Late last night, a training exercise for some of our new staffers resulted in two totally bogus stories being entered into our database and subsequently picked up by some other news outlets like Google News. The stories never appeared on our index, and they were picked up before they could be deleted from our server.

The first story reported the sad death of Shigeru Miyamoto at the age of 52. As far as anyone knows, he is alive and well at the age of 54, and he's probably playing his DS and dreaming up new games for us all to enjoy.

The second training story detailed a new game in the Ogre Battle franchise that is being developed exclusively for the Xbox 360. While that would be a nice announcement indeed, there have been no announcements whatsoever regarding this.

RPGamer apologizes for any confusion regarding these two stories and will refrain from using the tools we use to post stories in training exercises in the future.