final Fantasy XI: Vision of Girade/Jiraat/Gerblah more successful than the game's initial launch
With the launch of the Final Fantasy XI add-on pack, Vision of Girade (?) last week in Japan, which shipped at 80k copies and sold 80% of that on the first day, Square Enix should be reasonably happy compared to the fairly poor initial sales of the title last year. Selling 80k of the expansion means that approximately 40% of the game's player purchased the add-on, making it anything but a failure. - Half Life 2 announced
The June issue of CGWorld will feature a massive preview of what, according to the cover, is Half Life 2. That said, they probably won't be the first to show it, since it will undoubtedly be revealed more fully at E3. Half Life 2 is coming!
- First screens of Mario Kart, Castlevania, and more surface
In some kind of pre-E3 skirmish, the unveiling of several AAA titles has begun and various publications have the latest. Get a summary of all that shit inside. Full Article
- Hanjuku Hero vs 3d not sunny side up yet
According to Famitsu, Square Enix's development of Hanjuku Hero vs 3d, the funky SRPG seeing you battle between 2d and 3d parties, is only 70% complete, even with a Japanese release date of late June. Gamefront - Square Enix upcoming games translated; more info revealed
As E3 draws near, companies have begun to reveal small details of the titles they will be unveiling at E3 in order to get the right press there. Accordingly, Square Enix has released information on its upcoming Nintendo titles, as well as confirmed registration of some others. Full Article
- BLACK MAGES live thanking/performing meat festival leads to 2nd album announcement
As Famitsu reports, the live concert of Final Fantasy: the Black Mages, an arranged album of battle themes, was held on 26/27 April in the Shibuya AX. The concert was a giant success and Uematsu and co felt that doing another album like this one would be beneficial to the fan community. The concert will be aired on Uematsu's internet radio in June. - Square Enix expands Final Fantasy X-2 merchandise line
Gamers.com reports an update to the various available FFX-2 merchandise, which in this case includes a sleek zippo lighter valued at $120 and some figurines that can be chained to it. The zippo also has some sort of bird motif, seemingly significant to the game. FFX-2 zippo - Square Enix developing world's only biker gang MMORPG
"Proving that the Square Enix partnership isn't just about exploiting powerful franchises, the newly-formed company today announced the world's first massively-multiplayer online biker gang RPG for the PC, as reported by Impress Game Watch. Entitled Bakusou, Yankee Tamashii, something about burning wheels and "Yankee Souls," it lets players design their own biker-thug alter ego and roam the streets of Tokyo." Gamers.com
- Console price-drop rumored for E3
According to Gamefront, the North American price point of consoles may drop $50 each, an announcement that will take place sometime around E3. Were the price-drop to take effect, gamers could buy PS2 and Xbox for $149.99 each and Gamecube for $99.99. - Unworthy Gamingredients gets Sega PR, reveals their line-up in exchange for loving
Sega's E3 line-up is out, and with a giant list of games from new Sonic titles to an elaborate Pokemonization of Phantasy Star Online, this Gamingredients report is something you don't want to miss - and something I don't want to type out all over again. Gamingredients - Square Enix good deal for investors
Analyst Eiji Maeda of the Daiwa Institute of Research created a list of companies for the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper which should be good choices for longterm investors. Square Enix, Capcom and Nintendo were the top three on that list - especially Squenix due to the fusion and the resulting increased output. As for Capcom, it seems odd since the company has not been selling well recently, and Nintendo's reduced popularity is certainly nothing to shout about - though this obviously is not damaging them particularly. Gamefront
- Zelda top March seller in US
Nintendo's climb back out of the gutter is on the right track with Wind Waker selling 826k copies in the US in March, which of course is partially due to the incredible pre-order sales, according to a Reuters report.
16 Apr 2003 by 
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