Capcom puts more chills into you than winter with new footage of the environments of Biohazard. Warning: Depends not included.

Capcom of Japan has released come new footage of the extremely creepy environments of Biohazard on the GameCube. The footage is available in three frightening flavors for all of you hungering for BRAINS!

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Finally, we've put up the SSBM mp3s up for download!

With many many thanks to Yorrike of hardcoregamers.com for hosting these files, and another big round of thanks to Neosabre of #planetchat for making these mp3s for us...

PGC is very happy to provide our readers with a batch of mp3s straight from the recently released (in Japan) Super Smash Bros. Melee!

Enjoy! :D

Nintendo plans to ring in the New Year with a manufacturing price drop to make handheld cartridges cheaper for publishers, and ultimately, consumers.

Although GBA games are selling rather well, many standard games are not selling as swiftly as expected, especially at the $40 price. Fortunately, it seems that third-party GBA games will start becoming a lot more affordable with the dawn of the New Year. IGNPocket has run a report citing numerous development and publisher sources, stating Nintendo intends to drop the average price of a Game Boy Advance cartridge to closer to Game Boy Color cart range, with prices mainly around (but rarely exceeding) $29.99. To accomplish this goal, Nintendo will drop the price of cartridge manufacturing for game publishers by approximately $2.00 a unit, starting January 1st, 2002. With publishers having to manufacture tens of thousands of units, the price cut will significantly reduce costs, and provide greater incentive for companies to release GBA games at a cheaper price. Cheaper GBA games should be appearing on store shelves early next year! Nintendo has not officially commented on the manufacturing price drop.

Shrek and Dinotopia to hit Nintendo's console, along with the return of...Robotech?

Today TDK Mediactive announced four new titles for GameCube, expected to arrive in the 4th Quarter of 2002. One game will be based on TDK's recently acquired Robotech license, the subject of a long and ultimately fruitless N64 saga that many of you are no doubt familiar with. Shrek is of course based on the ultra-popular animated film, but right now we don't know if the GameCube game will be a port of the recent Xbox launch game or something entirely new. It could also be related to the Shrek Racing game due for GBA in Q1 2002. Dinotopia is a beloved children's book about a world where dinosaurs and humans live together; Hallmark Entertainment is producing it into a mini-series to be aired in May '02. The fourth title from TDK is a mystery for now, but it too is currently scheduled for late next year. The press release notes that officially licensed GameCube developers Digital Illusions, Vicious Cycle,

Dengeki Magazine's Top 30 for Japan is out, and Super Smash Bros. DX (Melee to you and me) has done quite well.

According to Dengeki Magazine's sales rankings, Super Smash Bros. DX for GameCube was the #2 top-selling game in Japan for the week of Nov. 19-25. (It didn't even go on sale until the 21st.) The game sold over 358,000 copies according to Dengeki's figures, making it already the most popular GameCube title yet in Japan.

So what game could outsell the mighty Smash Bros.? Why, Enix's 3D remake of Dragon Quest IV, of course. It took the top slot with an impressive 638,000 units sold. DQIV has been the most highly anticipated game in Japan ever since it was announced, so the big numbers should come as no surprise.

The GameCube is the Fastest-selling New Video Game Console Ever! It's faster than the cheetah. It's true. Hotcakes...pfft. Hotcakes ain't got nothing on the GameCube. Full details within...

Booya! On with the press release shall we?

REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 28, 2001-- Ignoring strong economic headwinds, NINTENDO GAMECUBE(TM) has soared to record retail heights, becoming the fastest-selling home video game console of this generation.

Through its first week of availability, NINTENDO GAMECUBE sold more than one-half million systems to consumers, at a rate nearly twice that of Microsoft's Xbox, and at least 25 percent faster than the launch of Sony's Playstation 2 last year.

Nintendo's Super Smash Brothers Melee website is open for business, and has a few fun interactive features.

Get brawler profiles, check out the arenas, and play some Smash Mail with friends!

http://www.supersmashbrosmelee.com

Charlie's Angels is heading to a GameCube and GBA near you. Wipe that drool from your chin boy!

Ubi Soft Entertainment has signed up with Sony Pictures Consumer Products for the rights to the Charlie’s Angels license.

Ubi Soft will be bringing Charlie's Angels not only to the GameCube, and Game Boy Advance, but also the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and PC.

This license will allow Ubi Soft to make games about the television series, the movie released in 2000, and its sequel.

No street date has been set.

You think? Wait a sec...a platform that's easy to develop for developers and publishers like? They must be crazy.

We've already heard a million times that the GameCube hardware is easy to develop for. But what's bringing third parties back to Nintendo?

There's a great article on ie Magazine that includes thoughts from THQ, Ubisoft, Midway and more. Check it out by clicking here.

But it's for the love of the company, really! No really! Economics is a very strange thing.

Yamauchi is planning to gain some funds for GameCube and GameCube developers by selling off, and then repurchasing his 1.18 million shares of Nintendo stock. It's all about capital gains baby! Here's the skinny...

The president of video game giant Nintendo Co Ltd plans to use capital gains from the temporary sale of his 1.18 million Nintendo shares to set up a fund to promote game development firms, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said.

The newspaper said Hiroshi Yamauchi, who owns 10.84 percent of Nintendo's outstanding shares, plans to sell his entire stake in the company in after-hours trading on Tuesday.