Square Enix, the developers of its blockbuster series "Final Fantasy" and "Kingdom Hearts" have launched a brand new game for the iPod, adding that to its long list of consoles it has developed games for.

Titled "Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes", it will go on sale for $4.99 in the US, 4.99 euros in Europe and 600 yen in Japan. The game is also developed exclusively for the iPod as it wants to take advantage of some of its functions and features.

The gameplay is basically this: You choose a song and that song determines the types and abilities of your character, or known as "Tune Troopers".

Most iPod games are just ports from versions from mobile phones.

And we also know that this is going to fail since there are no sales targets. Also, the company’s shares fell 1.5 percent in late afternoon trade at the Nikkei.

Court papers have told the world one fact that we already know: Facebook is not worth $15 billion. This ‘revelation’ comes when ConnectU is suing Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg for stealing their idea and code.

That value, $15 billion, was the value when Microsoft bought a 1.6 percent stake on Facebook for $240m, but its common stock is worth $3.75 billion. ConnectU argued that the deal was bogus since they lied about its value when Microsoft went and bought a stake in the social network.

In other words, ConnectU apparently nabbed Facebook’s internal valuation - meaning there is a mole in the company. But the NY Times is saying that Microsoft bought preferred stock and not common stock - meaning that they have more rights as shareholders.

So now, we don’t know the value - but we do know two things: It is below what Microsoft evaluated it and it is too high what ConnectU claims.

TECHGEEK is pleased to announce that we have a brand new design and we have ditched the dreaded red colouring (as many have said - like James, Stewart, Kenny, among others) and brought on this new design.

We, along with the editors for GamesArena (as they will be soon using it) and many of our editors and our design team at Antinomie Designs, have been working on this theme for over three months after launching the TECHGEEK’s “Celebration Theme”. That theme will be a back-up theme if we need to do some upgrades, etc.

As well, our new archive pages will now show you the content directly, and not make you click to view the content. Also, we have added Mixx, StumbleUpon and Reddit to the list of social bookmarking tools that you can use to help.

On a technical level, we have reduced the amount of coded pages from 20 to 12 - a dramatic reduction, as I have just discovered “Conditional Tags” - I know, but I’m slowly adding more skills to the site. As well, we have also reduce the page loads to have the site run on one stylesheet, and have less “wide” components (and that’s true - from three to one, the footer).

The design is also 990px wide, making content to appear not squashed. Though we know it will cause problems to many of you with resoulutions less than 1024×768, many of our visitors have a higher resoultion than 800×600.

The design, however, is not expected to start appearing at those CSS galleries as we don’t want to focus on vanity but on content. However, it is okay to have a bit of vanity - and that allows us to present content in a way that looks good on the eyes.

The official name for all the blog redesigns is Crystalline, and TECHGEEK will recieve the blue edition of this. The Journal will recieve black and GamesArena will have a colour that I have no idea to call it. As well, this will be an offering to all blogs on Reawaken Media - so that’s a good chance that you may see this on blogs under our name (P.S - We are looking for those who want to create an anime/manga blog with us).

The design will not be avaliable as a download, as we want to be exclsuive.

- Terence

An appeals court argument over the patents relating to the MP3 file format between Alcatel-Lucent and Microsoft is still continuing, even though a lower court jury overturned a previous judgement that saw Microsoft paying a $1.5 billion award to Alcatel-Lucent.

According to Reuters, the arguments mainly came from a 1989 agreement between AT&T and Fraunhofer Gesellschaft - the co-developers of the MP3 format. Microsoft has said that it had licensed the technology from Fraunhofer, but Alcatel-Lucent says it could not legally licensed since it was done by Bell Labs, now a research arm at the company.

The case caused an uproar when a jury in San Diego ruled that Microsoft infringed two patents and awarded a $1.5 billion fee to Alcatel-Lucent; but that was overturned when a District Judge disagreed with the jury - saying that Microsoft had licensed one patent and it had not violated the other.