Late Night Consoling

The face of the Xbox 360, J Allard, gave an interview to TheStreet.com and revealed a ballpark price for the upcoming Xbox 360. When asked if it would be higher or lower than the Xbox's launch price, Allard answered, "It's going to be in the neighborhood." It's highly improbably it'll launch under $300 and $400 is probably asking too much. Could we see a price of $360?

Koei had already announced Ni-Oh for the PS3 at E3 but GameSpot has learned that the company has two other titles in development. No details were specified concerning the titles, but considering that it's Koei, I'm sure both are sequels for Kessen and Dynasty Warriors.

Activision announced that it had acquired the independent developer Beenox. The Canadian company had worked on Shrek 2 and Tony Hawk's Underground 2 in the past and is currently developing Fantastic Four. The management and a few employees have signed long term contracts and the studio will remain in Quebec City.

Okay, I know this isn't necessarily hard news, but since we've been making fun of the stuff people have said lately, I figured you'd enjoy this. Here's what the creator of the Metal Gear series, Hideo Kojima, had to say about the next-generation consoles. "If you allow me to express the three hardware platforms in a funny example, PS3 would be like a dinner that you only have once a year or twice a year on your anniversary etc. Xbox 360 will still be a special dinner so you might go there two or three times a month on the weekend or something. Revolution is the kind of great dinner that you have everyday at your home. What I want to emphasize is that all three are dinners meaning that they have a salad, they have a soup and maybe have a dessert but they are a little differently, maybe other dinners have two salads or two appetizers or maybe extra coffee on top of that. The point is that they are all individualistic dinners. So if they are all dinners, like a steak dinner, the choice is up to the users and the game designers at the same time."

Game Informer talks with Team Ninja's Tomonobu Itagaki. 1UP posts an interview regarding Shadow the Hedgehog. GameSpot has a video interview about Yoot Saito's Odama. IGN chats with Orson Scott Card about his game projects.