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Did you buy tickets to Video Games Live, the oft-delayed nationwide concert tour of game music from Mario to Halo? Well, it's been delayed again, this time to "never."

Although the tour was planned to continue on through the United States (passing through San Jose and San Francisco early next month, dates I'd planned to attend and cover for this site), it was announced with little fanfare on the tour's official web site that the rest of the tour has been called off.

Two final shows will go on this weekend in Seattle and Vancouver; all other tickets will be refunded.

On the site, the show's producers, video game music composers Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall, offer their apologies to fans for the disaster. Curiously, Tallarico's missive suggests that the concert's cancellation wasn't the fault of its organizers...

I know you are all angry... and so are we. But you must PLEASE understand that directing that anger and frustration towards us is really "barking up the wrong tree" as they say (...) But calling us names and blaming us for something which is completely out of our control doesn't really help the situation at all.

...while Wall says that it was indeed their fault.

The bottom line is that the goals we established for this tour were simply too ambitious. We clearly overestimated the demand for a concert that relatively few people understand at this time.

So what gives, especially when Square Enix's nationwide tour of Final Fantasy orchestral music was so popular?

Call me crazy, but I think Final Fantasy music has a built-in fan base desperate to hear their favorite music played live. Whereas I have a very hard time believing that people seriously wanted to hear the love theme from Halo.