Hey, check this out. Appears to be a personal/developer weblog from a guy working on Final Fantasy 7 for DS! Check out these screenshots!!

As always, take it all with a grain of interweb salt. Hopeful imagery at best.

Cool - however I wouldn't get my hopes up. I think he's just working on his DS hacking skills given the posts and the tools he's using (his own personal FF7 hacking tool for instance). Still cool though - homebrew stuff is always interesting.

Makers of Samurai Champloo have a new series on the way.

[ Ergo Proxy ]

Everything is better in japan. For instance, broadband prices.

Mean! ...but funny :P

A knucles dojin game that helps you learn basic japanese. I haven't tried it yet, but I guess it's pretty fun.

Also, looks like the PS3 has some major issues. The example they states was that if you make a perfect demo of butterflies fluttering around at 60 fps, and then you make one of the butterflies controllable, it falls apart. I guess the cell processor is WAY too complicated to code on. He also mentions that the XBox360 has the exact same problem to a lesser degree.

I don't trust a Japanese learning game that's called "Knuckles in Chinaland".

The PS3 issues aren't surprising, ever since the cell processor was revealed the general consensus was it will be a nightmare to program for. However, being incredibly difficult to code for didn't slow PS2 down any. Maybe developers will get tired of inflated development costs and switch to a more sensible, economic solution like Nintendo. Hehe.

Let's hope so!

When I think back, I think Moik actually said it best, as unbelievable as it was. I remember he was applying to work for a game company, who's biggest seller and moneymaker was a collection of cheap little flash games. I honestly thought it wasn't possible at that time. But now understanding how much it costs to develop a game... it definitely looks like making a cheaper mass appealing game, is a way better idea when you're looking for profit.

Now how the heck can I get some of these.

Just some random MagicBox news:

Nintendo will release the long awaited GBA RPG Mother 3 in spring 2006 in Japan, the series is known as Earthbound in US.

Famitsu reported that a revised console system will be released in Japan in Spring 2006 and it is not a next generation console. The magazine predicts that the most likely is a new design of Nintendo DS or PSP.

Already? Neat!