Could the lovely Lara Croft be raiding tombs on Dolphin?

After reporting about a dissapointing financial loss during the last quarter, Eidos chairman Ian Livingstone was confident that things are looking brighter for the company. He said that the Tomb Raider game shipping for Dreamcast along with their plans to release another Tomb Raider game (looks like they're milking this cash cow for all its worth) for PC and Playstation will contribute greatly to this. But! Here's where the news is, Eidos is planning on supporting Nintendo's Dolphin when its released, and with all their talk about Tomb Raider, Lara Croft's chances of appearing on the console seem pretty good.

Dolby labs technology is being incorporated into the Dolphin's audio capabilites...

We knew all along that the sound on the Dolphin is going to be something special, as Factor 5 and IGN64 have stated. Now Dolby Labs is actively looking for people to work on the next-generation consoles, here's the release:

"As part of Dolby Labs commitment to customer support in the consumer products market space we are looking for creative, knowledgeable, industry savvy leaders to manage our game developer relationships. This position will manage the Game Developer Relations group responsible for promoting Dolby Labs audio technology use in Game Console and PC platforms. This exciting opportunity will challenge you in managing worldwide Dolby Labs Game Developers relationships promoting use of Dolby Labs audio technology on existing and next generation PC and Game consoles. Platform focus will include Play Stations 2, Nintendo Dolphin, Sega Dream-cast, as well as PC platforms running under windows 98/2000CE operating systems. Primary tasks is to interface with outside the international game developer community and promote the use of Dolby Digital audio in interactive game content.

Nintendo invests in a new company.

"Separately, Nintendo and advertising agency Dentsu Inc. said

they will establish a joint venture to develop software for mobile

game machines. "

Sounds like another Mobile 21-ish company. We'll see when the news is more circulated. Now to sleep....

Nintendo is investing in a new company, but what could it be?

NCL purchased 3% of Lawson's Convenince Stores in Japan earlier today for 25.5 billion yen.

Nintendo is expected to elaborate on how this stake will further the firm's e-commerce ambitions later today, at 4 PM Japan time, when Nintendo is holding a press conference to announce a NEW COMAPNY!

Expect another update later tonight (or rather later this morning.)

Nintendo's "Mature" Card Series coming to America. Find out more inside...

Yes folks, Nintendo's more "mature" collect and trade GBC title, called "Cardhero," will indeed see a US launch. Meant to appease older players with its fast, furious premise, and evoking pure, undiluted strategy rather than simple overpowerment, Cardhero could very well equal Pokemon's success in the U.S, and with a completely different target audience than Pokemon, provided NOA treats it correctly. I think it's a pretty safe assumption that it will, though (look at Pokemon.)

Anyway, read the premise at NCL, and then notice the link to NOA:

Our Forums go Kaput!

Sorry folks, but the forums aren't working for some reason. I am looking into it right now. I didn't touch anything with it, so I am currently unsure of why it isn't working. I am extremely sorry for the interruption. We will get it back up as soon as we identify the problem.

Looks like the producer of Quake 3 is headed for Austin.

Thanks to Wes for sending this to me. I'm surprised I didn't find this myself, seeing is I am a total Quake CTF (Capture the Flag)freak. If you've ever played the original Quake Threewave CTF, and loved it, you must thank it's producer, David "Zoid" Kirsch. Well Zoid has basically been the man over at id taking care of the CTF end of things. Well Zoid is now leaving id, and going to Retro Studios!!! Hell yeah! This could be some serious good news for Retro! I hope they are putting together an adventure/or FPS of some sort! Check out Zoid's .plan update....

Kosta rocks da house with a new editorial!

Ever look at a monkey and say to yourself "Man I can't believe we used to look like that", or if your religious "Luckily God didn't make me one of those prototypes". Well if your answer is yes or no, PlanetN2000 and Kosta Andreadis proudly present The Theory Of N-evolution - Part 1 a look at Nintendo's prominent role in the evolution of videogames, not the monkey to man thing. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll reminise as your taken on a voyage that spans Nintendo's creative genius and tries to explain how brilliant they are at what they do. Part 1 takes you to the time when Nintendo began and the NES brought videogames to the mainstream.

Dolphin and AGB support, but of course!

In a recent Reuters report Konami expressed its plans for developing for the Playstation 2, and reaffirmed its deal with Nintendo to develop games for both the Game Boy Advance and the Dolphin. They also expressed that they still expect the systems to surface later this year in Japan, which means that Konami will have titles ready for launch if Nintendo sticks to the 2000 release date. With the news recently that publishers are expecting a late 2001 release for the Dolphin its good to see that a developer in Japan still has faith in the Big N.

Whole lot of jigglin' going on!

Confirmed Dolphin publishers Ubi-Soft have secured rights to Pamela Anderson Lee and the show in which she stars, VIP. Ubi-Soft now owns the rights to publish games based on Anderson Lee and the show VIP on all next-generation consoles. This includes, Microsoft's X-Box, PlayStation, PlayStation2, Nintendo 64, Dolphin, Game Boy Color, Dreamcast and PC. The games may hit stores as early as October according to sources. Hopefully we will see next-generation versions of the Pamela Anderson Lee home movies appearing on Dolphin, which I think would be a great way to show off the console's power.