Late Night Consoling
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Profit Drops Great Zelda and GameCube sales during the past month or not, Nintendo is slashing its earnings forecast for the fiscal year that ended March 31. While the company had hoped to sell 10 million Cubes, it ended up selling just 5.6 million of them. The company is still posting a $547 million profit though. |
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| Halo 2 Details Quite a bit of Xbox news tonight, starting with Halo 2. Over at Unlimited Lives you can find an interesting article on the game, based on a recent presentation by Bungie programmer Adrian Perez at Carnegie Mellon University. It offers a bit of Halo history and then goes into the improvements that are planned for Halo 2 graphics and AI. |
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| Sega GT Online Announced Sega today announced that Sega GT Online is in development. Xbox Live enabled (support for up to six players), the game will feature 160 cars which players can customize and tune as they wish, and they can be traded between players or betted on before a race. Sega GT Online is due out this fall. |
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| F-Zero Track Info PlanetGameCube has posted details on the F-Zero cities and tracks, taken from the latest issue of Famitsu. There is info on Mute City, Port Town, Green Plant, Lightning and Aeropolis. |
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| Sphinx Preview IGN has posted their first look at Sphinx, a PS2 action adventure game in development at Eurocom. THQ Project Manager Mark Morris offers some info on the game, and seven new screenshots are included. |
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| Brute Force Preview New on GameSpot tonight is this preview of Brute Force, taking a look at Digital Anvil's long in development third person shooter. The preview is hands-on, but there are no new screenshots included. There's also a six page preview of the game on IGN. |
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| Midtown Madness 3 Impressions, Q&A Computer & Video Games has posted their impressions of Midtown Madness 3, offering new screenshots and movies as well. You can find an interview with the development team at HomeLAN Fed. |
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| Command & Destroy Advance Announced The people at Cypron Studios have announced that they are working on Command & Destroy Advance, a strategy game for the Game Boy Advance due out this sunmmer. IGN has some screenshots. |
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| Misc.
Media GameSpy Daily has several Enter the Matrix screenshots, taken from the PS2 version of the game. Activision released some screenshots from the Return to Castle Wolfenstein console ports, click here for PS2 (Operation Resurrection) and here for Xbox (Tides of War) screenshots. |
Console Game of the Evening: Star Control 2 for the 3DO. "It was one of the painfully few PC ports to this system that actually improved upon already perfect gameplay. One of the few 3DO games I had and made the doomed system very worthwhile." (submitted by Omaha).