According to this report, Gaming giants 'Square' and 'Enix' are to merge their operations in a deal worth three quarters of a billion Euro, the end result of which will be one of the single largest development companies in the world.

Get the whole story at - http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page....ame=dev&aid=992

"JoshMan" has posted the following over at the NEStron website:

Well, it's been awhile since my last update, I figured I should let everyone know what's going on.

Time has been scarce lately. School is kinda rough especially now right before Thanksgiving Break, and between regular school, homework, and weightlifting, I haven't really had any time to work on either of the "NEStron!" emulators for a while. Neither of them is cancelled. I think I'm going to release a new version of NEStron sometime next week. Mapper 9 and 10 support are still a little flaky, so they won't come the new version, but everything else that I mentioned in the last update will be there.

Super NEStron is currently in the stage that usually kills about 75% of all emulators built - CPU emulation debugging. I can't really say when I will finally be able to find the hidden culprit, considering what little time I actually spending working on it. So for now I'm going to make the development of Super NEStron private. This means that it may be a while before it comes out (if at all).

One more thing - I think I might want to add a "movies" section to this website, so if you have any NES movies that you've created and you want to put them up for others to download, you can send them to me at joshman@emuunlim.com. Please attach a ".zip" file containing the NES movie and a.txt file containing:

The title of the game

Description of the movie (what you do in it)

Your name (or handle, such as "JoshMan" or "Mighty Mo", etc.)

Please enter "NES Movie" as the subject of the E-mail. And please, the movies should be semi-impressive. Don't send me a movie of you "dying really bad."

Well, have a happy Sunday, everyone.

- JoshMan

"Xodnizel" has done a post in the FCE Ultra forums explaining why he no longer has the 'desire' to work on FCE Ultra. Here's what he had to say:

I'm going to commit the debugger code to cvs added to the Windows port and make a list of all bugs that need to be fixed and add it to the TODO, then officially end work on FCE Ultra. Besides not having very much time for it anymore, I really lost the desire to work on it a month or two ago. The improved sound emulation was sort of my ultimate goal, and now that it's reached...

If anyone wants to be in head of continuing the "project", email me at xodnizel@starmen.net with your qualifications and why you want to continue it(or you could just reply here, which would probably be better).

I'll still work on Festalon(NSF player) for a few weeks, then make a release. If anyone wants to be in charge of it as well, reply here.

Get the info from the offical site itself at - http://fceultra.sourceforge.net/

Read the thread at - http://forum.starmen.net/cgi-bin/ultimateb...c;f=18;t=000123

A new version of xSNES9x, a X-Box port of SNES emulator Snes9x, has been updated to v1.03 today. The list of changes is as follows:

V1.03 properly patched for retail. Should work for everyone now on all bioses.

Fixed crash when attempting to add to favorites with no roms in list.

Fixed some small annoying bugs with the menu code.

Removed an extra call to S9xApplyCheats() which was not required and slowing down the main gameloop

Get it at - http://www.lantus-x.com/xSnes9x/