Late Night Consoling

The new Namco brawler just recently announced in Japan has been confirmed to set sail for the U.S. This game features developers from both the Tekken and Soul Calibur series. Urban Reign contains over 60 playable characters with a large array of special movies.

What is shaping up to be the best one yet, the More Friends: Music from Final Fantasy concert in LA during E3 has some added surprises. Japanese vocalists Emiko Shiratori (Melodies of Life) and RIKKI (Suteki Da Ne) will make appearances along with Nobuo Uematsu and his band The Black Mages. Two new songs will make their debut: Maria and Draco from FFVI and a new arrange of Swing de Chocobo. Even more is that CDs will be on sale at the show. Why, Microsoft, must you schedule a press event during it? =(

With Boktai 2 and Mega Man Battle Network 5, two games from two different companies will sport connectivity features. Using the wireless adapter, the two games will have "Crossover Battles," which essentially has the cartridge's main hero battling a character called ShadeMan. Each user tries to successfully defeat the opponent until one loses all their hit points, thus granting a winner. It's not groundbreaking or terribly exciting, but Hideo Kojima and Keiji Inafune are good friends and they've always wanted to work together on something.

TeamXbox speaks with the associate producer of Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. GameSpot has a video interview with a dev on From Russia With Love.