March, traditionally a big month for video games, has been a let down for me. The Nintendo GameCube continues to dishonor its name, with more delays and fewer games than are rightfully expected. Most of the games I'm getting for all systems these days are ports of stuff I've already played, including NBA 2K2, Spy Hunter, and Gauntlet Dark Legacy. Of course, I should have known as much, looking at the updated release schedules I posted here last month.

Fortunately, the industry always leaves me something to write about, such as the recent Resident Evil movie. A brief review of this surprisingly-just-above-average film will appear on this site soon.

To better days!

Plenty of updates for you this fine March day, including both new reviews, new authors, and structural reconfigurations. Dark Summit, THQ's adventure snowboarding game for GameCube (and other systems), Fatal Frame, and Tecmo's Resident Evil/Pokemon Snap title, have both fallen under Gamebits scrutiny. Gamebits newcomer Jeremy Pallant has also submitted a review of Star Wars Obi-Wan, our first of many Microsoft Xbox reviews.

Also added to the site are two older, contributed reviews: Pinobee, a Game Boy Advance title reviewed by Will White; and Jeremy's review of the PSOne game NHL FaceOff 2000.

Jeremy is also contributing several hardware reviews to Gamebits, including a technical video primer, explaining how different video signals and cables work. To accomodate these and upcoming reviews, the Other Articles page has been reorganized, an Xbox review section added, and a site map, with links to all pages on the server, established (thus trimming the ever-fattening navbar).