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- January 21, 2003
Grand Theft Auto 4
Take 2 has now announced a new game in the popular Grand Theft Auto series. This one is called Grand Theft Auto 4, even though I personally think it should be Grand Theft Auto 5, but the forth game was called GTA: Vice City, as you probably know.
But you will have to wait for quite a while, 'cause its current release date is set to 2004.
Source: The Swedish magazine SuperPLAY
//Benny
Alone in the Dark - The Movie
Another famous game is about to take it to the theatres. This time it's Alone in the Dark, a game that has been released in a total of 20 different versions for consoles such as 3DO, DreamCast, GameBoy Color, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and Saturn. The rights to the movie license have been bought by German Boll-Kino and is produced and directed by the same guy who's currently working SEGA's House of the Dead, Uwe Boll. The shooting of the new movie is planned to begin during the spring of 2003.
Source: The Swedish magazine SuperPLAY
//Benny
GC VS PS2, Online
SEGA is currently negotianting with Nintendo and Sony about developing SEGA Application Network Package for both GameCube and PlayStation 2. This new product will allow people to play with eachother online even if they own different consoles. What games will use this technology is so far unclear, but at least it won't come for XBox, which makes me happy, 'cause I want Microsoft to die a slow painful death.
Source: The Swedish magazine SuperPLAY
//Benny
Game Preview: Phantasy Star
The old MasterSystem classic, Phantasy Star, is now being released in a brand new version for PlayStation 2. The game is just about the same as the old one, but with brand new graphics, better sound, and a couple of new items and characters.
It will be available in Japan sometimes during the summer, and only cost 20 dollars. Not too far after its release a new version of Phantasy Star II will also be developed.
Source: The Swedish magazine SuperPLAY
//Benny
- December 16, 2002
Game Boy Player
This new add-on for the Nintendo Game Cube will allow you to play Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, and ordinary Game Boy games on your TV. The add-on is an inch high platform which you attach under the GameCube. Then you insert the games to the lower part of it and use your Game Boy Advance or GameCube controller to control the games . . . obviously.
The Game Boy Player will be available in Japan around March, 2003, in America around May, 2003, and in Sweden around October, 2003. Boo for late!
Source: The Swedish magazine SuperPLAY
//Benny
Mpeg-4 Player For the PS2
The Japanese company, Oki, have recently announced that you will be able to stream videos from their web site through the PlayStation 2 broadband net. To do so you will first have to install a Mpeg-4 ASP-player on your PS2.
The reason for this program is to view trailers and such, directly through your console.
Source: The Swedish magazine SuperPLAY
//Benny
18+ For Volleyball
Due to the lack of clothes in Tecmos' new volleyball game, Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball, the Japanese organization CERO (Computer Entertainment Rating Organization) has put an age-limit-thing on it. If you live in Japan you now have to be 18 years old to be allowed to buy it.
What will happen in America and Europe is not yet certain.
Source: The Swedish magazine SuperPLAY
//Benny
Hideo Kojima Wants Help With MGS3
The Japanese video game magazine Famitsu's readers have been asked to help out with the production of Metal Gear Solid 3. Hideo Kojima has announced that he wants the players themselves to tell him what they think could be improved in the upcoming title. He has promised to take all of the wishes in mind when making the game, no matter what they are about; characters, missions, and so on.
Source: The Swedish magazine SuperPLAY
//Benny
- November 24, 2002
Best Graphics Ever
Capcom has promised that the new, GameCube exclusive game, Resident Evil Zero (the real title says Resident Evil Ř, but I'm too lazy to use the alt-code for the Norwegian letter Ř . . . hey . . . I could just copy it. Never mind, then) will have the best graphics ever seen in a game. The graphics-team has put an extremely lot of work into details and effect such as dancing fire, water-filled glasses, swaying tablecloths, extremely detailed characters (including enemies), and more, will help this game to be the scariest in the series so far. It's up to us players (WE r00L) to see if Capcom keeps their promise.
Source: Nintendo.com
//Benny
This just in! Important Announcement!
The "Console Wars" suck! There should just be one standard system and all the companies release games on that . . . And it should also be cheap . . . I'm talking 5 bucks per game. And there should be a whole lot of really really bad games that nobody knows about until 10 years later when everyone's emulating that standard system. "Haha, anyone could make a game on this system, that's so stupid! Rex Ronan 2? What the hell!" And also, all of the games will come with more stuff, like free T shirts and bumper stickers. Not hats, though, because hats are for idiots and homosexuals. Not that there's anything wrong with hats, or idiots, or even homosexuals. I'm just stating the fact that hats are only for idiots and homosexuals, and therefore hats should not come with the games (Which still cost $5 even with the extra goodies). And that standard system would have a bunch of classic games remade to be decent new games, and you'd only have to buy one 20 dollar system and a few 5 dollar games, T shirts, coffee mugs, and LEGO sets. And they should make more 2D games. They could make some really long games, too . . . Imagine Super Mario Bros. 3 style graphics on a DVD, because SMB3 is already long as hell and it's on an NES cart.
That's why the "Console Wars" suck, I say. Now, if someone were to buy me a PS2, GC, and X-Box, my opinions might change . . . And I'd probably play the new Ninja Gaiden game all day, even if it sucks, and doesn't come with a "Ryu eats Bread" T shirt.
Source: Hamtaro? What the hell is Hamtaro?
//Marshall
- November 23, 2002
Game Preview: Final Fantasy X-2
In March 2003 Square's first direct FF-sequel ever will be released for PlayStation 2 in Japan. In this game you get to keep following Yuna's adventures in Spira. The graphics are updated and all the characters from FFX have got a new set of clothing. There are two quite drastic changes in this sequel. The first one is that you can control Yuna more like in a platformer. She can run, jump, climb, and more. The second one is that this is the first FF-game to which Nobuo Uematsu has not composed the music.
Source: The Swedish Magazine SuperPLAY
//Benny
Game Preview: Chaos Legion
This new game from Capcom is a mix between action and strategy. The main character is Seig Wahrheit, but he's not the only one you control. Instead of moving just one person you move entire troops in battle against the evil enemies, who ,just as in so many other games, are trying to take over the world. Or at least destroy it. When going out to battle you get to choose from several different troops and monsters with different profits and disadvantages. Capcom themselves describes the game as a fantasyopera. I don't have a single clue what they mean by that. I'm not sure of when this game is to be released, but probably next year (for the PS2).
Source: The Swedish Magazine SuperPLAY
//Benny
Marshall Cleveland Kills the Boss of the Water Temple
Today Marshall Cleveland killed the boss of the Water Temple in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. He is very happy and to celibrate he's giving Benny all of his lifesavings (5 bucks).
Source: Pants
//Marshall
- November 21, 2002
Final Fantasy XIII Announced
Square is currently working on Final Fantasy XI for the PC, Final Fantasy X-2, Final Fantasy XII, and Final Fantasy: Chrystal Chronicle, but apparently that's not enough. They have now announced that they're also working on Final Fantasy XIII, but for what system is currently unknown.
Source: The Swedish Magazine SuperPLAY
//Benny
New Nintendo-consoles
Recent rumours have said that Nintendo was going the same way as SEGA, no more consoles, just games. But those rumours are now proved to be false. Nintendo's new VD, Satoru Iwata, apparently has other plans. Peter MacDougall of Nintendo of America recently announced that sequels to both GameCube and GameBoy Advance are under production. When they will be released is unknown, though.
Source: The Swedish Magazine SuperPLAY
//Benny
- September 18, 2002
$10,000 For Naming Your Child Turok
In America Acclaim are giving away $10,000 to the parents that name their child Turok. That's to promote the new game in the Turok-series, Turok: Evolution. They've had a similar offer in the UK where they gave away Ł500 and an X-Box to the person who changed his/her name to Turok.
Source: TV-Spelsborsen.se
//Benny
Releasedate for FFCC
Square has announced that before March 2003 Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles will be available for the Nintendo GameCube and two other Square games, that at the moment are officially name-less, will be available for GameBoy Advance
Source: TV-Spelsborsen.se
//Benny
Screw You Rare and Screw You X-Box!
I've heard rumours that Rare are going to release a Donkey Kong game for FAGASSBITCHESNIGGASUP-OLOMFLAFAOSUKKADICKFAGGGETASSHORE-X-box. Apparently they are not only working for Nintendo anymore, and they're planning on UUUUUSING Donkey Kong. I used to be a Rare-groupie, but I don't know anymore.
Source: Dennis In Marshall's School
//Benny
New Fighters; Tekken 4 hitting NA shelves soon
There are more fighters coming out these days, and that's fine by me . . . most are improvements, and
I enjoy playing them all. I just need the money to get all the ones I want. I mostly stick to fighting games
that are also in arcades, because strict home play isn't that fun unless you have other friends who are good/
want to play. But there's the fun of fighting strangers, too.
Namco's fourth (Well, fifth, technically) installment of Tekken is hitting home soon. Certainly something
to watch for. It's something that I've been looking forward to, as I did with Tekken 3. I waited outside
Best Buy before it opened for that one . . . couldn't do the same for Tekken Tag Tourney since I didn't
have a PS2 at the time. But I have another chance to wait outside the store for it! Heh.
Anyway, getting to the point, Tekken 4 hits North American shelves on the 25th of September, with
8 modes. They have the usual home fighting game mode humdrum of Arcade, Survival, Versus, Team
Battle and Practice. There's also a derivitive of practice called training, which is sort of a speed training,
I hear. That's very vague. . One thing I know, no one's saying it's anything like Virtua Fighter 4's
training mode. That game has a QUALITY training mode. There is also story mode, which should be
cool. Last, there's Tekken Force. It's supposed to be updated. I hope so, the old Tekken Force wasn't
extreeeemely fun. But this should be a solid PS2 release.
Source: Russell Himself
//Russell
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September 17, 2002
Gamepreview: F-Zero GC
The first F-Zero game, that was released for the SNES, has now become a real classic. It was a huge hit and the sequels for the Nintendo 64 and GameBoy Advance are also two very successful games. So that Nintendo are releasing a new game in the series for the GameCube is not a surprise. What, on the other hand, is a surprise is that they're letting SEGA develope it. But SEGA has shown that they're capable of handling the GameCube with their game Super Monkey Ball, so the title is in good hands. At the moment it goes under the project-name F-Zero GC, but there's a big possibility that it's going to change before the release next year.
Source: The Swedish Magazine SuperPLAY
//Benny
More Pokémon!
The Pokémon series have become more than just a game. It has become over-hyped. Kids are going nuts over everything that has with Pokémon to do. Even though it tends to get a bit annoying you can't hide from the fact that the Pokémon games actually are very good, and now it's time for the GameBoy Advance debut. As usual there are two different cartridges full of monsters. This time they go by names of Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire. The game includes a brand new fighting system and 100 new monsters to catch. It's going to be released in Japan November 21 and in Europe sometime during 2003.
Source: The Swedish Magazine SuperPLAY
//Benny
First Women, Then Gameplay
Itagaki Tomonobu, the producer of Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball, recently said in an interview that the thing they focused on the most in the making of the game was to make the girls worth looking at. They want everyone to get pleasure out of just looking at them move around in their tiny bikinis. Whatever happened to gameplay!? If you ask me (which you're probably not), this Dead or Alive has started to get XTREMELY (lflmaofa!!11) pathetic.
Source: The Swedish Magazine SuperPLAY
//Benny
Mo More Split Screen
Peter Boot's brand new invention, Multiplayer Simultaneous Viewing System is going to help you get rid of the split screen in so many games even though you're playing two player! All you need is a program, a PC, and a pair of his ZUPARRKEWL glasses. You hook up your PSX (as far as I know this only works for the PSX) with the PC so that it gets access to the program and then each of you puts on a pair of glasses. The program makes the screens stretch out across the TV-screen and then they show one at a time. First screen one, screen two, screen one, screen two, screen one, screen two, and so on. Without the glasses this is just a big annoying mess of colours, but the glasses works so that they block one of the player's screen and only makes one of them visible. This actually works, even though the framerate suffers a bit from it.
If you're interested in buying this product, just go to http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~peter.boot/ and buy it for $95.
Source: The Swedish Magazine SuperPLAY
//Benny
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August 22, 2002
Second Grade Graphics for Klonoa Heroes
The next game in Namco's Klonoa "series", Klonoa Heroes, has a rather unique attachement to it. One of the bosses in the game has been drawn by a Japanese second grader (he won a contest in a Japanese magazine). The original drawing has been modified by some professionals for the game, of course.
For those of you who don't know, Klonoa was a platformer released for the PSX and starred a big-eared black and white creature. It was even close to becoming the PSX's mascot for a while, but Crash kept his title for a while longer. The new game in the series is however not a platformer. It's an Action RPG but with the same character. Namco hasn't commented on any release dates yet.
Source: gameforms.com
//Benny
A NEW FF Tactics for the GBA
The Square-game, Final Fantasy Tactics, which is going to be released for the GBA was at first meant to be a remake of the PSX game with the same name, with a few added scenarious. But Square has now decided to make a brand new game instead. There will be plenty of new characters and the game will also support the GBA's link cable.
Source: gameforms.com
//Benny
Releasedate for Turok: Evolution
Acclaim has now announced the release dates for their new Turok-game, which has been under developement for three years. On September 1 all Americans will be able to get the biggest Turok-game yet, whether they own a GameCube, PS2, or an Xbox.
Source: gamespot.com
//Benny
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