News

As many of you may already know, we're adding a new affiliate today, Heroes of Ivalice. You all know I'm not a big fan of pen-and-paper or text-based RPGs, but Kairo's concept is so good, and he's so passionate about it that I wanted to share it with everyone via CoN. Of course, I can't explain it properly, so check out his thread to learn more.



Also, those of you who follow our fanart galleries often may recognize the name Lindsay Cibos. She's a very talented artist who has an image in our Fanart Hall of Fame. Well, now she's got another claim to fame - Tokyopop has recently published her shojo manga "Peach Fuzz." When you can read about an artist in your local newspaper, who has donated to CoN, you know she's getting to the big time. Check her out at her own site and learn more.



Finally, I've heard a rumor that another artist at CoN is iin talks for a publishing deal and is close to closing a contract up. I won't say who because I don't want to jinx it, and I don't want you all to guess for the same reason. But keep your fingers crossed anyway.

L. Cully has submitted another fanfic called From the Sea, which is now viewable in the FF6 Fanfiction Section. The fanfic centres around Terra, and is quite original.

Feel free to comment on this fanfic in the original submission topic, or here.

Happy Valentine's Day for tomorrow (or today, if you're from an especially silly time zone) from all of us here in the Caves. For some reason, we chose this day to launch our brand new Final Fantasy VII section.

Then we pulled it forward to today anyway.

Still.

We've deviated a little from the norm on this one. While you'll still find the game data coverage you've come to expect from us, we've focused on adding more in the way of guides and tips to this section. No longer are sidequests bundled into unexpected places in the walkthrough; you'll now find detailed guides dedicated to the optional and non-sequential elements of the game, written both by staff and various long-time friends of the site, who are credited on the section main page.

We're also trying out a new spoiler system for the section, and we'd love some feedback on it. It's not perfect — if you go and look at the last chapter of the walkthrough when you're still playing the beginning, you're still going to get things spoiled — but hopefully it should largely protect you from wandering into massive spoilers accidentally, unless you turn the spoiler option on to view the full section content.

Plus, as usual, you'll find a selection of fanart and fanfiction, and a few downloadables we thought you might enjoy.

As ever, please do let us know of any errors or omissions, or things we could improve, particularly things you think should be spoilered that we might not have noticed. And finally, a massive, massive thank-you to everyone who's contributed to the section over the stupidly long time we've been building it, and special congratulations to Mr Thou, whose work on the section leads him to officially becoming a CoN staff member as of today.

Enjoy! ♥

The third fanfic from Shotgunnova, called "The Last Hour of Olan Durai.", is now up in the FFT fanfics section.

Feel free to comment on the fanfic here, or in the appropriate thread in the site submissions section.

This time it's Fanart. We've got new fanart from another series of artists, including Aora, Ashe, bratkitty, riceNoOdleZ,
Silverfork, and SilverMaduin. Again, thanks to The_Pink_Nu1 for his help in preparing this new batch.

And, again, I plan to have another wad of Fanart ready to go in just a few weeks.

As you might recall from a previous news post, I promised a pretty good chunk of new media coming your way. Finally I got around to doing it.

Here's what you'll find:

• Final Fantasy I Official Art
• Final Fantasy IV Official Art
• Final Fantasy V Official Art
• Final Fantasy VI Official Art
• Final Fantasy I Downloads, including NES hacks, ROM editors, wallpaper, and audio files.

I took quite a bit of time assembling these sections, so I hope you enjoy them. Thanks also to Neal, Djibriel, Kappa, and others for their help in sourcing content.