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I’d pay good money to have Aya’s hair. Continue reading ‘Mass Media – Aya’s Hair Edition 08/29/10’ »

Mass Effect has the worst item management system ever. Continue reading ‘Mass Media 08/01/10’ »

If it gets one degree hotter I’m gonna kick someone’s ass. Continue reading ‘Mass Media 07/24/10’ »

If Nintendo wants me to buy Ocarina of Time again they’ll insert a dating sim option with Malon. Continue reading ‘E3 Media 06/17/10’ »

John Boske and I had the pleasure of being invited to a round table interview with Tetsuya Nomura about the upcoming Kingdom Hearts games. Continue reading ‘Kingdom Hearts Interview with Nomura’ »

Square Enix has launched a website listing their titles to be on display at E3 this year. Of particular note: Final Fantasy XIV, The Third Birthday, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, Kingdom Hearts: Recoded, Final Fantasy: The Four Heroes of Light, Front Mission Evolved, Dungeon Siege 3, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

Further details and further titles can found at the site, located here.

Via a recent press release, Square Enix announced that Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep will not be out this summer, as previously stated. Instead, the game will arrive in North America on September 7. There will also be a special GameStop exclusive bundle that includes a copy of the game, a Mystic Silver PSP-3000, a movie (to be announced, but it will not be related to Kingdom Hearts in any way), and a 4GB memory stick.

Square Enix has also revealed some of the celebrity voice actors for the game: Mark Hamill, Willa Holland (The O.C., Gossip Girl), Jesse McCartney (Roxas in Kingdom Hearts II and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days), James Woods, and Leonard Nimoy.

In a recent interview with FF-Reunion.net, Kingdom Hearts director Tetsuya Nomura confirmed a few juicy tidbits about the future of the series. Of particular note are the following: Continue reading ‘Nomura: Expect More Kingdom Hearts Games’ »

Submitted for your viewing pleasure, straight from the horse’s art assets, English screenshots for the upcoming Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. Take a gander, won’t you? Continue reading ‘Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep Screenshots, Englishified’ »

Square Enix announced today that it will release Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep for PlayStation Portable this summer. According to the press release, the North American version of the game will include new features, such as an extra boss and additional multiplayer options.

The Chinese Stealth Armor is the only way to travel in Adams Air Force Base. Continue reading ‘Mass Media 01/14/10’ »

Mass does not do this update justice. Continue reading ‘Mass Media 12/29/09’ »

Chibi Kairi and Zack in Birth By Sleep. My life is complete. Continue reading ‘Mass Media 12/16/09’ »

That Ys game is a PSP remake of a PC remake of Ys III. Just pointing that out. Continue reading ‘Mass Media 11/28/09’ »

One of the things we’ve been discussing behind the scenes here lately is the fact that a number of video game review websites (we won’t name names) have been posting more reviews for games that the reviewers haven’t actually completed. The average reader may not know this, but some of the major websites, particularly those who cover all genres, don’t always finish the games they review. This is understandable in some cases because of time constraints, the volume of their coverage, or the fact that with some genres, there really isn’t an ending (such as MMORPGs and certain simulation and puzzle games, which instead have hour requirements). But games that have actual endings — RPGs in particular — require completion. What’s disheartening is that smaller websites, whether they target a genre or a specific gamer demographic, are doing this too.

Continue reading ‘The Importance of Being Complete’ »

The latest installment of the Kingdom Hearts series, Birth By Sleep for the PSP, has been given a Japanese release date of January 9, 2010. Retail price is currently set at ¥6,090, or $66-67 US.

Source: Kotaku

This media update brought to you in part by our good friend the pigeon. Continue reading ‘Mass Media 10/22/09’ »

Since the release of Kingdom Hearts II, many players wondered what Roxas’s time in Organization XIII was like. Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days answers that question: it was like being a real-life cubicle worker, a cog in a corporate machine that grinds away at its work. It’s almost like “Walt Disney presents Office Space.” And like Office Space, it’s at its best when things start to unravel.

Continue reading ‘Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days – Staff Review’ »

Fallout 3: Point Lookout is being released for PS3 today, and it is also my mother’s birthday. Truly the world hates me. Continue reading ‘Mass Media 10/08/09’ »

Once upon a time, Squaresoft and Disney worked in the same building in Japan. Though they shared a residence, they each had their own projects and worked separately. One day, Shinji Hashimoto had a chance encounter with a Disney executive in the elevator and an idea appeared: a collaborative crossover game featuring Disney and Squaresoft characters.

Continue reading ‘Game Changers: Volume 27 – Kingdom Hearts’ »