Due to the extremely large amount of news tonight (and the fact that I'm writing this from a hotel room on a crappy dialup connection) this won't be the most comprehensive collection of console news around. Still, I'll due my best under the circumstances. Let's do it.

• Nintendo held their uber-press conference today, and I'll be damned if they didn't show off everything and the kitchen sink. Head over to Planet GameCube, GameSpot and Cube.IGN for reports and new shots from such games as Metroid Prime, Metroid Fusion (the new name for the upcoming 2D GBA title), Wario World, Zelda, Mario Sunshine, Star Fox Adventures and a whole lot more.
• Great news for Zelda fans...it's been confirmed that the upcoming Link to the Past GBA port will feature co-op and competitive multiplayer. Sort of Gauntlet meets Zelda (Link needs food badly?).
• Also announced was Yos hi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3, continuing Nintendo's series of SNES ports.
• After all that happy Nintendo news, it's sort of inevitable that there's some bad to go along with it...The Legend of Zelda is officially delayed until next year. According to IGN, the current target is a February US release.
• LucasArts, which seems to be the super-cross-platform company of late, has announced that they will be bringing Jedi Knight II to the Xbox and GameCube (but not PS2 - I wonder why?).
• Here's a brief news item at GameSpot, where Bungie's Jason Jones comments on Halo Online (working title) which he says will return to their original vision (which you may recall was somewhat Tribes-esque) for online Halo. No comments have appeared anywhere regarding a PC port, and rest assured that I will make it my mission at E3 to get a definitive answer to the status of that.
• Sorry Xbox fans, Grand Theft Auto is now a PS2 exclusive. It's unknown if this means we won't see any more PC or GBA titles in the series, however.
• Sony had their big pre-show press conference today, and naturally it focused on their new online network, which is set to launch later this year. Among the games shown was Resident Evil Online, and PS2.IGN has posted the gameplay trailer that was shown, which seems to hint at a Phantasy Star Online-style survival horror game.
• Also confirmed during that same press conference was a US release of Final Fantasy XI, which will come out in early 2003. There's no word as of yet if it'll be globally compatible (early reports said it would be, so chances are that it will) or if it'll require the PS2 hard drive like its Japanese counterpart.
• On a related note, GameForms has posted updated impressions of the game, which unlike their first attempt is based on gameplay, and not just frustrating launch bugs.
• Here are som e details from Capcom's press conference.
• Well now that Full Throttle II has been announced, everyone wants to know what Tim Schaefer, the designer of the first game has been working on. The answer is Psychonauts, a strange Xbox title, and Xbox.IGN has the first media and info online.
• As was rumored, Sony's dropping the price of their first party PS2 titles by $10.
• At long last, here it is...gameplay footage from the new Ninja Gaiden. Life is good.
• Here's XenGamers' initial impressions of Tony Hawk 4, Panzer Dragoon Orta, ToeJam & Earl III, Star Wars: KOTOR and Crazy Taxi 3.
• Xbox.IGN has posted a bunch of info and media from Blinx, that nutty platform game announced yesterday.