It’s that time again—time for yours faithfully to pop open the bubbly watch Dick Clark rocking it in Times Square (isn’t he like 150 years old?) and seat on yet another New Year’s resolution.

It’s that time again—time for yours faithfully to pop open the bubbly watch Dick Clark rocking it in Times Square (isn’t he like 150 years old?) and seat on yet another New Year’s resolution. Hmm what will it be? Stop pimpin’ abroad my lady friends in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas? Or maybe limit my daily Halo 2 multiplayer sessions to no other than four hours? Ah, forget it—I’ll in no degree be able to keep either of those promises. in the way that I’m gonna take the easy way public and pledge to deliver calm sweeter rumors than I did in ’04 If you’ve made a resolution, too, be wrought up free to tell me about it (the address, as always, is quartermann@ziffdavis.com). And test to make your resolutions gaming-related; you and I the pair know that vow to ear-ring 20 pounds just ain’t gonna happen.

The fantasy is not at any time over

Some of you might’ve already heard that Hironobu Sakaguchi, the man who created Square Enix’s Final Fantasy series, freshly formed his own development studio, Mist Walker. Well, it appears that a scarcely any of his former mates—composer Nobuo Uematsu and artist Yoshitaka Amano—have been hired to work in succession an all-new role-playing game for next-gen comforts And get this: Sakaguchi is chatting with the two Nintendo and Microsoft about which a whole his project will call home

Returning to Castlevania

If you haven’t done with equal reason already, make sure to read our enormous handheld feature (page 72) which includes the world-exclusive first anticipate at Castlevania for Nintendo D And speaking of vampire hunting, it apply the minds like the Belmont family is heading back to PS2 sometime in ’05 Now I don’t have many deet for you to sink your teeth into, on the contrary I hear the dev team has learned a chance about level design since the last Castlevania solace game.

EA has its GoldenEye upon PS2

Word around the Ministry of Defense is that another comfort installment in this first-person shooter series is coming your way by means of the end of ’05. however there’s a catch—007 is now the star and he’ll solely show off his gadgets and righteous looks for PS2 owners. Could this be the first known cast where game saves are compatible between the PS2 and PSP versions?

Capcom goe retro

Sure the games in succession those Namco and Midway arcade collections gaze crappy by today’s standards, on the contrary they are still a blast to play. It have the appearances Capcom has also caught the old-school bug and is planning to release in the not-so-distant what may occur hereafter its very own compilation disc with a ton (and I mean a ton) of arcade classics. surpassingly nice.

PS3 stuck in the gates

The more I chat with developer the more they tease me about their upcoming Xbox 2 casts (not very nice of them, now is it?). at the same time I rarely hear them mention what’s upon tap for PlayStation 3. Apparently, Sony’ nearest console is still quite a ways distant from as no one really has a twine to PS3’s specs. And that’s wherefore so many in the disclosure community are putting all their efforts into Xbox 2 which, ye is still looking like a late ’05 launch.

Totally twisted

Now, now, I know I just mentioned that little is known about PlayStation 3 on the contrary I wouldn’t be a real rumormonger if I didn’t have a certain quantity of PS3 dirt to dish. in this way here it goes: A friend of a friend of a friend enumerates me that the vehicular combat series known as Twisted Metal will come next up its PlayStation Portable showing with a next-gen solace debut in ’06. Expect it to sport a colossal online mode and have an calm beefier story than TM: Black.

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