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I just finished adding, probably at the cost of my job (^_^), eleven new pieces of fanart. They are all from FF4, covering the following sections. I've bolded the ones that create brand-new fanart sections.

Rosa by Kame
Golbez by Kame
FuSoYa by Kame
Edward by Kame
Cid by Kame
Cecil by Kame
Rydia by Kame
Summons by Kame
Group by Kame
The Twins by Narratorway

Yes, it's true - if you just shelled out $70 for a GBA, plus another whatever for an Afterburner, and then took your GBA apart to install it, et cetera, you shafted yourself. Sorry.

The GBA will soon be accompanied by a backlit, foldable version that will cost $99 and play all existing GBA games. No longer will you need to suffer through a dark screen, or the worry that accompanies performing major surgery to install a light. Now you can get it straight from Nintendo.

The unit is shaped much like the original Game Boy, only with a hinge right in the center. This allows the unit to fold into a shape three inches square and only an inch thick. At a premium of only $30 over the original GBA, I see the new GBA SP overrunning sales of the original within three months.

Source: http://www.usatoday.com/tech....y_x.htm

Thanks to Narratorway, we now have a new FF6 layout, the first to go online since the original four back at CoN5 launch. It features Shadow, and I'm sure you've seen the art before, but the new layout will appear on any FF6 page or any page that does not apply to a specific game. Keep an eye out!

In addtion, I have added the three Shadow fanarts that make up the layout to the Fanart database, so you may vote on them and rate them any time you like!

We now have opened the Fanart Hall of Fame! Your votes on all of our hundred-plus fanart images are now tabulated for the purposes of showing which pieces are the best on the site. Enjoy!

We've resolved the setup issues with the CoNStore affiliation with GKWorld. Visitors of the CoN can now buy anime, games, soundtracks, posters, keychains, and a lot more online and a portion of the proceeds will come back to CoN to support the site through server costs, contests, and other opportunities.

The CoNStore is one of the keys to this site's growth. So, next time you want that anime DVD or a guidebook for the newest FF game, please consider ordering it through CoNStore. You'll get what you want AND help your favorite site.

Links:
CoNStore
Direct Link to CoNStore with GKWorld

Imagine my surprise when I arrived here this morning, from my cushiony chair at work. I deftly avoided all work-related emails and wandered in here to see what I'd missed last night, and what do I see? Well, the new forums have hit 5000 posts.

I don't have any benchmarks to tell you exactly how long it took the old forums to reach this level, but I can be pretty sure that it didn't happen in four and a half months the way it did here.

Thanks a lot to all the forum regulars who like being here so much, and a special thanks to Spoony Bard, whose post in the Cowboy Bebop Movie thread hit the 5K mark this morning.