The battle of the consoles keeps getting crazier, doesn't it?
- This story
at the LA Times site (which is actually about the Xbox launch difficulties)
features a quote from Nintendo of America's Peter Main, who says they are
"locked and loaded" to deliver over 600,000 GameCube consoles during
its American launch (thanks Blue's News).
- Okay, so the Xbox has been delayed a week...here
are some new shots from Dead
or Alive 3 to make that time go by faster.
- Apparently an unlicensed company in Asia is
producing a cable to connect the Game Boy Advance to a television. There
are no pictures to verify that it actually works, but they're saying you'll
need to physically open the system up to connect the cable.
- You'll need to be a (free) registered member
of IGN to read them, but Cube.IGN has posted import reviews of Lugi's
Mansion, Wave Race:
Blue Storm and Super
Monkey Ball, the three Japanese GameCube launch titles. It sounds
like Luigi is the dud of the three.
- PS2.IGN has posted what they call "the
most revealing premiere movie
of Grand Theft Auto III gameplay you've ever seen." Whatever
that means. They've also confirmed
the actors who will be lending their voices to the game, and there are
a couple of surprises here (Kyle MacLachlan?).
- According
to GameSpot, Namco and Sega have extended their arcade partnership to
include shared technology, broadband networking and intellectual property
(Virtua Fighter vs. Soul Calibur anyone?).
- Xbox.IGN has posted previews
of three upcoming Xbox titles: Project Gotham, Amped and
NFL Fever.
- GameSpot's big Tony Hawk 3 preview
comes to a close with a look at two
of the game's online modes. They also looked at two other ones in
yesterday's installment.
Console game of the evening:
Mike Tyson's Punch Out! for the NES. Simple
though it may have been, this game deserves credit for having great graphics in
its day, as well as different fighting styles for each opponent (relatively speaking,
anyway).