I’m sure just about anyone who follows gaming news on teh intrawebz has already heard the rumors and speculation regarding a price drop for the XBOX 360 Pro. Microsoft has yet to comment, but the evidence that it’s more than rumor has been steadily building over the past few weeks with leaked fliers and internal memos from retailers advertising a new low price of $299.99 for the console, effective on Sunday, July 13.

JoyStiq recently added an internal corporate memo sent in by an anonymous GameStop manager to the collection… they’ve even assembled a nice little gallery of the various pieces of evidence.

For those of us who already have a 360, here’s to hoping that Sony will soon follow suit in order to compete, and drop the price of the PS3 to more affordable levels. I wanna get me one before the next millenium.

You may recall last week a post of mine that spotlighted a little PS2 game called Beyond Good & Evil… an awesome game that just didn’t get the respect it deserved and left off with an annoyingly open ending that implied more to come (which unfortunately never came).

Well, apparently Ubisoft has not only been planning a sequel, they’ve actually been working on it for more than a year now. According to an interview the game’s creator gave to JeuxVideo, the game is in pre-production. That’s the good news.

Here’s the bad. Ubisoft hasn’t yet bumped this into full official production mode yet. So basically it’s been confirmed that the title is not officially confirmed yet. Come on, Ubisoft. Green light this one already!

Today’s rumor, courtesy of Bloomberg Japan (via Kotaku, and about six dozen other sites), has to do with this year’s upcoming E3 and the possibility that Nintendo will announce that the DS and the DS Lite have mated to produce some sort of illicit offsrping.

Nintendo has yet to comment on the veracity of the rumor that there’s a new design for the DS in the pipeline, but it certainly has gaming websites buzzing. Nearly every other gaming blog and news site I frequent has info on it, and as a few of them have already pointed out, it’s not completely impossible (especially since the PSP has been outselling the DS in Japan by a pretty significant margin lately).

So that begs the question… what might they change about the DS?