Merry Christmas!
Posted on: Dec 24 2008 by David | Discuss on BBS
From all of us here at dothackers, Merry Christmas! Hopefully some .hack activity will spark up in the new year! To all the old-timers who have been visiting the website over the years (even when .hack dips into hiatus), and those just finding the site... thanks! Without the support of fans dothackers would have closed up shop a long time ago. Power to the community!

.hack//G.U. Vol. 1 Novel Release Date + Manga and Novel Special Edition
Posted on: Dec 03 2008 by David | Discuss on BBS
According to TokyoPop's website, the novel adaptation of the first .hack//G.U. game, ".hack//G.U. Vol.1: The Terror of Death" will be released on February 10th, 2008 in the United States. "Tatsuya Hamasaki, writer of the scenario for the ".hack//G.U." games, now turns his hand to its novelization! Hamazaki is the writer of several Gundam manga, as well as the author of several One Piece novelizations. "

The first //G.U. novel is available for pre-order on Amazon. The novel boasts 208 pages and will retail for $10.99.

Also, just recently released on December 1st is a special edition of the first legend of the twilight manga and the first .hack//Another Birth novel. If anyone has had a chance to get a copy, shoot us an e-mail and tell us more about it! The special edition is retailing for $10.39 on Amazon and boasts 432 pages.


Happy Holidays!
Posted on: Nov 24 2008 by David | Discuss on BBS
From all of us here at dothackers, have a good break! Hopefully some .hack activity will spark up in the new year! To get you through the ".hack depression," please stare at the image below for 5 minutes; you will thank us when it's over! Also, a website related note: I will be working on a totally redesigned dothackers over the next month or so. The website may be unavailable during the later evenings, but the message board will be 100% accessible.


Hiroshi Matsuyama Breaks Disturbing DLC Trend
Posted on: Oct 28 2008 by Kuukai | Discuss on BBS

While CyberConnect2 is the developer behind .hack, many business decisions for the project are made by Namco Bandai, their publisher. While eagerly awaiting the next installment in the .hack franchise (see below), one worry has plagued my thoughts: DLC.

DLC, or downloadable content, is a prominent feature of the current generation of gaming. It allows for game enjoyment to be an ongoing experience, for games to be revitalized months after you've completed them—but it also harbors a dark side.

With the advent of pay DLC, there have been some companies that tend to abuse the system, to charge for things that might have been free extras before, to charge for content that is already on the $60 disc you bought. Some will charge for a bypass to tedious or boring parts of the game, leading to a serious conflict of interest when designing the thing to begin with. Among the worst transgressors so far, sadly, is Bandai Namco.

Luckily, CyberConnect2 President Hiroshi "Piros" Matsuyama is fighting back against this trend. According to a post he wrote on the official PlayStation.Blog, CC2 will be providing DLC for their next game, Naruto: Ultimate Ninja STORM, well into next year, and entirely for free! This certainly makes me more optimistic about the future of .hack. There was always the potential risk that even if the next game was just one volume, you could end up paying more in micropayments than you did for all of G.U. For now, though, those fears should be abated.

Tokyo Game Show Coverage! October 9th-12 [Over]
Posted on: Oct 02 2008 by David | Discuss on BBS
edit 10-18: There were no .hack media announcements at the Tokyo Game Show. Keep tuned; .hack//G.U. Trilogy (the 90 minute CG animated movie) should be hitting shelves in the United States soon!

All has been quiet on the .hack front. A little too quiet. Many fans (including myself) are hoping for a tease of the next series -or- whatever may be next in line. Have no idea what we're talking about? Take a second and time travel with dothackers...

Flash back to March: "The .hack//G.U. Trilogy NewWorldGuide, which was released alongside Trilogy this week [on DVD in Japan], revealed artwork for a new series, possibly new games, connected to the new .hack//LINK era. This new series may even answer the questions raised by a certain "twist" in Trilogy. In addition, Bandai Namco Vice President Shin Unozawa stated in an interview in the magazine that in the wake of the success of Trilogy he is considering making a movie based on the first 4 .hack games."



The Tokyo Game Show is the largest video game expo in Japan, and has filled much of the void of the now defunct E3 expo in terms of developers announcing new games. While there may not be an announcement regarding .hack, there may as well be one (yes you read that right)! Nobody knows for sure. So, set your calendars and bookmark dothackers home page for up to the minute coverage on any .hack related news coming out of TGS, starting October 9th!

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