Maybe saying that Final Fantasy 7 remake is "unrealistic" is Square Enix's way of challenging fans to write them even more letters demanding that they do it. At least, that's how it'll probably be interpreted.

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Speaking to TechDigest, Final Fantasy 13 Producer Yoshinori Kitase recently commented that a Final Fantasy 7 remake looks "pretty unrealistic." If conditions were such that Square Enix could make the game within a year -- with graphics akin to the latest release in the series -- then "we'd very much like a go at it!" says Kitase. He estimates, however, that it would take "three or four times longer than the three and a half years it has taken to put this Final Fantasy [13] together." OK, so probably no fancy FF7 remake -- but how about a portable version? Please?

If you didn't get into the Starcraft 2 beta, Kotaku reports that there's still hope! Several hustlers who attended Blizzcon 2008 are currently auctioning off their Starcraft 2 beta key cards (plus a code for a polar bear mount in World of Warcraft) that they obtained from the event for an average of $300 on eBay. Yikes! If you still just have to play, might I suggest collecting donations from around the office/dorm, and then everyone can take turns playing?

The Game Developers Choice Awards at this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco is set to present the Lifetime Achievement Award to John Carmack of id Software. The game programmer is most famous his role in popularizing the first-person-shooter genre in the 1990s with titles such as Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake. Previous winners of the award include Sid Meier, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Will Wright. I would like to personally thank Mr. Carmack and id for playing a hand in desensitizing me to virtual violence early on in my youth. [Destructoid]

Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx DLC drops this Tuesday for Xbox Live Arcade (Thursday for PlayStation Network/PC). Fans can expect to find a huge new area (almost two times the size of The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned); new, ultra-rare weapons; and a level cap that now sits at 61. Damn, I remember when back in the day, if you wanted to max out a character to level 99 in your game, it didn't cost you anything extra. Crazy huh? 

GameStop is having their "biggest trade event ever," offering customers an extra whopping 50% on "every trade." Normally I'm not one to encourage trading in video games to GameStop for chump change, but if you must, now would be the best time to do so. At least with this promotion, the return you get on the games you relinquish won't be super depressing but actually almost fair. [Joystiq] 

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