Many of you may have noticed that, over the course of the past week or so, there have been a lot of rumors floating around concerning Square developing games for the GameCube.

When asked what images they mentally conjured up at the utterance of “video game history”, my friends all concurred that they envisioned Japanese geniuses in business suits toiling away at a computer screen, working on the “soon-to-be” hottest new release.

Why is it that some topics just never seem to go away? For several years now, the media has been dogging videogames as the source of teenage violence, and frankly, I am sick and tired of it. The latest anti-videogame rally is the result of a study on violent games from researchers at the renowned school Harvard.

I am tired of hearing about how videogames are for children, and how parents are in an uproar about the violent content of today’s videogames.

“Hype – an intentional excess verging on deception that creates great popular enthusiasm for a person or product.”

Hello and welcome once again to the Weekly Grind. This week, we deal with a problem that has been around for over a decade: System Loyalty. Stemming from the days of Super Nintendo vs. Sega Genesis, system loyalty has become a real pain in the butt for those of us who can see that all game systems have something to offer.

The following is a conversation between Ryan Schaefer and Kaleb Rutherford about the GameCube and Xbox launches.

Obi-Wan is a third person action game with a unique and intuitive player control system that gives the player an advanced degree of control over the lightsaber, use of the Force at their fingertips, and the ability to pull flips, rolls and cartwheels with ease.