The perhaps incorrectly named Virgin Interactive company announced it's making a new Football trivia game (that's Football meaning "Soccer," not Football meaning "Football" by the way) that will feature naked women as an essential component of the gameplay. Daily Sport Football Strip, based on the cheeky periodical Daily Sport (that I assume only "blokes" read), will feature five girls of varying Football knowledge to play against and... blah, blah, blah.
England's Headfirst Productions, who are feverishly working on a licensed Call of Cthulhu game, announced recently that they're going to make a single and multiplayer PC game based on Battle Beyond the Planets, a property that can only have appeal for people my age. Battle Beyond the Planets was an anime cartoon featuring five kids who dressed like birds, called themselves G-Force, and fought an androgynous space menace called Zoltar. Now do all those stupid GeForce jokes I've been making over the past year make any sense?
A couple weeks ago Nintendo's illustrious and often hilarious CEO Yamauchi made the following statement to Video Senki about the damage venture capitalists have done to gaming. He answered: "They (venture capitalists) give money to people that really should be unemployed, and they in turn round up some friends, start a company and begin creating software." Hilarious! Meanwhile, in an unrelated story, John Romero's ears are burning. Activision is boldly going back to Star Trek Armada with a full-blown 3D sequel. Fox Interactive is pulling out of game publishing (Ha-ha!) leaving the fate of Simpson's Wrestling (a 3D wresting game based on that wacky yellow family) in question (Doh!) but Activision announced that they picked up the game and will release it on time for its Fall 2001 debut (Woo-hoo!). Senator Lieberman can warm up his pen and haul out his ample outrage because Grand Theft Auto 3, the third incarnation of everyone's favorite crappy car-jacking simulator, is going to be in full 3D! (It is uncertain at this time if the game will get a PC release though.) And, a game company called Metropolis unveiled plans for a "techno-horror action game" which will take place in three different time epochs (hmmm... just like Daikatana). Anyway the game is called Archangel. Microsoft's Gamestock showcased Flight Simulator 2002, Mechcommander 2, Dungeon Siege, the Microsoft Train Simulator and Zoo Tycoon (which better let me unleash the gorillas and tigers on zoo patrons) but apparently did -NOT- feature Freelancer. GodGames announced that it's dropping its value label On-Deck Interactive (ODI) prompting gamers everywhere to remark: "GodGames had a value label called On-Deck Interactive?"
