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Yup you read right folks, Dissidia: Final Fantasy will be released in North America somewhere mid next year. Can’t wait! It’s a bummer that will take ~6 months before it’s out but i’m glad that they are releasing the game in NA anyway, hope they will also plan to release it to Europe so i can actually but the game. That said, i haven’t played much with the psp for a while now due to the lack of good games but this game looks very promising.. cloud, cecil and other FF characters, here i come!

Here’s a quote I took from the square-enix press release:

December 18, 2008

DISSIDIA FINAL FANTASY ANNOUNCED FOR MID-YEAR 2009 RELEASE IN NORTH AMERICA
20 Years in the Making, the War between Light and Dark Begins
LOS ANGELES (December 18, 2008) — Square Enix, Inc., the publisher of Square Enix® interactive entertainment products in North America, announced that DISSIDIA™ FINAL FANTASY® for the PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system will be available mid-year 2009 in North America.

Celebrating 20 years of the renowned series that has shipped over 85 million units worldwide,
DISSIDIA FINAL FANTASY brings together the largest collection of FINAL FANTASY characters ever in a fighting-styled game where players can choose their allegiance between good and evil.

STORY
Cosmos, the goddess of harmony. Chaos, the god of discord. Reigning from distant realms, the two gods had gathered warriors from all lands to lead them in savage war.

Cosmos and Chaos were of equal strength. It was believed the conflict would last forever. However, the balance is now broken.

Those who answered Chaos’s call created an inexhaustible force. And under vicious attack without relent, the warriors fighting for Cosmos started to fall one by one. The conflict that has continued for eons is now about to end in Chaos’s favor.

The world has been torn asunder, sinking into a vortex of disorder. As for the few surviving warriors… their fates have yet to be determined.

FEATURES
# Legacy: Experience the high-quality world and gameplay mechanics of FINAL FANTASY presented in an action-packed environment where players can glide through the air and dash along walls.

# All-new battle system: Action-based battle system combines all-out brawling alongside RPG-based character development in an original system developed by the creators of the KINGDOM HEARTS series.

# Ultimate cast of characters: Fan-favorite heroes and villains from the entire FINAL FANTASY series come together in one game for the first time in a remarkable new tale with fully-voiced CG movies and real-time events.

# Fantasy match: Players select their favorite FINAL FANTASY characters, sided with either Cosmos or Chaos, to set the stage for their fantasy match.

# Series staple battle features: Accessible through “EX Burst”, players can experience gameplay faithful to the originals through memorable battle features such as “Limit Break” and “Overdrive”. In addition, longtime fans of the series can enjoy the ability to summon Aeons and options such as the “command battle” system.

# Community: Continue the experience by trading Friend Cards, creating items and sharing AI characters with other players and even engage in virtual AI battles made possible by the PSP system ad hoc mode.

MERCHANDISE
DISSIDIA FINAL FANTASY TRADING ARTS® Vol.1
CLOUD / SQUALL / ZIDANE / TIDUS

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the FINAL FANTASY series, SQUARE ENIX proudly presents the first volume of the DISSIDIA FINAL FANTASY Trading Arts series. Memorable heroes and villains are newly re-envisioned by famed character designer Tetsuya Nomura. In honor of these spectacular new designs, SQUARE ENIX PRODUCTS™ brings a new generation of highly detailed Trading Arts from DISSIDIA FINAL FANTASY.

DISSIDIA FINAL FANTASY is not yet rated by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB). For more information about the ESRB visit www.esrb.org. More information about DISSIDIA FINAL FANTASY can be found at http://na.square-enix.com/dissidia/.

For those that dont know: Dissidia: Final Fantasy is an rpg/fighting hybride game for the psp. The game should be released today (18 dec) in Japan but a North American/Europe release date has not been confirmed yet so we might not be able to play this game.. However, some people translated the ingame menu and options etc from Dissidia: Final Fantasy into english so that those that bought the game can navigate through all these menu’s instead of guessing what to do.

Take a look at the mini guide here

Here’s a game play video of Dissidia -Final Fantasy- Onion Knight VS Cloud of Darkness so you can see how the game looks like.

Be sure to grab this game if you own a psp! I for one will buy this game for my PSP collection as soon as it’s out in Europe (and translated ofcourse)

Today I logged into eve online after a short break because I was playing city of villains for the past few weeks (great game btw) and I noticed this news message:

Planning a large fleet fight? Please let us know
reported by: CCP Fallout | 2008.12.04 13:26:27

For some time now, we have been monitoring requests sent via stuck petition to GM’s for notifications of incoming fleet battles. Where possible, we have been placing these systems on high powered blades to ensure you get the best server performance possible in your fleet fight.

To reduce load on the GM’s and to get these requests where they need to go as quickly as possible, we now have a system for you to notify our virtual world operations team of these fights directly.

If you are planning to have a large fleet engagement, please tell us using the following form: http://myeve.eve-online.com/fleetfightnotification.asp

Rules

• Abuse of this system will NOT be tolerated.
• All notifications are linked to your user account and we will not put up with any shenanigans.
• Only corporation directors are able to send notifications.
• Please notify us only if you expect the operation to exceed 300 pilots in the engagement (ie. 150 vs 150).
• Notifications must be at least 24h in advance, as we re-map these systems during downtime.
• These notifications go to Virtual World Operations (the Tranquility admin team), Internal Affairs and Lead Game Masters.

Lol, it seems that if you are planning to have a large fleet engagement you need to notify the Virtual World Operations atleast 24h before the actual fight or else you won’t get the best performance (lag, etc) I lol’d at this message.

The latest expansion for city of villains (issue #13 called “power and responsibility”) is live as we speak and has been deployed today.

Issue 13 Publish

On Tuesday December 2nd, starting at 6:00 AM CST - 11:00 AM CST all US, European, and testing shards for City of Heroes will be brought down for maintenance and the publish of Issue 13: Power & Responsibility.

We expect the downtime to last the entire 5 hours but please allow for early release or an extension as we deem appropriate.

We apologize for any inconvenience to your play schedules but we look forward to bringing you this new Issue.

Thank you for your continued support.

So whats new? Well there are lots of new features and 2 cool powers so i’m just going to list below what issue#13 brings to city of villains.

Issue 13 Overview
Day Jobs (Offline Character Progression)

Scholar? Caregiver? City Official? Now when players log out of City of Heroes / Villains they’re just getting started! A character’s day job is determined by the actual in-game location from which he or she logs out. If players log out from a University their day job is considered to be a Scholar. If they log out from City Hall they’re a City Official. The benefits are thematically appropriate to the location. For example, a City Official earns extra Influence, a Scholar is granted Salvage, a Caregiver is granted Health Regeneration Buffs, etc.

Once characters have accumulated the required amount of time for each Day Job, they are rewarded with the appropriate Day Job Badge and Title, increasing their “earnings” for that job. Multiple Badges can be combined to unlock Accolades and the ability to accumulate additional new rewards. Almost every location within Paragon City and the Rogue Isles has an associated Day Job, resulting in a wide selection of jobs and rewards!

Multiple Builds
Another character customization option and City of Heroes innovation, Issue 13 delivers the ability to have two different build-outs for each character, including which powers are selected and which Enhancements are slotted. With this feature it will now be possible for all characters to diversify their game experience by visiting any Trainer and switching the entire build of their character to an alternate one. You can use this separate build for whatever you like. If you wish to use different power selections for soloing and groups, you can do that. This even makes it possible to have different IO sets slotted for PVP and PVE. This new system gives characters the added depth and flexibility to tackle any challenge!

New Powersets
* Shields - Heft a Shield for Heroic or Villainous Ends! This new powerset brings a classic power to City of Heroes: Shields! Now, you can arm Tankers, Scrappers and Brutes with a powerful shield to protect themselves and their allies.
* Pain Domination - Villains can now bend the power of pain to serve their own ends! Those playing a Corruptor or Mastermind have access to this new powerset. The antithesis of the Hero healing powerset “Empathy,” Pain Domination brings parity between Heroes and Villains with a distinctively evil flair.

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I didn’t knew that there was a City of Heroes Character Creator available but since i’ve started to play cox (city of villains, city of heroes) recently it’s a good way to see how your character would look like before playing them on the servers.

The problem is that the City of Heroes Character Creator is in korean, however you can change it to english in a few steps but requires some registry editing.

Install the software. The buttons will be in Korean, but they probably say pretty much what you think they say.

Right-click the “COH Character Creator” icon and select the “Shortcut” tab.

In the “Target” text box, add the parameter ” -windowed” to the end of the command line. So if the “Target” originally said

• “C:\Games\COH Character Creator\CharacterCreator.exe”

it would now say

• “C:\Games\COH Character Creator\CharacterCreator.exe” -windowed

Under “Compatibility mode”, check the “Run this program in compatibility mode for” checkbox, and select “Windows 98 / Windows ME”.

Run the program once.

Exit the program.

Run regedt32 (or your preferred registry editor).

Go to registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cryptic\KRCOH

Change the “locale” value to 1.

Right-click the KRCOH key.

Select “permissions”.

Click “Advanced”.

Un-check the box labeled “Inherit from parent…”.

Click “Add”.

Type “Everyone” in the “Enter the object name” box.

Click “Okay”.

Double-click the “Everyone” entry.

Check only “Allow Read Control”.

Click “Okay”, “Okay”, “Okay”.

Close the registry editor.

The program should now display in English.

You can find the coh character creator by searching google or on some torrent site since it’s not available anymore on their official site. http://download.coh.co.kr/Client/CCC_Setup.exe / http://download.coh.co.kr/Client/

This stunning film takes Sonic on an adventure to an eerie lonely house on a dark and stormy night. Follow along with Sonic as he faces some mischievous ghouls and see how brave they are when the moon shines and Sonic becomes the Werehog. Will Sonic survive the night or will the ghosts scare him out into the rain?

Tabula Rasa is a game by NCsoft and soon they will put their servers offline because the game doesn’t make any profit (why else would they shut down the servers?) Anyway, for those that want to give it a try you can play the game for free as of January 10 2009 and explore the world of Tabula Rasa up to February 28 2009.

On February 28, 2009, Tabula Rasa will be shutting down its servers, and as of January 10, 2009, the game will be free to play.

To thank our loyal Tabula Rasa fans we’ve prepared a little closing down gift. Any active paying player as of 10:00 AM Pacific Time on November 21st, 2008 will be eligible for all of the following:

* 3 free months of City of Heroes including digital client
* 3 free months of Lineage II including digital client
* Aion beta access (coming soon)
* Aion pre-order access (available in 2009)
* 1 free month of Aion including digital client (available in 2009)

These offers are limited to active paying players. Subscribers who join or reactivate canceled accounts after 10:00 AM Pacific Time on November 21st, 2008 will not be eligible.

If you are an eligible Tabula Rasa player, you’ll be receiving notification directly from NCsoft in the near future with information on how to collect these thank you gifts.

If you are a player that has pre-paid for Tabula Rasa subscription time beyond January 10, 2009, you will be refunded for that pre-paid time by February 28, 2009.

Should you have further questions please don’t hesitate to contact our customer support team at http://www.plaync.com/us/help/.

From everyone at NCsoft, we’d like to thank you for the support and enthusiasm you’ve dedicated to Tabula Rasa over the last year.

Woohoo,  Red Alert 3 LAN Coop v1.1 is released after almost a week delay!
Download Ra3LanCoop_v1.1_TeknoGods_7345663.rar and read the instructions here

MD5 Sums (version 1.1):
a94e95a8bdd564c0a0f4df4a7393eec3 *RA3Coop.exe
e4838742ec7e9c931668766ba674329c *coop.dll
e9917ab438216c95f2a19c97e0229818 *MapExtractor.exe

What’s new? Read the changelog below.

Changelog:

* Fixed: Game should go back the main menu properly, without crash
* Added: Bad Language Filter on/off switch
* Added: Coop mode on/off switch
* Added: Language menu, supported languages: English (default), Spanish, Polish, German, Finnish, Portuguese, Dutch, Czech

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Now, something is missing here, right? Right… We had to disable the AI difficulty setting switch - game was VERY unstable and we were getting almost instant disconnects with this on. We’re still not sure if it’s possible to get around it, but we will do our best to enable it back in v1.2.

Enjoy!
- Smurfette & Reaver