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Microsoft Responds To Reports Of Xbox Live Account 'Jacking' Over the past few weeks, I’ve been playing the American-made visual novel, Katawa Shoujo. Like the name of the genre implies, there is a heavy emphasis on the story to the point where you’re almost reading as much as you would with a print novel.
Canadian figure skater Kevin Reynolds competed at the Four Continents Championships in Colorado early last month. He only finished eighth, but in our eyes, he was the real winner for his choice of music.
Japanese RPGs used to be a lot more controversial. Or maybe it was just because I was a teenager during the genre’s heyday — you know, when Final Fantasy games flew off shelves, when hours of CG cutscenes featuring teary-eyed androgynes were considered breathtaking rather than tiresome — and teenagers like to argue about things on the internet a lot more than people my age can stomach.
Square Enix registered chronobind.com and chronobind.net on Friday, Siliconera reports. Despite speculation, this is likely unrelated to popular RPG Chrono Trigger. Chrono Bind is a card game in an upcoming DLC pack for the recently released Final Fantasy XIII-2. [Siliconera]
When Lavos is in the timestream, drop him like it’s hot. I believe that’s what Snoop Dogg would say if he were alive today. We’ll check back with him tomorrow to see if anything’s changed.
Futurama meets classic RPG Chrono Trigger in this great piece by artist Tom Preston.
Take a trip back in time on your iPhone today as Sqiare Enix finds a new way to get folks to pay $US9.99 for Chrono Trigger. Makes you wish they’d just sell lifetime version subscriptions. [iTunes]
The “at long last” in the title there is maybe a liiitle bit joking — after all, we’ve had several versions of Chrono Trigger available for some time now, from the original versions to the Wii virtual console and the Nintendo DS, through the many versions that are playable through emulation. I’ve played through the game a couple of times now, but haven’t touched it in a while, partly because I have been waiting for it to come to iOS.
