www.the-magicbox.com
come.to/Magicbox
:: News Archives ::
.: November :.
16  14  13  11  08  06  02
.: October :.
31  30  29  27  25  16  15  14  13  08  05  04  01
.: September :.
30  28  27  25  23  21  19  17  14  12  10  07  05  04  02
.: August :.
30  27  26  25  23  22  21  17  16  14  11  09  07  06  03  02
 
.: Main Page :.
.: Gaming News :.
.: News Headlines :.
.: Console Charts :.
.: Dengeki Chart :.
.: Arcade/Most Wanted :.
.: Platinum Chart :.
.: Game Previews :.
.: Review Scores :.
.: JP Release Schedule :.
.: US Release Schedule :.
.: Polls & Horoscope :.
.: Wallpaper :.
.: Magic Box Links :.
.: Message Forum :.
.: Sign Guestbook :.
.: Contact :.
.: Daily Comics :.
 

Click to win instant prizes.

Tell A Friend!
Type In Your Name:

Type In Your E-mail:

Your Friend's E-mail:

Your Comments:
Receive copy: 

Free Online Casino
Play and win big at Online Casino.


Magic Box designed by:

- November 19, 2001 -

- The Console Charts and Game Previews are updated.

- Square announced that additional Final Fantasy and Disney characters will be included Kingdom Hearts for PlayStation 2. For the Square side, in addition to Tidus, Wakka, Sephie, Cid, Moogle and Chocobo; Squall from FF8 and Yuffie from FF7 will join the team as well. For the Disney side, characters from Chipmunk, Alice in Wonderland and Hercules will be included in the game as well. Other than enemies from Heartless, you will be facing theme oriented enemies in each area as well, such as Trump Soldiers. There is also a "Gummy Ship" in the game, similar to the airship in Final Fantasy, which can take you to different parts of the world, and it is customizable. (From Madman's Cafe)

Yuffie and SquallHercules
Additional Images (11)

- The Dengeki Console Ranking Top 50 Chart is updated. The Japanese market is pretty quiet this week, the best seller is Konami's PS2 baseball game Professional Baseball Japan 2001, followed by Capcom's Gun Survivor 2: Biohazard Code Veronica and Sammy's King of the Beast DX. Nintendo's Pikmin has dropped back to #5.

- Konami will release Hyper Sports 2002 Winter for multiple platforms in Japan this winter, including PlayStation 2, XBox, GameCube and GameBoy Advance. The game will feature 10 sports events such as speed skating.

- Banpresto announced that they are developing the latest installment of the popular Super Robot Taisen series for PSone, this time the game will include characters from the Nadesico.

- Spike will release Final Fire Pro Wrestling for GameBoy Advance in March 2002, the latest installment of the Fire Pro Wrestling series. This time there are 4 play modes: Management of Ring (a management simulation game), One Night Match (battle mode), Dojo Mode (practice) and Edit Mode (create your own wrestler).

- Sammy will release a PC port of the popular arcade weapon fighting game Guilty Gear X in Japan on November 30, for 7800 yen. The PC version will be based on the Naomi arcade version, the two extra characters in the PS2 version will not present in the game. However, the PC version will have a new replay function, as well as PC accessories like Guilty Gear X screen saver and wallpaper, plus six bonus 158mm x 110mm photos. Guilty Gear X for PC will run on Windows 95, 98, Me and XP, a Celeron 450 Mhz or higher processor and AGP 3D graphic card is required. A 33MB playable demo can be found in here.

gazou6.jpg (9722 bytes)gazou5.jpg (9991 bytes)
Additional Image: bonus photos

- It seems like the popular PlayStation emulation developer Bleem! has shut down the business, a picture of the grave and a crying Sonic can be found in the main page of the Bleem! website.

bleemrip.jpg (8190 bytes)


Past News: November 16, 2001 Next News: November 21, 2001



Total Visits:
tag (end of page). If you already have another ilayer trigger there, put this one last. -->