
Square Enix’s CEO has claimed that a remake of Final Fantasy VII would be a difficult proposition indeed, which by his estimation could take 10 times the development time Final Fantasy XIII took.
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The writer of Final Fantasy XII and a host of other RPGs has spoken of her shock at being told by other production staff that RPGs “don’t need storylines” as the players aren’t looking for them.
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Gantz creator Hiroya Oku has angry words for the nation’s NEETs after having apparently having suffered severe injuries at their hands, though fortunately only to his pride as a mangaka.
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Bayonetta designer Hideki Kamiya, formerly of Capcom and now with Platinum Games, has recently been complaining bitterly about erotic doujinshi based on his game, saying they lack “love.”
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Moral crusader and former bikini poser Agnes Chan has been attempting to confront her critics online, resulting in an embarrassing series of remarks which are either the result of extreme dishonesty, pathetic ignorance, or a terrifying combination of both.
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Metal Gear master Hideo Kojima has made a bombastically enigmatic twitterance in which he promises to “challenge a certain industry taboo” whilst warning that “I may have to leave the industry if I mess up.”
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Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the Final Fantasy series, recently took part in a candid exchange with a Square Enix employee in which he told the company to stop endlessly rehashing the same game.
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Japanese users of popular micro-blogging and inane banter platform Twitter share the reasons they find the service interesting in a recent survey, with the service seemingly viewed as a great way to stalk celebrities in addition to its more mundane uses as a way of sharing information sufficiently trifling as to fit in its miniscule character limit.
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Top Asian micro-blogging service Plurk has apparently been subject to brazen plagiarism by Microsoft China, in a case which raises unsettling questions about the business ethics of both Microsoft and its Chinese developers.
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Vapid social networking site Twitter claimed the life of another hapless victim with more finality than usual recently when the girl in question accidentally electrocuted herself whilst trying to keep up with her tweets.
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Episode 20 of Minorin anime Toradora brings an unusual reference in the form of her brandishing a “Fail Whale” mug, an image which should be known to Twitter users, for it is displayed to them whilst they refresh the page compulsively in the hopes that maintenance will mysteriously be completed faster by so doing.
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