Four new reviews added earlier this week, with one more today. One of them, the new Zelda, I actually brought to completion this past Thursday. I rarely dedicate that much time and interest to a single title, and when I logged it into the list of other such games (yes, I record games I've completed – an artifact of my NES days), I was a bit surprised to find the last three entries were also from the same publisher: Metroid Prime, Super Mario Sunshine, and Eternal Darkness. Seems Nintendo makes some attractive games.

I was recently asked what my favorite console was, only to discover the correct answer was Xbox. (I would've gotten away with it, if not for that darn Microsoft rep!) Six months ago the console had little appeal for me, but releases such as Shenmue II, Panzer Dragoon Orta, DOA Xtreme Beach Volleyball, and Indiana Jones have had me spending a fair amount of time with Microsoft's monolith. It's probably the best console with which to go online, anyway – assuming you have broadband.

I did break away from the interactive medium this past holiday weekend to see Bulletproof Monk. It occupies the same genre as Daredevil and Blade – that being "movies based on comic books I've never read". (I'm more of a DC guy.) BPM (as he's come to be known, at least by me) is the best of the three: an irreverent, funny, fast-paced film.

Speaking of that other medium, when I mentioned earlier that the only TV series I still need on DVD is the Dick Van Dyke show, I misspoke. There is also The Incredible Hulk, and though the release of the pilot is a good start, where are the entire seasons? Quantum Leap is the other series, and its pilot episode on DVD is long since discontinued, though rumblings on other sites suggest seasons on disc may be a work-in-progress. Let us hope. Enterprise is the only TV show I currently watch, but Archer's no Beckett.

The latest review will be delayed in being posted here; instead, surf over to Tiptonium, where you'll find my thoughts on the latest Batman adventure.

How many of us remembered to spring ahead the clocks on our consoles? Let's see some hands, please.

The review of Jedi Outcast, for GameCube and Xbox, is a pleasure to post, as it is the work of the talented Jeremy Pallant, who this time last year contributed to Gamebits with a review of Obi-Wan. He is capable of writing more than reviews of Star Wars Xbox games (see some of his other articles) and I hope to work with him to furnish other reviews in the future.

Also thanks to Dain Neater for his review of Snood. As a gamer who used his Neo*Geo memory card to play the coin-op version of Bust-a-Move, I've always wondered why Snood is preferred by so many gamers these days. AFAIK, BAM came first and is superior… though, in Snood's favor, I have to admit that any game that's available for the Mac does have an advantage over one that is not.