PC:

• Heritage of Kings: The Settlers
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II
• World at War
• World Championship Poker (w/Texas Hold 'em)

Playstation 2:

• Champions: Return to Arms
• Death by Degrees
• NBA Street V3
• Shadow of Rome
• Winnie the Pooh: Rumbly Tumbly Adventures

Xbox:

• NBA Street V3

GameCube:

• NBA Street V3

Nintendo DS:

• No releases

GameBoy Advance:

• Racing Gears Advance
• Shaman King: Legacy Of The Spirits Soaring Hawk
• Shaman King: Legacy Of The Spirits Sprinting Wolf
• Winnie the Pooh: Rumbly Tumbly Adventures

DVD:

• 7th Heaven: The Complete Second Season
• A Separate Peace
• Aloha Scooby-Doo!
• Barbra Streisand Box Set
• Body and Soul (1981)
• Body and Soul (1999)
• Bright Young Things
• Bye Bye, Love
• Courage Mountain
• Deadwood: The Complete First Season
• Eulogy
• Fade to Black
• Full House: The Complete First Season
• Garfield Travel Adventures
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II 1993
• Growing Up with Winnie the Pooh: A Great Day of Discovery
• Growing Up with Winnie the Pooh: Friends Forever
• Highlander: The Series Season 6
• Kiss the Bride
• Malcolm X: Special Edition
• Miami Vice: Season One
• Monkey on My Back
• Murder One: Season One
• Murphy Brown: The Complete First Season
• New York, New York
• Night Court: The Complete First Season
• Our Winning Season
• P.S.
• Punky Brewster: Season Two
• Raging Bull (Single Disc Edition)
• Raging Bull (Special Edition)
• Rocky
• Rocky II
• Rocky III
• Rocky IV
• Rocky Marciano
• Rocky V
• Scooby-Doo: Aloha Scooby-Doo!
• Shark Tale (Full Screen)
• Shark Tale (Widescreen)
• That Championship Season
• The Adventures of the American Rabbit
• The Fresh Prince of Bel Air: The Complete First Season
• The Greatest American Hero: Season One
• The Grid
• The Jamie Foxx Show: The Complete First Season
• The Life (aka Whore Rated R)
• The Life (aka Whore Unrated)
• The Mad About You Collection (4 discs)
• The Martin Scorsese Film Collection
• The Notebook (Platinum Series)
• The Wayans Bros: The Complete First Season
• True Heart
• Winners Take All
• Yogi the Easter Bear
• Zelary

Movies - Now Showing:

• Assisted Living
• Boogeyman
• Nobody Knows
• Rory O'Shea Was Here
• The Nomi Song
• The Wedding Date

Movies - Opening Friday February 11th:

• Bride & Prejudice
• Hitch
• Inside Deep Throat
• Ong-bak
• Pooh's Heffalump Movie
• Uncle Nino

Heritage of Kings: The Settlers, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II, Deadwood: The Complete First Season, Murder One: Season One, Inside Deep Throat, Ong-bak - not a bad week at all.

What will you be spending your money on in the week ahead?

Xbox 360? 02:16 am - Andrew Burnes - consoles: xbox next (14 comments)
Engadget has a source who reckons that the Xbox Next will be known as the Xbox 360:

Our source, who has worked on several projects involving the Xbox and the Xbox 360, has seen the proposed packaging and other design elements for the new console, and says that as of right now the console is being branded as the "Xbox 360." That's definitely not that first time we've heard that mentioned as one of the possible names for the next-generation Xbox; last year a marketing firm conducted a survey where they asked people whether they thought Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, or Nintendo N5 sounded more "next-gen" (apparently Microsoft was worried that calling their new console the "Xbox 2" would make it seem older or less "cutting-edge" than the PlayStation 3).

A circular console would be kinda neat.

In Other News... 02:01 am - Andrew Burnes - in-house: in other news... (19 comments)
So today is Super Bowl Sunday, but you're not meant to say Super Bowl on any commercial entity unless you're a sponsor as it, "lowers the value of the brand." Somehow I doubt Paul McCartney will be having his clothes ripped off to expose a saggy jewl-encrusted breast, but maybe his wife will do something with her leg...

Who will win the Super Bowl?

SWAT 4 Preview 05:20 pm - Robert 'Apache' Howarth - games: action (0 comments)
Another glowing preview of Irrational Games' SWAT 4 is online, this time thanks to the chaps at Gamesdomain:

All along, the SWAT series has tried to capture the dilemma the police face when it comes to using lethal force. Unlike the military, whose wartime job is to kill people and break things, the police have to tread more carefully. So when you're making a first-person shooter about the police, how do you present that?

SWAT 4 takes its cue from 1999's underrated SWAT 3, which put players in dynamic situations where they had to ask questions first and shoot later. Just as important as the fire button was the "order to comply" button, which demanded that a target drop its weapon.

Pirates! SecuROM Fix 05:15 pm - Robert 'Apache' Howarth - games: action / adventure (2 comments)
Thanks to Blue's News for the link to a quick fix for Sid Meier's Pirates which is "a DVD version replacement addressing SecuROM copy protection issues." There's also a mirror at 3D Gamers.

Battlefield 2 Editing Tools Preview 05:11 pm - Robert 'Apache' Howarth - games: action (1 comment)
Thanks to TotalBF2 for the word that EA released a preview of the editing tool to be used in DICE's forthcoming sequel. Included are a bunch of screen captures as well.

Imperator Preview 05:09 pm - Robert 'Apache' Howarth - games: mmog (0 comments)
Imperator.Okratas took a peak at Mythic's upcoming Roman themed sci-fi MMOG:

How would our present probably look if the Roman realm had never fallen? The developers of Dark Ages of Camelot (Mythic Entertainment) take up this matter with its upcoming MMORPG, Imperator. In the upcoming game Germanic & Mongolian barbarians never destroyed the Roman Empire and now the Empire has flourished into a powerful futuristic civilization.

A Search For Original Games 01:21 am - Andrew Burnes - consoles: xbox (14 comments)
Xbox.IGN heads out with shotgun in hand in an attempt to catch some original game:

But depending on who you speak with, the videogame industry is either reaching the most impressive convergence of its entire 30-plus year old existence, or it's falling into a never-ending death spiral of sequel-heavy, rehashed, franchise dominated blocks of stinking cheese. If you look at EA, you see sequels, franchises and almost nothing new. If you look at Microsoft, Ubisoft, or even on a smaller level, Majesco, you see new and original games coming your way. I'm not talking pure quality here, I'm just talking original, non-licensed no franchise games.

Looking at this year's lineup on the Xbox, IGN has logged 248 games theoretically slated for 2005. Many of these will not make it to market. Many games already may have been killed. But a majority of them will ship to Xbox. Of these titles, 77 of them are original titles. When I mean original, I mean truly original, i.e., titles NOT based on a movie, TV show, book, comic book, sequel, or are part of any kind of franchise. That's a little less than 30%, or less than one-third, of all games slated for Xbox being original, meaning 171 are sequels, franchises, or based on some kind of license. Is this sickness? The state of things to come? Or simply the staus quo from the videogame industry?

Thresh Fong's Xfire Sued By Yahoo! 01:13 am - Andrew Burnes - games: general news (6 comments)
Yahoo! is suing Xfire, the company co-founded by ex "pro gamer," Dennis 'Thresh' Fong. Yahoo! alleges in their lawsuit that the Xfire in-game instant messenger and server joining tool violates a patent they hold, a patent that just happened to be registered by ex-employee Chris Kirmse, now Vice President of Engineering at Xfire.

Read more on this potentially expensive case over at GameSpot.

Update: The Xfire website offers a brief statement:

Xfire does not infringe the Yahoo patent. We are very disappointed in the way this has been handled to date. We are hoping that this will be resolved shortly. We'd like to thank all 1 million Xfire users for their continued wonderful support.

GameSpy Randomness 01:09 am - Andrew Burnes - games: general news (0 comments)
Ditto:

• Empire Earth II Preview
• Fight Night 2 Q&A;
• Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords Development Diary - The Home Stretch

IGN Randomness 01:00 am - Andrew Burnes - games: general news (1 comment)
Random stuff from IGN:

• Ace Combat Advance Preview
• Pac-Pix DS Preview
• TrackMania Sunrise Preview
• The Nintendo Minute: Vol. 3 - Reggie Fils-Aime responds to, "Nintendo is oftentimes viewed as a kid-centric company by today's gamers. How will it appeal itself to the adult gamer in 2005 and beyond?"

Capcom Previews 12:50 am - Andrew Burnes - consoles: general news (1 comment)
Five Capcom game previews via yesterday's Vegas press event:

• Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance
• Gyakuten Saiban DS - Courtroom battling oddity
• Megaman Network Battle 5
• Resident Evil Outbreak File #2
• Without Warning

In Other News... 12:41 am - Andrew Burnes - in-house: in other news... (28 comments)
I'm hooked on Winning Eleven 8 International at present as it's truly the best football game ever made, even if the repetitious commentary and dire fan sprites make me cringe. Some bastard from Ireland knocked Owen out of my international league for 33 weeks though :/

Best football game?