Xboxic Reports Microsoft Buying Chrono Series - Then Retracts It
- Scribbled on February 18th, 2007 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360, Retro, Rumor Mill, WTF
Anyone with an RSS news feeder aimed at Xboxic noticed a hot item listed:
Microsoft buys up Chrono series
OMFG! Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger for XBLA? Or, better yet, a new Chrono game for the 360, with next-gen visuals and gameplay, to dominate both the United States and, more importantly, that hard-to-crack walnut that is videogaming in Japan?
But, clicking on the link, there’s nothing, just the following:
Oops!
We couldn’t find the page you were looking for. Please check the URL you entered for errors, or use our search function to find the correct article.
Even more suspicious is the fact that on the main Xboxic page the news item numbers jump from 2419 to 2421. Two things are possible: one, someone was talking out of their butt, or two, and more tantalizingly, someone violated their Non-Disclosure Agreement with Microsoft and quickly pulled the news item under penalty of death.
Whatever the case, let the speculation commence!
February 19th, 2007 at 10:12 am
It was a fake URL.
February 19th, 2007 at 10:38 am
It was not a fake URL. The news item had the number 2419 and 2421. Are you claiming the RSS lied, or that Xboxic would deliberately skip a news item number?
February 19th, 2007 at 11:04 am
[...] get immediately pulled from their site of origin. Xboxic had a story that hit our feed along with others, that reported on Microsoft buying the Chrono series, with Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger prime [...]
February 19th, 2007 at 11:05 am
[...] get immediately pulled from their site of origin. Xboxic had a story that hit our feed along with others, that reported on Microsoft buying the Chrono series, with Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger prime [...]
February 19th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
[...] get immediately pulled from their site of origin. Xboxic had a story that hit our feed along with others, that reported on Microsoft buying the Chrono series, with Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger prime [...]
February 19th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
[...] get immediately pulled from their site of origin. xboxic had a story that hit our feed along with others, that reported on Microsoft buying the Chrono series, with Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger prime [...]
February 19th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
We apologize for the inconvenience. One of our writers picked up a story from a fake URL that faked the entire IGN layout.
The story is thus absolutely most certainly not true. We pulled it the second we found out, and sincerely apologize for causing the stir.
February 19th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
[...] get immediately pulled from their site of origin. Xboxic had a story that hit our feed along with others, that reported on Microsoft buying the Chrono series, with Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger prime [...]
February 20th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
That’s an awfully bad publicity for Xboxic. How incompetent it was for them to be so stupid
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:30 am
[...] Microsoft is always rumored to being buying Capcom, Nintendo or other major properties like the Chrono series, but this is most plausible, since three of the biggest board game titles already are slated for [...]