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Wonder of Wonders: Video Games and Alcohol

I first read about this a couple weeks ago, but I thought it was high time to share it with our reading public: at the IT University of Copenhagen the Scrollbar group has a weekly bar event called Fredagbar, and they often create drinks based on video games. This is sublime to me.

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Square Enix Releases Financial Results, Internal Upheaval In Store?

Over the weekend, Square Enix released the company’s financial results from fiscal year 2007, and the results aren’t good. The company sold a little over 2 million fewer units in 2007 than it did during 2006. That does not bode well for the company, and it helps explain the focus on alternate business models. According [...]

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Square Enix Contemplating Investment in Rival Game Companies

We all know that game companies are acquisition happy. Take a look at EA and their ongoing courtship with Take-Two, if you need a reminder. Then, over on the continent (by which I mean Europe), Infogrames recently sought to buyout SCi. It turns out that the Americans and the French aren’t the only covetous people [...]

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EA Announces MySims Kingdom for Wii, DS

Having sold 2.8 million copies of MySims, EA has decided to build an entire franchise around the cutesy customizable lilliputians. The first step? Reclaiming the miniature simulation crown from Final Fantasy. Today, EA announced that MySims Kingdom will arrive on Wii and DS this fall.

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Taku Murata Offers a Clearer Look at Square-Enix’s Crystal Tools

In an interview posted today, Taku Murata, the general manager of Crystal Tools, spoke about the limitations and implications of the toolset for Square-Enix. For those of you who are not incredibly obnoxious Square fanboys, you might not recall that Crystal Tools née White Engine is part of an initiative by Square-Enix to streamline development [...]

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Final Fantasy 2, I Mean 4, Coming to DS in North America?

RPGFan has posted a brief announcement that Final Fantasy IV (Final Fantasy II for those of you who played it back on the SNES, stateside) for the DS is headed for an American release later this year. You remember FF4–it’s the one where the guy has the jumping attack, and some chocobos, and the stories [...]

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WiiWare Invades Japan; Even More Microtransactions

Today marks the launch of Nintendo’s new WiiWare game download service in Japan — and while I’ve neither the imported Wii nor the balls required to brave hundreds of thousands of fearless Final Fantasy fanboys scrambling to get their hands on My Life As A King, Game|Life has been kind enough to perform that service [...]

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Dead Fantasy 2: If Smash Bros. Starred Final Fantasy Girls, Dead or Alive Babes

Monty Oum has done it again — the exceptionally talented 3D battle designer responsible for pitting Samus Aran against Master Chief in internet sensation Haloid just released part two of his superb follow-up Dead Fantasy.

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Idealab + Games + Storyverse = Radar Group

Scott Miller, former 3D Realms CEO, recently announced the formation of Radar Group, a new hybrid organization dedicated to aiding in the production of video games. IGN had the opportunity to interview him and find out more about the endeavor.

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Video Game Music: Remixed, Reloaded, Redux

What's more fun than video game music? Video game music remixes! Inside I share some of my favorites.

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