Konami's keeping busy these days with their ESPN titles and others. What's in the pipeline for GameCube and GBA lovers?

January 2002

-ESPN Winter X Games Snowboarding -- GBA (Jan. 17)

-ESPN International Winter Sports -- GameCube, GBA (Jan. 29)

February 2002

-Yu Gi Oh! Dark Duel Stories -- Game Boy Color (early Feb.)

-Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars (formerly ZOE: Testament) -- GBA (Feb. 12)

March 2002

Well we new this last week, but Rogue Leader was the #2 selling game for the GameCube launch. Now we present...TEH PRESS RELEASE!

LUCASARTS' STAR WARS ROGUE SQUADRON II: ROGUE LEADER BLASTS AWAY

COMPETITION IN FIRST WEEK OF SALES

Star Wars Flight Action Game Debuts as Top Third-Party Title,

Second Overall for Nintendo GameCube

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- December 5, 2001 -- Star Wars Rogue Squadron

II: Rogue Leader, from LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC, blasted apart

As if SSB:M wasn't bringing enough happiness into your life already.

The fine folks at Penny Arcade have seen fit to tackle Nintendo's latest and greatest game with their usual wit and such.

Foul language warning! Check it out right here. While you're there, look back into their archives to see some other great stuff on the recent console launches and other popular games. Don't forget to visit the well written main page too.

Better than Star Wars Episode II trailer? It's true. Check out the next PGC blockbuster coming to a PC screen near you...

It's on it's way to the distributor as I type this. More information about our Japan video coming later this week, including pricing, and complete ordering details. Just in case you haven't seen it before, we've decided to re-post the trailer.

Mike Hrusecky has taken all 328572394825 hours of footage that I gave him, condensed it all into a SWEET two CD set, and put together a 5 minute trailer.

Toshihiro Nagoshi, the President of President of Amusement Vision will be delivering one of the keynote speeches at next years GDC! All the goods inside...

For the past couple of years Nintendo hasn't been all that involved with the annual Game Developers Conference. This year doesn't look that much different so far.

One of the things Nintendophiles should look forward to is the President of Amusement Vision, Toshihiro Nagoshi's keynote speech on level design. A look into the mind of the man who helped design Super Monkey Ball's levels should be interesting indeed.

Rare's wacky letters page once again provides a few nice little chunks of data, which is more than we can get from our "inside sources" there. Eat it up yo.

Let's dispense with the tomfoolery and get right to the quotes and analyses, yes? Yes.

"2) In Donkey Kong Racing will you also be able to ride other animals other than those shown in the opening demo such as walruses/penguins etc. in a snow world or a Triceratops/T-Rex in a Dino World?"

- ZMG

New Famitsu scores! Magical Vacation scores a platinum!

Taking a look over at Famitsu's website, we've found some interesting review scores for you.

GamePlatformScoresTotalAward

Magical VacationGBA9 9 8 935Platinum

Monster Farmer AdvanceGBA7 8 7 830Silver

Universal StudiosGCN5 5 5 520None

So, Universal Studios first official review... Read more...

A comment from Sega's Charles Bellfield leaves the issue up in the air, but it's interesting nonetheless.

According to GameCube-Europe, Sega's VP Charles Bellfield recently made an interesting statement in Europe's NGC Magazine (formerly N64 Magazine):

"We have a few gems to release on the Gamecube that we have not revealed yet, and we feel that the Shenmue series would find the format an interesting prospect."

According to Nintendo of America, the Gamecube is selling at an extremely high rate.

KA-CHING! NINTENDO GAMECUBE Selling Nonstop At Rate of 27 Per Minute

Retailers Report 600,000 Sold in First Two Weeks

REDMOND, Wash.--Dec. 3, 2001--Nintendo of America reported today

that, based on direct communications with its retailers, its new

NINTENDO GAMECUBE(TM) home video game console has reached sales of

Nintendo’s vice president of corporate affairs (and esteemed Jedi) Perrin Kaplan talks about launch, and all about GameCube. Drop that light saber and read on!

In an interview ie Magazine, Perrin Kaplan discusses the GameCube launch, the "launch delay", and all things Nintendo. Here's the just a slice of the pie. Click here to see the full interview!

ieMagazine: How much of a difference did it really make to delay the GameCube launch from November 5 to November 18 in terms of units available on day one?

It's true! The numbers don't lie. The Dengeki Console Game Ranking Top 50 has been updated. See where your favorites fall in the land of the rising sun.

Wario Land 4, Yugioh Duel Monsters 5 Expert 1, and Mario Kart Advance all outselling Luigi's Mansion? Smash Bros. takes the #2 slot? Take a gander at how well Nintendo titles did last week in Japan.

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It's true, our own Mike Sklens in now officially 18...and now he can legally vote, go to jail, and....the best part....E3 2002.

He is a mystery. He is Mike Sklens. One of the strange Planet Staffers that got a gig here at PGC for absolutely no reason. He stayed in Planet Chat way too long, and stalked us in Trivia. So we hired the poor sap.

Striker Obi is now 18! Look out ladies! He can now buy cigarettes! He smokes... Read more...

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!

(160x120)(2.3MB)

(320x240)(4.5MB)

(640x480)(8.6MB)

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!

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... Read more...

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... Read more...

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.

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... Read more...

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.