I got this picture in an email saying “when Picard and Chunk fight, everyone wins”

Topless Robot Posted this one.

And all I can say is “F*cking Rad.

According to the site, Square-Enix also assured fans that the fears of missing out on the closed beta wouldn’t be an issue.

“Those who were not selected in this drawing, fear not, for there will be other opportunities to come,” and adding that interested gamers should “Be sure to stay tuned!”

As it stands Final Fantasy XIV is a MMORPG just like its older brother Final Fantasy XI, and that this game will be available on the PS3 and PC (with rumors of it making its way onto the XBOX360)

No official word on if the beta will be PC only or if PS3 users will get invited as well, but we will know more for sure in the coming weeks..

Sites like /Film , Superhero Hype! , Comicbookmovie, and io9 have all reported the news that the CW has renewed this show for what many of them are calling its 10th and Final Season.

“SMALLVILLE” TO RETURN FOR A TENTH SEASON ON THE CW

March 4, 2010 (Burbank, California) – The CW Network has announced that its hit series “Smallville” will return in the fall of 2010 for a momentous tenth season.

“Smallville,” a modern retelling of the Superman legend, stars Tom Welling as Clark Kent. The series moved to Friday nights this season, where it currently ranks as network television’s #1 show in its time period among men 18-34 and men 18-49. Additionally, “Smallville” has dramatically improved The CW’s ratings performance in its Friday 8:00-9:00p.m.time period by 67% among adults 18-34 (1.5/6), 200% in men 18-34 (1.8/7), 75% in adults 18-49 (1.4/5), 183% in men 18-49 (1.7/6) and 74% in total viewers (3.12million).

“Smallville” joins the five previously announced series – “The Vampire Diaries,” “Gossip Girl,” “90210,” “Supernatural” and “America’s Next Top Model” – which will all return for another season on The CW.

“Smallville” was developed for television by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar (”Shanghai Noon,” “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor”), based on the DC Comics characters. Kelly Souders & Brian Peterson serve as executive producers, along with James Marshall, Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins and Joe Davola. The series is produced by Tollin/Robbins Productions, Millar/Gough Ink and Warner Bros. Television. SUPERMAN was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

While rumors are stating that this new season may include Lex Luthor’s return, the appearance of DarkSeid and Apokolips, and Clark wearing the Superman suit and actually flying on his own for a change, fans really cant say for sure what this show is going to give next season, all we can do for now is finish season 9 in the coming weeks and wait for the announcements.

But it seems recently talks of this possibility have be in full force. Through interviews, tech demos, and even the spin offs, demand for this remake is at an all time high.

The sites The Lifestream and Final Fantasy Union both reported on the news that Square-Enix themselves has been asking fans about the demand of this remake.

They first posted on the Square-Enix Members Twitter account the question of fans opinion of the possible remake, shortly after it was posted the account was immediately flooded with positive replies, in fact there were so many replies that the author asked everyone to stop replying because they got the information they needed.

Shortly after they posted another question asking fans about a remake of Final Fantasy VIII, and to my understanding (I may have translated it wrong) what changes fans would want to the possible remakes.

While this may just be Square-Enix teasing its fans, it is interesting to note that this is the first time they have gone out of there way to ask the fans if they wanted something. Maybe it was to see if making these games would be cost effective? For now we just get to add this to the long list of evidence/rumors that point to this game being made.

Sites like FinalFantasyUnion and UffSite are reporting the news that the Xbox360 version has leaked online.

This seems to come as no real surprise for the Xbox gaming market with Modern Warfare 2 and Halo ODST having similar things happen to them in the past. Now with the game being out on the “market” for pirates to grab, we may end up seeing a slew of new Xbox live bans coming like they did before.

The sites mention that this most likely wont happen to the PS3 due to its Blu-ray system being so hard to rip and burn from and the addition of Sony’s hard to crack security software in place, and only happens to Xbox because it still relies on the DVD format.

Either way, this doesn’t bode well for Xbox once again because they may very well see a sales hit from this that Sony may not suffer from.

“Steven [Spielberg] and George [Lucas] and I are sort of agreed on a germ of an idea and we’re seeing what comes of it.”

“The process works like this, “We come to some basic agreement and then George goes away for a long time and works on it.. “Then Steven and I get it in some form, some embryonic form. “Then if we like it we start working with George on it and at some point down the line it’s ready and we do it.”

While I hope that this upcoming movie returns to the roots of what made Indiana Jones so special (Nazis, treasure hunting, or religious relics) and an extreme departure from the whole “alien” angle, regardless of what it may turn out to be (or even it we want it), we have a new Indy in the works.

“It’s official, I have the greatest job in the world.”

While some are speculating that this script is the one that Marvel hired Zak Penn to write, nothing is truly been confirmed, but with Iron Man 2 coming out this summer, and Thor and Captain America soon to be on the way, its safe to say that we will be hearing more news like this in the coming weeks.

Paramount Pictures is planning to release The Avengers on May 4, 2012.

This is not one of those movies. Fantastic Mr. Fox is a movie that I should have seen in theaters. I watched it twice in past 12 hours. I laughed and smiled and enjoyed the movie equally both times. This movie is a 10/10, worth paying to see, worth watching over and over again movie.

2009 was an excellent year for animation: Coraline, Ponyo, and Fantastic Mr Fox all are keepers.

Sites such as Joystiq, Playstation Lifestyle, LazyGamer, and Kotaku are all reporting the great news.

And what seems even more relieving is that all the issues with corrupted themes, trophies, and saved data are no longer present either.

What I found most interesting was that when I turned my PS3 on the time was correct but the date was changed back to 2/28, and once I updated the time everything was running smoothly. Maybe Sony backtracked everyone clock a day to get it all working,  but regardless of what they did I can say that this resolve is definitely a breath of fresh air after everything that could have happened with this situation.

Now I’m going to go play Uncharted 2 online or something. Anyone who wants to join me can.

PSN ID = Amazingninjaboy

See ya there.

P.S. – For anyone who did lose their trophies that were not synced prior to today’s horrible mess, word on the street is that all you have to do is re-insert the game that the trophies are missing from and it should put them all back up.

The guys over at Playstation Lifestyle not only figured out what was going on, but gave a very easily understandable explanation for people who aren’t “tech heads” or “programmer junkies”.

So whats really causing the problem? Its actually quite simple. Due to a problem with the programming code, the old Playstations were made to count every even year as a leap year, not once every four years like it should be. So back in 2008 when this first couldn’t happened, it was actually in fact a leap year so Feb 29th was on the calender, but this year the system thinks it is, but when it wasn’t, it basically freaked out and reset itself because it didn’t know what to do.

They pointed out that there are three options that could happen:

“1. The official GMT ticks over to March 2nd and the PlayStation 3 moves to March 1st instead of the leap year date which is causing the issues.

2. Sony finds a way to force the System Clock to move to the current date or at least behave properly.

3. There is no way fix the issue and Sony will have to find a plan b.”

Personally I hope its plan a or b, because the 3rd option doesn’t sound fun for anyone who owns an old PS3 because it would just turn out to be more time away from our gaming, and aside from our own personal wishes plan c doesn’t sound financially beneficial for Sony because it leaves room for more possibilities that could hurt their wallets.

Whatever the outcome is, I just know I want to play my PS3 again without losing any of my saved data.

UPDATE/RELATED ARTICLE 3/1 – 4:30pm: Crisis Over! All PS3’s are working again!