It was only a week ago that our Senior Console Editor Raymond Padilla proclaimed, "if TFLO isn't released I will stand on my head." Almost as if to mock him, last week Microsoft announced that they were canceling the game. It's a good thing Ray is ... limber.

True Fantasy Live Online (or TFLO as it was affectionately known) was to be Microsoft's Xbox foray into the world of massively multiplayer online gaming. They had some big guns behind the title: it was being developed by Level 5, the Japanese developer who had created the Dark Cloud series. The game's cancellation leaves a hole in the Xbox RPG lineup and a hole in the hearts of gamers who were looking forward to it.