According to Fatbabies, Sony recently "asked" a Funcoland to pull down al their X-Box and GameCube advertising shiz.... or else they lose their PS2 shipments. Here's the scoop:

Apparently Sony is still threatening retailers (see Sony the Bully) who display any sort of X-Box promotional material. A manager of a Funcoland stated they were required to remove all X-Box pre-orders because Sony called and e-mailed to threaten PS2 hardware and software shipments will be shorted to the store if the store does not remove all pre-orders and marketing materials for X-Box and GameCube.

Ex Square employee Hiroki Kikuta of Secret of Mana fame talks about the future with Consoles France.

Check it, a new interview on Consoles France with Hiroki Kikuta, one of the people who helped make Secret of Mana and other Square classics back in the days of yore so special. To be honest, I was a bit shocked by the optimism about Nintendo coming from a Japanese developer but maybe things aren't... Read more...

Hell hasn't froze over, Nintendo & Sega have some big plans... What all do they entail? And what's this? A New Planet Iron Scribe?!?

The frequent appearance of Nintendo / Sega rumors over the past few months has been reminiscent of that ol' carnie classic, "Whack-a-Mole." A rumor would pop up somewhere only to be swiftly crushed beneath a skeptical media. Almost immediately, another crazy Sega rumor would appear from somewhere,... Read more...

Developer Wide Games announces that their intriguing new racer is coming to GameCube.

In an interview with Wide Games, developer of the upcoming PS2 game Rush Club, GameSpot has discovered that the game will also be ported to GameCube and Xbox. Check out this excerpt:

GS: Do you have plans to bring the game to other consoles as well?

CJ: Absolutely. Atlas is a platform independent engine--running at the moment on the PC and PS2--and our tech team is ready to get cracking on the Xbox and GameCube versions.

This is terrible news. Looks like Nintendo isn't changing the Japanese GBA Colors when this puppy launches in the states. Well sorta...

Woah. Yes, it's been made official. The GBA colors that will be released in Japan will be the same colors that will get released here in the states. Except for some ultra non snappy new names.

White = Arctic

Purple = Indigo

Milky Blue = Glacier

Yes, these snappy new names will make people across the USA just thrilled to buy these wonderful colors. In related news, Nintendophiles across the globe can now throw up in unison.

Well, it appears that that inverse Super Nintendo color scheme will be out in America.

IGN Cube reports that, in an interview with Nintendo, the violet color will be Nintendo's official color. This means that we will see it at launch. It is possible that we might see other colors with it still.

Psyched about the GBA launch in Japan? Here's a little (and we mean little) eye candy for you.

Yeah baby! The Japanese GBA site has been updated with tiny ass pics of the new box art for 4 GBA games...

1. F-Zero Advance

2. Napolean

3. Kuru Kuru Kurin

4. Mario Advance

There's a bunch of new screens as well. Where I raise the flag is they make it look like Mario Advance is launching... Read more...

You can never have enough GBAs!!!!

Despite rumors that the number of GBA would be decreased, Nintendo has proven them wrong by increasing the number to 1.4 million! It still isn't enough to satisfy the demand, but the number is certainly nothing to scoff at. And hopefully GCN production is coming along just as nicely, making a raid much less likely come launch. This is certainly good news: Nintendo doens't seem to be running into the rut that Sony fell into.

Oh no...

Bummed that Metroid might be a FPS? Well, Penny Arcade thinks it could be worse. 'Nuff said.

Perrin Kaplan drops some hints about the launches of Gameboy Advance and Gamecube.

Fatbabies.com was cool enough to post the whole story from mmWire. While some of the info has already been revealed (GBA US launch on June 11, 2001, price undetermined; NGC US launch in October/November 2001, price undetermined), Ms. Kaplan does shed a little more light on both system launches. Here's what mmWire had to say...

Video-Senki has struck again with more great words from NCL president Hiroshi Yamauchi.

Japanese gaming industry magazine Zaikai recently conducted an interview with Hiroshi Yamauchi and Video-Senki was kind enough to post it. Yamauchi says some pretty harsh words (what else is new) for the game industry regarding the future of game development, online games, and the state of the industry itself. Below are a couple of the nicer quotes from Yamauchi-san...

Nintendo plans to be a presence at the upcoming Tokyo Game Show.

For the first time since the creation of their Shoshinkai/Spaceworld show (as far as I know), Nintendo Company Ltd. will be exhibiting at the Tokyo Games Show. The Magic Box says Nintendo will be there to hawk its Game Boy Advance, and perhaps also to steal some attention with GameCube demos. I'll... Read more...

Nyko's getting there GBA accesories ready for launch...we've got the official pricing first!

Our good friends from Nyko have sent us the pricing for their Game Boy Advance accesories. Granted, it's going to be a little while until the launch of the GBA here in the states. We know you're counting the days! Better be financially stable come June! Then again, these prices ain't that bad. 10 bucks for a worm light?

Those meddling kids and their dog are back in another video games, this time on the Game Boy Advance.

THQ has announced that they will be releasing another Scooby Doo game. The game, entitled Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase. The game will follow the plot of the upcoming Scooby-Doo video of the same name. The two products will be cross-marketed and released on the same date. In the game, the Scooby-Doo "gang" will beam into a video game to stop the "Phantom Virus."

This Playstation hit will have a second life on the GBA.

GameSpot has learned that the PlayStation game, Heart of Darkness, will be appearing on the GBA. The game follows the story of a kid, Andy, who has lost his dog, Whiskey, in a hurricane. Andy does to rescue his beloved mutt and has to fight shadow monsters on the way. Infogrames will publish the game in Europe. There is no word on a North American release, but it his highly probable.

In a not so recent interview, Shiggy and his pal dish on GCN Zelda.

In an interview with The Amercian Armchair, Shigeru Miyamoto and Mr. Takano shed some light on the next installment in the Zelda series.

Irene Tang (Navigator): Hi, my question is, after Majora’s Mask, when are we going to see the next Legend of Zelda game? And on what platform would it be? Would it be on Gamecube?

The word is that Nyko's gotta an accessory arsenal waiting to happen for the GBA. Here's the first details...

If you have a Game Boy or Game Boy color odds are you have a light for it. So far, out of all the things that I've used with my Game Boy's, Nyko's Worm Light is the best. Many companies have copied it because it's so damn good. Then snipers took their sorry asses out for pulling a M$. Booya!

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This is certainly some very big news!

IGN Cube has learned that the new Metroid game under development by Retro Studios will be a First Person Shooter. This comes as a shock; the game was previously believed to be a third person shooter. Apparently product evaluators didn't like the way the series was heading and the game was switched... Read more...

The PS2 is a good value... as a DVD player only!

Lately, NCL's President, Hirohsi Yamauchi has mouthed off about Square, seemingly attempting to encourage stronger support or none at all. Usually, we can expect some sort of strong statement from Yamauchi and when he's not postponing his retirement, he's usually slamming the competition. Mips36 emailed... Read more...

Daily Radar gets half the story.

From Daily Radar comes news that some big things have been happening in Austin, Texas lately. DR indicates that a source within Nintendo notified them that several staff were laid off yesterday while another source reported that two GameCube titles (of a believed total of five NGC projects) were put on hold while staff is redistributed to higher priority titles—obviously one of them is Metroid.