Yes, that goofy Canadian bastard is now of legal age.

Mike Orlando turned 18 today. Mike is our Canadian correspondent and probably the tenth guy who has joined our staff that has the name “Mike.” Now that he is 18, we can actually get him into E3 ourselves instead of having him enlist in IGN’s rent-a-journalist program. Although Mike is usually... Read more...

Back at E3, it was announced Nov. 5th was the GameCube launch date. The upside is that we are now into the final drag!

As some of you probably well know, today was the day that GameCube was supposed to hit stores across North America. E3 2001 gave birth to a date, a launch date for GameCube which was specifically known as November 5th... At Nintendo’s pre-show press conference, Peter Main was asked if they were joking about this date and he said no. It seemed to be set in stone.

Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami has revealed his next project.

Capcom mastermind Shinji Mikami has been working on a top secret GameCube project since September. The game is an action-adventure title. It has quite the odd title though. It is called CAS Ra. Work on the title is said to be coming along quite well.

Many people who ordered Rogue Leader from Lucasarts.com have gotten the game in today. Now if only they had GameCubes...

Lucas Arts has begun shipping Rogue Leader pre-orders that were placed on their website. Many lucky (?) gamers have gotten the game today and are busy reading the instruction booklet and marveling at the tiny GameCube optical disc. Oh the torture!

Some of the more attentive ones have spotted... Read more...

Nintendo has begun advertising individual games. Read on to find out how the new commercials relate to the previous ones.

Nintendo has kicked off the next phase of their TV ad campaign by playing game specific ads for Luigi's Mansion and Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II (and possibly other games). We'll post links to movies of the commercials as soon as we can, but for now you can read the following description of the Luigi's Mansion commercial as spotted by PGC staff writer David Trammell.

Analysts estimate Microsoft losing $1 Billion before breaking even ...

A typically bad mainstream press article about gaming again ...

C|Net's News.com is saying that analysts estimate Microsoft to lose at least a billion dollars before managing to break even on X-Box, something that won't happen until 2004.

However, the numbers in the article are rough, and... Read more...

Hell yeah! Is it wrong? Naw! All is fair in love, war, and video games....

According to our good friends from Cloudchaser, the Panasonic Cube Club vehicles stopped by the Xbox Unleashed event over the weekend. Guerilla tactics rule! Here's the juice...

As a couple of our editors were straggling out of the New York City Xbox Unleashed event, they witnessed Nintendo... Read more...

That's what Nintendo is screaming today. Nintendo's looking to be rather profitable this year.

Due to cheaper GBA parts prices, Nintendo has announced that they will be seeing extended profits for the half year that ended in September. Read on....

TOKYO, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Japan's Nintendo Co Ltd said on Monday that falling prices for key components in its Game Boy Advance game console would boost its profits for the half year that ended in September.

Watch out, Billy! Two more colors are being made for Japan, though they aren't exactly new...

In order to provide all (Japanese) gamers with a color co-ordinated video game network, Spice Orange and Jet Black will be added to the GBA's already huge list of colors on December 14th.

If any Japanese colors are going to make it overseas, Jet Black will almost definately be among them.

Billy calls in from the Minneapolis Cube Club with info on the Darth Vader secret level in Rogue Leader ...

Billy took time to call and let us all know that he's seen the Darth Vader secret level of Rogue Leader first hand at the Minneapolis Cube Club.

It's pretty much like the Death Star Trench Run ... except from the other end. You're flying in Darth's Tie Advanced prototype, with control over wingmen.

Panasonic announced today that there are no plans to release its DVD player/GameCube hybrid in North America.

It has long been suspected that the GameCube/DVD hybrid, now known as “Q,” was a Japan-only product. These suspicions were confirmed today in a statement made by a Panasonic spokesperson, reports Reuters.

``It's simply a Japan device. ... Right now there are absolutely no plans for U.S. marketing,'' said Kurt Praschak, a Panasonic spokesman

Cube kiosks are hitting more stores across North America and we’ve got pictures!

Since breaking word that GameCube kiosks are finally beginning to appear, we’ve received several more kiosk-encounters from readers. Almost everyone who wrote in remarked how great it is to finally be able to play the GameCube. Thanks to Blinky's "R" Us for the pictures!

The craziest, most dedicated GameCube fans have shown just how far they’ll go to win a GameCube… And the winners have been selected.

Nintendo’s GameCube launch contest “What would YOU do for a Nintendo GameCube” has come to a close, with the five finalists all completing their wacky act of Nintendo devotion to walk away with a Nintendo GameCube early. Grand prize winner was Corey Olcsvary, who shaved his head, wore a leaf,... Read more...

We're putting the final touches on the PGC Spaceworld/Launch video, and we wanted to give you a little taste of what we’ve cooked up...

Just as our E3 video will be reaching your hands, we’re taking the wraps off our new Japan video. There are no price details, and we aren’t taking pre-orders. This time we’re not announcing jack until the video is complete, and ready to ship. We’ve learned a lot from our production woes of the E3 video, and we’re doing things a lot differently this time around.

There are more than one commercial for Super Smash Bros Melee in Japan. Check them all out! Update: Links fixed!

It appears that Nintendo has made four commercials for Super Smash Bros Melee (or Super Smash Bros DX as it's called over there) in Japan. Well, it's really kind of just 2 commercials. But each one has a 15 and a 30 second version. Japanese Nintendo site N-Styles has put them all up. Since we can't link directly to their article, here are the links to the four commercials. They are in .zip format so you will need WinZip to open them.

The Eternal Darkness Films site has been updated with a trailer to get your blood pumping.

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is one of the most highly anticipated games on the GameCube. The Eternal Darkness Films website now has a teaser trailer up for you to watch. It doesn't contain any gameplay. It looks more like a commercial for a game, than a movie showing it off. The commercial... Read more...

More Mailbag goodness is on its way, so get your last minute questions in to mailbag@planetgamecube.com!

More Mailbag goodness is on its way, so get your last minute questions in to mailbag@planetgamecube.com!

The Japanese commercial for Super Smash Bros. Melee is online and PGC has it!

The Japanese commercial for Super Smash Brothers Melee has just surfaced and we’ve provided it here for your viewing pleasure. Highlights of the commercial are a glimpse at the Star Fox level which shows the Great Fox flying towards the screen and the first-ever look at Shiek transforming into... Read more...

C|Net conducts an interview with Tom Byron of LucasArts ...

There's a great piece (for traditional media) about GameCube and it's "system seller", Rogue Leader.

They specifically address the technology that adds movie footage along with real-time rendered graphics. They also show their different GameCube units ... the Purple retail unit, the Teal "debug" unit, and a heretofore unseen RED GameCube that has the drive removed and a cartidge-like system in place.

Mega Man Battle Network and Street Fighter II have arrived on Game Boy Advance.

Two of Capcom’s biggest franchises have finally arrived for the Game Boy Advance in the form of Mega Man Battle Network and Street Fighter II Turbo Revival. Mega Man is an all-new take on the classic title while SFII is a handheld version of one of the biggest fighting games of all time. Capcom issued this release yesterday: