Susukida who was lead designer for the life sim events that took place in P3 and P4, is partly responsible for the layout and graphical changes in P3P this time. To summarise this week's blog entry, he explains how the 3D environments for the life sim part of the RPG were removed to help improve loading times and, the P4 shortcut system was...

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Thought I'd resume the Case of Shinra, the final short story in the FFVII On the Way to a Smile series again now that fellow FFVII fan, Hitoshura over at Thelifestream.net seems to be MIA and a number of people have emailed to ask about my translation of it. I've already updated my main FFVII Novels site with some of the translation but this...

中秋節快樂! 中秋节快乐! Yes, I know it's passed. Wasn't really going to make a post about the annual Mid-Autumn Festival but, then I remembered this shot of some cakes my parents brought back from their trip to London on the day. Cute, eh? Almost £3 (US$5) each... Lots of cream skilfully decorated on top of a slice of roll. Tasted pretty good....

So far, we've only seen P3P running off the new PSP Go - Which means it loads faster off the built-in memory. But how does it play off the traditional UMD on older PSP models? Director Hashino shows you just how well the dungeon crawling and life sim parts of the game load in the fourth entry of the P3P blog. Note that he didn't make use of the...

Packaging Design and Build Performance Summary Good Bad...

Mini update on the P3P site....

Yay, the site's back after about a day of downtime (right after covering MCF2009 as well!) and it had nothing to do with sharing large files from my hosting space this time. Instead, it looks like the recent boost in traffic had so many people viewing the site this month, the quota got used up faster than expected. Might be time to find some...

Carnival Collective, a group of musicians from Brighton. I really couldn't hear much of the music because of there was more than one band... Puff Uproar and the Shimmering Affair behind them with more vivid colours from Carnival Arts. I like those huge figure costumes! Kings of M...

P3P site updates for today include letting fans leave their messages to show to their support for P3P by clicking the blue banner next to the blog button. Then you must leave......