You will pee yours pants when you see this. Written by BILLY.

Not that this site is turning into a X-Box slammin' site, but someone passed this link on to me, and it's way too good not to share.

Create your own X-Box controller! I will admit when I first saw this "oh-so-innovative controller" I just about threw up. As I quote my own self, "Looks like someone... Read more...

The Xbox gets weaker. Hint: This is good news for Nintendo.

Man oh man oh man... and I thought console industry people were already notorious for overhyping and then somehow trying to keep a smile on their faces while admitting they came up short. Granted, X-Box will still be a powerful system without a doubt but between their apparent absolute Dreamcast rip-off... Read more...

Holy large letter-named consoles Batman!

Although the person who made these shots wishes to remain anonymous, the fact that these pics are circulating around and are so completely amazing and revealing make it impossible for me not to share them with you. Click the picture below for the big version!

Apparently, these pictures... Read more...

RareNet is back! Soony they'll be Better!

The ongoing saga of RareNet continues! Saints be praised, RareNet has returned online after their server "intelligently" lost the site. Luckily for us, Trevor and Dan had backed parts of the site up allowing them to partially restore the site & get most of it up last night. Luckily for them, they... Read more...

This game will rock, I am sure of it.

IGNPocket grudgingly have returned from the holidays, to find a big surprise from one of their readers. A fellow known as Sals from the IGN boards sent in a few pictures from Mario Kart Advance. Where he got them, we don’t know (and neither do IGN Pocket) but check ‘em out! They are the title screen, victory screen and character select screen of the game.

Some classics are coming back, this time on the GBA.

In the most recent issue of Nintendo Power, Majesco released the names of the ten Game Boy Advance games it plans to publish. The games are as follows:

· Earthworm Jim

· Caesar's Palace

· M&Ms: Lost in Time

· Iridion 3-D

· Aerial Aces

· F-18

· Fortress

· Jelly Belly

It looks like we are getting a Mario title for GBA.

The MagicBox reports that Nintendo has revealed a few more AGB titles in development, one of them mysteriously titled "Mario Advance."

- Nintendo of Japan has also revealed a couple new GameBoy Advance titles in development:

Mario Advance - there is at least one Mario action game for each system after all

Hop on board the porcelain bus into the year 2K1!

When I mentioned "riding the porcelain bus" in our New Year's Eve shout out, reader Alex Alverado kindly sent me this adorable picture.

Nintendo sent this out on New Year's Day at 12 AM PST to everyone on their email newsletter list. The card also mentions www.conker.com which is now open... Read more...

Have a free Nintendoks condom!

After some four months of downtime, Nintendorks is back up and better than ever, to say the least. Head over there for some awesome new community features, and tell 'em that Planet sent you!

Tendo Box (two words) takes a look back at da Y2K.

You might think that we were too lazy to do any sort of holiday special of our own at the Planet, though I think the reason we didn't have one is because I didn't LET our staff celebrate the holidays. Luckily, our pals at Tendo Box have come to the rescue with a nice look back at Nintendo in the year... Read more...

A look back & a look ahead....

I’m getting ready to get my friends, alcohol, N64 and four-player games together to go party my brains out tonight until the clock chimes in the New Year. However, before I go do all of that I’d like to wish everyone a Very Happy New Year! For some of our readers, like those in Japan or down under... Read more...

Sega gets pissed at the NY Times!

Vice President of Sega, Shunichi Nakamura, issued a statement to the source of the past few days discussion The New York Times. Here in full is the letter.

Mr. Glenn Kraman

Business Desk, The New York Times

Mr. Howard French

Tokyo Bureau Chief, The New York Times Tokyo Bureau

Konami announces an impressive lineup of GBA games for launch.

After news recently of Nintendo's launch plans for the GBA Konami have come out publicly now to state that they plan on supporting the handheld's launch with 8 titles! The titles in no particular order are:

Silent Hill

Castlevania: Circle of the Moom

Golf Master

Monster Guardians

WaiWai Racing

Poor Rarenet is out of luck when it comes to timing...

So my humorous attempt at a headline sounds a little severe. Unfortunately, in the midst of the holidays and all the Nintendo/Sega insanity, it looks like one of the best Nintendo-related websites continues to suffer from one of the worst streaks of bad luck imaginable. Previously, Trevor, Dan and... Read more...

The Sega/Nintendo saga continues with MSNBC's snooping.

Wow, this Nintendo/Sega stuff just won't stop, will it? MSNBC's gaming guru Steven Kent has posted an article investigating the possibility of the two companies getting together. He found that while neither Nintendo nor Microsoft probably wants to buy Sega totally, they both seem interested in purchasing... Read more...

Could Sega be tinkering with the GBA?!

Is Nintendo buying Sega? For now, the answer is no. However, as the craziest rumor ever still continues to run wild, we’re all left wondering what the heck may really be going on with the two companies. Well, it seems we now have answers—or some of them anyway. Finally, Nintendo has issued a statement... Read more...

Nintendo's fearless leader boldy states that Nintendo will NEVER buy out Sega.

Despite a report printed in Wednesday's New York Times, Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi has indicated that, "there is absolutely no chance that Nintendo will buy Sega..."

The Time's report caused Sega's shares to jump more than 10% before being suspended by the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

"The report is absolutely groundless. We are not talking with Nintendo or anyone on such a deal," said a Sega spokeswoman.

Nintendo has announced the price for GBA and its games in Japan--and it ain't cheap!

Nintendo representives in Japan have spoken about the GBA's details, including pricing and launch titles. Set for release in Japan on March 21st the handheld will retail for 9800 Yen ($95 US / approx. $170 AUS). Next on the menu are launch titles and Nintendo are going to provide four. Those titles... Read more...

Open your wallets and purses, 'cause here come Konami classics!

Recently, Konami let it be known that it would be making a remake of a classic Castlevania PC game originally released on X68000 PC for Sony PSX. Now, according to GameSpot, Konami have decided to make this a series of games, known as Castlevania Chronicles.

"We will be releasing other Castlevania... Read more...

The recent "news" about Nintendo buying Sega is having drastic effects on Sega's stock.

Looks like the Sega/Nintendo news isn't done just yet. Take a look at what Yahoo news has just reported:

TOKYO, Dec 27 (Reuters) - The Tokyo Stock Exchange said on Wednesday it has suspended trading of shares of video game

maker Sega Corp .

Sega shares last traded up by their 100 yen limit or 10.48 percent at 1,054.