Late Night Consoling
I apologize for the lack of LNC last night...I got home a bit too late and
had to get up a bit too early. Because of the holiday weekend there probably
won't be another LNC until Monday, but don't be too surprised if I do some single-story
console news posts between now and then.
- GameSpot's massive article The Final Hours of Metal Gear Solid 2 goes live tomorrow, but in the meantime they have posted yet another preview, which contains a confirmation that the Metal Gear franchise will continue after MGS2. This isn't surprising at all, actually...Kojima has said as much before, but what is news is that he may not be intimately involved with any future Metal Gear titles.
- SquareSoft has launched their official Final Fantasy XI site. The page is entirely in Japanese, but it does contain some new images from the game.
- Thanks to The GIA for that last story, and in addition to that they are also reporting that Final Fantasy X will now officially be released on December 26th in the US, just a day after Christmas (and about a month earlier than expected).
- While there seems to be a definite shortage of Xbox consoles, Nintendo has managed to keep a good supply of GameCubes in stores around the country, and they have now actually increased the total number they expect to ship this year to 1.3 million units.
- New shots from the Xbox port of Max Payne can be found at Xbox.IGN tonight.
- If you haven't seen every possible aspect of Super Smash Bros. Melee yet, more movies and screens are up at Cube.IGN, some, but not all of which can only be viewed by paid subscribers.
- The GIA has posted new information from Kingdom Hearts, SquareSoft's oddball Disney RPG.
- According to GameSpot, the PS2 port of Tekken 4 will be released in Japan in March 2002.
- For those interested, Team Xbox has posted details on a hidden Easter Egg in the Xbox console.
- Some reviews: Pocket.IGN has a review of Wario Land 4 (9.0), The GIA has reviews of Super Monkey Ball (4 out of 5), Metal Gear Solid 2 (5 out of 5) and Golden Sun (4 out of 5), Team Xbox has a review of Fuzion Frenzy (3.9 out of 5) and GameSpot has posted a review of Crazy Taxi for the GameCube (4.9 out of 10...yikes!).
- And finally, just a heads-up:the English-language Dreamcast version of Shenmue II is shipping in Europe. Import away.
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