Console Updates, Star Wars and Tony Hawk

Courtesy of Microsoft

The new consoles are fighting it out with new game releases and claims that they'll be the system to own this year. Take a look at what each system has coming up early this year and tell us which one you think is da bomb:

The Gamecube	The Xbox

January	January
Cel Damage	NFL 2K2
ESPN International Winter Sports 2002	ESPN International Winter Sports 2002
NBA Courtside 2002	NBA 2K2
Smashing Drive	Genma Onimusha
	ESPN NFL Prime Time 2002
	ESPN Winter X Games Snowboarding
	NBA Inside Drive 2002

February	February
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem	Crazy Taxi Next
Pac-Man World 2	Wreckless: The Yakuza Mission
Legends of Wrestling	Jet Set Radio Future
18-Wheeler American Pro Trucker	Maximum Chase
Jeremy McGrath Supercross World	Medal of Honor: Allied Assault

March	March
Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet	GUNVALKYRIE
ESPN MLS Extra Time 2002	Hunter: The Reckoning
Batman: Dark Tomorrow	Test Drive
NBA Street	Buffy the Vampire Slayer
James Bond 007 in... Agent Under Fire	James Bond 007 in... Agent Under Fire
Bloody Roar: Primal Fury	House of the Dead 3
NFL Blitz 2002	ESPN MLS Extra Time 2002
Spy Hunter	ESPN Winter X Games Snocross
	Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3

The Cube looks like it's in trouble! The Xbox is matching it game for game and coming out with more of 'em too. The Xbox even has Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 - the biggest titles on the list!

Speaking of the Hawkmeister... Word is that Activision (the company that makes all his awesome games) is already working on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4. It'll be out in 2003. Which console do you think will get the Hawk first, the Xbox or the Gamecube? and let him know!

For all you Star Wars fans out there - big news! Wizards of the Coast (the super-huge game company behind the Harry Potter TCG, the Pokemon TCG and more) just scored. Lucasfilm gave them the rights to make Star Wars card games. That blows Decipher out of the water and puts Wizards on the spot to go big or go home. What do you think they're gonna do?