Here's an interesting twist on the Xbox sales issue that's been so prominently featured here over the last week or so...THQ is urging Microsoft to consider dropping the price of the system. This is primarily necessary in Europe, where the console's obscene price of 479 Euros ($422!) has caused sales to be sluggish at best. A THQ representative stresses that the company is pleased with sales of the Xbox in the US, where the system has sold 400,000 units in the first quarter of 2002, for a total installed base of some 1.8 million. Regarding an American price drop, an analyst is quoted as saying that it won't happen until Sony drops the price of the PS2. Oddly enough, this is what a Nintendo representative said about a possible GameCube drop. It would seem that the whole industry is going to be watching Sony really closely at this year's E3.

• Sega and Nike have settled their lawsuit over an NBA 2k2 ad that resembled one of Nike's. In a pleasant move, the settlement consists solely of paying Nike's legal fees and making a $50,000 charitable donation.
• The official Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance site has been updated with new images, including a couple of new 3D model shots (sorry, no gameplay pictures yet).
• Codemasters today announced that they are bringing Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis to the Xbox, complete with a new campaign. Hopefully they'll include multiplayer, complete with support for the Xbox's voice-over-IP system.
• GameSpot has posted a preview of Daredevil, the upcoming game based on the long-running comic series of the same name (which is currently being transformed into a movie staring Ben Affleck as the blind hero).
• The first screenshots and info from Batman: Dark Tomorrow can be found at Cube.IGN tonight.
• Bad news for Treasure fans...those rumors of Ikaruga coming to the PS2 and Dreamcast turned out to be false. Still, Japanese retailers were given release info of some kind for the DC version, so it's possible that the previous info was just premature, and that an official word is coming.
• At long last there's news on the new Panzer Dragoon Xbox game that's in the works. Okay, so it's not really much to work with, but Infogrames, which is publishing the game in Europe, has said the game (which they call Panzer Dragoon Next) will be out in October, along with House of the Dead 3.
• So much for expanding the franchise to different genres...Electronic Arts has canceled Medal of Honor: Fighter Command, and is instead concentrating on creating more FPS titles in the series.
• Computer and Video Games has posted an interview with several key developers from SquareSoft, talking about Final Fantasy X, XI and beyond.
• Here they are: battle screenshots from the first Pokemon title for the GBA. Remarkably, they look just like the other Pokemon games.