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You probably noticed that this month's FF4 quiz was AWOL. Climmy was being a bit of a reticent bugger about releasing it, but it's been resolved. You can take the quiz now. Sorry for the delay!

...In under five months!

According to a press release today from Sony, 40 million total Playstation 2 consoles have been sold worldwide. Naturally, the United States has seen the most, with nearly eighteen of those forty million units.

Let's look at that from another angle, shall we? There are rougly a quarter-billion people in the United States right now. Eighteen million of them have a PS2. This is a taste over seven percent of the population as a whole - a staggering number for a video game console, especially one that is so young as the PS2 still is.

With ten million pieces moved in under half a year, it appears that the PS2 is just now hitting its stride in a way that the PSX started to do soon after the release of FF7. It seems more than feasable to believe that the PS2 could overtake the NES as the largest-selling console ever in a few years.

Source: GameSpot

Thanks to NP's refusal to let me forget, I finally have his series "The Lights" in the Fanfics - FF6 section. We have the Prologue, Terra and Gau: The Learning Lights, Celes: The Endangered Light, and Shadow: The Lost Light all available for your reading pleasure.

These fics took a LONG time to convert, and I am not going to guarantee they are completely error-free at this moment. Please feel free to contact me with errors.

From this moment forward, only users who have 10 or more posts can actually take quizzes. No visitors who sign up and never participate in the forums will be allowed in.

I'm sorry, but if you're interested enough in the quiz to register here, you should be at least interested enough to join the site's community.

New fanfics! I've pretty well cleaned out the submission forum for fanfics today, adding the following to the permanent CoN fanfic database:

Beyond Pain by CoN Staffer Denise Cameron
Death of a General also by CoN Staffer Denise Cameron
The Small Man and the Large by Alexandr
and
The Tower of Mist by Sabin

Read, enjoy, comment in the forums!

Gamespot has just released its review of one of, if not the most anticipated NGC title yet, Super Mario Sunshine. The site gives it an 8.0, slightly less than I had come to expect based on all the hype. However, in reading the article, it's easy to understand why.

While it is a worthy successor to Mario 64, which was in itself an excellent game, some control flaws were evident to the reviewers that, if I were reviewing, would have docked the game hard. It appears that camerawork can be an issue at many points in the game, which has always been my personal complaint toward 3D platform games in general. However, overall, the game still looks like it's more than worth a playthrough to me.

Source: http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/reviews/0,10867,2878399,00.html