If you were at all affected by the recent video game report card then you be interested in the reactions recently placed by a few of our staffers. If not then they're still a good read anyway.

On to the news. First up is word of four new titles coming to the Gamecube from Bandai. This will be a big bonus for anime/manga fans as the titles are a Gundam game, a Digimon game, One Piece: Treasure Battle, and Ultimate Muscle: Legends vs. New Generation. One Piece is of particular interest to me ever since seeing it in the new american version of Shonen Jump. It features the exploits of a rubber bodied boy and pirates! Woot! The gameplay supposably is similar to the fighting action of the Dreamcast game Powerstone, which is definately all right by me.

The second tidbit of the day comes mainly as a rumour, but a good one at that. Word is that the release of Final Fantasy X-2 will come with a demo of Final Fantasy 12! FFX-2 is still a ways off, and FF12 even longer, but isn't anticipating things like this what being a game fan is all about.

-Hanzo

Sources: Games Are Fun, Gamefront, and wool socks.