I've been giving this mysterious announcement Nintendo will supposedly be making a great deal of thought lately (as should have been evident in last week's LNC EX). And while I think all of the suggestions I mentioned in that editorial were certainly possible, I've personally come to the conclusion that the announcement will in fact be Dragon Quest/Warrior 8, which will be a GameCube exclusive. While that wouldn't be that big an announcement over here, in Japan, where Dragon Quest is second only to Zelda and Mario for franchise popularity (and possibly Final Fantasy, although that's debatable), it would be nothing short of a revolution, and as was suggested, would sell a ton of GameCubes. Now I have nothing concrete to base this on, it's just my gut feeling. But if it's true, this really would be a major, major score for Nintendo. Hopefully we'll find out soon enough.

	Nintendo Phasing Out Hardware? A report on Mac OS Rumors from an anonymous source claims among other things that Nintendo will formally phase out their home console hardware in 2004, and transition to making software for other platforms, while moving ahead with their plans to create a new mobile game system/phone. Take this with a whole ton of salt, but remember that Nintendo has recently dropped hints that this may be coming eventually.
	Sony's PS2 Printer Sony Japan has announced a $400 photo printer with its own screen that will connect to the PS2 and digital cameras. Whee. This will of course, never make it over here.
	GameCube Demo DVD Soon As part of their huge promotional push for the holiday season this year, Nintendo will be releasing some 3 million promo DVDs later this month, which contain 80 minutes of previews of 25 different games.
	Phantasy Star Online I & II Preview Planet GameCube has posted a hands-on preview of Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II, based on their impressions of the import version of the game.
	ToeJam & Earl Preview A new hands-on preview of Toe Jam & Earl III is up at Xbox.IGN tonight, freely accessible to non-subscribers (unlike most content at Xbox.IGN, which is why you don't see links there too often here).
	Dredd vs. Death on PS2 Rebellion has announced that Judge Dredd vs. Judge Death (which by the way is the worst name ever) is being simultaneously developed for PS2 and PC. The first shots from the PS2 version can be found at Computer and Video Games.
	Star Wars: The Clone Wars Gold LucasArts has announced that Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the Star Wars title from the developers of Battlezone has gone gold, and will be available at the end of the month.
	Misc. Screenshots GameSpot has some new shots from BMX XXX for PS2 and Xbox along with Red Faction II and The Sims for PS2, Games Are Fun has new shots from Resident Evil 0 and Computer and Video Games has some leisurely new shots from Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball.
	Misc. Reviews An unusually large number of notable reviews are up at GameSpot tonight...they have reviews of the GameCube, PS2 and Xbox versions of TimeSplitters 2, which they say "may very well be the best split-screen multiplayer-focused first-person shooter ever" as well as reviews of Run Like Hell (or the ridiculous "RLH" as it's now known), Hitman 2 for PS2 and Xbox and the Sega Smash Pack for GBA, which as I suspected, is something of a let down for Sega fans.