Jim Henson strikes again in the gaming world!

The award-winning children's show Bear in the Big Blue House has fallen into Ubi Soft's hands, and the company plans to bring the franchise to Playstation and both of Nintendo's next-generation systems.

Yves Guillemot, president and CEO of Ubi Soft, said, "Children are some of the toughest critics... Read more...

Probably by the time I post this, they will be sold out. Electronic Boutique has now begun to sell pre-orders for GameCube bundles, and more!

EB World is now selling pre-order bundles! Click

here to get over there to pre-order your GameCube bundles!

Here's what they have set up right now...

Indigo Bundle - $399.99

GameCube System in Indigo

Luigi's Mansion

Wave Race: Blue Storm

Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader

Having just returned from the local EB, Justin's here to say that quantities are limited and people are interested.

We've been reading the news of pre-ordering going fast and furious in both the on-line and local retail sectors... believe the hype, people want a Cube. What does this mean to you? Well, if you want one on launch day either you should be hauling your butt to your local EB with the $100 for putting... Read more...

Better than magazine scans, too!

The official Bloody Roar site has lots of new Bloody Roar Extreme screens up, check 'em out. Look around the rest of the site too, there's character profiles and something about a comic.

The PS2 may be flooding the list, but Nintendo is hanging in there!

Though Famitsu doesn't include every single retailer in Japan, their sales rankings are usually quite accurate. Below is the latest list for the top 30 (Japanese names). For games with two numbers, the first is the sales for the week, followed by overall sales.

2. Super Robot Wars A (GBA) 161272

From software has posted some beautiful wallpaper from their forthcoming GameCube title, Rune.

Just follow this link to From Software's site. Although it is in Japanese, you can clearly see the links "1024" and "640" to the right of each image.

Thanks to a very observant reader, we have the first screen of Darth Vader's Tie Advance in action!

A couple of weeks ago, PGC reported in this story that Darth Vader would be a playable character in Rogue Leader. Now we have a screen!

The screen was taken from yesterday's Rogue Leader 2 trailer (so pardon the quality). At about a minute and fifteen seconds into the trailer, you can see a brief clip of footage demonstrating the playable Tie Advance.

Come check out the ultimate Rogue Leader movie.

With Rogue Leader having gone gold just a few days ago, Lucas Arts and Factor 5 have assembled a final trailor showing off clips of footage from almost every level in the game (including a lot of previously unseen footage). The resolution of the video could be higher, and the music (which is not in the actual game) is very weird for Star Wars, but the new footage is absolutely stunning.

What's this? A Sega RPG on a Nintendo console?

Well Sega just updated their homepage and it shows "Eternal Arcadia" slated for GameCube in the future.

Better known as "Skies of Arcadia" in English territories, it appears to only be a port. Still, it's nice to see that Sega isn't afraid of putting an RPG onto Gamecube.

The two giant companies will co-publish 16 GBA titles between now and 2003. New game announcements inside!

Today Sega announced that they will be co-publishing all their GBA titles with THQ until 2003. The agreement includes 16 Game Boy Advance games, ten of which are still unnamed. The confirmed titles are:

Sonic the Hedgehog Advance

House of the Dead Pinball

Columns Crown

Puyo Pop

Unnamed Major League Baseball Title

The ever-increasing stable of GBA colors gets another resident ...

Thanks to a tip from Jon Li, we now have yet another GBA color coming out soon. The new color comes out on Oct. 27 and can be ordered online (presumably for Japanese residents only).

It's a very slick Silvery color ... kind of like the one in the picture below.

OK, it's EXACTLY like that picture. Japanese Readers can find more information at Tsutaya Online.

Best Buy HAD GCN bundles available ...

Best Buy had Bundles of Jet Black GameCubes left for preorder, but due to an interesting flaw in their bundle system, you could remove all of the bundled items leaving just the GameCube.

we've just ordered one ourselves, in order to test it. If Best Buy backs out because of the "unbundling," we'll let everyone know. This might have been a great option for those that just needed the machine, or wanted to take a stand against bundles.

The two giant companies will co-publish 16 GBA titles between now and 2003. New game announcements inside! Updated with TYP's comments from the teleconference.

Today Sega announced that they will be co-publishing all their GBA titles with THQ until 2003. The agreement includes 16 Game Boy Advance games, ten of which are still unnamed. The confirmed titles are:

Sonic the Hedgehog Advance

House of the Dead Pinball

Columns Crown

Puyo Pop

Unnamed Major League Baseball Title

So you can't get enough Monkey Ball, eh? Well now you can play a shockwave minigame and enter to win the ultimate GameCube-Monkey combo!

Sega has posted a new shockwave minigame on its website as well as a link to a contest. Click the link for fun AND a chance to win a GameCube, 3 extra controllers and copy of Monkey Ball!

Could there be secret titles for GameCube revealed at the Tokyo Game Show? Louie thinks so and tries to figure out who might show what. There’s also another mystery to solve: Where is Billy’s GameCube?!

The Tokyo Game Show is about to begin, with Nintendo having a very minimal presence. Rumor has it that a secret game or two…(or maybe even three?) might be announced at the show.

A red carpet event, chock full of Hollywood celebrities hanging out at Nintendo's L.A. Cube Club...and PGC was there to soak it all in.

On the last night of the Gamer’s Summit, Nintendo held a star studded Hollywood premiere party at the L.A. Cube Club. The invitee list ranged from the likes of Fred Durst to Fred Savage. For one night, the Cube Club became a red carpet affair where many celebrities could have a drink and hors... Read more...

Nintendo of America and 4Kids Entertainment announce a new licensing agreement, chock full of exciting possibilities.

Yesterday, Nintendo of America announced an agreement with 4 Kids Entertainment that grants exclusive merchandising licensing agent for Nintendo game systems until 2005. Furthermore, the agreement also grants 4Kids exclusive rights to license live action or animated features for home video, TV or motion pictures. Here’s the press release with all the details!

The popular B-ball series will be dribbling on the small screen this holiday!

Slated for release this holiday season, Digital Creations' NBA Jam 2002 will grace the GameBoy Advance with fancy moves and tons of features, including every NBA team and multiple modes of play.

"Having sold more than six million units worldwide, NBA JAM is one of the most beloved and successful... Read more...

AV has a new Virtua Striker 3 movie ready for downloading!

Straight from the source, this short clip features a score, the consequential victory dance and the replay. The compression is hideous, but the clip suggests that the real deal has great detail. Make sure to watch the stands for some impressive spectator animation.

If you're having trouble viewing the movie, make sure you have an unzipping utility!

As of today, Rogue Leader is 100% complete and ready for mass reproduction. Read on for more details.

Lucas Arts sent out a press release today stating that Rogue Leader has been approved for manufacturing. This comes as great news for the hopelessly pessimistic who might have thought that the game could somehow miss its November 18th release date.

Additionally, Lucas Arts reveals that a special trailer of the game's footage will be available for download from their Rogue Leader page on Friday.