The post-E3 drought is the worst. I get hired, I'm all excited and antsy, and what do I get to report? Not much! Hopefully now that summer is beginning to come into full swing, some big and cool things will start popping up. I guess now would be a pretty good time to mention that I could use some more suggestions for Console Game of the Evening. I went through the database the other day and weeded out around 150 submissions that were duplicates, had already been posted, or were just plain pointless. If you desperately want to get your suggestion in, I recommend making sure everything is spelled correctly and it makes grammatical sense. I'm also partial to the funny ones. But please, first check if your suggestion has already been used. All you need to do is enter the title in the "Search Shacknews" box at the top of the front page. I had to delete seven submissions for Bionic Commando. Thanks for the help!

	GameRiot Announces 2004 Line-up and Schedule GameRiot, a traveling Xbox and PC gaming fair, today announced it's SummerFest 2004 game line-up and tour dates. Sponsored by SpikeTV, GameRiot will showcase a dozen unreleased Xbox games, including BioWare's Jade Empire , RPG Sudeki, Mech Assault 2: Lone Wolf, and Microsoft's Gran Turismo killer, Forza Motorsports. Tour dates and other information can be found at their official site.
	Another GBASP Color Scheme As a promotion for the simultaneous release of Donkey Konga 2 and Donkey Kong Country 2, Nintendo of Japan is offering lucky gamers who buy either game the chance to win one of 1,000 limited edition Donkey SP systems. Its design is nothing fancy, just a yellow case with brown buttons. Picture included in the Planet GameCube article.
	Pandora Tomorrow Premium Content This afternoon, UbiSoft released over Xbox Live two new maps for the online portion of Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow. The two maps, River Mall and Federal Bank, are classified as 'premium content' and will cost $4.99 to download. A week or so ago, IGN took an in-depth look at the maps here.
	Capcom Amends Release Schedule Last night I reported on a new game release schedule by Capcom, however today they've gone back and made a few changes. For instance, they inserted the PS2 version of Capcom Fighting Jam, set to release alongside the Xbox, and brought back some 2005 titles into 2004, such as Killer 7 and the aforementioned Capcom Fighting Jam. In a not-so-quite related story, Puyo Pop Fever for the Xbox and GameCube has been delayed until July 20.
	Misc. Q&As/Interviews Computer and Video Games wraps up their three-part series of interviews with head honchos of Microsoft by talking with corporate vice president J Allard. They follow that up with their full interview of Onimusha producer Keiji Inafune. IGN has an e-interview available tonight of David Jaffe, game director for God of War.
	Misc. Media/Previews
	The Magic Box has new shots of Resident Evil Outbreak 2. GamePro has a hands-on look at Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne. GameSpy goes media crazy with screenshots for Under The Skin, Okami, and previews Dynasty Warriors 4: Empire. IGN has what I believe to be fan-fiction of Monster Hunter. Maybe it's some new wave methodology of writing previews.
	TeamXbox has plenty of media with new screenshots of Shadow Ops: Red Mercury and Rainbow Six: Black Arrow. The KOTOR2 article that ran in last month's EGM and CGW are now available online. IGN shows us a new locale in Jade Empire and adds some new screenshots.
	The lone GameCube media this evening comes courtesy of Gamespot; the first footage of Mario Tennis!
	More shots of Advance Guardian Heroes available tonight at The Magic Box whereas 1up offers a preview of the game. GameSpy has a sampling of screenshots for Tak 2: Staff of Dreams this evening. GamerFeed has hands-on impressions of the Japanese version of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories.
	GameInformer has renders and artwork of EA's NHL 2005 (PS2, Xbox, GCN). GameSpot gives us lengthy previews of NCAA Football 2005 (PS2, Xbox, GCN) and The Urbz: Sims in the City (PS2, Xbox, GCN). They also drop screens for UEFA Euro 2004 (PS2, Xbox, GCN). GameSpy delivers with screenshots of Tak 2: Staff of Dreams (PS2, Xbox, GCN), Pandora Tomorrow (PS2, GCN) and Polar Express (PS2, GCN). GameSpy has stuff for a couple titles tonight, including screens for Destroy All Humans! (PS2, Xbox) and a preview of Outlaw Golf 2. IGN has hands-on impressions of Pool Paradise (PS2, Xbox, GCN), videos of Puyo Pop Fever (Xbox, GCN), images of Colin McRae Rally 2005, and a first look at Kid Ninja: Spirit of the Dragon (PS2, GCN). On top of that, they have videos of five end zone celebrations for ESPN NFL 2K5 (PS2, Xbox). TeamXbox previews The Shield (PS2, Xbox) and ESPN NBA 2K5 (PS2, Xbox). WorthPlaying has some details and screens on Emergency Mayhem (PS2, Xbox).