Right around the corner is the Tokyo Game Show, September 24-26, and we should be receiving some interesting news coming out of the land of the rising sun. Here's a preview: new project coming from the man behind SaGa Frontier and Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles. Not sure if we will have any ground-breaking announcements, but definitely plenty of first-time hands-on impressions will be coming out for a multitude of titles. Maybe we'll finally get the official details on the Nintendo DS? Hopefully..

	Winning Eleven 8 Sports Online Matches...in Europe Pro Evolution Soccer 4, known here in the US as Winning Eleven 8, will be fully compatible with Xbox Live and will offer gamers, for the first time ever, to play the series competitively over the Internet. Players will also be able to form mini-leagues and track their rating against other players with the rating system. No official word if full Xbox Live support will also be featured in the US version of WE8, but it would be quite the shock if it isn't there.
	Atari Reveals Upcoming Anthology, Console Atari announced today that they plan to release on the PS2 and Xbox Atari Anthology, a collection of 85 titles from the days of the Atari 2600. They also showcased the Atari Flashback console, a plug-n-play device that has games preloaded. It comes with two gamepads, replicas of the 7800 controllers, and a much smaller library of games compared to the Anthology console game. As for Atari Anthology, to spice things up, new game modes will be included such as Trippy Mode and Double Speed. The game will be released sometime in November for the enticing price of $19.99 and the console for $44.95.
	BioWare Plans for Future Jade Empire Games BioWare joint-CEO Ray Muzyka commented to gamesindustry.biz that Jade Empire is the first title of a series. Muzyka said, "This is a new IP, and there are going to be follow-on products - sequels and other things, absolutely." But BioWare isn't stopping there. They plan to bring out many more new IPs, or intellectual properties, now that they have some solid licensed titles under their belt. "Now that we've got some experience and have a bit more of an idea of what we're doing, we want to make some new IPs, and Jade Empire is the first."
	Nightmare of Druaga Coming to US A cult hit amongst Japanese gamers, Nightmare of Druaga will be hitting US shores next month on the PS2. The game is a remake of an 80's dungeon crawler, which has the leader character Gilgamesh battling the demon Druaga to rescue the Princess Ki; enthralling! The game is being brought over by Namco Hometek and will be available October 26.
	Skip Director a FILTHY LIAR! Last week, news broke from the inside of Japanese developer Skip as director Kenichi Nishi mentioned in his weblog that the company was hard at work on a Nintendo DS title. Today, he retracted his statement, saying it was a lie. "Sorry, it was all a lie. I can't really talk about what I'm doing because of my legal obligation to keep secrets... I’m sorry for causing all the trouble." The company is best known for its Giftpia RPG.
	New Yoshi Title in the Works? Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu Weekly is reporting that a new Yoshi title is in the works for the GBA. Titled Yoshi no Banyu Inryoku, which according to GamesAreFun roughly translates to Yoshi's Universal Gravitation, will be the first new Yoshi title in five years. No other details are available at this time.
	Pokemon is Good for Kids! A survey conducted by Impulse Research Group has concluded that, according to the testimonials of over 2,000 parents, Nintendo's Pokemon series "does a good job of promoting positive values and enhances strategic thinking." 75% of those surveyed felt that Pokemon "improves memory skills", "increases mental agility and awareness," and promotes "teamwork" and "cooperation with friends." The release of the survey, which was commissioned and released by Nintendo, suspiciously coincides with the shipping of Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen.
	Misc. Q&As/Features GameZone speaks with Raven Software's Dan Vondrak about X-Men Legends. GameSpy has two Q&A's with devs of Demon Stone.
	Misc. Media/Previews
	Game Informer has the latest batch of screenshots of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
	Exclusive multiplayer footage of Blinx 2: Masters of Time & Space is at TeamXbox. GamerFeed goes hands-on with Forza Motorsport.
	Impressions of the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (PSP) footage shown at the Venice Film Festival are at GameSpot. Planet GameCube offers their impression of The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (GBA).
	New screenshots of Get On Da Mic (PS2, Xbox, GCN) are at GameSpot. TeamXbox shares their updated impressions of Call of Duty: Finest Hour (PS2, Xbox, GCN) and some video of NBA Live 2005 (PS2, Xbox, GCN). IGN has *detailed* impressions of X-Men Legends (PS2, Xbox, GCN) and Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (PS2, Xbox, GCN) as well as video of Nightwolf's fatality in Mortal Kombat: Deception (PS2, Xbox, GCN). A new preview of Outlaw Golf 2 (PS2, Xbox) is at 1up this evening. EuroGamer shares their feelings on Pro Evolution Soccer 4 (PS2, Xbox).