The Epic RPG "Final Fantasy XIII" Launch Today

The most highly anticipated video game of 2010, "Final Fantasy XIII" is officially out today for PS3 and Xbox 360, the one of the most anticipated releases! Watch the New trailer video below featuring the official tracks "My Heart" for the game, from British singer Leona Lewis. The game looks pretty breath-taking to be honest. Just look at the level of detail seen in the grass textures. Stunningly beautiful graphics and a pervasively meticulous level of polish throughout only add to the experience.
Final Fantasy XIII is a console role-playing game developed and published by Square Enix and is the 13th installment in the Final Fantasy series. It was released for the PlayStation 3 in Japan on December 17, 2009. Final Fantasy XIII is the flagship title of the Fabula Nova Crystallis collection of Final Fantasy games and is the first game to utilize Square-Enix's Crystal Tools engine. The game features both futuristic and natural elements; it's set between a land of wilderness and the high-tech world above it. Following the story of Lightning, Square-Enix describes the theme of the game as "those who resist the world."
The game sold in excess of one million units on its first day of sale in Japan, and had sold 1,698,256 copies there at the end of 2009. As Final Fantasy XIII reviews rolled in over the last few weeks, critics kept employing a certain word to describe the game: "crossroads." Universal praise was given to the technical milestone for the series achieved by the game's graphics and presentation. Electronic Theatre remarked that "there are very few moments when the visual and aural superiority fails to astound," and Edge Magazine felt that Cocoon in particular was an "inspired setting... blessed with a vibrancy and vivid color that often leaves you open-mouthed." Art design also added to the positive reception of the graphics, being described as "magnificent." Further praise was given to the CGI cutscenes, and the almost seamless transition of visual quality between these and the realtime gameplay. Many also appreciated the game's soundtrack, with Masashi Hamauzu providing "a score with catchy hooks and blood-pumping battle melodies."
The game's new battle system also received near-universal praise. The increased pace of battles was appreciated, several reviews describing it as "thrilling;" Edge Magazine's description of the battle system summarized it as "uncommonly beautiful, with a background fiction as rich as its story is poor, and at its beating heart is a battle system that stands among the genre's finest." The roles provided by the Paradigm Shift feature also added depth to the battle system and contributed to the fast pace, and having the AI automate the other two party members' actions meant battles in the game "may be the most involving the series has ever seen." The story, characters and voice acting were mostly received well. Wired remarked that the story was "a little more human and less esoteric than in previous games." 1UP felt that the story was "hardly world-class writing," but that the writers clearly knew the medium well and had attempted to avoid clichés.

'The Beatles: Rock Band' Makes Worldwide Debut

It's 09-09-09 and it might as well be the universe's Official Beatles Day. 45 years after Beatlemania hope to get back to where they once belonged. A new wave of Beatlemania(John, Paul, George and Ringo) swept around the world today as the Fab Four's digitally re-mastered CD albums with the entire original Beatles catalogue, and a new video game "The Beatles: Rock Band" were released simultaneously today! Five million albums have been shipped to stores across the world, and fans will be wailing on plastic instruments all day in an effort to travel back in time and live out their fantasies of becoming musical legends, and the stores are having an all-day long Beatles party!
Apple and EMI Music announced that the Beatles' entire back catalogue was reissued following an extensive digital remastering process that lasted four years at London's Abbey Road Studios. Each Beatles CD is packaged with replicated original UK album art, including expanded booklets containing original and newly written liner notes and rare photos.
The music video game "The Beatles: Rock Band" was developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV Games, distributed by Electronic Arts, and PS3/Xbox360/Wii standalone music game that features 45 songs from throughout The Beatles' extraordinary music, career and legacy. It's the 3rd major console release in the Rock Band music video game series. It has been highly praised by the press, being considered one of the best music video games to date. Many critics felt that the game would benefit from more songs and that experienced players will not find the game very challenging.
The generation gap appears to be both smaller and larger than ever. In Japan, eager Beatles fans flooded in all day to the HMV music store in the downtown Ginza shopping district, said a store manager Kozo Shimoda. On what has been dubbed "Beatles Day", retailers confident that fans would snap up the re-polished recordings and propel The Beatles back to the top of the charts. The Beatles' music still holds up, and it will continue to hold up until the end of time.