Nintendo's E3 website reveals some more interesting info about F-Zero. Custom-bulit machines?

While we were all frothing over the concept of 8-player LAN Mario Kart and co-op Pikmin, many people failed to realize that Nintendo also revealed some new information about F-Zero AC and F-Zero GC.

Nintendo's F-Zero page tells us what we already know about the game, except for the last two sentences, which basically blow the lid off of the mystery AC-GC connection:

The British developer is working on a "AAA" first-person shooter for GameCube...and if you live in England, you may be able to test it.

Climax has posted a message on their website's main page asking for people to come playtest a secret GameCube shooter.

Do you want to be one of the first people to play a brand new AAA first person shooter for the Nintendo Game Cube, created by Europe's biggest independent developer?

No... Read more...

Nintendo's E3 website reveals a few things and clears up a couple of mysteries regarding the sequel to Pikmin.

Nintendo of America's new website for E3 2003 contains a Pikmin 2 feature, in which a few bits of are dropped.

The story has Captain Olimar returning to the Pikmin's world, this time voluntarily. His business is going under, and he needs to dig up treasures to pull out of his debt. Olimar has brought along an assistant, already seen in screenshots, to help save the company. This assistant is still not being called by name at NOA.

Spill the beans!

Nintendo of America has launched their E3 2K3 site - check in for details on F-ZERO, Mario Kart Double Dash, Pikmin 2, Advance Wars 2, Kirby Air Ride and Wario World, and stay tuned for the late-breaking stuff.

Pictures and everything! LAN play!

Nintendo has revealed details and images of Mario Kart on the GameCube, which will be called Mario Kart: Double Dash.

The images reveal 16 characters riding in pairs on their karts. One character drives, and the other throws weapons. Characters include Mario, Luigi, Peach, Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, Yoshi, Birdo, Wario, Waluigi, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Bowser, Bowser Jr., Koopa, and Paratroopa.

18 games across various systems are no longer, as a result of lower-than-expected sales.

Bloomberg's Japanese site recently revealed that Capcom has been taking a financial hit as of late, and as a result the company has cancelled 18 of the approximately 100 titles it has been working on at the time. While the specfic titles cancelled weren't revealed, it is known that the five Production Studio 4 games that Capcom had announced for the GameCube (including Resident Evil 4) are still in the works.

Factor 5's newest Star Wars game is packing tons of new gameplay features, including two-player cooperative missions.

Today, the June issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly is expected to arrive in the hands of a few lucky subscribers. We'll have more info on the issue's top story, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike, later on. However, EGM's online partner, Gamers.com, has posted the first info and screens already.

Find out how HAL's upcoming racer will play.

The latest issue of Famitsu reveals gameplay info about Kirby’s Air Ride for GameCube. The game is currently 70% complete and is scheduled for release in Japan this summer. Up to four players can compete in the racing game, developed by

HAL, Nintendo's oldest second-party.

Following the philosophy of Smash Brothers, the controls are extremely

That's right folks, I'm outta here, and this is my last post. Get the full story right here.

Attention Planet GameCube Community,

I’m officially announcing that today, April 18th,

2003, will be my last day with Planet GameCube.com.

While I’ve been running Planet GameCube for 4 years, it’s

been rather difficult to make a decent living.  I was recently offered a job to

Famitsu unveils this GameCube utility disc for Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire.

Pokemon Box for GameCube will be released on May 30 in Japan. The game

alone will retail at 2000 yen (around $16 US). There will also be a GBA

cable bundle for 2800 yen (around $22 US). Both packages will include a

special limited color of the Memory Card 59.

To play the game, players... Read more...

Fire Emblem and Giftpia have been reviewed!

In this week's Famitsu two of our more anticipated titles were reviewed. Skip Ltd's self-proclaimed "Alternative RPG", Giftpia netted a Gold Award with an overall score of 35 (8,9,9,9). The reviewers said that though initial impressions showed the game was for children, it offered nice puzzle elements,... Read more...

The first US concert to feature videogame music has been pushed back a year to make it bigger and better.

Last August we reported that as part of the E3 festivities, a music concert featuring videogame tunes was announced. As giddy as everyone around the gaming community was to hear about this, it turns out that the concert has been pushed back into 2004.

Here's a small clip from the article at Music4Games.net:

In another sign of the unstable Japanese economy, the two Japanese giants might look to pool their talent, and more importantly, their money.

As everyone knows, Sega has been on the auction block for who knows how long. Even after it announced a partnership with Sammy, developer of the Guilty Gear series (which wasn't thought to be a good move by investors), Sega is still not getting enough income to stay comfortably afloat in the ridiculously competitive Japanese game market.

Harrison and Miyamoto offer quotes in what turns out to be a fair assessment of what Nintendo needs to do.

The CNN Money article talks about what Nintendo has been doing and what it needs to do in order to reclaim the industry that it once ruled with an iron fist. The article contains some comments from George Harrison (ones that we've heard before), a comment about Mario from Miyamoto, and an interesting note about the Game Boy Player, due out this June.

Nintendo's upcoming GameCube demo disc will let you play Viewtiful Joe, among others.

A piece of promotional art from Nintendo of America has leaked onto the Internet, providing the first information about the upcoming GameCube demo disc.

The four games shown on the cover of the disc's box (which may be tentative) are Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut, Splinter Cell, Viewtiful Joe, and Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg. There may also be more demos and/or videos not shown on the cover.

Explore secret test areas in Wind Waker. Screenshots now available.

The fine folks over at CodeJunkies.com have created what they call their best cheat codes ever. Using Datel's Action Replay for GameCube, you can now unlock some secret test areas from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. These areas are most likely left over from earlier stages of development. They... Read more...

The SNES masterpiece has been completed in less than two hours.

According to Twin Galaxies, the world record officiating organization for gaming, someone has beaten The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past in under two hours. Michael Damiani blazed through the rather lengthy adventure in just 1:57.15 on April 9, 2003. The previous record was 2:07.10, and some Zelda experts thought it was impossible to break the two-hour mark.

Play the Game Boy Advance game on the beach, if you so desire.

WANADOO and PAM DEVELOPMENT present Pro Beach Soccer

Due out in May 2003 on XoxTM/PS2/GBA/PC - The first Beach Soccer video game designed especially for fans of football and arcade games.

Discover all the excitement of this new sport which is taking football's greatest stars by storm. This... Read more...

Konami's popular franchise recieves another handheld incarnation.

KONAMI SHIPS YU-GI-OH!(tm) WORLDWIDE EDITION: STAIRWAY TO THE DESTINED DUEL

FOR NINTENDO GAME BOY® ADVANCE

REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. - April 15, 2003 - Leading video game publisher Konami of America, Inc., a subsidiary of Konami Corporation (NYSE: KNM), announced today that Yu-Gi-Oh!(tm) Worldwide... Read more...

Our very talented artist turns the big 21!

You may not be familiar with the name Ryan Jones, as he doesn't post much. But he does work hard as our Staff Artist. Ryan designs those awesome Flash ads for Video Game Depot, as well as the image links to our top stories on the main page.

Ryan is enjoying the biggest birthday of all today,... Read more...