Late Night Consoling
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NARC Dated, Priced at $19.95
[ps2] [xbox]Midway's upcoming M-rated title, NARC, will be available on March 26 for the value-price of $19.95. GameSpot spoke with Midway's Chief Marketing Officer, Steve Allison, about the decision and it appears the Christmas season played a big role in the decision to reduce the price. "This Christmas was a Christmas where the big titles could hold that price, but the titles that weren't big, that shipped in that quarter of blockbusters, got absolutely destroyed," Allison said. "I mean, titles got wiped off. Having a title like Blood Rayne 2 sell twenty thousand units ... it got wiped off the face of the planet. And it had TV."
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Take Two Trying to Lengthen Sports Licenses
[ps2] [xbox]Take Two Interactive president Paul Eibeler revealed at an investor conference that his company has been approaching various sports leagues about getting them to commit to longer contracts for their videogame licenses. Currently, some of their deals are only for a year or two, so a longer deal would be ideal to Take Two in case their competition is trying to swoop in and secure exclusivity. He didn't say much else on the subject except that the anonymous leagues have been "receptive" to their offers.
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Nintendo Throws Money into R&D
[nds]According to Japan's Nikkei Financial Daily, Nintendo has added five billion yen (roughly $50 million USD) into their Research & Development and marketing budgets. The reason for the increase is that Nintendo wants to expand development of Nintendo DS software.
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Atari, FUNimation Extend Dragon Ball Z Deal
[xbox] [gba] [nds] [psp]Atari has had good success with their Dragon Ball licensed games and they wanted to keep it that way. They worked it out with FUNimation to retain the license until 2009, allowing them to make games based on the Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT animated series. Atari already has games in production for the Xbox and GBA and Jim Caparro, CEO of Atari, wants to extend their games onto the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP.
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Misc. Q&As/Features
[ps2] [xbox] [gcn]If you missed it earlier, we conducted a Q&A with Atlus regarding Stella Deus: The Gate of Eternity. TeamXbox interviews the producer of Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks. GameSpy has a behind-the-scenes video of Resident Evil 4.
Misc. Media/Previews
PS2
Game Informer has a trailer for Tekken 5. The Magic Box has images for both Katamari Damacy 2 and Red Ninja. New Gran Turismo 4 shots are at GameSpy. IGN serves up screens of Dynasty Warriors 5.
Xbox
GameSpy has a handful of new Jade Empire and Oddworld Stranger's Wrath screenshots. GameSpot has images of the adventure game Still Life.
GameCube
IGN tells and shows all they know about Donkey Kong Jungle Beat.
Portable
IGN has impressions of the Japanese version of Yoshi: Universal Gravitation (GBA).
Multi
GameSpot has an update on NARC (PS2, Xbox). Another hands-on of Destroy All Humans! (PS2, Xbox) pops up, this time at TeamXbox. They also have new details on ESPN MLB 2K5 (PS2, Xbox) (GameSpot has footage here). IGN has a media blowout for Fight Night Round 2 (PS2, Xbox, GCN).
Console Game Of The Evening [Submit Yours!]
Prize Fighter for the SegaCD. "The first game I played with interactive videos in it." (submitted by ohhjebus).
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Ajax
replyYou know how Nintendo is... They never have a lot of titles ready for a new hardware launch. It prevents potential risks like the Virtual Boy from sinking the company.
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But equally, the Gamecube's one-good-game-every-quarter release pattern was um, not to everyone's tastes?
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isn't Mr Driller out in the US yet? I'm off to the local EB to pre-order one tonight, and I'm hoping they will have a more decent launch lineup.
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supposedly they neutered the DS version of Mr Driller :[
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i think you mean the US version, but yeah that is pretty crappy. i'm wondering if it's worth getting the japanese version instead. i've already made the mistake of buying the japanese GT4 (there is just too much japanese in it, it's seemingly a lot more complicated race setup wise than GT3) so i don't know if thats such a good idea. i don't think it was that bad tho.
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Nintendo isn't bad shape though...it can't be much to develop DS titles.
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I got the DS and I bought Asphalt Urban GT. It's actually pretty cool so far, granted I've only played it for ~2 hours. Seems like a cross between Need For Speed and Gran Turismo, although nothing will ever come close to Grab Turismo of course.
I haven't bought Mario, I don't know why but Mario 64 never appealed to me. I just got Paper Mario: 1,000 Year Door though and it's really cool so far.
It's also nice to be able to play SMB3 and Dr. Mario :D (I never got a GBA so I'm catching up! Metroid: 0 Mission will probably be next)
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