News / 2007 / August / 22

4 articles

• Square Haven RSS feed reaches historic 5-person mark
  Today, the Venerable Square Enix Resource achieved an important milestone, delivering instantaneous notices via RSS of the latest and most vital gaming information to a record 5 people.This development is a clear indication of what Pierre Teilhard de Chardin called the transition of the earth's evolutionary development into the Noosphere phase, brought about by the ever-increasing access of conscious volitional actors within a planet of finite sphericity to ever greater volumes of Square Enix-related news and information. If you do not have an RSS reader already, they are free at bloglines and google reader.
  22 Aug 2007 by Jeriaska ↑ 21 ↓ discuss permalink
• Zodiac Job System release met with hilarious defeat
  As last week's Japanese sales charts would appear to indicate, Final Fantasy XII: Zodiac Job System did not release with a tremendous amount of fanfare, ranking in third place with some 45,869 copies. It was beaten out by Mario Party 8 for the Wii, which sold 103,889 copies of its total 504,000 this past week to put it in second place. SD Gundam G Generation Cross Drive was the real winner, debuting on the DS at number one with 137,717 copies. To spare your calculators the effort, that means that our super-deformed buddies have almost exactly three times the appeal of Yasumi Matsuno's definitive Ivalice adventure. Which just goes to show you: shit with big heads always wins. Or something.
  22 Aug 2007 by Ziyad ↑ -27 ↓ discuss permalink
• Game Trailers now schooling gamers on Final Fantasy history
  A little over a month ago, GameTrailers.com began its "Final Fantasy Retrospective", a survey of the Final Fantasy series, beginning with its humble origins some twenty years ago. Aside from being extremely well put-together and informative, it features references to some of our favorite embarrassing Square titles, from Alpha to 3-D Worldrunner. Now in its sixth installment featuring Final Fantasy VIII and Final Fantasy XI, it is a comprehensive look at one of Square Enix's flagship series and a definite must-watch for any fan or historian. Now that G4 has hit rock bottom, GameTrailers.com appears to be a source for thoughtful programming woefully unavailable elsewhere. Watch Now
  22 Aug 2007 by Ziyad ↑ -32 ↓ discuss permalink
• Square Enix opens online store; Japanese economy flushes with money
  On this very evening two days ago, Square Enix finally took another step towards global nerd domination with the opening of its online store. As the ethereal doors swung open to the glorious sounds of users clogging its servers, so did an age end. No longer will we be forced to scour frightening Japanese markets in search of stuffed Chocobos, or haggle aggressively at conventions for the lowest price on a limited edition Final Fantasy VIII Lionheart necklace because, dammit, the other guy down there had it cheaper before it sold out. Among its other goods, the store features jewelry, plushies, figurines, and various other unnecessary accessories. Link
  22 Aug 2007 by Ziyad ↑ 26 ↓ discuss permalink