Microsoft Discusses Xbox E3 No-Shows

Thanks to GameSpy for its 'Sole Food' column discussing why certain Xbox games were missing from Microsoft's line-up at last month's E3 show in Los Angeles. Titles mentioned, with included late-breaking Microsoft response, include "part action, part collectible-card game" Phantom Dust ("Microsoft Game Studios has decided to not publish Phantom Dust for North America"), action title and "everyone's favorite goggle-wearing, vacuum-wielding, time-shifting cat" Blinx 2 (We plan to make an official announcement after E3"), and "console massively multiplayer online RPG" True Fantasy Live Online ("The Level 5 team is focusing on developing and polishing the game for the Japanese release this winter, and as a result the timing of the U.S. release of the game is still undetermined.")

Comments

Aptly enough

[Dachannien]

With a name like Phantom Dust, it pretty much had to be vaporware.

Re:japan?

[Lynxara]

I recall an anecdote my Japanese-major friend told me about the Japanese dub of big American sitcom "Laverne & Shirley"... the premise and dialogue made so little sense to the Japanese that the translators felt the need to add a little change that would help the show conform more to Japanese tastes.

They added, as a subtitle at the beginning of the title sequence, "These women were just released from an institution for the insane."

More fantasies?

[ChibiOne]

What's the deal with profiting on the "Fantasy" games? Not satisfied with the "Final" one and the "Star", now we get the "True" one? And don't forget the "Tales of", too.

Still waiting for "The Tales of the True Ultimate Final Phantasy Star EX"