http://www.theonion.com/onion3902/i_appr...ppets.html

Looking good so far! Especially Crazy Taxi. I'm definitely going to be getting this game.








Jet Set Radio looks good, but I was hoping for a 3D engine since we've already seen this type of game with the Tony Hawks and Aggressive Inlines. I know that it would look pretty rough if it were in 3D, but I would have preferred it to the isometric look.








Space Channel 5 looks pretty good, although I could never get into the DC game.





All in all this is some great stuff. Bring on even more DC ports, Sega! And then some Saturn and Genesis ports as well! Can you say "NiGHTS"?? Boo yah! They've already shown us that they can do NiGHTs on the GBA, so I'm sure they have something planned.

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/new...63,00.html

I know that Medieval only came out last fall, and the developers are still working on the Medieval expansion pack, but the next game in the series is announced, and screenshots are out... WOW.

If you don't know, Shogun and Medieval are strategy games with Turn-Based overworld map play and Realtime battles. Like Axis & Allies with Lords of the Realm battles, sorta... but better... :) . Shogun and Medieval had cool battles that allowed thousands of guys, but the men themselves were just sprites. So thousands and thousands of guys would be on the screen, but didn't look as impressive as they could if they had been 3D..

Rome changes all that. :) 10,000 polyagonal soldiers on the screen... and now there are screenshots. They look very impressive... :)

Quote:Activision announces that it's publishing Creative Assembly's next Total War strategy game, which will have massive fully 3D battles set in Roman times.

Although information on the next Total War game hasn't been kept secret these last couple of weeks, Activision has now officially announced that it will be publishing Rome: Total War. The third game in the strategy series known for combining empire-level strategy and massive tactical battles will take place during Roman times and will challenge players to rewrite history and be proclaimed Imperator of Rome. The new game will take a big step forward visually, and it will be based on a brand-new engine that's completely 3D, down to each one of the thousands of units that can meet on the battlefield.

"One of the biggest challenges we've faced so far with Rome: Total War is getting people to believe what they see when we show them the game," said Tim Ansell, managing director of The Creative Assembly. "The cinematic battles are beyond anything ever before seen in a game. So, when people see a screenshot or the game running, they automatically assume that we're showing a cutscene or that it's going to take a supercomputer to run the game. Nothing could be further from the truth. Even before final optimizations the engine performance and the system specs are already very competitive."

In Rome: Total War, players can fight as, or against, legendary generals, including Julius Caesar, Hannibal, and the rebel Spartacus, as they lead their faction to the gates of Rome. There will be hundreds of different troop types available, with frontline troops such as legionaries, hoplites, barbarian hordes, war elephants, gladiators, and scythe chariots, as well as war machines like siege towers, battering rams, and catapults that hurl flaming missiles into enemy cities and strongholds. Battles will take place in more than 10,000 unique battlefields based on the actual topography of Europe and North Africa.

No release date has been announced as of yet. For more details, check out our previous coverage of the game.

I was wondering what Video Mode in ZSNES I should use to make the games look the best, anyone mind telling me what they use? I started using ZSNES again last week and noticed that I must have fooled around with the options a while back and now I don't know what to use. The pixels stand out a lot now. My screen color is True color 32 bit and my screen size is at 1024x768.

Despite rumors that Ikaruga has been cancelled this boxart from EBGames.com shows that it's still coming.

So, how many people are thinking about getting this extremely awesome and totally insane shooter from the people who know best, Treasure?

I'm getting for sure, after watching a video of it on the DC it looks like a really awesome shooter.

What do you guys think of XenGamers? I'm asking because Nintendophiles may become a part of the new XenGamers. Nintendophiles won't change at all, but we will get funding from XenGamers and increased exposure. Do <b>not</b> let this information out, though, since things are still in the works. If people have a generally bad opinion about XenGamers we probably won't do it, but I don't think that's really the case.

So what are your predictions?

I'm hoping the bucs will win back Im guessing theyll lose..unless of course there offense goes on some mix of speed and meth...

Prediction: raiders win 24-17

Im not very knowledgeble at football so maybe Ill be way off...how about you wiser ones give it a try

Oh well tomorrow will me the day... :cuss:

From IGNcube.

The good news? Nintendo is finally catching up with Sony and is going to start releasing greatest hits titles. The bad news? They're $10 more than Sony's GH titles.

Stupid Nintendo.

From IGNCube:

Quote:January 23, 2003 - Sources at Texas-based Retro Studios told IGNcube this morning that the company is in planning stages for a sequel to the hit GameCube adventure Metroid Prime. Executives at the company recently made an internal announcement to employees that the project has been cleared by Nintendo.

No details were given about the sequel, but one employee under the condition of anonymity did note that team members were throwing around the idea of including a multiplayer mode in the sequel.

No release date has been set for the project, but a tentative date of sometime in 2004 is likely.

We contacted Nintendo for official comment, but the company did not return our phone calls in time for publish.

We will of course be tracking the development of the game over the next several months. Stay tuned to the site for more.

Reuters
Satoru Iwata told Reuters in an interview that "We (Nintendo) are developing a new home video game console with a plan to release the new system around the same time as rival makers do."

Unlike Yamauchi, Iwata knows what coming too late can mean. "The PlayStation 2 debuted one-and-a-half years ahead of the GameCube. If we had launched the GameCube at the same time as PlayStation 2, the result would have been different. We will get ready for a (new) battle in 2005 although foreign game developers are now saying that rival next-generation systems won't come until 2006."

And Nintendo won't be pulling a Sega anytime soon. "When we withdraw from the home game console, that's when we withdraw from the video game business."

Now, do you think this will make a difference? Before answering, remember the DC was the first of the new consoles, and it was a bigger failure than the GC. Also, remember that the GameCube DID launch alongside the XBox in North America, and it's still struggling. I think it's a start, but Nintendo actually has to follow through and release it before or alongside the others. And they still have to address all the other problems that have held them back. But like I said, it's a start.