Nintendo has decided to pull out from ECTS and has announced a dedicated show of their own instead.

According to FGN Online, Nintendo will not participate in this year's ECTS and have decided to do something "very big" at its own show. The Nintendo Show is going to be held on September 1st and 2nd at an unspecified location in Central London. More exact details are unknown at this time. The story... Read more...

Hello? Is this thing on? Trivia is on for tonight at 9 pm CST!

New site, same trivia! Our usual trivia competition is on for tonight (Friday), at 9 pm CST. Any Nintendo-related stuff is fair game for 30 questions. Use our Java chat, or use your favorite IRC client to tune into irc.dmusic.com:6667 - #planetchat.

If you have Winamp, you can tune into the live streaming radio. It's not necessary, of course...

Could it be that the limbless one is breaking out of his traditional platformer-only mold?

Consoles France has the goods for Ubi Soft's new Rayman title that looks like it will be attempting to break out of its normal genre. A little bit of multi-player madness perhaps? Seems that's what is in store. Head on over to Consoles France for the first pics of this title (even if they're a bit blurry).

The classic PC games are confirmed for GameCube and GBA, along with a couple of details on each version.

N-Nation (not the same as NintendoNation) scored a nice little interview with Lisa de Araujo of Creature Labs, and here's what she had to say:

The Game Cube version of Creatures is actually being developed by Swing Entertainment GB, to whom we've licensed the title. They are also creating a GameBoy... Read more...

...Belong to ClassicGaming.com. The beloved retro-game website gets to the bottom of "ALL YOUR BASE" and reviews the game that started the insanity.

How are you gentlemen!! ClassicGaming.com's Game of the Week is none other than Zero Wing, the Toaplan space shooter that launched the "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" craze that has swept the Internet. You've seen the movie, you've spotted the catchphrase on countless Web sites, but what do you... Read more...

We present to you what just might be the first pictures of Box Art of the Game Boy Advance.

While hanging in the Planet Chat Mr-Bigglesworth (aka markioke) pointed me out to GameStop. GameStop is now taking preorders for the Game Boy Advance. If you're getting the system, you have to get it in a bundle with Mario Advance and F-Zero Maximum Velocity. The good news is that you can get the... Read more...

More Puroresu superstars show their support for Fire Pro! This time FPA for GBA. Check out the pictures inside!

Frank James Chan of Fire Pro Wrestling DreamWorld reports:

"As previously reported, both Pancrase and Big Japan Pro Wrestling had given public support to Fire Pro D (Dreamcast) in the days surrounding the game's release last week. Ultimo Dragon's Toryumon organization, which consists of his talented... Read more...

New detailed launch info with prices. Those poor Japanese gamers are going to go broke!

Yesterday Nintendo held a special GBA conference where they officially unveiled the GBA and the new Card Reader peripheral.

Also announced at the conference was the official release list for the Japanese GBA launch as well as the release dates for other titles currently in development.

Japanese Launch Titles

And lo, a collective whine around the world was heard...

Evidently Reuters has screwed up in their translation and instead of the GC being moved up one month, it is still set for October.

In TOKYO story on Wednesday headlined ``Nintendo unveils new game system for next Game Boy'' please read in last

paragraph....an October release in the United States....instead of....a September release in the United States (Company corrects period).

Kool-Aid man quoted as saying "OHHHHHHHH-YEAAAAAAAAAAAAH"

Here's how we know. Somebody (with no name apparently) sent IGN cube a Q&A question. Matt responded to it. Now, mind you, this is the normal procedure. But something came out in Matt's answer that was quite, how shall I put it, lubes the cube(actually BayouTapeworm came up with that).

Hi IGN crew,

Enix talks about Dragon Quest VIII!

Take a look at what PlayFrance.com has found about the Development of DQVIII. I've taken the liberty of translating the original article into English:

Enix Leaves Sony?

The President of Enix, Keiji Honda-san has announced that the company is reconsidering the development of Dragon Quest... Read more...

Here we are. Were you REALLY worried we were going anywhere?

It is finally ready... PlanetN2000 is closing - PlanetGameCube is opening. I am finally going to be able to start sleeping.

What you now see is the combined effort of months of hardwork, the latest and greatest upgrade to what started as the first site(s) to cover Nintendo's next system.

Not a joke: GameCube hits the US in September, Europe in Spring 2002.

Reuters News reports that Atsuo Asada, NCL's executive vice-president, announced today that GameCube will be launching as scheduled in July for Japan, one month early in September for North America, and in Spring 2002 in Europe. Disappointing news for our European readers, for sure, but US gamers... Read more...

Remember that USC conference I went to?! Well, they finally have ALL the transcripts up!

They only have transcripts for most of the speakers that attended the USC Conference, "Entertainment in the Interactive Age" right now, but the folks over at USC are planning on uploading videos of the event later. Hurry over and hear--er--read what everyone had to say!

RareNet have reported a small tidbit on Dinosaur Planet... Still, since it probably comes deep from within Rare itself, you might wanna peep it.

We can't resist mentioning every time our friends & neighbors at RareNet update - mainly because they always got the official goods.

Although many of us know that Rare's Dinosaur Planet is no longer for N64 will be released on NGC, perhaps as a launch title. Now we are all curious about the... Read more...

Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo execs battle it out in E3's Keynote discussion.

Big names from each of the 3 major combatants in the next-generation console war help kick-off E3 2001. Microsoft's Robbie Bach, Sony's Kaz Hirai, and Nintendo's own Peter Main will discuss the future of the industry starting at 9 a.m. on Thursday, May 17th, in West Hall meeting room 515 at the L.A. Convention Center. You can bet we'll be there to give you the pictures, descriptions, and accounts of this game.

Bollocks...even more GBA news. Here's the 3rd party GBA news story that Max mentioned but couldn't post before FGN did.

Okay, how much GBA news can you handle? Yes you know that the system will launch in the U.S. on June 11, 2001 for $99.95 in the same 3 colors (with different names) as in Japan...but how about the fact that games will retail between $29.95 and $39.95 (which is about what was expected). Also, did you know that there'll be 15 games at said system launch. Here's the launch lineup.

When it rains it pours, at least that's what it seems like today for GBA info.

Activision has confirmed support of the Gameboy Advance today. According to the news release, Activision has 6 games in development "including titles based on such hit brands as Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Spider-Man and X-Men." In fact, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 should be available at the system's launch come June. Now let's see if these guys can't confirm some titles in the works for GameCube...

Nintendo has put up a new online survey. Hmm, this couldn't have anything to do with GameCube, could it? Nah.

Nintendo of America's official website has posted a new survey online that asks readers to provide feedback about Wave Race and 1080. Not that we really needed confirmation or anything, but add this to the pile of evidence that we'll see GameCube versions of these great games. The survey asks about... Read more...

A recap of the Nintendo press event with some new info about the GBA.

Reuters Securities has provided a story highlighting Nintendo's GBA unveiling. Aside from talking about software (see the other two GBA stories), Nintendo announced a partnership with Olympus Optical to create the "card-e" system. According to the story,

"Nintendo announced it will join forces... Read more...