Late Night Consoling
Thanks to Maarten for this morning's Console news round-up. I'm afraid I got
back to late last night for even a late, late night consoling story, so the
help is much appreciated.
- So the question that has suddenly arisen, is SNK dead or not? According to Madman's Cafe, the company is going to be revived under the name "SNK NEOGEO" (thanks Sideways Bob). It sounds like this may have something to due to the influx of pirated SNK material since the company shut down, but that may only be a part of a much larger company.
- The good news keeps coming tonight...EBGames is now taking pre-orders for the UK version of Shenmue II, which will come bundled with a boot CD or converter of some kind. On a related note, I have successfully hacked my Shenmue save file to work with the imported sequel. More info to come once I've verified that everything's still there.
- Here's an interesting possibility...the extra features that are being added to the Japanese version of Dead or Alive 3 might just make it out over here by way of an add-on disc. According to GameSpot, "a more detailed announcement is forthcoming."
- Speaking of the Japanese Xbox release, Microsoft is denying that the Japanese launch has been delayed from its February 22nd release date (see Video-Senki for the reason for this rumor). Of course, they did that before it was delayed in the US as well...
- Here are some "fairly reliable" details on the gameplay modes in the PS2 version of Virtua Fighter 4. It's been confirmed: the game will have versus and arcade modes! We can all rest easy now.
- The first part of Cube.IGN's interview with two of the designers of the "Gekko" processor is online this evening.
- I keep forgetting to mention this: GameSpot has a great History of Square article up, which covers the company's entire saga (or is that SaGa?), from Rad Racer to Final Fantasy XI.
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