Could Sega be tinkering with the GBA?!

Is Nintendo buying Sega? For now, the answer is no. However, as the craziest rumor ever still continues to run wild, we’re all left wondering what the heck may really be going on with the two companies. Well, it seems we now have answers—or some of them anyway. Finally, Nintendo has issued a statement... Read more...

Nintendo's fearless leader boldy states that Nintendo will NEVER buy out Sega.

Despite a report printed in Wednesday's New York Times, Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi has indicated that, "there is absolutely no chance that Nintendo will buy Sega..."

The Time's report caused Sega's shares to jump more than 10% before being suspended by the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

"The report is absolutely groundless. We are not talking with Nintendo or anyone on such a deal," said a Sega spokeswoman.

Nintendo has announced the price for GBA and its games in Japan--and it ain't cheap!

Nintendo representives in Japan have spoken about the GBA's details, including pricing and launch titles. Set for release in Japan on March 21st the handheld will retail for 9800 Yen ($95 US / approx. $170 AUS). Next on the menu are launch titles and Nintendo are going to provide four. Those titles... Read more...

Open your wallets and purses, 'cause here come Konami classics!

Recently, Konami let it be known that it would be making a remake of a classic Castlevania PC game originally released on X68000 PC for Sony PSX. Now, according to GameSpot, Konami have decided to make this a series of games, known as Castlevania Chronicles.

"We will be releasing other Castlevania... Read more...

The recent "news" about Nintendo buying Sega is having drastic effects on Sega's stock.

Looks like the Sega/Nintendo news isn't done just yet. Take a look at what Yahoo news has just reported:

TOKYO, Dec 27 (Reuters) - The Tokyo Stock Exchange said on Wednesday it has suspended trading of shares of video game

maker Sega Corp .

Sega shares last traded up by their 100 yen limit or 10.48 percent at 1,054.

What's this?! Nintendo is buying Sega? Well... we'll leave it to you to decide.

According to Reuters, Wednesday's New York Times is reporting that Nintendo has been in discussions for months to purchase rival Sega for reportedly $2 billion.

Regardless of Time's source, a Sega spokesman called the claims "absolutely outrageous." A Nintendo spokesman said, "In this industry there are various kinds of rumors," and laughed.

Billy one-ups Max with his own season's greetings!

Well, even though mad Max already delivered our staff Holiday message, I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! It's amazing how much has changed in the last year with PlanetN2000, and I'd like to thank you on behalf of the staff for making PlanetN2000 your home for GameCube and GBA news!

So... Read more...

Max is a mall Santa! Well.... maybe not, but he still says "Merry Christmas!"

Here it is, December 24th, 2000. Christmas Eve. It’s a special night indeed and in the spirit of the season, I’d like to extend the fondest holidays wishes to all PlanetN2000 readers around the world. The fact that you give our little piece of Nintendo fanaticism your attention makes you all very... Read more...

A new GBA developer, Formula, has popped up with info on two games plus screens! Hooray!

Watch out now, we've got a company from the Netherlands, of all places, workin' on a couple mighty fine lookin' GameBoy Advance games. They're Formula Games, "the handheld division of Lost Boys Games." Here's story excerpts I nicked from our buddies at pocket.ign :

First up is Kaisertal, a top-down... Read more...

I sure think so! Go on, vote! Make sure it's a possitive vote.... the Planet wants to stay on good relations with PETERMAINCO...

OK, we stole this idea from the guys at the Nformant. They found this site called Am I Hot or Not.com. They took a photo of Shiggy and put him up on it to see how hot the public though he was (he was a 1.2 OUCH!). So, seeing as for some reason our readers, at least the trivia going ones, are obsessed... Read more...

Oh boy! Dodgeball for Advanced players! Don't cry if you get hurt while playing, heheh...

If you ever had a NES, and I sure hope you did, you'll be overjoyed to hear that Super Dodgeball is coming to the Game Boy Advance. Although the company that created Super Dodgeball has been out of business since 1995, its former president has be at another company named Million. They are developing... Read more...

Something Awful has brought up an interesting point about our Doki-Mario character...

From Something Awful.com comes this disturbing “Awful Link of the Day.” I ask readers to keep this in mind as I share this piece from the Bizarro World… I guess somebody put up a website that asks the question “The First Transexual Video Game Character?” As freakish as the question sounds, it centers around the beloved Mario Brother icon, Birdo.

Click here for some lovely Rebirth GC audio.

Mix-Core, the folks you know and love for Rebirth, have released a couple MP3s for you to check out in the 'Works' section of their site. Cube.ign.com has them mirrored with a basic summary of the tracks, as well:

Now, after releasing the opening and ending sequences to the Rebirth, Mix Core... Read more...

RareNet Knows Rare and YOU don't. What do they know? For one thing, we shouldn't expect a Perfect Dark sequel too soon...

Contrary to a recent rumor that "half of Rare" was working their fannies off to ensure that a Perfect Dark 2 would be a launch title for GameCube, RareNet comes along with actual info... Apparently, the PD team is only 12 people in number (tho' from recent wanted ads in UK Industry Mags, is looking... Read more...

Is a Sonic game coming to a Game Boy console? Sega sez "N-0" and you know what that spells!

A spokesperson from Sega of Europe today denied all rumors of Sonic the Hedgehog coming to the Game Boy Color. He also said that Sega of Japan and Sega of America are denying it too. This is too bad, it' would've been sweet to play sonic on the GBC. We'll just have to pray that those Sega/Nintendo RPG rumors are true.

Remember Dragon Warrior? Want Dragon Warrior stuff? Check Enix's homepage w/survey & let them know what kind of DW goodies you'd like!

Enix is apparently holding a survey to see what Dragon Warrior merchandise consumers are most interested in. They’ve had requests for plush slimes to Dragon Warrior pencil sets but just aren’t sure what to produce exactly. Because the series is super popular in Japan (where it is known as “Dragon... Read more...

Rare's christmas present to you: cool Banjo-Kazooie wall paper!

One of our nice readers, Adrian gave us a head’s up about some cool Rareware holiday wallpaper. The picture is composed of some very good 3d modeling & texturing, and the characters seem to have very "luigi's mansion" cartoon-like expressions. Adrian also notes that the Green Jinjo is giving away a (tiny) GameCube as a gift. Could this be a GC teaser? Well, probably not. But it sure looks nice! Check it out for yourself!

IGNcube digs up news on dev kits - 500 to be exact.

IGNcube has posted an article proclaiming that 500 GameCube development kits have been shipped out as of now. If that's true...WHOA. It also says that Nintendo's internal EAD teams received a total of somewhere between 50 and 150 of the kits, meaning they are working on a freakload of titles for the... Read more...

Segadojo has some astonishing news about a certain blue hedgehog on Game Boy Color. Huh? Could it be true?

Our buddies at Segadojo put up a story that, erm, follows here.

According to speculation from UK's The Guardian newspaper, our beloved little blue hedgehog might be seeing a release on Nintendo's Game Boy Color. In fact, they expect Sega to make an announcement on the matter as early as next... Read more...

Check out our new Pinobee GBA preview!

Remember our nice little Previews section? No? Well, it's still around, and thanks to our new Pinobee: Quest of Heart preview, it's even alive and kicking. Read up on what could be the first great GBA platformer, and keep an eye out for more previews coming real soon... Oh yeah, and once you get to the game profile, don't forget to click on the (very prominent and easy-to-see) link to read the full preview.