Late Night Consoling
I had so much fun with last week's Bad Licensed Games list, that I decided
to make this week Good Licensed Games Week, spotlighting those rare, great games
that are based on licensed properties (they do exist!). Strap yourselves
in boys, she's a big one tonight...
- Let's start things off with another Sony rumor, shall we? According to CoreMagazine, Sony is considering releasing a new PS2 bundle for 39,800 yen ($321) that includes the HDD and ethernet add-ons. No shockers there, although they'll have to drop that price if they seriously want to compete with Microsoft.
- New shots from SWAT: Global Strike Team are
up at Xbox.IGN tonight.
- After their recent problems, Square is making some high projections for their PlayOnline service. Speaking of their financial woes, here's a look at the latest figures on Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Yikes!
- GameSpot has posted separate text and video previews of Maximo: Ghosts to Glory, as well as a preview of Magical Vacation the upcoming GameBoy Advance RPG from the ridiculously titled developer Brownie Brown.
- Short but sweet: Shining Soul, the GBA revival of Sega's RPG franchise will be out in Japan on March 28th, 2002.
- A nice batch of new shots from Star Wars: Obi-Wan (note that they dropped the "Episode 1" from the title) can be found at Team Xbox.
- Well, the TRSTS numbers are in, and Luigi's Mansion outsold everything else during the week of November 18 - 24th, but these figures do not reflect Nintendo's own reports on the GameCube console sales (that doesn't mean Nintendo's lying, but that these don't back them up).
- Some random goodies at CoreMagazine: they have new shots up from King of Fighters EX, a look at Q, the Japan-only GameCube DVD hybrid, and here's a look at the GameCube port of Phantasy Star Online.
- GameSpot has discovered that Shiny is looking to hire employees to work on an unannounced future GameCube project. My guess is that this is something totally separate from their Matrix game, as Microsoft's footing the bill for that one.
- Tonight's reviews roundup: Pocket.IGN has a review of Super Bust-A-Move (8.8), GameSpot has a review of Azurik: Rise of Perathia (5.0), PS2.IGN reviews Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (9.4), Xbox.IGN reviews Kabuki Warriors (2.0 - yikes!), and Cube.IGN has a review of Pikmin (9.1).
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