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Hey all,

Just wanted to do some follow up on Josh’s earlier post.

For the last four years, my primary function on SquareAMP has been to report news about the goings on with Square Enix. I have enjoyed the opportunity to share that news with the community, but especially in the past year it has become more and more difficult to motivate myself into composing those news post (I’m sure a lot of you noticed how rarely the front page was being updated). This has a lot to do with the fact, and I hate to say it, that Square Enix has lost a lot of what made them and intriguing company to begin with. They rarely ever try to wow their fan base like they used to (remember how the gaming community collectively flipped the heck out when that first trailer for Advent Children came out back in 2003?). Josh will be the first to tell you, and I’m inclined to agree, that a lot of this has to do with the direction that the company is now on under the guidance of president Yoichi Wada. What you hear that’s important about them these days is which company they are looking to buy out next (see: Taito, Eidos, and the failed attempt with Tecmo), not what new games they are coming out with.

But enough crying over spilt milk. In light of this, it is clear that I must expand the scope of what I’m doing if I want to stay engaged with the whole gaming news thing (and I do). I’m not entirely sure just how much I will expand or in what direction; I’ll just work with what seems interesting to write about for now.

Josh and I have been talking for quite some time now about trying to revitalize SquareAMP. What you see now is step 1. We both have a lot of ideas for expanding the content of our new home, and we hope you guys will want to participate in that effort when the time comes, but for now the focus will be on building up the blog side of things. We’ll see where it goes from there.