Final Fantasy VII, Star Control II

Ah, nostalgia. Since I haven't played any games since Final Fantasy VII on PC (7.5 years ago), there is a lot to catch up on.

First, Final Fantasy VII (1997) now has a spin-off movie called Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Apparently all the famous characters are back: Cloud, Tifa, Red, Cid, Yuffie, Barrett, Vincent, Cat Sith. The movie was released in Japan in 2004, and supposedly the US DVD release is sometime this year.

I also remember being somewhat confused by the storyline in FFVII as there are many flashbacks. Here's a fan's guide to the plot.

Second, one of my favorite games of all time, Star Control II (1992), was released into open source in 2002. You can download the game and play it on your modern Windows XP, Mac, Linux machine.

Long live open source!