"Little Japanese girls everywhere love Kuru Kuru Kururin!" -Steve of Tendo Box

GB Station has grabbed some sha-weet video. These are the actual commercials for Game Boy Advance games, direct from Japan. They show a wealth of game footage, unlike us filthy Amercians. You can access the commercials by going to the game profiles for F-Zero Advance, Mario Advance, and Kuru Kuru Kururin. The links will be on the right side of the page!

EAGB.net scores the first pics of the Japanese GBA packaging!

Euro-Asia Game Boy has acquired an image of the Japanese GBA packaging, in case you're interested. Could be an indicator of what to expect for the North American packaging, although I'm sure there will be at least some changes.

Blizzard's Bill Roper makes a disheartening comment for those hoping to play Warcraft III on GameCube.

Bad news for all you Blizzard fans: for now, the company is saying that there will be no console versions of the upcoming Warcraft III. In an interview with the Russian site www.zone.ru, Blizzard's Bill Roper made this comment:

I don’t think we will make Warcraft3 available for consoles, this... Read more...

Capcom blesses us by announcing re-releases of three classics for handheld GBA glory.

Although we posted this information from Nintendo's Gamelist on Friday, I feel obligated to highlight some highly excellent Capcom news. Specifically, Capcom is bringing three of its classic titles,

Super Street Fighter 2, Final Fight and Breath of Fire to Nintendo's Game Boy Advance. Since I'm too busy to do previews now, here's a quick rundown on each:

A recent job posting from Paradigm Entertainment sheds light on the developer's next-generation plans.

Recent job postings from Paradigm on Gamasutra.com have revealed a nice bit of info for eager GameCube fans. In the company description section, Paradigm says the following:

At the core of its success are Paradigm's commitment to technology and a structured approach to development. The company... Read more...

Want to know what important developers in Japan think? Look no further... That sounded so clichéd.

IGN Cube has spotted an interesting article in Famitsu Weekly. The major Japanese publication has gathered the thoughts of many big Japanese developers on Nintendo's GameCube.

Yoshiki Okamoto of Capcom reveals plans for full support of the GameCube, but wonders exactly where the Nintendo is headed.

The Cube hype machine is prepped and ready to go!

For years now, Nintendo has been holding a major press event the day before E3. This year is no exception as Nintendo has officially scheduled this years event for 10:30 am - 12 noon on E3-eve. The media flyer they released says: "Reserve this date now for the most important hardware launches of... Read more...

Dinoplanet = Star Fox Adventures?

Say it aint so. IGN Cube reports that Consoles France ran a story which claims that Dinosaur Planet has been renamed Star Fox Adventures. The source is supposedly from Nintendo of Europe.

Take this with a grain of salt for now, as the source is unofficial at best. Obviously, the game would... Read more...

Nintendo's Japanese website has released extra shots of its GBA launch games, and they're looking good!

Here are some of the more interesting ones...

What is that weird orange/yellowish thing? Looks like maybe Mario jumps onto the green platform, and then that thing lifts him up to the door. Also of note: NCL's page explaining the different game modes seems to clear a few things up about... Read more...

Now with First Party Titles!!

Nintendo has released an updated list of Game Boy Advance games, now with their own titles on the list. So, here you go. Keep in mind that this is just a list of games in development, not a release list.

Nintendo Games

Horse Racing

F-Zero for Game Boy Advance

Fire Emblem

Game Boy Wars Advance

We don't know when to stop but neither does a certain high school student out there...

Yes, the ZeroWing poor grammar inspired madness continues and we keep on fanning the flames. It seems one young fellow somewhere got busted for causing trouble in school and now, ALL SCHOOL's DETENTIONS ARE BELONGING TO HIM. Actually, it looks like the kid could get suspended for "insubordination" (boy, it must stack up quick at his school).

Today in IGN Cube's obligatory Q&A update, rather than the usual clarifications of what the GameCube faithful already know, Matt may have spawned a couple of juicy rumors.

Most notably, he reveals that an editorial on Enix will be going up tomorrow with multiple quotes from company officials, and he goes on to state that he feels that GameCube support from Enix is very likley. Keep in mind that he didn't offer any confirmation, official or otherwise, so file this under... Read more...

An anonymous guy from Rare says a few interesting things to Amazon.com.

Amazon.com (of all places) scored an interview with a member of the Conker's Bad Fur Day development team. Thanks goes to IGN Cube for the link. The source from Conker's dev team spoke on the condition of anonymitiy. Here's an excerpt from the interview:

Amazon: Were there any jokes or scenes that had to be edited out for content late in the development process?

We had a ton of Midway games on the N64. Looks we'll get the same treatment on the GameCube.

One of IGN Cube's mysterious sources recently confided that Midway has one development kit and is currently experimenting with the GameCube hardware.

Apparently, Midway didn't like this image, so they released a statement confirming their full GameCube support. "Midway is extremely excited about... Read more...

New Game Boy Advance shots abound at Nintendo's official GBA shots.

Nintendo has updated the Official Game Boy Advance site with new screens of a ton of games (as seems to be their habit on the first of each month).

There are new shots from F-Zero, GB Wars, Mario Kart, Napoleon and Golden Sun. Some of the more interesting ones from F-Zero and Mario Advance are below.

To celebrate and promote Chu Chu Advance coming to GBA, Sonic Team has cooked up a 25-level demo for the public!

Sonic Team has posted a 25-level demo Shockwave version of Chu Chu Rocket online on its Japanese site. It looks like a good game, but it is entirely in Japanese (and for some reason Babelfish won't work for the directions). You're free to give it a shot, but knowing Japanese is definately a plus--especially... Read more...

Wow, this is really gonna bring on the hurt to Sony.

Metal Gear Solid 2 is delayed. Not only is it delayed; it's delayed till early 2002!! FGN contacted Konami on news regarding a worldwide release of their upcoming mega-hit. The spokesperson had this to say.

"Unfortunately the release date for Metal Gear Solid 2 is at least a year away! It's apparently going to be released worldwide on the same day."

There's been speculation about Namco and Gamecube, but now it's official.

Namco released financial statements today that cited a significant loss (mostly attributed to the disappointing performance of the PS2). Of greater interest to Gamecube fans is that Namco stated that they will be supporting Gamecube. It's been speculated about before, but the financial statement... Read more...

New trademarks hint at Conker's BFD 2.

Ok, so we're a little late with this news... On February 1, 2001, Rare got ahold of two new trademarks: Conker's Other Bad Day, and Grabbed by the Ghoulies. There have been no official comments on this yet, but we can guess a few things from the names. The Conker title is likely a possible sequel (presumably on the GameCube) to Conker's Bad Fur Day. The other name... well, that could be anything really.

Segadojo is starting rumors! Although Virtual Fighter 4 has been listed as a PS2 exclusive, this might not be the case.

RUMOR ALERT! Segadojo just posted a RUMOR that we might be seeing Sega's highly anticipated Virtual Fighter 4 on the Nintendo GameCube. This has already been a long "unspoken" rumor as it has been uncertain whether or not VF4 was really exclusive to PS2. While we still don't know, our pals at Segadojo have boldly pieced some clues together and have started the RUMOR that Virtual Fighter 4 may just end up on GameCube.