Square-Enix Burns Down the Walled Garden

AND STAY OUT!

Figuratively, anyway, because you won’t be playing FF XIV, ever, on 360:

“The main reason why we couldn’t go with Xbox 360 was the Xbox Live system,” he explained at E3. “[Live is] different to the normal internet environment, so when we wanted to introduce this game in the same environment as Windows PC it had to be PS3, so that was our choice.

This isn’t the first time that the prison yard set-up of Live has cost owners of that platform games, mainly those in the MMO category.¹

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^{1 Aren’t you glad you’re paying for that service only to actively be denied games you might want to play?}

Some Things About Twitter Drive Me Nuts

Taking the occasional good with the mostly harrowing

Like, for example, random people following me that I don’t know and/or don’t care about what I’m doing, that are only following in the hopes that I’ll be interested in whatever product or service¹ they’re offering.

However, once in a while, someone will follow you because (of course) they want you to pay attention to whatever it is they’re doing, but, on occasion, it turns out that what they’re ‘selling’ is pretty cool.

Case in point:

Yep, this dude is playing various video game compositions on the ukulele and they actually sound pretty great! (Personally, I’d love to hear some of these done up Spanish guitar-style, but this is still pretty neat.)

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1 Kind of like that kid in grade school that just had to be your friend only you don’t know this kid and he’s trying to sell you naked photos of himself.

CHECK IT OUT!!!

Commandeth Final Fantasy composer supremo, Nobuo Uematsu:

You heard the man: CHECK IT OUT!!!¹

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1 Odd how so much of Japan seems to still be stuck in the pre-GeoCities days as far as the Internet is concerned, isn’t it?

Smash Bros: Master Chief vs. Cloud Strife

And the hacks just keep on coming–this time for Super Smash Bros. Brawl:

Though I really can’t tolerate Halo (rash, hives, maturity), I do have to say that the re-skinned Captain Falcon as Master Chief is quite well done.

And there’s a lot more where that came from: