George Harrison is getting a shiny new suit! More Nintendo moves? Look like George has got a lot of work to do!

FGN Online reported this morning that George Harrison has been promoted from vice president, marketing and corporate communications, to senior vice president, marketing and corporate communications. Don't you know what that is? We don't really either. Break it down FGN...

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Lawyers for Nintendo and several other gaming companies have asked that a lawsuit partially blaming them for the Columbine massacre be dismissed.

You may remember that families of Columbine victims issued a lawsuit against videogame companies some time ago. The companies involved in the lawsuit included Acclaim, Activision, Capcom, Eidos, Infogrames, Interplay, Nintendo, Sony, and Square. Interestingly, Square has since been dropped from the suit for unknown reasons.

The Worms franchise is heading to the Game Boy Advance and GameCube!

FGN dropped the bomb this morning about UBI Soft bringing the next version of Worms to the GBA and GC in the form of Worms Blast.

Worms Blast is about to be unleashed on PlayStation 2, PC, Game Boy Advance and Gamecube. The title will be the first game to appear using 3D characters, play in a real-time environment and see the series start to move into new genre's. Worms Blast is to be released in fall 2001.

Rumors roar across the net in Raven Blade’s wake. Louie discusses his near death by democracy & looks some new developments on Retro too. For the 50% of you who like the lil’ kitty bastard: LOUIE’S RETRO X-POSE!

Raven Blade has been cancelled by Nintendo. All resources are being dedicated to Metroid Prime.

Retro Studios is now under major restructuring from Nintendo. Full details are hazy, though many employees are gone, including possibly Retro President, Jeff Spangenberg.

A game which is in no way related to the hit Playstation 2 title is being created for the Game Boy Advance.

There are 2 "Oni" games in existance. One was created by Bungie, and was a huge PS2 hit. Another is an adventure game that was out in Japan and created by a different company. A company called Pandora Box is creating an Oni game based on the latter series for the Game Boy Advance. Apparently, Pandora... Read more...

The Magic Box has a list of Japanese sales, and GBA is still doing fine!

This list is actually dated at July 2nd-8th, but it's still nice to see what has sold in Japan.

1: Yugioh Duel Monsters 5: Expert I

221,654 units sold (new)

3: Breath of Fire

22,236l units sold (new)

10: Tactics Orge Gaiden: The Knight of Lodis

13,466 units sold (200,741 Total)

Matsushita has announced how much the DVD/GC hybrid will cost! Not too shabby, if you don't mind waiting a while.

Matsushita announced that the price point for the Panasonic DVD/GC combo hybrid will cost $325. We reported after E3 that the price should be around $315, so that's pretty respective.

Japanese release of the system will be in November, but US release will not be until sometime after March 2002.

SegaNet is shutting it's doors as an ISP. But don't worry, they will continue to offer internet gaming.

I received an email from SegaNet today, as I am a SegaNet user. SegaNet will soon no longer be an ISP. They are shutting down their dial-up access. However, they will still offer internet gaming. Their network will stay in tact and games will still be playable over SegaNet.

What does this mean... Read more...

One of the GameCube's first announced RPGs is no more, and Retro Studios is now totally focused on Metroid Prime.

The online gaming community is already abuzz about the newest Retro layoffs and yet another game cancellation. The news was first reported by IGNcube this morning. We contacted Retro Studios and Nintendo of America ourselves to confirm the report and find out what we could. Nintendo did not (and... Read more...

The gaming journalist has returned with a new article. This one is about the power of the new consoles.

If you've read any of Steven Kent's articles before you'll know he offers a fantastic perspective on the video game world. His new article is about the 3 consoles an the power they possess. And how it is totally pointless to try and compare them because they are completely different. Here's an excerpt:

Some people just have too much free time.

French site Consoles-Portables has discovered a man who had a vision. Sandro Tison wanted to play his GBA games on a WonderSwan Color. So, he decided that he was going to. Sando has taken the guts of the GBA and put them inside the case of a WonderSwan Color. Keep in mind he's not emulating. In fact,... Read more...

Only in Japan! But I think this is a pretty good sign that we'll start seeing some import prices for GameCube really soon...

If you're one of the people who's planning on importing a GameCube out there, pre-orders are being taken by a store in Japan called Dreamcast Direct. Unless you can read Japanese, ordering this game will be near to impossible. Plus, it's hard to tell if they ship overseas.

The price for Super Monkey Ball is slayed for 5800 yen, or about 47 US dollars. Not too shabby eh? Thanks to GC-Inside for the tip!

We've got a list of some GBA titles that could be making an appearance at Space World 2001!

Game Boy Advance will be making a return visit to Space World 2001. There should be a lot more playable games than last year, even though the system will probably be over shadowed by the GameCube. With a tenative lineup like this, GBA fans will not be disappointed....

Game Boy Music

Yakuman Advance

In an interview with Nintensity, Crawfish Interactive discusses Driven, Ecks vs. Sever, and GBA development in general.

The guys at Nintensity sat down for a little chat with Mike Merren, Director of Development at Crawfish Interactive. Crawfish was recently announced as the developer of the upcoming Street Fighter Alpha 3 for Game Boy Advance. They're also working on Driven, a racing game based on the summer movie, and Ecks vs. Sever, a first-person shooter based on the upcoming film of the same name. Here's an excerpt from the interview:

Yes, it's true. According to our sources his replacement is coming from the great white north! Noooo! Don’t go PETERMAINCO! All the sad details within...UPDATED! Official statements!

Our people on the inside have given us the word that Peter Main will be stepping down from his position as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Nintendo of America effective Jan. 31, 2002. Who can replace the infamous Peter Main? Our source tells us that Nintendo of Canada's President Peter McDougall will be the successor.

What's this? Nintendo wants to know players' views on important issues?

In the August edition (Volume 147) of Nintendo Power, the Player's Poll Contest asks two very interesting questions suggesting that Nintendo is organizing its GCN plans. Thanks to Canadian "Strange D. Nintendophile," who got his copy freakishly early, we have them for all to see!

Question I. states:

News has surfaced that may point to a North American release of Doshin the Giant.

After posting the Doshin news last night I received an email from a reader. Nintendo of America has registered www.doshin.org (it's just a no page error right now). The site was registered back in April. Why would Nintendo of America go ahead and registered a Doshin site, especially so far in advance? This points to a possible release of the game here in North America. PGC will stay on top of this story. Thanks to Mollie for the scoop!

Hells yeah! If you've pre-ordered an import already, and payed top dollar for shippin', you could be tossing red shells by Friday!

After a couple searches to some regular import stores today, I noticed some stores will have Mario Kart Advance in stock as early as tomorrow!

Mario Kart Advance is set to release in Japan on Saturday, but it looks like distributors have been sending them out early. If you're dying to get your hands on Mario Kart for your GBA, you can pick up the import game for around 45-50 bucks (without shipping).

Looks like Space World's events are back to spanning over 4 days instead of 3! If you're going, make sure you are there a day early! I don't think you want to miss this!

Nintendo has announced that on Thursday August 23, there will be a press conference held in Tokyo at the Tokyo International Exhibition Center, or better known as "Tokyo Big Sight". It's tentatively scheduled for early afternoon.

Click here to find out more about the venue and location!

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Get the scoop on all of Saffire's upcoming GameCube and GBA games, including info on some that will link up the two systems!

Today we contacted Saffire, developer of StarCraft: Brood War (PC) and Rainbow Six (N64), for an update on what they're working on for Nintendo's two systems. Here's a list of their projects and everything we know about them:

Lego Bionicle for GBA - The game has been finished for a while and... Read more...