News: Japanese New Year – 2021
Yoshinori Kitase promises further destruction of Final Fantasy VII, Atlus is busy fixing Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne HD Remaster, and Japanese developers share their resolutions for 2021 in the news of the week!
Tag: Hironobu Sakaguchi
Feature Review: Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow
It should have been left asleep.
News: Definitive Reverie
A ghost from our past comes back to haunt us, Sacnoth is still kind of around in 2020, and the ACCC rules against EB Games and Sony in the news of the week!
News: The Dismal Fate of Hironobu Sakaguchi
The next Mistwalker JRPG will be a subscription iOS game, Kaz Hirai is set to fully retire from Sony, and Nintendo are preparing to release two new Switch SKUs in the news of the week!
News: Hironobu Sakaguchi and the Great Art Heist
Ninja Theory lies to customers, Nintendo gets sued, and Square Enix is subject to an art exodus in the news of the week!
TSM Episode 314: The Grapefruit Review
Having had his pizza time foiled by SiliconNooB, Lusipurr aims for something slightly more continental: grapefruit and apple fritters. But America's lack of little juice tins, and increasing love for pink grapefruit, are impediments to his delectation.
TSM Episode 287: Neither Rhyme nor Reason
Lusipurr, Ethos, and Mel confront a week of Nintendo-centric nonsense; Bup makes an appearance to discuss David Cage and Peter Molyneux; and the disappearance of Rhyme and Reason are explained. ALSO AS I SAID, Wikipedia says Zinc is a mineral, NOT a vitam
Editorial: Three Hundred and Sixty Degrees of Xbox
Hot on the heels of last week's GameCube retrospective, Mel has decided to look back at current gen systems. This week he starts with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and how it went from his first HD console to that thing he does not use anymore.
News: The Fantasy of a VII Remake Is Finally Scuppered
The possibility of a VII remake is stamped out for good and all by Wada, the 3DS XL is set to launch July/August, Reggie blasts anyone not with Nintendo's program, and Hiromichi Tanaka takes his leave of Square Enix in this week's oddly symmetrical news.
News: The Thin and Blurring Line betwixt Packaged Games and Budget Downloads
This week EA pleads their case, Atlus enters into a marriage of convenience, Hironobu Sakaguchi lets slip three impending iOS titles, and Ubisoft attempts to pass off a budget downloadable title as a full-priced PS Vita game.
LUSIPURR WEEK: A Moderate, Measured, and Factually Accurate Meditation on the Implications 0f JRPGs on Broader Society and Art
Goodness, but it is giddying to contemplate just how far JRPGs have come since their teething years of the 1980s, yet those were the formative years wherein the foundations were laid that have enabled the JRPG industry to become the global cultural and economic JUGGERNAUT that it is today. As a small child …
Editorial: History 101
It is hard to believe that it was but a few short years ago that independent game studios were as common as Tennesseans, churning out as many quality titles as Murfreesboroan fishwives popped out unwanted, unloved babies. It felt like those long days of golden sunshine and innocent laughter, palling abou…