Late Night Consoling
| Jak 3, Ratchet & Clank 3 Q&As GameSpy today posted Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal and Jak 3 interviews, asking Insomniac's Brian Allgeier and Brian Hastings and Naughty Dog's Amy Hennig about their respective platform game sequels which are both out later this year. In related news, GameSpot is reporting that Jak 3 will be the final game in the series. |
| Final Fantasy III on GBA Possibility 1UP has a story up about the possibility of Final Fantasy III appearing on the Game Boy Advance, following last week's announcement about Final Fantasy I & II coming to the handheld. FFIII is the only game in the series that's never been localized and released in the U.S., and while there's nothing concrete just yet Square Enix producer Takashi Tokita says "we have not completely sealed away FFIII", also adding Nintendo is interested in a GBA version so it might happen down the line. |
| Final NeoGeo Game In July Samurai Spirits Zero Special will be the very last NeoGeo home cartridge game according to this story on GameSpot. It was already announced that SNK NeoGeo would move from the NeoGeo MVS platform to Sammy's Atomiswave one, with ports of the arcade games appearing on home consoles a few months after their initial release. Samurai Spirits Zero Special will be released in Japan on July 15. |
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| Tribal GBA Announced Oh boy..Nintendo has announced the Tribal Game Boy Advance SP to be released in Europe in June. It's just a standard GBA SP but with some tribal images plastered on it which according to Nintendo's European marketing manager "reflects the sentiments of today's youth--rebellion, attractiveness, and spirituality". Images here. |
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| Nintendo e-Reader Code Cracked Looks like someone has figured out the Nintendo e-Reader code, cracking the Reed Solomon error correction. This means people can now print out their custom games using the dot-codes used by the e-Reader, which is pretty neat. Thanks PlanetGameCube for the tip. |
| Misc. Media/Previews | |
| There is a Rainbow Six 3 preview on IGN tonight, offering hands-on impressions along with several new videos from the game. They also have Baten Kaitos videos. GMR has a Resident Evil 4 preview. |
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| IGN has Jak 3 and Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal previews, with GameSpy taking a look at both those games as well (here for Jak 3, and here for Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal) and yep, 1UP also has Jak 3 and Ratchet & Clank previews. IGN also has an article taking a look at over 30 bad guys from Onimusha 3: Demon Siege. |
| GameSpot today has a Tron 2.0: Killer App preview, taking a look at the Climax action game which is a port of the PC game. Over at Computer & Video Games they have a preview of Galleon, which is actually almost finished. |
Console Game of the Evening: Speedball 2 for the Sega Genesis. "Sure it was the poor man's port of the Amiga version but this game was (is) just awesome. It's the only old school game I still boot up and play for hours on end. who would've thought you could do so much with just one button." (submitted by rezon8).
