To start off, the top three stories are required reading for everyone this evening. Today was the day for speeches and members of all camps had something to say. Of course, the top story is the corporate briefing by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata who dropped many details concerning Nintendo's future and solidified the company's stance on being an innovator for the industry. They were definitely bold words because as history has shown, consumers don't react fondly to radical new changes in game design. While I believe Nintendo deserves credit for staking a philosophy and sticking to it, I'm sure many of you are tired of their 'games.' As gamers, we can only hope Nintendo's latest gamble pays off. Enough of my babbling, you have plenty of other, more important reading to do!

	Nintendo's "Revolution" Big stuff coming out of Tokyo today from Nintendo's annual corporate strategy conference. President Satoru Iwata detailed the reasons for why he believes there is a decline in the gaming market and also explains the philosophy Nintendo is currently following to bring innovation back into the industry. He proceeded by revealing the codename of their next console: Revolution. "We're thinking of an innovative idea for our next-generation console that's completely different from consoles in the past," commented Iwata. "What's important isn't a next-generation technology, but a next-generation way in playing games." Iwata also dropped details that Revolution can hook up to both a TV and a monitor and that the next Mario Party may be playable without controllers and could use a rumored EyeToy-like peripheral.
	Nintendo Europe Lambastes Microsoft Nintendo Europe managing director David Gosen, speaking at the ELSPA Games Summit in London, heavily criticized Microsoft for triggering the next-generation console war sooner than anticipated. "In every cycle, some manufacturer not profiting from the current cycle is eager to kick-start the next one," Gosen commented. He then proceeded to attack the gaming press for focusing too much attention on next-generation games and systems. "Hard as it may be for those editors to believe, not everyone outside their circle is prepared to pay a high price for a new console. For every game magazine editor bored with current products, there are hundreds of thousands of gamers around the world just discovering them."
	Microsoft Challenges Competitors Microsoft VP Peter Moore, speaking at the ELSPA Games Summit, challenged both Sony and Nintendo to follow their lead and create a solution similar to their XNA technology. If you recall, J Allard introduced XNA at the Game Developer's Conference this year, which is basically a toolset for developers to cut down on the development time of games. Peter Moore offered "...a plea to the industry to embrace not only this [XNA], but for our competitors to do the same thing as well.""
	Dance: UK Grooves onto the Xbox The PS2 hit is coming to the Xbox. Set for release in Europe early July, Dance: UK will be an improved version of the PS2 title, sporting new difficulty modes, Xbox Live scoring tables, new music tracks, and an upgraded eight-way dance pad that should make menu navigation much easier.
	Two New Full Metal Alchemist Games Square Enix and Bandai are poised to create two new games based on the upcoming Full Metal Alchemist. Square Enix is planning an action RPG follow-up to the original title already out in Japan and set for a spring release in North America. The sequel will now use a cel-shaded animation style. Bandai, however, will have Eighting, developers of Bloody Roar, to create a 3D tag-team fighter. Both games do not have release dates, but since we haven't even received the original, expect to wait a while.
	Capcom Reveals Release Schedule Capcom has detailed their planned release schedule for North America and there a couple surprises. Capcom Fighting Jam (Xbox) has fallen all the way to February of 2005 whereas Mega Man Anniversary Collection (GBA) has slipped to the fall. And to the dismay of gamers everywhere, Disney's Aladdin has been delayed three weeks, now being released on September 28th.
	ESPN NFL 2K5 for $20? Visual Concepts confirmed today that ESPN NFL 2005 will be truncated to ESPN NFL 2K5 and will arive earlier than expected on August 24th. However, the big news surrounding this title today is that many online retailers have updated the price of the game to $19.95. While it was revealed yesterday that the series would be published as a value title, no price point was set. When contacted, a Visual Concepts spokesperon commented, "We have not announced anything regarding the price, but we will have big announcements regarding the game soon."
	Another Onimusha Possible? The latest installment of the Onimusha series, Onimusha 3, was supposed to be the last, but in an interview with Computer and Video Games, series producer Keiji Inafune revealed that the affection by gamers worldwide has him rethinking his decision to end the series. "I must respect the wishes of the fans. So this might not be the end and if the clamour continues, a new Onimusha may re-appear... In some form... Probably."
	Misc. Q&As/Interviews CVG has their latest interview with one of Microsoft's "big three" tonight with Peter Moore. GameSpy talks with comic artist Jimmy Palmiotti about his input on the upcoming Punisher (PS2, Xbox) game.
	Misc. Media/Previews
	We begin with a preview of Death by Degrees provided by GMR, whose CSS file doesn't work with FireFox. GameSpy previews Crimson Tears and tees up new shots of Hot Shots Golf Fore! IGN gives us their impressions of three titles from the Sega Ages line: Columns, Golden Axe, and Space Harrier.
	GameSpy delivers with three screenshots of Knights of the Old Republic II. An official trailer of Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders is available at GameSpot along with a trailer of Tron 2.0: Killer App. GamePro takes a first look at Iron Phoenix. TeamXbox swings us screens of Galleon. GamerFeed suits up and goes in-depth with Unreal Championship 2.
	Computer and Video Games previews Paper Mario 2 this evening. Planet GameCube spends plenty of time with Tales of Symphonia and offers their impression. GameSpot has footage of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 running on a GameCube.
	IGN has a handful of screenshots from Treasure's Astro Boy: Omega Factor.
	GameSpot passes to us some "footage" of Freestyle Street Soccer (PS2, Xbox, GCN). They follow that up with gameplay videos of World Championship Pool 2004 (PS2, Xbox, GCN). Next comes a cut-scene and some gameplay movies of Mega Man Anniversary Collection (PS2, GCN). Finally, GameSpot blows us away with FORTY-FOUR screenshots of ESPN NFL 2K5. FileShack hosts the E3 trailer for Far Cry: Instincts (PS2, Xbox). A developer diary of Darkwatch Full Moon (PS2, Xbox) is up at GameSpy this evening. TeamXbox chimes in with screens for Crash 'n' Burn (PS2, Xbox) and a hands-on preview of Def Jam Fight for NY. This evening, IGN has plenty of media. First up are four screens of Predator: Concrete Jungle (PS2, Xbox), then comes a trailer of Rocky Legends (PS2, Xbox), and then wraps it up with new details and screens of Spider-man 2 (PS2, Xbox, GCN). To close out the evening, 1up offers their own preview of ESPN NFL 2K5.