Cross Edge is an upcoming PS3 RPG made with the collaboration of Nippon Ichi, Gust, Namco Bandai, Idea Factory, and Capcom. The game will feature characters from Darkstalkers, Disgaea, Ar Tonelico and more. God only knows if we'll ever see it.

Industry and multi-console news

New media: Far Cry 2 introductory trailer, Incredible Hulk screenshots, Lego Batman trailer and screenshots featuring Two Face

• id Software has announced that they are developing Doom 4.
• Take Two has called the launch of GTA4 the "largest launch in the history of interactive entertainment" with 3.6 million units sold worldwide in the first day and six million total going in the first week.
• The new Australian and UK sales charts are out, and imagine that, GTA4 is on top of both of them.
• Take Two chairman Strauss Zelnick was on CNBC and said that there were no glitches in the game. Except, y'know, the ones people are complaining about.
• EA Sports has launched the Freestyle sub-brand, focusing on more casual sports games.
• Next Generation has excerpts from interview with Fallout 3 lead designer and lead writer Emil Pagliarulo. The full interview can be heard in this Game Theory podcast.
• Bethesda has hired Inon Zur to compose the Fallout 3 soundtrack. In addition to sounding like a supervillain, Zur has previously worked soundtracks for games like Crysis and Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones.
• Mike Tyson is returning to video games as one of the fighters alongside Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard in Fight Night Round 4.
• THQ is cutting 200 jobs, most of them people working on last gen platforms.
• Gamasutra has an article on the value of texture in video games. Not meaning "those pictures you put on polygons."
• THQ has signed a deal to make a game based on DreamWorks Animation's Master Mind, a movie that isn't coming out until November 2010.
• They've also announced WWE Legends of WrestleMania for the 360 and PS3.
• Anascape has filed patent-infringement suits against Nintendo and Microsoft for various patents involving analog pressure sensors.
• Square Enix is releasing Final Fantasy XI 2008 Edition for the PC and 360 on May 23. The pack contains the core game and all the expansions.
• Game Politics has some analysis of why Activision left the ESA.
• Three Rock Band tracks will be included with copies of the 11th season of South Park on DVD.
• The Japanmanship blog answers questions about working in the Japanese game industry.
• Stride Gum is offering a coupon for a free pack of gum to everyone who signs the StopUweBoll.org petition if it reaches one million signatures by May 14. This is one of the odder marketing moves I've seen.
• Mirrors Edge, the trailer for which debuted yesterday, will be powered by Unreal Engine 3.
• PSM3 has revived the Beyond Good and Evil 2 rumor with no real evidence or source to back it up.
• Some guy was calling around SNK USA trying to get Card Fighter DS replaced, and ended up leaving a message on company president Ben Herman's machine. Herman responded and did offer to help resolve the issue, but didn't exactly do himself any favors by also saying "As far as customer service, we have a very small sales office here. We don't pride ourselves in customer service."
• Brian Crecente writes about his 70-year old father getting into GTA4.

PC and mobile news

New content: Nvidia 175.16 beta drivers, Sango 2 demo

• Nvidia has plans to simplify its gaming product range.
• I didn't mention it yesterday, but Spore will also be using the Internet check anti-piracy protection that Mass Effect has.
• FileFront is giving away 50,000 copies of SAGA.
• The Lord of the Rings Online is having a Welcome Back Weekend, when old players are given the opportunity to come back on and play with their old characters for free.
• Osu! is a free PC game based on Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! aka Elite Beat Agents. The game includes a built-in editor so people can create their own beatmaps.

Nintendo news

• The Nintendo Channel has been launched and is available for download now. The service offers videos of upcoming games along with downloadable demos for the DS. It's a little silly that you have to agree to share your usage data to access the demos.
• This week's Zero Punctuation video is a response to all the hate mail he got from the Brawl review.
• If the Pay to Play logo on the box is correct, Samba de Amigo could be getting downloadable content.
• Majesco has announced Zoo Hospital for the Wii.
• Dr. Mario Online Rx is the official name of Dr. Mario on WiiWare, and the price has been set at $10.
• USA Today talks to Steven Spielberg about Boom Blox. "There is a continental divide in my own house between what I play and the kind of games my kids play. I wanted something that would bring the family together in the same room, standing shoulder to shoulder with four different controllers."
• Peter Moore really could've used a better analogy to describe EA's Wii game brand All Play. "It's like how swimming pools have a deep end and a shallow end. EA Sports has really only built a swimming pool with a deep end. It's intimidating for a lot of people to jump right in the deep end. With All-Play, we're building a shallow end."

Sony news

New media: Secret Agent Clank opening cinematic, Killzone 2 screenshots

• A PS3 ad from British retailer PC World has been found to be misleading because it claimed that the PS3 could play all PS2 games.
• Rockstar has released a patch for GTA4.
• A demo for Haze is coming tomorrow, and so is PixelJunk Monsters.
• GameFly has a listing for a PS2 fighting game called Shining Dragon, leading Siliconera to wonder if "battle damage" fighter Ikki Tousen: Shining Dragon could be coming to America.
• The US and Japan are getting DualShock 3s with their MGS4 console bundles; Europe is stuck with the Sixaxis in theirs.
• SCEE President David Reeves thinks you will "probably see" downloadable content for GTA4 on the PS3.
• Sony has trademarked the name Qore in reference to an "interactive online magazine and entertainment in the field of video games."
• Siren: Blood Curse is an episodic game series coming to the PS3 starting this summer. And to think I cashed in my menstruation joke ticket for yesterday's newspost.
• Amazon has Call of Duty 3 (PS3) for $29.99.

Microsoft news

New Live Arcade title: Wits & Wagers

• Two million GTA4 achievements were unlocked in the game's first 24 hours of availability.
• MTV Multiplayer breaks down the cost of the 360's 120 gig hard drive.
• The guy who did the music for Omega Five says that the situation for music in Live Arcade games is getting better. "When the service first started, we either had to limit the number of the tracks or use built-in synth to play each tune in order to accommodate the capacity restrictions. I think that most of these technical problems can be solved now because of recent improvements in the technology."
• Amazon's deal of the day is Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom for $25.99.