You know, I'm really starting to get the feeling that Sega totally opened
the floodgates after announcing their plans to make games for other platforms.
Besides their already announced titles for PS2, Xbox, GameCube and Game Boy
Advance, they have just announced
Crazy
Taxi 3
and a port of Skies of Arcadia for PS2, and I was very (pleasantly)
surprised to read that
Sega Swirl is
now available for Palm OS handhelds. As long as I get at least one new
Panzer
Dragoon title in the next few years (hopefully a second RPG while they're
at it) I don't care what they do...but some of these are really, really cool,
like the aforementioned
SoA port and
Shining Soul for GBA. Hopefully
they'll wind being up as successful as they've always deserved to be.
- Speaking of Sega's ambitious cross-platform
plans, the Toe Jam & Earl sequel, like many recent games, has
moved from the Dreamcast to an unnamed console system.
- A whole week has gone by, and so it's about
time for yet
another preview of Final Fantasy XI.
- Choosing to ignore the game's all-caps title,
GameSpot has posted a
hands-on look at GUNVALKYRIE (at least they don't call it a "Metroid
Prime-killer like IGN did).
- Also at GameSpot are some
new shots from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a
preview of Mister Mosquito (AKA Ka, that wacky mosquito
game) and still
more media from the GameCube Resident Evil remake.
- A preview
of Worms World Party for GBA is up at Pocket.IGN tonight.
- Xbox.IGN has a
new preview of Wreckless: The Yakuza Mission, said by some to be
the Xbox-equivalent of Grand Theft Auto 3.
- In a
Q&A from Famitsu (translated by Core Magazine), Enix's Keiji Honda
confirmed that the company plans to support the GameCube, although they haven't
decided what titles will be released for it.
- Also at Core tonight by way of Famitsu is
a Q&A with Namco's
Youichi Haraguchi, who discusses cross-platform development, their involvement
with Square's PlayOnline network and more.
Console Game of the Evening (concluding Sports Games for the Non-Sports Fan
week):
Mutant League Football for the Sega Genesis. By popular demand,
this oddball sports game certainly fits the bill as a game for non-sports fans.