We visit the Konga Beach Road Trip as it arrives at London Zoo.

Today was the first day of a two-day stop at London Zoo for the Nintendo Konga Beach Tour Truck. The area near the children’s playground was cleared to make room for the activities and on entering participants are provided with a map that doubles as an entry card for the Donkey Konga tournament.

To enter the tournament first three “beach games” had to be completed. Pikmin Slingshot involves catapulting plush Pikmin through a basketball hoop, in Feed the Apes bananas are thrown through a board with holes for DK and Diddy’s mouths, and Mario Surf Run has people running down a slide whilst attached to a bungee cord.

Get your reg on, and join Nintendo's online summer camp.

Registration for Nintendo's annual online summer camp, Camp Hyrule, is now open to the public. In Camp Hyrule, Nintendo fans from all over can get together in their assigned cabins and talk about all things Nintendo. There are games to play all official Nintendo chats to go to. Registration is simple. First, you'll need a My Nintendo account on Nintendo's official website. After you've got one, or if you already do, just head on over to the Camp Hyrule website and register by entering your My Nintendo username and password.

And one of them is Snowboard Kids.

Atlus announced five Nintendo DS titles on its Japanese website today. Atlus praised the Nintendo DS for the flexibility two screens allows. As an example, the press release explains how a game can display a close up of a character while still showing the game field in their role playing game. Yes, that’s right, Atlus is working on a RPG for the Nintendo DS. Here are the five announced games with their tentative titles (machine translated) and genres.

More off-the-field football action is coming your way.

EA Announces Development of NFL STREET 2

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 28, 2004--Electronic Arts (Nasdaq:ERTS) announced today the development of NFL STREET 2, scheduled for release in early 2005 under the EA SPORTS BIG(TM) brand. The title is being developed by EA-Tiburon for the PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system, the Nintendo GameCube(TM) and Xbox(R) video game system from Microsoft. Since its release in January 2004, NFL STREET has sold more than 1.5 million copies and was the second best-selling NFL videogame for the 2003 football season behind Madden NFL 2004.

The company has a new, upgraded website with more features, including a new video of Second Sight.

Codemasters’ Website Gets New Look, More Content and New Video Box

New York – (July 27, 2004) – Codemasters, a leading global publisher of interactive entertainment, announced today a dramatic new look for its online community with several updates to its official Web site. Located at www.codemasters.com and tailored to individual international territories, the site is home to more one million registered members and garners over 20 million page impressions each month.

The latest exhibitors confirmed for European Games Network include Nintendo and Sega.

EUROPEAN GAMES NETWORK ANNOUNCES SEVENTEEN MORE EXHIBITORS

Sega, Nintendo and NCsoft confirm major presence at Europe’s new games business event; European Games Network, London ExCeL, 1st – 3rd September 2004

Friday 23 July 2004, London/... ELSPA, the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association, and European Games Network (EGN) organisers London EventCo today outlined details of 17 new exhibitors for EGN, including global games leaders Sega, Nintendo and NCsoft. At the same time ELSPA cautioned companies and individuals from across the UK, European and global games business "not to be misled by claims of other show organisers".

Nintendo’s official Spanish magazine solidly confirms what we’ve all expected, straight from the producer himself.

In a recent interview with Eiji Aonuma, producer of the Zelda series, Spanish magazine Club Nintendo revealed that Zelda: Four Swords is in the works for the upcoming handheld.

EA: The Zelda team is already planning Four Swords for the Nintendo DS. This game will have a lot of connectivity and feature a lot of interaction between both screens. It will be interesting.

He certainly hinted at this game at GDC in his presentation and interviews, but now it is official. Mr. Aonuma also discusses the new GameCube Zelda’s more realistic feel and graphical detail, as well as the possibilities of Link in a romantic relationship. Check out GC Advanced’s complete transcription.

All you need to do is get to San Diego in the next four days.

Thanks to a tip from one of our readers, we've found out that Nintendo has a booth this year at the San Diego Comic-Con. Convention goers will have the opportunity to play two huge upcoming Nintendo Gamecube titles, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Resident Evil 4. Along with these titles there are also some Game Boy Advance demos.

Other companies, including Konami, EA, Activision, and THQ also have booths at the cons with demos of their games.

The San Diego International Comic Convention runs from July 22nd to the 25th and is being held at the San Diego Convention Center. Entry costs $60 for a four day pass, or anywhere between $15 and $30 for a single day (depending on which day it is).

We've got six songs right off the Hit Song Parade, ready for your perusal.

We've carefully selected six of our favorite songs from Donkey Konga 2: Hit Song Parade. If you're still on the fence about importing, perhaps these songs will help you make up your mind. Remember, aside from the Zelda song, it's likely that none of these songs will make it to the US version of Donkey Konga. Enjoy!

J-Pop 5 - secret base ~ Kimi Ga Kureta Mono (2.08 MB, MP3 format)

The gaming convention for the public has a new location and will take place a month earlier.

DigitalLife Event to Feature GameOn NY, a Leading Videogame Show

NEW YORK , July 19, 2004 -- Ziff Davis Media announced today that its new consumer event, DigitalLife, has joined forces with GameOn ® NY to create a Gaming Pavilion at the event to capture the huge appetite consumers have for interactive entertainment. DigitalLife is a brand new four-day consumer event, which takes advantage of the holiday buying season, and will showcase the latest digital technology for the home, work and play. The event is scheduled to be held October 14-17, 2004 at the Jacob