Late Night Consoling
| Killzone Unveiled at Long Last No doubt seriously annoying the guys at Computer and Video Games who have up until now been the sole source for news about this title, Sony Europe finally unveiled Killzone, the upcoming first person shooter from the developer formerly known as Lost Boys (now known as Guerilla Games). Details and the first impressive screenshots are up at IGN, and the game is described as a cross between SOCOM and Halo, as the combat is team-oriented, although you'll only control one character (the rest are AI). |
| Pre-Order Rebel Strike, Get Star Wars 1982 LucasArts has announced that those who pre-order Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike will get a special bonus disc, containing playable demos of Rebel Strike and Gladius as well as the complete 1982 Star Wars arcade game, perfectly emulated on the GameCube. |
| EA on Price Drops, Next-Gen Dates As part of an interview with Reuters, EA CEO Larry Probst mentioned that he expects Sony to make a decision within the next 30 to 45 days regarding another price drop for the PS2. Regarding the next-generation of consoles, he made a very sound estimate, saying that if the development kits for these systems don't ship this Fall, the products won't hit store shelves until 2006. |
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| More Manhunt Images More shots from Rockstar's Manhunt are out, this time over at IGN, which has eight low-resolution screenshots and an image of the box art. Yeah they're blurry and small, but this screenshot looks awesome to me. |
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| Yet another Level-5 RPG A teaser image has popped up on Level-5's Japanese site, offering a glimpse at a game labeled "NEXT RPG" and adorned with a copyright from Sony Computer Entertainment. The image, while most certainly not a screenshot, is certainly interesting. It's well worth a look. |
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| Wild Arms F Announced Sony Japan has announced Wild Arms F, a PlayStation 2 remake of the original Wild Arms. While the original was heavily stylized, this remake will be more realistic looking, along with an updated script, new menu and battle systems, and a full eight playable characters, up from three in the original. |
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| EverQuest Online Adventures Q&A HomeLAN has conducted a new Q&A with Brady Bell of Sony Online, talking with him about EverQuest Online Adventures: Frontiers. Brady provides plenty of details on the additions to the game over the first EQOA, and he also says the game will not support the PS2 hard drive (actually he says it won't "require" it, but then says they have no specific plans regarding the hard drive). |
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| New Front Mission in Development As noted in this story at GamePro.com, Square has posted a notice on their official Japanese language Front Mission site that a new game in their Front Mission series of strategy RPGs is in the works, and details will be released in the near future. |
| Misc. Media/Previews |
Console Game of the Evening: Bubble Bobble for the NES. "Cute fun fruity goodness. With all the score tricks, almost unlimited replayability." (submitted by OwenButler).
