Late Night Consoling

Midway CEO David Rucker said that his company will not be supporting the launch of the Xbox 360 but will be there for Sony at the launch of the PS3. However, only one next-gen title from Midway has been revealed and that's Stranglehold. That's not to say Midway won't ever have Xbox 360 titles, it's just that they feel the install base would be too small to support the platform. Zucker reckoned by the time PS3 rolls around, it'll have multiple games released for the Xbox 360.

Ubisoft announced a new Ghost Recon title that will be exclusive to the Xbox: Ghost Recon 2 Summit Strike. The $29.99 game is being developed by Red Storm Entertainment who are adding in a new singleplayer campaign consisting of eleven missions and expanded multiplayer content. It'll ship sometime in August.

Ken Kutaragi made headlines again today with another set of flamboyant comments to Japanese 'zine Impress PC Watch. He says that Microsoft is only improving in the graphics and output resolution arena, stating that "the Xbox 360 is more of an Xbox 1.5 than a next generation console."

With everyone still trying to figure out if the PS3 footage shown at E3 is realtime or pre-rendered, we learn that the PS3's graphics chip is still in development. Dubbed the Reality Synthesizer, or RSX, the chip is not yet designed and no silicon has been made available yet, confirmed nVidia's CFO Marv Burkett. Everything shown so far has been running on high-end PC cards running in SLI mode (two cards at once).

1UP chats with Mistwalker's Hironobu Sakaguchi. IGN talks with the producer of Death, Jr.