I just started classes at university this week, and it's safe to say my schedule is pretty hectic (since I have to take the train and bus to/from uni.). Thus, I won't be making any news/website updates till Friday, since my classes are only from Mondays to Thursdays. All of the recent news will be rolled up into a few updates then. You should also expect less big updates (although small news updates will take place) due to uni.

A bit of good news: the PC transfer cable came in, and everything is now moved over to the new computer (namely, all of my SH-related files), so I can convert the boxart/etc. to .jpg, fix up old images, remove old files, etc.

The Tales of Vesperia section has been revamped with the new "code" from the site-wide revamp earlier.

This includes showing the latest news from MODx, not from the forum, as well as adding RSS feed links for the section. The Merchandise section is also using a revamped layout, which helps making you find what you're looking for much easier that previously. We also added Gamestop as a vendor, as well as some new items to the list. One change we made is that for products, such as the limited edition console bundle for Vesperia in Japan, which will never likely be listed for sale on some retails, we will not be adding those.

All of the other sections will be updated, in their respective orders. The Merchandise sections for the other games will also be added during these updates.

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The voting for the 4th Challenge of Round 5 is now underway. Luke did not submit an icon for this round, and is therefore eliminated.

You must pick your favorite icon, in each of the four sets (the fifth set is excluded, since the person won by default through Luke being eliminated). This cannot be because you're biased towards the character used in the icon --- it must be about how the icon was done. Comments on the icons you pick is required. You may comment on any other icons, if you wish.

Voting ends on Sunday, August 24th, 7:00PM EST.

Vote now! :)

Pick your three favorite icons in order of preference, and one for the Special Category, which is Best Cropping. The SC must be a different icon than your three favorites.

Voting ends on Sunday, August 24th.

IGN's review for Tales of Vesperia is now online. The game scored a 8.2/10, which is high compared to other games in the series.

They were generally impressed with the game, although they considered the skits "dated" for a game on the Xbox360, as well as a few lines which didn't make the translation from Japanese to English that well.

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EDIT: I forgot to include the embedded video in the initial news post. It can be found in the full story link below.

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After some tough work, the forum is now back online. This topic on the forum goes over the technicals of what happened.

In other news, the news updates should load quicker now. We moved them to .jpg from .png, which shaved the filesizes by 75% in some cases. Most of the site is still done in .png, due to transparency effects that can't be done with .jpg files.

You may have been noticing some changes in the various Vesperia sections, most notably in the Merchandise section. This is the new format all merchandise items will follow, which simplifies the process of finding which version of the game you want (especially for the Asia versions, which have multiple variations depending on the region it's released in). Currently, only one item is edited, but it will be applied to the rest of them eventually. Then a Vesperia news post will be made.

Two new Famitsu scans have been released. Nothing new is shown, but we do see some more of how the characters look in their CG and Anime forms.

All of the RSS feeds are now online, which can be found underneath the News Archives in the navigation. We did not include the LiveJournal news as an RSS feed, due to them having their own feed (we simply repackage parts of their feed for our news posts).

Until the forum issue is fixed, we will be going around and fixing up the code on the site / adding new content / adding the RSS feeds to their game-specific pages.

The official website for the Tales of the Abyss anime has been updated from the "teaser" site they had earlier.

All of the images have been ripped and added to our Gallery. ;)

Scans from the first issue of the Tales of Magazine announced back during the Tales confrence in July has been scanned, thanks to Eternal Manga Scanlations.

A new section, entitled Other was added to the Gallery for them. Images of the Tales of My Shuffle cards will also be added under this section, along with any other misc. Tales images.