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Despite saying that the show is a "cornerstone" of their network, not to mention the glowing ratings for the show in the last season...I have to wonder if they're doing for artistic reasons or ignorant marketing. I tend to lean towards the latter. Here's a link from a friend of mine who is also a big Angle/Buffy fan that might shed some light on the subject: Breaking News: Angel to End After 5 Seasons. Needless to say, Joss Whedon is not amused.

call of duty.

This is exactly what you are looking for.

The game has amazing graphics and sound, it's fun, and overall i would say the average skill level you will find while playing online is low, when compared to bf1942 or cs.

But you don't have to take my word for it:
rottentomatoes.com 96%
gamerankings.com 92%
gamespy pc game of the year 2003
shacknews pc game of the year 2003
ign best pc action, best sound, best multiplayer game of the year, 2003
etc

Not to mention, killing russians never gets old ;)

Actually, it was Electronic Arts that killed it. They bought Virgin Interactive, which included the rights to Thrill Kill. EA deemed the game not appropriate for release (by anyone - they wouldn't even sell it to another publisher) and axed it. Read more.

... that they will make this a well-balanced fast-paced 2-d fighter instead of a 3-d one (Street Fighter EX3 anyone?). Personally, I don't think EA will pull it off, unless they pursue their normal strategy of buying over companies that do know how to make games, and then just distributing it :P

I think anything 3D Realms announces doesn't come out. Duke is an obvious choice but let's not forget Prey either...

But once it comes out, rest assured I will be playing it on my Glaze3D chip. Maybe they'll even port it to the Phantom!

But when they buy the new console, "I can use it play all the old games" is one of those lies people tell themselves to convince themselves to buy an expensive new system with a limited games library.

For most people I know, this is anything but a lie. I still play PS1 games; I still buy PS1 games on occasion (when I can find something rare/interesting). Up until about 6 months ago I was buying PS1 games fairly regularly. Texture smoothing is nice (for instance, it makes DW7 actually look good), and reduced loads really help.

Many gamers I know still play SNES, NES, Genesis, and other older console games. They were good games and that's the number one reason to play (or replay)... not because of flashy graphics.

However, it may be less of an advantage for Microsoft. The PS1 had a huge library of quality games. The XBox just has a handful.

This is true. As you can see, I have quite a few RPGs for the PS1, and a number of them I haven't even started. They'll provide many years of good gaming. If the current console makes them look 5x better and run 5x faster, who am I to complain?

I think you picked a bad example with Super Mario Brothers 3 since Nintendo has ported it to GameBoy Advance and re-released it as Super Mario Brothers 3: Super Mario Advance 4, and it's been a huge hit.

Well, since all consoles will be backwards-compatible ...

As the other poster noticed, you really don't keep up, do you? According to what we currently know about Xbox 2, "backwards compatibility is out of the question". Thanks for playing.

From this article where they claimed victory over the Xbox, Nintendo's PR person Perrin slipped that "I would say that our losses are really negligible. It's such a small amount." She backs this up with "Plus with the amount of software that's being sold we're still definitely in a solid profit situation. We're not in the position that I know that Microsoft has been in with the loss Xbox hardware."

The key point is this, though, Nintendo is losing money on GameCubes now (if only just a little).

A friend of mine had a Turbo Duo back in the day that he worked his arse off for... and it was definately worth it. The TG-16 was a great system and its too bad it didn't do well.

And now they're bringing back Bonk!

Since I was only half awake when I wrote the parent. Here's some resources for nwn module scripting.

NeverwinterNights Lexicon

NeverwinterNights Scripting University

Enjoy.

Neverwinter Nights has a huge community of custom content creators. The Neverwinter Vault has tons of user made custom content from 3d models to music to character portraits. You can find help from the community for anything you need from dialog management to using 3dstudio. With so much support, you can start with a 'prefab' world and simply populate with your own custom story and ease yourself into the building process as deep as you choose to go.
There are thousands of modules made by fans already, some of them are actually better than the one's shipped by bioware. Theres a lot to be learned about level designed in there, good bad and ugly!

That'd be a pretty sweet movie. Why NOT make it?

One very simple reason. Jackson doesn't have the rights to make the Hobbit (at least yet).

Four Words, moron:

Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles

lack of exclusive title my ass. Not only that, but they'll sell a crapload of GBAs and link-cables for it too.

Sure, there's one from 1990 available for free download on the original programmer (Chris Crawford)'s website but it's for Macs only, so that doesn't help me play along.

You know what's really cool? He's a programmer who realizes that some of his older games are more-or-less worthless as a viable money-earning product as technology has moved ahead, so he has posted these old programs on his website for download, stating "For all you collectors of Macintosh antiquities, here is some old software from the dim past". I wish more programmers would do this, as there are tons of old programs that I'd like to see/try/reinstall if only I could find a relatively clean version from a reliable source... like the creator or publisher.

I realize that you couldn't have just Guessed that and that this is sarcasm, but still, I think most people don't know, here's the link to IGN's coverage of E3 last year where they revealed that Namco is developing Star Fox 2.

I bought a Gamecube last December, and now own quite of few of the "must have" games. The problem that I see for 2004 is that the big first party games that everyone was anticipating are out now, and their sequals are too far off in the distance to see. For most of thise year, Nintendo is going to have to count on 3rd party developers to maintain the slow influx of quality games.

Now I'm going to go against my bettter judgement and link to an article on IGN titled "Most anticipated games of 2004." I don't care much for IGN, but the list does include some potentially good games.

Like this?

But THIS game has a 1.5 from IGN.
IGNXbox is notoriously bad with ratings. You should take all of IGN's ratings with a grain of salt nowadays... especially Xbox.

GBA-SP has backlighting.

No it doesn't.

THIS game has a 9.2 rating from IGN.
what do you think?

The Guy Game?

IGN also has an Xbox preview of it, so there you go. But don't immediately discount Nintendo from letting a game like this get released on their system. Despire all their kid-friendly games, they still allowed an uncensored version of BMX XXX for the GCN. And it was Sony of all people that demanded a censored one.

Here's some conecpt art thanks to ign

Here's some conecpt art thanks to ign

First the GC->GBA connectvity, which no game developer has been able to come up with a killer app for, and now handheld with two screens.

IGN List of GBA-Cube Connected Games

I like the a ones with a handle.

I don't care that I'm hardly ever gonna move it. I wanna handle!

One of my friends and I saw this on the Wal-Mart special rack about 4-5 years ago for $4.95. He was a paintball ref and I was l33t at Quake, so we got it. The graphics suck, even for then. My stool samples could make better AI, as every one of the computer players were perfect shots. The computer controlled drones would walk into a wall because the nearest enemy was on the other side (shooting at them, mind you) and turn around just long enough to shoot you in the head before continuing to walk into the wall.

Every marker was the same. The only reason to make more money was to buy the copious amounts of ammo that you would have to use to have a prayer of hitting the enemy before getting tagged yourself, which you couldn't do unless the enemy had completely run out of ammo, first.

In short, this game was no fun.

The person you are arguing with is VERY correct - the first generation of the PS1 had a very, very bad laser in it. You want sources? Read up for PS1:

My favorite PS1 Lens Repair Guide

Common Problem with SCPH-1001 model

And now for PS2:

http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/003/gaming/ps2/ ps2-1.html

http://faqs.ign.com/articles/390/390535p1.html

And I could go on and on...

The PS2 Model SCPH-30001 was horrible at reading DVD-R discs. The newer models are much, much better. So, if you want to watch home movies, you have to pitch the first generation ps2 and get a new one, like a V7, V9, or V10 console. V9 and V10 being almost identical on that front, but V7 is not bad either. About that problem with model 1001 for the PS1 above - I had that problem with my generation 1 model, and it was because Sony used plastic slide rails in the laser instead of metal. Future models used aluminum. One such fix for that problem was to take apart the laser, sand it down so the rails were even again, and then apply aluminum from a pop can with crazy glue on the rails so the plastic is protected, and doesn't wear anymore. I had a lot of success using that method with fixing those old consoles.

My point is that just because your PS1 still works, that doesn't mean that there hasn't been thousands of people who's PS1 or PS2s died within the first year they had them. That's not good - but Sony makes a lot of cash this way, and so do people like me who charge to do repairs :)

and you should know which games are the most anticipated: doom 3, half-life 2, halo 2 (three fps, and three sequels also), final-fantasy XII (no comments), etc.,

With reason. Gamers pretty much know what a sequel will be like, and almost everyone who likes a game will anticipate its sequel. There's generally no reason to anticipate an innovative game.

the greatest Nintendo games for the cube are sequels (Mario, Zelda, Kart and Melee are based on tried-and-true formulas.

You're unfairly ignoring Animal Crossing, Pikmin, Luigi's Mansion, and Kirby Air Ride. Also, the greatest games for a Nintendo (or any other) console being sequels is nothing new - Super Mario Bros. 3 for the NES, A Link to the Past for the SNES, Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time for the N64, Final Fantasy VII for the PS, Final Fantasy X and GTA3 for the PS2, and Soul Calibur for the Dreamcast. Halo on the Xbox wasn't, but that's hardly a shining example of innovation.

It's pretty simple - you can almost always make a better game when you have experience with that type of game.

My guess about the new Nintendo device? a little dev-kit for the gamecube, in which you can modify your games, create levels/characters, program a little variation into multiplayer-games like you can do in a PC, but made real easy, so everybody can do it.

Nintendo has been taking their hand at this for long (remember DD device for N64, and that F-Zero 64DD had a level editor? I also remember some "creator" games announced, but never released for the N64, which allowed the player to create 3D models for use with other games). This also could cut in development, although I'm not sure if this business model would work in consoles.

Intriguing guess. I've thought they should have something like this after both Animal Crossing and F-Zero GX had the ability to make small custom drawings, and how much neater it would have been if they had used the same drawing utility and you could trade between games. A new verion of the Game Boy camera could also be included, I know they were plans at one point to let picture from that be imported into games.

It'd probably make sense to release some classic games with new level/model/sprite/music editing features.

Another announced but never (AFAIK) released product that might work with this is the SD-Digicard adapter (over 2 year old preview at IGN).
Ideally there'd also be an adapter for the GBA.

IGN insiders get all the pictures needed.

I don't know about GTA3 but in VC there are (at least) five phone numbers advertised in radio ads. I first thought to try calling one because it was an 866 number, and a game so faithful to the 80's would have used 800 numbers if they weren't meant to be called. (For non-US people: 800 was the area code for toll-free (callee-pays) calls for the longest time. They ran out of 800 numbers in the 90s and started handing out toll-free numbers in area codes like 888 and 866. Thus RockStar ended up with 866 numbers because 800 numbers were too scarce and expensive.)

I think the problem is that a lot of these don't describe evolution, but devolution.

For example, check out the IGN interview with Orlando Bloom and Liv Tyler.

This is a good example of how a lot of people (including myself) conduct verbal conversations. When it is written down, it is next to impossible to understand. What does "Two takes before last, it's like. (makes weeoowee sound). It's coming to an end." mean? Did his bow break, or fly off a cliff, or turn into the chick from Kung Pow or what?

"Metrosexual" is another example. It is constructed from Greek and/or Latin roots, but it doesn't mean what those words mean at all. Is it someone who has sex with cities? Or exclusively *in* cities? No, it is a bastardized conglomeration of two perfectly good words into one lame one. And, as others have said, "fop" is perfectly suited to describe this kind of person anyway. Read Stephenson's Quicksilver.

"Bling bling" at least has the virtue of being an onomatopoeia, and it's good for a laugh. I mean, really, is there anything that doesn't become funny when it's rendered in gangsta?

OmniWeb may use the same underlying rendering and scripting engine that Safari uses but it is actually quite different than Safari.

I came very close to buying OmniWeb 4.x, but two things really killed it for me: the lack of tabbed browsing, and the lack of integration with the keychain. There are a few very bad crashers, too.

The absence of tabbed browsing isn't a huge deal when combined with Expose, but having a great window manager doesn't make having duplicate windows with duplicate controls any less cluttered or resource wasteful. Combine that with the fact that the dozens of logins, passwords, etc. I have in my keychain can't be used in OmniWeb. I hear that both tabs and keychain access will be in OmniWeb 5, at which time I will give it a serious look again.

Don't get me wrong - Safari is not perfect. I miss some of the nicer features of OmniWeb, like the very flexible useragent settings and keyword shortcuts. I also miss the better performance on pages with Flash and, for that matter, the ability to disable the various plugins easily if I want to. Contrast this with Safari's pitiful performance on pages with embedded Flash, especially sites that make obscene use of Flash ads (yeah, I'm talking about you, IGN). Anyway, that's my 2 cents...

"And if you have one of them Fancy HDTV's that are all over now (and will be all over the place in less than 3 years), you will want a console that can take advantage of those 480,720i modes (XBox)"

Holy crap man, get your facts right. Sure, the Xbox SUPPORTS upto 1080i. There are a HANDFUL (read, four) games which support 1080i. The reason being is because to run at this rate the game engine has to be really simple or the developer really, really stupid. Heres a quick rason why.

At launch, Luigi's mansion supported 480p. Halo supported exactly jack shit. Of all the gamecube games i've owned in fact, the only 2, out of nearly 20 which do not support 480p. The only drawback to HD-ifying the gamecube is the fact that you have to buy the 30$ cable from nintendo and that monster won't make one.

A good site for any HDTV people out there who want to know what will and will not display :Is this. Just ignore the stupid comments

Now If I could just log in...sigh.

''Competitors Sony and Microsoft have [..] turned their game consoles into karaoke machines [..]. Nintendo, meanwhile, has stuck to a philosophy that people who buy and play video games enjoy the familiar and care little for such gimmickry.''
Riigghht...

''Sony also made a clever move in allowing games designed for the original PlayStation to be playable on the PlayStation 2 [...]. The GameCube cannot play Nintendo video games made for older-model machines.''
Nintendo's next console (aka N5) will play GameCube games.

''The com pany proclaimed that the Game Boy Advance would be a 'Trojan horse' for the GameCube - but that Trojan horse never opened because very few game designers have figured out cool ways to take advantage of that connectivity.''
Yeah, this is why Sony copies this connectivity thing with the upcoming PSP, right?
Quote from The Register:
''And like Nintendo, "connectivity" is a real buzzword for Sony. With PSP's USB 2.0 port, the handheld will be able to connect to the PS2 and other PSP consoles''

''Nintendo has focused many of its titles on the preteen and teenage gamer. By contrast, Xbox, often seen as the cutting-edge choice for older gamers''
Nintendo GameCube has lots of kiddy games like the Resident Evil series, Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, Mortal Kombat, True Crime, etc.,while Sony and MS only have various mature games like this splatter game or that hard hardcore game..
I'm so l33t that I don't have anything to do with those Eternal Mortal Evil Crime kiddy games on GameCube... ;-)

''Competitors Sony and Microsoft have [..] turned their game consoles into karaoke machines [..]. Nintendo, meanwhile, has stuck to a philosophy that people who buy and play video games enjoy the familiar and care little for such gimmickry.''
Riigghht...

''Sony also made a clever move in allowing games designed for the original PlayStation to be playable on the PlayStation 2 [...]. The GameCube cannot play Nintendo video games made for older-model machines.''
Nintendo's next console (aka N5) will play GameCube games.

''The com pany proclaimed that the Game Boy Advance would be a 'Trojan horse' for the GameCube - but that Trojan horse never opened because very few game designers have figured out cool ways to take advantage of that connectivity.''
Yeah, this is why Sony copies this connectivity thing with the upcoming PSP, right?
Quote from The Register:
''And like Nintendo, "connectivity" is a real buzzword for Sony. With PSP's USB 2.0 port, the handheld will be able to connect to the PS2 and other PSP consoles''

''Nintendo has focused many of its titles on the preteen and teenage gamer. By contrast, Xbox, often seen as the cutting-edge choice for older gamers''
Nintendo GameCube has lots of kiddy games like the Resident Evil series, Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, Mortal Kombat, True Crime, etc.,while Sony and MS only have various mature games like this splatter game or that hard hardcore game..
I'm so l33t that I don't have anything to do with those Eternal Mortal Evil Crime kiddy games on GameCube... ;-)

''Competitors Sony and Microsoft have [..] turned their game consoles into karaoke machines [..]. Nintendo, meanwhile, has stuck to a philosophy that people who buy and play video games enjoy the familiar and care little for such gimmickry.''
Riigghht...

''Sony also made a clever move in allowing games designed for the original PlayStation to be playable on the PlayStation 2 [...]. The GameCube cannot play Nintendo video games made for older-model machines.''
Nintendo's next console (aka N5) will play GameCube games.

''The com pany proclaimed that the Game Boy Advance would be a 'Trojan horse' for the GameCube - but that Trojan horse never opened because very few game designers have figured out cool ways to take advantage of that connectivity.''
Yeah, this is why Sony copies this connectivity thing with the upcoming PSP, right?
Quote from The Register:
''And like Nintendo, "connectivity" is a real buzzword for Sony. With PSP's USB 2.0 port, the handheld will be able to connect to the PS2 and other PSP consoles''

''Nintendo has focused many of its titles on the preteen and teenage gamer. By contrast, Xbox, often seen as the cutting-edge choice for older gamers''
Nintendo GameCube has lots of kiddy games like the Resident Evil series, Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, Mortal Kombat, True Crime, etc.,while Sony and MS only have various mature games like this splatter game or that hard hardcore game..
I'm so l33t that I don't have anything to do with those Eternal Mortal Evil Crime kiddy games on GameCube... ;-)

''Competitors Sony and Microsoft have [..] turned their game consoles into karaoke machines [..]. Nintendo, meanwhile, has stuck to a philosophy that people who buy and play video games enjoy the familiar and care little for such gimmickry.''
Riigghht...

''Sony also made a clever move in allowing games designed for the original PlayStation to be playable on the PlayStation 2 [...]. The GameCube cannot play Nintendo video games made for older-model machines.''
Nintendo's next console (aka N5) will play GameCube games.

''The com pany proclaimed that the Game Boy Advance would be a 'Trojan horse' for the GameCube - but that Trojan horse never opened because very few game designers have figured out cool ways to take advantage of that connectivity.''
Yeah, this is why Sony copies this connectivity thing with the upcoming PSP, right?
Quote from The Register:
''And like Nintendo, "connectivity" is a real buzzword for Sony. With PSP's USB 2.0 port, the handheld will be able to connect to the PS2 and other PSP consoles''

''Nintendo has focused many of its titles on the preteen and teenage gamer. By contrast, Xbox, often seen as the cutting-edge choice for older gamers''
Nintendo GameCube has lots of kiddy games like the Resident Evil series, Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, Mortal Kombat, True Crime, etc.,while Sony and MS only have various mature games like this splatter game or that hard hardcore game..
I'm so l33t that I don't have anything to do with those Eternal Mortal Evil Crime kiddy games on GameCube... ;-)

''Competitors Sony and Microsoft have [..] turned their game consoles into karaoke machines [..]. Nintendo, meanwhile, has stuck to a philosophy that people who buy and play video games enjoy the familiar and care little for such gimmickry.''
Riigghht...

''Sony also made a clever move in allowing games designed for the original PlayStation to be playable on the PlayStation 2 [...]. The GameCube cannot play Nintendo video games made for older-model machines.''
Nintendo's next console (aka N5) will play GameCube games.

''The com pany proclaimed that the Game Boy Advance would be a 'Trojan horse' for the GameCube - but that Trojan horse never opened because very few game designers have figured out cool ways to take advantage of that connectivity.''
Yeah, this is why Sony copies this connectivity thing with the upcoming PSP, right?
Quote from The Register:
''And like Nintendo, "connectivity" is a real buzzword for Sony. With PSP's USB 2.0 port, the handheld will be able to connect to the PS2 and other PSP consoles''

''Nintendo has focused many of its titles on the preteen and teenage gamer. By contrast, Xbox, often seen as the cutting-edge choice for older gamers''
Nintendo GameCube has lots of kiddy games like the Resident Evil series, Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, Mortal Kombat, True Crime, etc.,while Sony and MS only have various mature games like this splatter game or that hard hardcore game..
I'm so l33t that I don't have anything to do with those Eternal Mortal Evil Crime kiddy games on GameCube... ;-)

''Competitors Sony and Microsoft have [..] turned their game consoles into karaoke machines [..]. Nintendo, meanwhile, has stuck to a philosophy that people who buy and play video games enjoy the familiar and care little for such gimmickry.''
Riigghht...

''Sony also made a clever move in allowing games designed for the original PlayStation to be playable on the PlayStation 2 [...]. The GameCube cannot play Nintendo video games made for older-model machines.''
Nintendo's next console (aka N5) will play GameCube games.

''The com pany proclaimed that the Game Boy Advance would be a 'Trojan horse' for the GameCube - but that Trojan horse never opened because very few game designers have figured out cool ways to take advantage of that connectivity.''
Yeah, this is why Sony copies this connectivity thing with the upcoming PSP, right?
Quote from The Register:
''And like Nintendo, "connectivity" is a real buzzword for Sony. With PSP's USB 2.0 port, the handheld will be able to connect to the PS2 and other PSP consoles''

''Nintendo has focused many of its titles on the preteen and teenage gamer. By contrast, Xbox, often seen as the cutting-edge choice for older gamers''
Nintendo GameCube has lots of kiddy games like the Resident Evil series, Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, Mortal Kombat, True Crime, etc.,while Sony and MS only have various mature games like this splatter game or that hard hardcore game..
I'm so l33t that I don't have anything to do with those Eternal Mortal Evil Crime kiddy games on GameCube... ;-)

''Competitors Sony and Microsoft have [..] turned their game consoles into karaoke machines [..]. Nintendo, meanwhile, has stuck to a philosophy that people who buy and play video games enjoy the familiar and care little for such gimmickry.''
Riigghht...

''Sony also made a clever move in allowing games designed for the original PlayStation to be playable on the PlayStation 2 [...]. The GameCube cannot play Nintendo video games made for older-model machines.''
Nintendo's next console (aka N5) will play GameCube games.

''The com pany proclaimed that the Game Boy Advance would be a 'Trojan horse' for the GameCube - but that Trojan horse never opened because very few game designers have figured out cool ways to take advantage of that connectivity.''
Yeah, this is why Sony copies this connectivity thing with the upcoming PSP, right?
Quote from The Register:
''And like Nintendo, "connectivity" is a real buzzword for Sony. With PSP's USB 2.0 port, the handheld will be able to connect to the PS2 and other PSP consoles''

''Nintendo has focused many of its titles on the preteen and teenage gamer. By contrast, Xbox, often seen as the cutting-edge choice for older gamers''
Nintendo GameCube has lots of kiddy games like the Resident Evil series, Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, Mortal Kombat, True Crime, etc.,while Sony and MS only have various mature games like this splatter game or that hard hardcore game..
I'm so l33t that I don't have anything to do with those Eternal Mortal Evil Crime kiddy games on GameCube... ;-)

''Competitors Sony and Microsoft have [..] turned their game consoles into karaoke machines [..]. Nintendo, meanwhile, has stuck to a philosophy that people who buy and play video games enjoy the familiar and care little for such gimmickry.''
Riigghht...

''Sony also made a clever move in allowing games designed for the original PlayStation to be playable on the PlayStation 2 [...]. The GameCube cannot play Nintendo video games made for older-model machines.''
Nintendo's next console (aka N5) will play GameCube games.

''The com pany proclaimed that the Game Boy Advance would be a 'Trojan horse' for the GameCube - but that Trojan horse never opened because very few game designers have figured out cool ways to take advantage of that connectivity.''
Yeah, this is why Sony copies this connectivity thing with the upcoming PSP, right?
Quote from The Register:
''And like Nintendo, "connectivity" is a real buzzword for Sony. With PSP's USB 2.0 port, the handheld will be able to connect to the PS2 and other PSP consoles''

''Nintendo has focused many of its titles on the preteen and teenage gamer. By contrast, Xbox, often seen as the cutting-edge choice for older gamers''
Nintendo GameCube has lots of kiddy games like the Resident Evil series, Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, Mortal Kombat, True Crime, etc.,while Sony and MS only have various mature games like this splatter game or that hard hardcore game..
I'm so l33t that I don't have anything to do with those Eternal Mortal Evil Crime kiddy games on GameCube... ;-)

killer7, Baten Kaitos (release outside of Japan not sure, but likely), and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (despite of the name) are not sequels - yet many GameCube owners await them. :)

killer7, Baten Kaitos (release outside of Japan not sure, but likely), and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (despite of the name) are not sequels - yet many GameCube owners await them. :)

killer7, Baten Kaitos (release outside of Japan not sure, but likely), and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (despite of the name) are not sequels - yet many GameCube owners await them. :)

Seems that Black Label Games has acquired the "interactive rights" to the movie and were supposed to release it for the XBox, PS2 & PC, sometime in '04. However, last I heard it got axed in production, so you have nothing to fear. Frankly, I'm waaaay more interested in the . Seems as if it could really kick ass... or suck. Only time will tell...

Seems that Black Label Games has acquired the "interactive rights" to the movie and were supposed to release it for the XBox, PS2 & PC, sometime in '04. However, last I heard it got axed in production, so you have nothing to fear. Frankly, I'm waaaay more interested in the . Seems as if it could really kick ass... or suck. Only time will tell...

He's also being too hard on Namco and Nintendo. Racing Evolution was no terrible game, it was just "different." In a series known for being identical to the way it flagshipped the PS1, it was time for a risk. They took the risk, they alienated some fans, and now they are in a much better position in the market. Would he have preferred another Ridge Racer 5? It was a failure, true, but a noble one.

Likewise, saying Nintendo's head is buried in the sand ignores the fact that nintendo has testmarketed an online adapter, the Bulky Drive. Japan doesn't have very high broadband penetration. If the decision were based on Japan alone, there just isn't enough households for all of the extra work required in porting games to online multiplayer. The X-Box online is a no-brainier, and the PS2 has to keep up, but the 'Cube? Would Mario Party be better if 10% of the 10% of households with broadband decided to play online? Except to the extremely hardcore, not releasing an online adapter shouldn't count as a blunder. The whole N64 cartridge thing... That was a blunder. No Mario Kart Online yet? Don't be foolish.