Late Night Consoling
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Epic's Xbox 2 Project Revealed
[xbox]A source close to EuroGamer has slipped the online site a few details about Epic Games' project for the Xbox 2. The game is called Gears of War and the premise is simple: ride around on big creatures and destroy stuff. The game is, obviously, using the Unreal Engine 3 and it may even be a launch title for the console when it possibly ships at the end of the year.
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Ubisoft Publishing Lumines in the States
[psp]When the PSP had it's big day at the Tokyo Game Show, there was one game that generated a lot of buzz as it came out of nowhere. According to GameSpot, Ubisoft will make an announcement sometime next week that the company plans to publish Lumines for the United States. If you've missed it, Lumines is a puzzle game that goes out of its way to provide a visual and aural experience. There's a preview here at GameSpot.
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EA Unveils Next-Gen Lineup
[ps2] [xbox] [gcn]At a press event in the Netherlands, Electronic Arts talked about what they have in development for the next-gen consoles. A few of the highlight titles that'll see a release no later than April 1, 2006 are SSX 4, Battlefield: Modern Combat, The Godfather, and Burnout 4. Also on the plate are Black, FIFA 2006, FIFA Street 2, Tiger 2006, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, The Urbz 2, James Bond: From Russia with Love, and a Harry Potter game.
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Tetris, Bomberman Coming to the DS?
[nds]Earlier in the week, EBgames were the first to slip details about an unannounced game with Jade Empire: Limited Edition and it now appears they have done it again... twice. At their site is a listing for Tetris DS and Bomberman DS. There are no game-specific details about either games but it does mention both being released in early March and selling for $29.99. Bomberman will be published by Ubisoft whereas Tetris is handled by THQ.
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Misc. Q&As/Features
[ps2] [xbox] [gcn]GamesIndustry.biz talks with Blizzard execs about different topics, including StarCraft: Ghost. GameZone sticks up the second part of their chat with Lorne Lanning.
Misc. Media/Previews
PS2
GameSpot tells us a bunch about a handful of games: Shadow of Rome, Shining Tears, Rise of the Kasai, and World Soccer Tour 2006. They toss in screenshots of Tekken 5 and MLB 2006 for good measure. Sega's Japanese site hosts a preview video for Shining Force NEO. The Magic Box delivers with images for Wild Arms The 4th Detonator.
Xbox
GameSpot has previews of both Street Fighter Anniversary Collection and Still Life along with shots of Jade Empire.
Portable
The Magic Box treats us to screens of Dynasty Warriors Advance (GBA). Prodigious Gaming previews Vampire Chronicle (PSP). GameSpot has images of The King of Fighters Extreme (NG). GamerFeed details their experiences with Need for Speed Underground Rivals (PSP). GameSpy slaps up a couple shots of Harvest Moon DS.
Multi
GamesAreFun have some magazine scans of Famitsu showing off The Godfather (PS2, Xbox). TeamXbox has final impressions of NBA Street V3 (PS2, Xbox, GCN). WorthPlaying takes a look at Destroy All Humans! (PS2, Xbox). GamesRadar previews TimeSplitters: Future Perfect (PS2, Xbox, GCN). GameSpot goes hands-on with Winning Eleven 8 (PS2, Xbox) and post images of Fight Night Round 2 (PS2, Xbox, GCN).
Console Game Of The Evening [Submit Yours!]
Seaman for the Dreamcast. "Probably one of the most original, innovative, and totally misunderstood games ever created. Still to this day no other game comes close to how weird, yet strangely addictive this game was." (submitted by liqker).
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Nation
replyTetris DS, ah?
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No, I was lying. Sorry. =(
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THQs Tetris for the GBA is quite great... I just hope they add more levels (only 10 levels wasn't too hard and I actually beat it... not on standard mode, I'll admit that) and (wireless) multiplayer. That'd be great.
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Hmm... I thought it was pretty good. Been a while since I played it, but I'm kinda sure it said THQ at the beginning... I might mix it up with Bubble Bobble or something though.
I've played one Tetris for GBA which I enjoyed, but I haven't played a lot of versions over the past 10 years or so, only a few "homebrew" ones on PC, so I dunno what I'm "supposed" to compare to... Oh, and some network multiplayer Tetris about 5-6 years ago that was brilliant (multris?). -
Sustained. It didn't even save your options so you had to set it up every time you powered on the cart, which was bad because it had a lot of annoying/useless options and the defaults were horrible.
The gameplay was worse than either of the original Tetris games on the GB/GBC.
How a company can fuck up Tetris I do not know, but the clowns who made Tetris World for the GBA certainly managed it. And I bought it. :-|
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I still play regular Tetris for regular Nintendo. Best version ever.
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