You could win your very own copy of Fire Emblem with a brand new Flame GBA SP to play it on!

Last week Planet Trivia winner Rimmer won himself a Flame GBA SP and Intelligent System's hot new strategy game, Fire Emblem. You could win too--that is, if you know your Nintendo music!

TYP will play songs from five games released on Nintendo systems--all you have to do is name the game in a PM to TYP! We'll also have a bonus trivia question for each game, so don't let all that preperation for last week go to waste!

If you're in the San Francisco area, attend a free seminar on how to get your break.

HOW TO BREAK INTO VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY CONFERENCE, RESUME WORKSHOP AND JOB FAIR JANUARY 31, 2004

New San Francisco Event from The Game Initiative, Producers of the Austin Game Conference

AUSTIN, Texas, December 11, 2003 - The Game Initiative today announced a new conference designed for... Read more...

Sega won't stop making console games, but their new parent company wants them to do more of what they do best.

In a recent interview with Bloomberg Japan, Sammy president Hajime Satomi talked about how his company could help Sega become profitable once again.

It's no secret that Sega is and always has been very profitable in the arcade business, and has been hit or miss on the console side of things. Because of this, Sammy would like Sega to concentrate more on the coin-op side of their operations, hopefully making more money in the process.

Massively multiplayer online titles are the way to crack the piracy problems, and unlock huge revenues in China according to the analysts.

VIDEO GAME REVENUES FOR MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMES MARKET IN

CHINA TO GROW BY 64% THROUGH 2006

OFFICIAL INTRODUCTION OF GAME CONSOLES FACES TOUGHER BATTLE IN CHINA DUE

TO SEVERE PIRACY RATE

San Francisco, CA - Dec. 10, 2003 - A recent study on the interactive games market in China by Niko Partners and International Development Group shows that the massively multiplayer online games (MMOG) market in

Is this a hint of more online games in 2004?

According to a story by Reuters news agency, AOL's new online gaming "ladder" service will be serving GameCube users next year. The service is currently launching for the PS2 and is available free to AOL subscribers, or for about twenty bucks per month for everyone else.

AOL Ladders is based... Read more...

See the unveiling take place in a short, free movie download.

Mario's very own wax figure was unveiled today at the Hollywood Wax Museum, and being the insane Nintendo geeks that we are, of course Planet GameCube was present at the event. Steven "WindyMan" Rodriguez was on hand to capture the ceremony in picture. You can see his digital photos in the event profile, but here's a brief video clip of the unveiling ceremony.

Four Swords, Tetra's Trackers, and the new Shadow Battle are one GameCube game now!

Nintendo has revealed that Four Swords, Tetra's Trackers and the new Shadow Battle will be available as one GameCube game. There's new details on the gameplay, too. Each mode now has single-player versions!

Four Swords is renamed to Hyrule Adventure. The GBA can still be used to display the action, but players without GBAs can join in on on-screen windows, too. It has a storyline too, for single-player adventuring.

He gets older and taller every year.

Though it's now two days late (for shame!), we at PGC wanted to wish a very Happy Birthday to Daniel Bloodworth. Dan is our Content Editor, in charge of editing all the articles you see posted on the site everyday. He does a ton of other stuff as well, everything from helping with PR to moderating... Read more...

It's only in the Japanese version so far, but a bug's a bug. UPDATE: North American copies will be affected too.

Japanese gamers who have had the GBA Pokémon games since their launch last year are just now starting to find a bug that is screwing with how the game works.

Apparently, the internal clocks in the cartridges are on the fritz, and they are affecting time-lapse and other time-sensitive events... Read more...

Sega thinks one of the Simpsons games is a bit too much like Crazy Taxi, and is suing.

Simpsons Road Rage is a product of developer Radical Games, and publishers Fox Interactive (now Vivendi) and Electronic Arts. Sega is taking all these parties to court for infringing on a patent that it holds for Crazy Taxi.

Sega says that the year-old Road Rage game was designed to "deliberately... Read more...

Win a Flame Game Boy Advance SP and a copy of Fire Emblem this week... and next week! Click for all the details.

Tonight in our chatroom, as we do every Friday here at Planet GameCube, we're holding our weekly Trivia event. This week it's Planet Trivia, and next time we'll play Radio Trivia.

Both of these games will have a sweet prize go to our winners: A Flame-colored Game Boy Advance SP and a copy of Fire Emblem! All you have to do to score this amazing prize is to be the winner in either one of our Trivia games.

Two weeks until the Japanese release! Optimus Prime and Solid Snake, together at last!?

DreamMix TV World Fighters, a new mascot fighting game featuring the unlikely union of Konami, Hudson and Takara characters, is coming out on the 18th of this month in Japan. The official Japanese site features character profiles, screenshots, wallpapers and a whole lot of Japanese text (it's still easy to navigate, though).

The ex-Nintendo president looks to fund a foundation that likes poetry and playing cards.

The Ogura Hyakunin Isshu Project is a Japanese foundation that specializes in promoting ancient poetry from the country. It just so happens that the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, as it's called, also is the basis of a card game.

Hiroshi Yamauchi will soon become the president of the foundation, and... Read more...

See the avalanche in a free movie download.

1080: Avalanche is heading to stores this week, and we've got a FREE movie of the final version to whet your appetite. This movie shows a complete run on the avalanche stage. It could be considered a SPOILER, so don't download the movie if you want it to be a surprise.

This particular movie... Read more...

Mike Sklens turns the big 2-0!

You know him as a legendary trivia player and one of our most prolific reviewers. We know him as the tall one with scary hair. Known to many and loved by all, Mike Sklens, a.k.a. Striker Obi, has turned twenty years old today. From all of us at Planet GameCube, Happy Birthday Mike!

Boys want Game Boys, girls want Barbie. So what else is new?

Kids Tell Santa They Want Game Boy Advance and Barbie For Christmas

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2003--Game Boy Advance and Barbie of Swan Lake will be filling Santa's sack this holiday season as they are among the most requested toys children asked for when they visited the Jolly Old Elf... Read more...

The long-awaited Virtua Fighter Quest is finally announced in Japan. Pics and info!

Sega has just revealed the first information and screenshots of its long-awaited Virtua Fighter RPG game. Virtua Fighter: Cyber Generation is the official Japanese name, though it could be different in other regions. It's an action-RPG (or as I like to call it, "adventure") based on the Virtua Fighter series. The game will be released on both GameCube and PS2.