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.

The annual Golden Joystick Awards have been presented, with the introduction of the gaming Personality of the Year award.

This year’s Golden Joystick Awards were held in London with the first presentation of the “Hall of Fame Industry Personality of the Year” going to Shigeru Miyamoto.

The company behind this annual UK based awards ceremony is Dennis Publishing, which publishes a number of games and lifestyles magazines and websites. Many of the awards are voted for by the readers of sponsoring websites and magazines.

Play Mario Kart and Kirby online after you gobble up tonight's turkeys.

The fine folks over at the Warp Pipe Project have just released Warp Pipe 0.3 Beta. That means the GameCube tunnelling program is available for all to download and enjoy.

You'll need a pretty mean broadband connection in order to get the most out of the program's LAN-faking capabilities (at... Read more...

Show up dressed as Mario to compete for a prize.

We told you about the Mario wax figure a while back, but now Nintendo is beginning to promote the upcoming debut. On December 9th, Mario will become the first video game character to be immortalized in wax at the famous Hollywood Wax Museum on Hollywood Boulevard.

We'd expect some of our more... Read more...

Beta release looms and Mario Kart plays it smooth.

The guys behind the Warp Pipe Project have updated their website with some news on the beta release in development. The program is currently running Mario Kart: Double Dash very smoothly across a distance of 250 miles, and optimization is continuing. You can download a movie of the current performance from their site at the link above.

Talk about a face lift.

Nintendo of America's official homepage has gotten a major upgrade over the weekend. You can take a gander at it by heading over to the usual web address, but here's a quick rundown of the new stuff.

The most obvious difference is the new white backdrop, which makes the site look really slick.... Read more...

Students at the University of Wisconsin can take a mini-course in game development from Nintendo-affiliated DigiPen Institute of Technology.

DigiPen is the stuff of dreams for many Nintendo fans. Located just down the street from Nintendo of America in Redmond, Washington, Digipen Institute of Technology was the first and is still the best school for game development. A large percentage of its graduates are hired directly into the nearby studios of Nintendo Software Technology, where Wave Race: Blue Storm and 1080: Avalanche were developed.

A lot of people all over the world are taking in the sights and sounds of Ivalice.

Square Enix recently released their Q1/Q2 fiscal year 2003 figures, and unsurprisingly, the company is picking up some serious cash with the release of titles like Final Fantasy XI Online and Tactics Advance.

Being a Nintendo site, we're only concerned with the Game Boy Advance title (though... Read more...

From the Dreamcast to the GameCube, a lot of gamers have been, er... phulfilling their phantasies.

With Phantasy Star Online III: C.A.R.D. Revolution due out in Japan next week, Sega thought it would be a good idea to remind everyone of the success that the previous games in the series had.

From the first game in the series for the Dreamcast, up until the beginning of this month, the total... Read more...

Play a little puzzle game to see some GBA screenshots for Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Golden Sun 2 and Advance Wars 2.

The last of the “thinking games” for Game Boy Advance from Nintendo this season is Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, available in Europe from 24th November. Golden Sun 2: The Lost Age and Advance Wars 2 were released earlier in the quarter.

To celebrate this, Nintendo UK have launched a “Brain... Read more...

Ooh! Head to the store! Now!

PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME(tm) SHIPS FOR GAMECUBE(tm) TODAY

November 18, 2003 - Ubisoft's highly-anticipated Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has officially shipped for all major consoles, with the Nintendo GameCube version heading for retail today. The PC version will follow... Read more...

I've never heard of this TV show.

Ubisoft Announces

"¡Mucha Lucha!(tm): Mascaritas of the Lost Code"

has shipped on the Game® Boy Advance

Get ready to enter the ring at the

Foremost World Renowned International School of Lucha

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - November 18, 2003 - "Honor, Family, Tradition...and... Read more...

Another great classic game collection, all on a shiny little disc.

MIDWAY BRINGS BACK THE OLD SCHOOL WITH MIDWAY(R) ARCADE TREASURES(TM)

Midway Arcade Treasures Delivers More Than 20 Classic Arcade Games Including

All-Time Favorites Like Spy Hunter(R), Defender(R), Gauntlet(R) and Joust(R)

CHICAGO -November 18, 2003 - Midway Games Inc. (NYSE:... Read more...

Kathy Griffin makes her selection. Check out the joke and her reasons inside.

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Comedian Kathy Griffin Announces Winning Knock-Knock Joke

Nov. 18, 2003, Mario and Luigi knocked, and the budding comedians of America answered. After sorting through more than 1,300 entries in their month-long knock-knock joke contest, Mario and Luigi have selected the funniest... Read more...