In September, Castlevania producer IGA spoke about the next Castlevania game, which now seems to be headed to GameCube. Find out what he had to say about it.

Castlevania producer Koji Igarashi, who prefers to go by IGA lately, was the Symphony of the Night producer and the director of Castlevania Chronicles. He is currently heading up a team of Castlevania veterans to produce a new Castlevania game that will appear on next-gen systems, including GameCube.... Read more...

We've received word that Nintendo has allowed stores to sell the GCN as soon as it arrives! PROOF!

A new and much more convincing picture to be had now... not just a receipt (no, the other one wasn't just from a pre-oder, sheesh) but the goods it bought as well. We have further confirmed, with the store, that this was no mistake.

In even more news this morning we've received a... Read more...

Need we say more? Well, OK, ya talked us into it… UPDATED!

Following the success of Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (COTM) for GBA, Konami made no secret of its plans for another Castlevania title. Although there have been few official details about the sequel, series producer Koji Igarashi (aka IGA) has been confirmed to be heading up a team composed of veterans of Symphony of the Night (SOTN) and Akumajo Dracula X: Rondo of Blood, which appeared only in Japan for the PC Engine.

Love football? Getting Madden 2002? You may want to pick up an extra memory card. Details inside!

I picked up Madden 2002 today, and here's the memory card requirements.

All Game Modes: 59 blocks

Rosters: 40 blocks

User Profile: 3 blocks

Settings: 2 blocks

Create a Team: 1 block

Basically what this means, is if you want to have all the options saved, and do a whole season with... Read more...

Reports are in that Madden 2002 is on store shelves. Modders rejoice!

Reports have come in across the country that Madden 2002 from EA Sports is now officially on some store shelves. It's not out everywhere, so make sure you call stores before heading out.

Planet GameCube will have impressions coming very very shortly.

CBS Marketwatch has an excellent article up about the future of the game industry including a video interview with PETERMAIN.

In a world where mainstream coverage for the gaming industry is usually downright crappy, CBS Marketwatch has shown us that they can know what they are talking about. This new article talks about the future of the industry and in particular what role online gaming will play in this generation. And to top it off they even scored interviews with 3 head honchos from Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo.

That's five for five.

Yet another GameCube title in Japan has gotten Famitsu gold. I hope this trend continues (although we'd certainly like to see platinums as well). FIFA 2002 - Road to the World Cup is slated to hit American shores mere days after the GameCube launch (about November 20th).

Check out Billy's Space World impressions of the game.

Courtesy of Namco's Official (USA) Site, you can now see Soul Calibur 2 in motion for the first time since Spaceworld!

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v. drooled, drool·ing, drools

v. intr.

1. To let saliva run from the mouth; drivel.

2. Soul Calibur 2.

3. Informal. To make an extravagant show of appreciation or desire.

4. Informal. To talk nonsense.

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OH. MY. GOD. GA = TEH BESTAST.

Thanks to Famitsu there's some details on the upcoming GBA LUNAR title. Evidently in development under the name of "LUNAR: Legend" the game is being worked on and won't be a mere port.

Here's an excerpt of what The GIA had to say:

Graphically, the game is not just a simple port of the enhanced... Read more...

Nintendo of America has announced the promotion of four indviduals to vice president positions.

Four of Nintendo’s finest were promoted to vice president positions. The four individuals are Leon Feuerberg, Ken Frost, Rob Thompson and Randy Peretzman who combined possess more than 60 years of experience at Nintendo of America. Below are pictures of the four new vice presidents, details of their experience and their new positions. Congratulations guys!

The new Bond game by EA will be sneaking it's way on to the GameCube.

According to IGN's inside sources at EA, the company is planning to release their new James Bond game, Agent Under Fire on the Nintendo GameCube. The game should be arriving on the little purple wonder some time in February 2002. It will most likely be a straight port of the PS2 version.

Visit Luigi's Mansion from the comfort of your computer.

Nintendo has launched their official site for Luigi's Mansion. The site has some info about the game, and is highly interactive. There is a flash game where you have to play a game of pool with only a vacuum cleaner. Also, check out the "books" you can read, one of them has a nice little surprise for your desktop.

The brand-new developer/publisher has two GameCube and several GBA titles on the way, many of them handheld ports of Electronic Arts games.

Thanks to our friends at AdvanceGB, we now have confirmation that Destination Software, Inc. plans to release a huge number of titles for Nintendo systems in 2002...not bad for a company that was only born this year.

The new GameCube titles are:

Snood - Q3 2002

Road Rash: Jailbreak - Q3 2002

Foo Katan and his gang bring real-time strategy to Game Boy Advance with their sequel to Warlocked.

According to IGNpocket, Wizards is the GBA sequel to Warlocked on Game Boy Color, one of the first and only handheld real-time strategy games ever released. The genre looks to be much better represented on GBA (with Napoleon and Mech Platoon, among others), and Bits Studios is back to claim a piece of that pie.

One of the largest North American publishers is obtaining a new internal developer.

THQ, the publisher responsible for many popular wrestling and Nickelodeon-based games, as well as distribution of Sega's GBA titles over the next two years, will soon acquire Rainbow Studios as an internal developer. Rainbow Studios is known for Motocross Madness on PC and ATV Offroad Fury for PS2. They are currently working on Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX and Star Wars Racer II: Racer Revenge for other publishers. Here's the skinny from THQ:

We love Game Arts. Game Arts loves us. MORE LUNAR LOVE!

Game Arts is porting Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete to the GBA. It appears to be a port of the PSX/Saturn remake. Obviously there's going to be some things cut. Here's what The GIA had to say:

GameArts recently announced that it would be porting its popular title Lunar: Silver Star Story... Read more...

The mod to switch between JPN and USA GameCube software is found! MORE Details inside.

Big thanks go out to Raymond Souza ... also known as PsyCHo-RaGe, for the first details on the GameCube import mod. And big thanks to our source at Nintendo who let us know that this is indeed the real deal. (Razzes to Billy for refusing to do it to his Japanese GCN. Thhhhppppttt ...)

Raymond... Read more...

The developer of Dave Mirra BMX is currently working on an "agressive in-line skating" game for all next-gen consoles.

Today Acclaim Max Sports, a division of Acclaim Entertainment, announced Chris Edwards Agressive In-Line for all next-gen consoles. The game is being developed by Z-Axis, the company responsible for the highly popular Dave Mirra BMX and its sequel on PlayStation 2. (A GameCube version of Dave Mirra... Read more...

The awesome game columnist is back, and this time he has reviews on all 3 consoles.

If you've been reading PGC for any amount of time, you probably know who Steven Kent is. Kent is a writer for MSNBC.com who covers video games. He's extremely good at it too. His articles are always insightful and really cover the industry well, as opposed to most main-stream media. He has returned... Read more...

Two exciting handheld games from Lost Boys have received a publisher for two of its GBA games. Details within.

Lost Boys Games has just announced that Xicat will publish two of its titles – Black Belt Challenge and Invader. These games may not sound too familiar, but it’s because that they have both been renamed. Black Belt Challenge was formerly known as Fire-Eaters while Invader used to be known as Kaisertal. Both games are scheduled for a 2002 release for Europe.