So GameSpy supports the Xbox. This is great news and all, but to be honest, I'm a little disappointed at the same time. The way the community started to pull together around VPN technology really felt to me a lot like the early days of QTest/Quake, where small programs like Qspy and Rift parsed HTML pages to get server information. That could still happen, but there's already a 500 pound gorilla taking care of things here.

• GameSpot has posted an update on Final Fantasy XI, complete with new screenshots, and a new preview of the game is also up at PS2.IGN.
  
• According to Nintendo, there will be 41 GameCube games out by March 2002. That's a nice figure, but it really isn't very many at all, as even Cube.IGN point out in that story.
• I've already reported on this here, but nonetheless, it's official now: Final Fantasy X will ship the day after Christmas. Which pretty much means I won't get around to getting it until March anyway, since I've got so many games to play as is.
• IGN has posted an in-depth guide to Dead or Alive 3 (free registration required).
• Here are a few reviews: GameSpot has new reviews of Frequency and Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance for the PS2 and Team Xbox has posted their Editor's Choice Awards, which were given to any game that received a 4.0 or higher (is it just me, or is that a little too easy?).

Console Game of the Evening (continuing Bad Licensed Games Week): Street Fighter: The Movie for the Playstation. The fact that it's a game based on a movie based on a game should have been enough to keep this one from getting released...but somehow Capcom let this one out into the public. A must-have for those who savor truly terrible games.