All you Japanese Baseball fans will be very interested.

Nintendo of Japan has announced that if the Hanshin Tigers, a Japanese baseball team, win the league championship a special commemorative GameCube will be released to honor the occasion. The system will be pin-striped and will sport the 2003 Champions logo. The bundle is being released as an enjoyment plus pack which includes a Game Boy Player. Included with the bundle will be the following:

A special edition of 2000 AD will be published for the European release of Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death.

DEATH LIVESSS AGAIN!

To coincide with the release of Rebellion's stunning new first-person shooter game for PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube featuring Mega-City One's hardest lawman and his twisted arch-nemesis, in Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death, 2000 AD will be publishing a terrifying 112-page Dredd Vs. Death special on 10 September.

Headline goes straight over International readers' heads.

Nintendo Australia reports that Australian comedians Merrick Watts and Tim Ross (aka Merrick & Rosso) will be featured in Ubi Soft's XIII. The Australian comedy duo will get to star as part of the enemy forces who are out to stop the game's lead character, XIII (voiced by David Duchovny).

The... Read more...

Three mergers, a merger and a split, a new developer and a lone survivor. Sega hopes this is the winning formula for future success.

Sega has announced some details on the reorganization of its development studios. Where it was originally reported that some would be closed and others created, it has turned out that more merging than closing will take place, with the true creation of only one new developer.

Six of the original... Read more...

Have a Freeloader? Looking to import F-Zero for the GameCube? You might want to reconsider. Updated with new info!

Codejunkies has posted codes for the GameCube Action Replay which will fix the F-Zero screen issues if you're using that to play import games. There is no fix for the standard Freeloader which doesn't accept codes.

Code #1

1. GE0E-N57N-NG1QW

2. XWUF-2990-RMYFT

3. ETRW-XUTM-4KQ98

4. BU1R-MZAZ-Y68RA

Going, going, gone! Nintendo GameCube, cheap at half the price -- Australia only!

Australian Target department stores are having their massive Toy Sale as of Thursday, 24th of July. Target is slashing the GameCube's price to $149, just under half the usual price. Unfortunately, this may seem to indicate that Target, like so many other stores recently, is trying to get rid of... Read more...

Nintendo announces release dates for new titles and highlights for GameCube and Game Boy Advance.

PGA tour rookie Ben Curtis may have clinched the British Open from Tiger Woods, but does he have the chops to take Mario™, Bowser or Princess Peach in the freshly groomed Toadstool Tour? On July 28, professional golfers and every would-be golfer dreaming of greener pastures will get their chance... Read more...

A company known for cases for cell phones thinks it can bring a hardcase to the GBA crowd.

Saunders Launches Into a New Playing Field With Introduction of the RhinoSkin(TM) Protective Hardcase For Gameboy Advance SP

READFIELD, Maine, July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Saunders expands its RhinoSkin(TM) brand to provide case solutions for mobile gaming devices with the launch of the Aluminum HardCase for the recently introduced GameBoy Advance SP from Nintendo.

Acclaim, Activision and THQ need to submit information to the commission.

The three videogame giants admitted to recieving letters from the Security and Exchanges Commssion that asked them for information about their accounting practices. The SEC said that this request was in no way indicative that any crimes were broken, so the three companies saw every reason to fully cooperate.

The folks behind everyone's favorite May expo change their name to the Entertainment Software Association

Even in the midst of fighting battles that seek to limit the sales of violent video games, the International Digital Software Association (IDSA) has undertaken a name change. The organization will now be called the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), and has a new website at http://www.theesa.com.

Famitsu speaks with the famous producer about his departure from Capcom and future plans.

Yoshiki Okamoto, who oversaw the production of games such as Final Fight, Street Fighter 2, and the recent handheld Zelda titles, left Capcom last month to take role of principal at Human Academy Game College in Japan. In the latest issue of Famitsu, Okamoto-san speaks out about plans for his future game development studio.

This week's Famitsu looks at the Famicom's 20th anniversary, Sega restructuring, and F-Zero GX.

This week's Famitsu celebrates the 20th anniversary of Famicom with a special feature looking back at the history of the Famicom and comments from various people in the gaming industry.

On the news front, Sega Japan announced on July 8 that it will be restructuring its nine development studios... Read more...

This week's movie shows off a snip the mysterious story mode. You'll see the mystery when you download the movie.

The official F-Zero website has updated again. As a service to you, the readers, we're telling you all the juicy details about the new items added to the site.

The big update can be found on the GX game page, in the form of a story mode teaser. The movie shows off Black Shadow in a side-by-side race with an as-of-yet unknown pilot. The Black Bull crashes, and the mystery man comes up and threatens Shadow. Quite interesting.

Why isn't it shiny, eh? Explain that to me.

After months and months of uncertianity and waiting, owners of the Panasonic Q can now breathe a huge sigh of relief -- the Panasonic Q Game Boy Player has been given a release date and a price. Owners of the Panasonic Q who wish to play Game Boy games on their Panasonic Q will be able to do so as of the 1st of October this year. The Q Game Boy Player comes in a dark grey, similar to the pack-in controller that comes with the Q itself.

If you still have any doubts about this game, then two new movies will probably change your mind in a heartbeat.

When the game was first revealed, some doubters complained about the tweaking of the combat system and sense of speed would be bad for the game. Perhaps Acclaim has realized that people still feel this way, so they've released two new movies: One showcasing the weaponry, and one showing off the sense of speed.

They call it a pigskin, but it's neither a pig or the skin of one. That's false advertising!

NCAA Football 2004 from EA SPORTS In Stores Today

#2 Selling Football Franchise Offers Intensity and Atmosphere of Saturday Football and New Online Gameplay

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 16, 2003--Kicking off the 2004 EA SPORTS(TM) videogame season, NCAA® Football 2004, the... Read more...

Quietly edge your friend closer to the shade to win.

Boktai’s Japanese homepage has revealed some additional details about

multiplayer modes. By linking up GBAs, up to four players can battle each

other with the parts they earn from the game. The sunlight sensor affects how fast each player is able to charge his or her weapons. Depending on... Read more...

Nintendo is giving away 1000 of these babies in a contest, so you'd better high-tail it to Japan if you want one.

To mark the 20th anniversary of the launch of the original Famicom (which we all know and love as the Nintendo Entertainment System), Nintendo is holding a contest to give out special limited edition GBA SP systems to 1,000 lucky Japanese. The contest requires that people buy GameCube and GBA games from a list and send in the special entry form included with the game.

Holy X-Files, Batman! Adam West and David Duchovny are added to the voice cast of this anticipated shooter.

XIII is the cel-shaded first-person shooter that everyone's talking about, and for good reason. The game's presentation has it pass off for a real-life comic book.

Today, Ubi Soft has announced that two big names have signed on to lend their voice talents to the game. David Duchovny of X-Files fame, and Adam West, the original Batman, will both be heard in XIII.

Nintendo's breaking out the dust-busters in the GBA screen factories.

According to the Taipei Times, Nintendo has addressed Sharp Corporation, screen manufacturer for the Game Boy Advance, to clean up its act. Nintendo's biggest complaint is dust trapped in the screen of the unit, so they want Sharp to change their manufacturing process to help eliminate the entry of... Read more...