It’s like a concert series on a movie screen. Only it features GameCube games and gamers.

In a videogame competition of Wizard proportions, Nintendo’s Australian division is putting on a series of GameCube gaming sessions in search of the best Aussie Nintendo fan.

Preliminaries will take place every two weeks starting August 1st at six participating Village Cinema movie theaters... Read more...

Investors accepted the proposed merger of Sega and Sammy at a general stockholders meeting today.

The next step in the developing story of the merger between Sega and Sammy, Sega's shareholders today approved of the pending merger in October. With Sammy's shareholders doing the same just last Friday, it appears that all is set for the two to join forces and become Sega Sammy Holdings.

The... Read more...

The kids sure like the crazy hair and dueling antics, so here's another GBA game from Konami.

KONAMI SHIPS YU-GI-OH!(tm) RESHEF OF DESTRUCTION(tm) FOR NINTENDO'S GAME BOY(r) ADVANCE AND YU-GI-OH!(tm) POWER OF CHAOS: JOEY THE PASSION(tm) FOR PC CD-ROM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. - June 29, 2004 - Konami Digital Entertainment - America, a division of Konami Digital Entertainment,... Read more...

Maybe Iwata knows what he's talking about.

According to a story at Nikkei Net, conveniently translated by the fine folks at Video-fenky, the gaming market in Japan is getting smaller. Console sales have dropped off dramatically as most of the people who want current systems have already bought them, and game sales are down too. The overall market is down for the third year in a row, with sales declining 11% in just the last year.

They think the game is American propaganda against their country.

Apparently, a government-controlled newspaper (AKA, the government) in North Korea is calling Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 "proof" that the United States has something against their country. Take this clip from an article explaining what the Koreans think of the game:

“Through propaganda, entertainment... Read more...

It makes a lot of sense to put the best 2D shooter in the history of the arcades on the GBA, and Europeans will soon find out why.

IGNITION ENTERTAINMENT SIGNS PUBLISHING AGREEMENT WITH SNK NEO GEO CORPORATION

METAL SLUG 3™ and METAL SLUGTM ADVANCE To Enjoy Dedicated European Releases

Friday 25 June 2004 - One of the most-loved arcade and console gaming franchises is set for an official European release as Ignition Entertainment announces it is to publish SNK PLAYMORE's Metal Slug 3 and Metal Slug Advance throughout Europe.

If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can participate in a game tournament with a rather enormous twist.

The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA is hosting its third annual Maxgames tournament on Friday, July the 23rd. It's a console game tournament that includes such GameCube games as Mario Kart Double Dash, Super Smash Brothers Melee and Super Monkey Ball 2.

Normally, we don't alert our... Read more...

The upcoming street racer now has its own official website.

Hit the N2O!

Namco Unleashes The Official Web site of Street Racing Syndicate

San Jose, Ca. (June 21, 2004) – Tune it up and turn it loose! Leading video games developer and publisher Namco Hometek Inc. announced today the release of a dedicated web site for Street Racing Syndicate... Read more...

Wario Ware, Inc.: Mega Party Game$ will be released for GameCube in Europe on the 3rd of September.

WARIO WARE CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO HIS ALL NEW MINI-GAME PARTY EXTRAVANGANZA

Get your dancing shoes on and join the party that never sleeps: Wario Ware is back in town! This wild experience hosted by Wario offers players the choice of no less than 200 wacky mini-games to keep gamers... Read more...

Bruce Campbell waxes poetic upon Spidey's aerobatics. Updated with three more trailers!

Activision has supplied us with two more trailers for this game, each one featuring narration by Bruce Campbell, who is returning for the omniscient role he played in the last console Spider-Man game. These movies show off the huge, skyscraper-to-street environments and Spider-Man's ability to freely movie around them.

Put down a few bucks on Pokemon Fire Red or Leaf Green to get a free trainer's guide.

Starting August 1st, North American Pokemon fans can receive a free Pokemon Pocket Trainer's Guide when they pre-order Pokemon Fire Red or Leaf Green at most stores. The offer is apparently aimed at new players who want to take a crack at these remakes of the original games. Fire Red & Leaf Green... Read more...

Nintendo's website shows an extra word tacked onto this GBA title's name.

According to Nintendo's official website, Mario Pinball for Game Boy Advance has been renamed. The game is now known as Mario Pinball Land, which fits with the game's focus on moving among dozens of themed pinball boards. A single ball will often move back and forth through numerous boards, giving the game a sense of exploration that hasn't been seen since Pinball Quest on NES.

The model shows her stuff as an actor in Need for Speed Underground 2.

EA AND BROOKE BURKE RULE THE STREETS THIS FALL IN NEED FOR SPEED UNDERGROUND 2

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 17, 2004 –Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: ERTS), the world’s leading interactive software company, today announced that they have signed one of the world’s sexiest thrill seekers and cover girls, Brooke Burke, to star in Need For Speed™ Underground 2, the sequel to the best selling game of 2003, Need For Speed Underground.

Don't like the fact that you'll be required to use the touchscreen for Metroid DS? Worry no more.

Europe's newest Nintendo Official Magazine has a rather informative interview with the one and only Shigeru Miyamoto. Along with a small newsbyte about Mario 128 (Nintendo is still experimenting with it), new information about Nintendo's flagship Nintendo DS title, Metroid Prime Hunters, was unearthed.

Two more, says Atari. We hope that's not a glitch in the Matrix.

Last week during a financial company conference, Atari CEO Bruno Bonnell let slip that his company was planning to bring out two more games based on the Matrix franchise. One would be released for current consoles, and the other will apparently come out for the next round of game hardware.

Enter... Read more...

If Madden isn't enough to crave your football appetite, then EA has something new for you to try.

For years, many major sports websites have offered Fantasy Football games, wherein people participate in a mock NFL season, picking players and playing in games based off of the stats of those players' real-life counterparts.

Electronic Arts figured that since they've been making football games... Read more...

Backed by the ESA, publishers Atari, EA, and Vivendi-Universal sue 321 Studios for violating copyright protection laws.

Yesterday, Atari, EA and Vivendi-Universal filed a law suit against the creator of the game copying software Games X Copy. Citing its history of software products designed to circumvent copyright protection measures, the companies accuse 321 Studios of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which makes any attempt to reverse-engineer or otherwise circumvent copyright protection technologies illegal.

Nintendo's got a new survey and wants your feedback.

From time to time Nintendo updates their official website with a reader survey. The new survey is all about the Classic NES Series. Nintendo wants to know which NES games you want to relive on your Game Boy Advance. So head on over to the survey and give Nintendo a piece of your mind! Rock the vote!

Plus, another new trailer with loads of gameplay footage.

After the first Rainbow Six 3 GC trailer last week, Ubisoft has released another trailer to accompany the game's shipping announcement. This second trailer features much more gameplay footage.

Rainbow Six 3 Trailer #2 (20 MB, WMV format)

TOM CLANCY’S RAINBOW SIX® 3 SHIPS FOR THE NINTENDO GAMECUBE™

Anime fans in Japan, this is for you!

In Square Enix’s Japanese magazine, Monthly Gangan, Bandai has announced a new Fullmetal Alchamist for the GBA. Titled Fullmetal Alchemist: Omoide no Sonata, which translates to Fullmetal Alcemist: Sonata of Memories, the handheld game will focus on card RPG battles.

Although it is inspired... Read more...