I had so much fun with the previous week-long LNC special, that I've decided to do it again...today marks the first day of Milk 'em Till it Hurts week. Every day I'll be mentioning another franchise that has been milked beyond comprehension. You think Half-Life's re-releases are bad? You ain't seen nothing yet.

• So, just how good is Tony Hawk 3? According to GameSpot, it's absolutely perfect. I must admit, I've never seen them award a game a 10 before. Never. Nintendo fans will be very happy to hear the game is now scheduled for the GameCube launch.
• Well, they can't all be winners...PSX.IGN has posted a scathing review of Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro, the sequel to a game they reviewed quite favorably.
• The Dreamcast version may have been DOA, but at least the Playstation 2 port of Half-Life is going to ship. Soon, in fact, as it has officially gone gold.
• Good news for Castlevania fans: the current word on the street is that the next title in the series will be a 2D title, like the recently released Circle of the Moon, rather than a 3D one like the N64 games, which weren't particularly well received.
• We can all relax now: Parappa the Rapper 2 is coming to America. After SCEA passed on the brilliant Vib Ribbon, this wasn't necessarily a sure thing.
• Cube.IGN has gotten their hands on a final GameCube, and they have posted info galore on what we can expect from the box and the hidden Pikmin demo included with Luigi's Mansion.
• Bizarre news of the evening: supposedly IBM is working on a 1 GB hard drive add-on for the GameCube.There are a few weird things about this story, not the least of which is the "TDK" logo on that add-on. Still, if Nintendo does want to bring the GameCube online eventually, there are worse things than a bundled MicroDrive.

Console Game of the Evening: Dragon's Lair. I'd have to do some serious hunting to verify this, but I'm pretty sure that this is after Tetris (and possibly Pac-Man) the most ported game of all time. Virtually every multimedia platform, successful or not has had a port of Dragon's Lair. Here are some of the more amusing ones: 3DO, CD-I, Jaguar, Game Boy Color (this one is actually pretty cool), Sega CD, NES and DVD-Video.