Late Night Consoling
Tonight kicks off Bad Licensed Games Week here at LNC. There are some really,
really, really, really bad licensed games, the slightest mention of which can
make me laugh out loud. Enjoy!
- To kick things off tonight, here's a
new trailer from the PS2 port of Deus Ex.
- Cube.IGN has conducted an interview with Charles Bellfield of Sega of America. It's a good interview, as Charles talks about Sega's new role as a third party developer, and he says that Sega will continue to market game-specific hardware, such as the Samba de Amigo maracas.
- There's still no plans to drop the price in the US anytime soon (really, there aren't!), but nonetheless, the PS2 price will be lowered in Japan to the bargain-price of $240. Of course, this doesn't include the memory card that originally shipped with the system at $300, so if you factor that extra purchase, the price is around $270.
- In a remarkably forward-thinking move, Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi (AKA the Mean Old Man of Nintendo) has created a $150 million fund to help startup GameCube and GBA developers. What's next? Square on a Nintendo platform? (Probably not)
- Yet another preview of Final Fantasy X is up at PS2.IGN tonight.
- Speaking of Square, in the wake of the Final Fantasy movie disaster, Hisashi Suzuki, the company's president has stepped down.
- New shots and a movie from the upcoming GameCube Resident Evil remake can be found at GameSpot.
- The Superman Homepage has some general information on the upcoming Superman game that's in the works at Infogrames. After Batman: Vengeance (which was good, but didn't quite live up to its potential), I have high hopes for this one.
- Here's a rundown of tonight's reviews: GameSpot has posted their review of Amped for the Xbox (6.7), PS2.IGN has a review of Frequency (9.0), Team Xbox has a review of Dark Summit online (3.8 out of 5) and Pocket.IGN has posted a review of Gradius Galaxies for the GBA (7.5).
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