Square Enix has announced Love SQ, a soundtrack composed by a variety of Japanese artists featuring music from the Final Fantasy series, Chrono Trigger and other Square(soft) Enix classic titles.
Kennosuke Suemura of Namco Bandai recently "borrowed" the melodies from "Battle with Magus" from Chrono Trigger and "The One Who Will Save The Earth" from Lufia II for his recent Super Robot Taisen K soundtrack. Worse, this isn't the first time this has happened. The same composer was supposedly involved in a similar incident involving music from Warcraft II when working on a previous title in the series. Namco Bandai has since released a formal apology and paid a settlement to resolve the issue. OSV has located a video showing the plagiarism in action.
The Bad Dudes are putting out an album of arranged music from Chrono Trigger. For those who are unfamiliar with the Bad Dudes, they're a group of top remixers in the VG remixing community who often band together to put together arrangement albums, and this time it's Chrono Trigger that's on the receiving end. The album is out later this month.
NE: "Artist Stephanie Laberis had been teasing a Chrono Trigger announcement of sorts for August 11th, though she was able to reveal the mystery a few weeks early."
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Square Enix Senior Vice President Shinji Hashimoto revealed that the company wasn't very impressed by the sales of cult RPG classic Chrono Trigger on Nintendo DS during an E3 interview regarding Front Mission Evolved, a reinvention of the Front Mission franchise.
Rember PSN user DimmuJed, who proposed to his girlfriend in LittleBig Planet? Of course you don't. DimmuJed is not going to official wed his fiance inside of LittleBigPlanet, and is inviting people to join as "witnesses".
Game developer Sirius Entertainment has announced today that Japanese game music composer Mitsuda Yasunori would be in charge of sound for the 3D fantasy online game Lime Odyssey, which is currently under development by the company.
Chrono Trigger is a game that the people of Europe have been waiting to play for a long, long time. 14 years after it's original English language release over in the states, European RPG fans finally have a chance to play the classic on the Nintendo DS - but they haven't taken to the game as well as one might think.
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Square Enix Ltd., the publisher of Square Enix interactive entertainment products in Europe and other PAL territories, today announces that Chrono Trigger will be released across PAL territories on...
GameStop's product description for Chrono Trigger DS isn't quite how the original SNES version was. Unless there was always a subplot where Crono wanted to time travel to 1982 in order to throw a football over some mountains to win the state championship.
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According to a recently released taste of last week's action in Japan by Famitsu, Nintendo's Animal Crossing: City Folk has crossed the 300k barrier, nearly doubling Wii Music's lifetime sales in only one week.
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Alternate closures in Chrono Trigger ranged vastly from a cat filled parade in Crono's honor to everyone turning into reptiles. In addition to new dungeons and a monster arena, there is a brand new ending to find in the DS version of Chrono Trigger. Details about the ending have obviously not been announced aside from a two screenshots like this one of Marle, Frog, and Crono staring at a time gate.
Square Enix have taken an interesting approach to marketing the upcoming Nintendo DS remake of the Super Nintendo Classic Chrono Trigger, marketing it directly at those who have already played, completed and have nostalgia for the game. But are they cutting out that all important new market who have never even heard of Chrono Trigger?
Videogame Cover Band "The Red Wings" have released an MP3 download of their cover of Frog's Theme from Chrono Trigger to celebrate the upcoming release of Chrono Trigger DS, the first time the SNES classic will be released in their home territory.
No, North America you aren't going to get Chrono Trigger first. Square Enix covertly moved the release date for Chrono Trigger up one week to November 20.