Truckloads of Box Art for you for most of the GBA Japanese launch titles! The GBA launches in one week don't 'cha know?

Box Art baby! We got it all...with a little help from our good friends from Core Magazine. Gotta check 'em all!

I guess I'm a sucker for beautiful Japanese box art.

Here's what's updated...

Top Gear GT

Dodgeball Fighters

Wai Wai Racing

ChuChu Rocket

Golf Master

Napoleon

Mario Advance

Fight fight fight! Nintendo and WIPO fight for their right to...uh...GameCube.

"Timmy" buys GameCube.com. Nintendo crushes "Timmy". End of story. Well pretty much. Seems "Timmy" tried to sell the domain for $18,000. That's it? Timmy is a stupid bastard. Here's the juice.

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has sided with Nintendo in an ongoing lawsuit... Read more...

We already knew this. And Europe ain't happy. 2002?! Oh the agony. Here's the confirmation of the bad news.

According to Nintendo of Europe's David Gosen, he revealed in an official statement that Europe wouldn't recieve GameCube until spring of 2002.

Mario might just be talking in his latest game.

According to Tendo Box (two words), Mario Advance will feature voice samples. It's possible because of the GBA's far superior sound system. Also, according to TB, they Shy Guys have been reprogrammed to do their back flips like they did in Yoshi's Island.

Another .com downturn, as Future Publishing axes 75% of it's Daily Radar UK staff. Rick Powers has the story ...

Games are a luxury, an entertainment if you will, and so are gaming websites. Gaming websites are also very easy to run. So easy, in fact, that Future Publishing thinks that they can do it with TWO people instead of ten (if The Register's numbers can be believed). With the internet slowdown affecting even our folks in the United Kingdom, it seems that we'll see these sorts of stories a lot over the next few months.

Well you should! Want to make games for the GameCube? They've got the tools!

I ain't no developer...but Renderware's announcing their tools for building games for the GameCube (and other systems). Looks like a great tool to port one game to many systems. Here's the press release for you...

CRITERION SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES RENDERWARE PLATFORM

Audio and physics are the latest additions to the leading middleware

Yesterday, Sony announced some partnerships and plans for the future. Interestingly enough, one of the partners is an entity behind the GameCube.

Word of Sony's "Playstation 3" has been trickling out bit-by-bit, leaving little doubt that Sony is already planning ahead for the next-generation already. Instead of doing everything itself, Sony is turning to some interesting partners in its plans.

Instead of doing everything itself, Sony... Read more...

So far...not too many. But if you are an import fanatic, you may want to check this list out!

The fine peeps at the Magic Box have listed the Japanese Game Boy list to which games will have problems on the Game Boy Advance. Most shouldn't worry about it seeing is this list is for Japanese games.

Supposedly the games will still play on GBA, but there will be sound glitches.

-Densha de Go

The venerable and much-beloved NN shuts its doors. Not a joke or prank this time.

NintendoNation webmaster Don Allen announced in his forums today that his site is dead. You can find the full explanation at http://www.geocities.com/nncubed_com

Fans of the site have already begun mourning their loss. Here are just a handful of the tearful goodbyes:

"Oh f*** no more eclusiv game nuz!!!1!"

Maybe not, but Microsoft is definitely sticking its head where it doesn't belong...your pocket. And Billy Gates seems to be targeting GBA while he's at it.

FGN Online reports that Microsoft and Qualcomm will team up with software giant Versaly (who?) to make a mobile phone that runs on the Pocket PC operating system and plays full-color games...yeah. The phone is codenamed "Stinger" and supposedly boasts a bigger screen and faster CPU than GBA. It also connects to the Internet and has a built-in web browser. The system will be available in pilot form starting in May.

Returning so soon just to annoy Rick Powers, Louie the "Rumor Cat" has his take on the next Smash Bros. game...

HAL is working on a Smash Bros. Sequel for Nintendo GameCube. It is also making a Game Boy Advance version of the game.

It seems that even more Japanese analysts are going on record to voice doubts about Nintendo's NGC & GBA systems being released on time & in sufficient quantities.

It seems that even more analysts in Japan are publicly expressing skepticism about Nintendo's chances in the Next-Gen Console War. This time, it seems that analysts are questioning Nintendo's ability to produce enough GBA units to fulfill the demand.

Nintendo aims to ship out one million GBA... Read more...

Wow. A complete listing of every NCL game ever published has been posted online.

John Ricciardi's Super Deluxe Web Page has posted one heck of a special feature - an organized list of every game released by Nintendo Co. Ltd. The list is organizes the games into the year they were released, (covering 1983 to 2001) and lists each respective system that the games were released for. Although this is not directly related to GBA or NGC, I figured that this was something every Nintendophile should see.

Japanese console peripheral company Hori announces three new devices for GBA.

The Japanese company Hori has announced that it will release three GBA accessories on March 21st, to coincide with the launch of the new system. The following pictures are production designs and subject to change:

The LCD Filter Advance - is an invisible film that is applied over the GBA's screen that cuts down on light glare & protects the screen.

Some of the first info on 3DO's handheld baseball game.

3DO have released info about its baseball title for Game Boy Advance, High Heat Major League Baseball 2002 The GBA version of the game will be similar to other installments of the series and include most of its trademark features. There are five different modes of gameplay: batting practice, exhibition,... Read more...

Thanks to the Japanese publication Dengekioh we have uncovered yet another way in which the NGC & GBA will interact. Scope these details!

I just got in and was ready to retire when our pal Yorrike (of HardCoreGamers.com) lemme know about this scoop from Video-Senki. Lookie:

This month's edition of Dengekioh has a little chat with some PR dude over at Nintendo of Japan, who floated up an interesting possible GBA/GC connection strategy... Read more...

The NGC could be delayed until November, or even 2002 in North America.

The GameCube will not make its projected U.S. date of October 2001 and stands to be delayed until November, or even 2002. In Japan, it could move to fall 2001...

OK, so it may be a little late coming but Louie insisted on sharing his thoughts... and he threatened to use his claws so who were we to argue?

Eternal Darkness is no longer a N64 title and has been moved to the Nintendo GameCube

Sonic Team is going contest crazy! Japanese Chu Chu GBA gamers have a chance to win a great trip!

Sonic Team seems to love holding contests. This time, Japanese gamers have a chance to win a tour of the "Kennedy Space Center" located in Florida. It seems that after beating the GBA game, a password will be displayed once, and the gamer must copy the password and mail it to Sonic Team. There will be 10 groups of 5. Strangely, though, the winners must pay airfare! Yes, this IS quite odd....

More talk of the dreaded "D" word, this time in Japan.

A published report from Tsubasa Research has speculated on the possiblity of a delay of the Japanese GameCube launch from July to sometime in Fall 2001. The reason for this would be "to allow more time for software development and focus on the launch of Game Boy Advance in America this summer." ... Read more...