Finally, word of the official new price in Japan.

According to Nintendo's Japanese site, the GameCube will be dropping in price there soon as well.

On October 17, the GameCube will be selling for 14,000 Yen (about $120 US). The Enjoyment Plus Pack which includes a Game Boy Player and Memory Card 251 will be reduced a little sooner on October 10th for a price of 19,800 Yen (about $170 US).

Nintendo's gearing up for the launch of racing madness!

In preparation for the upcoming release of Mario Kart: Double Dash next month, the official website for the game has opened. The website, flaunting the tagline "You take the wheel, I'm riding shotgun!" is loaded with screenshots and movies of the game. There is also a download section where a few... Read more...

Mario isn’t the only thing in red right now.

Nintendo has projected a net loss for the first time in its publicly-owned history. Earlier today, Nintendo regrettably informed its investors that instead of the 15 billion yen profit predicted earlier for the fiscal half-year, the company expects to suffer a loss of 3.0 billion yen (around $27 million). Nintendo is currently 7 million yen into the red.

Super Mario Sunshine, Starfox Adventures, Mario Party 4, and Metroid Prime join the Player's Choice range in Europe.

MORE QUALITY NINTENDO GAMES FOR YOUR MONEY!

New titles added to NINTENDO GAMECUBE Player’s Choice Range

The NINTENDO GAMECUBE Player’s Choice range of games is soon to be expanded with the release of more blockbuster titles. On the 10th October, Super Mario Sunshine, Starfox... Read more...

Discerning kids say it's one of the top ten things they want for the holidays.

According to Yahoo News (courtesy of Reuters), Game Boy Advance SP is set to be one of the hottest gifts for kids this holiday season.

The annual test, administered by FamilyFun magazine, began with a pool of over 470 toy submissions. The list was whittled down to 66 finalists, which were given... Read more...

Majesco will publish the latest GameCube title in the series this fall, weird name intact.

'BOMBERMAN JETTERS' BLASTS ITS WAY TO AMERICA AS MAJESCO INTRODUCES LATEST EDITION OF TOP-SELLING FRANCHISE

EDISON, NJ, October XX, 2003 - One of the most explosive franchises for the Nintendo GameCubeTM returns as Majesco, one of the fastest growing publishers of interactive entertainment software,... Read more...

The audience is listening, and now it's playing, too.

While some people may think the new Star Wars movies aren't all they're cracked up to be, at least we can give George Lucas a pat on the back for creating THX, the company responsible for giving many movies the once-over in the audio department, making them sound great.

Now THX has extended an... Read more...

Atari has a new website set up for Mission: Impossible - Operation Surma.

Atari announced today that its official website for Mission: Impossible - Operation Surma is now up. The site features screenshots, videos, message boards, and more.

M:I - Operation Surma is set for release before the holidays on Game Boy Advance, while the GameCube version is arriving a little bit later, in 2004.

The GameShark line of cheating devices, now in the hands of Mad Catz, expands to Game Boy Advance SP.

MAD CATZ SHIPS GAMESHARK FOR

GAME BOY® ADVANCE SP!

- GameShark SP Loaded With More Than 15,000 Codes -

San Diego, California, October 1, 2003—Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. (AMEX/TSE: MCZ), the world’s leading third party video game enhancement and accessory manufacturer, announced today... Read more...

Sega of America is under new management yet again.

SEGA OF AMERICA ANNOUNCES NEW PRESIDENT AND COO

SAN FRANCISCO - (October 1, 2003) - SEGAÒ of America, Inc., fully owned

subsidiary of SEGA Corporation in Tokyo, Japan, today announced that Hideaki

Irie has joined SEGA of America as president and chief operating officer,

effective October 1, 2003.

Details are finally surfacing on Nintendo's first Bemani game.

Japanese gaming site Quiter (link above) is reporting that the new issue of Dorimaga magazine has a load of information on Nintendo's upcoming music game, Donkey Konga.

Apparently, up to four players can participate in the game's selection of 32 songs, which range from kids' songs to pop, latin, and dance music. There is also a game mode like Donkey Kong Junior; perhaps you control the younger gorilla by keeping up with the beat.

Nintendo's official website says so.

Nintendo of America's official website now lists a Q1 2004 release date for Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes. The game was previously expected to come out before the end of the year in North America.

Nintendo.com does occasionally contain errors, though we doubt it's the case here. However, PGC will be checking up on this story with Konami and Silicon Knights for confirmation and further information.

Asks, does my battery look big in this? Updated with shots from the show.

GAME BOY ADVANCE SP SHINES AT FROSTFRENCH SHOW

Game Boy Advance SP, the most stylish games console in the world, last night made its fashion debut at London Fashion Week.

Game Boy Advance SP joined in the fun at the star-studded Frostfrench catwalk show at The Royal Horticultural Centre, London.

Check out some brand new footage of Snake in his element.

Konami has updated their official website for Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes with the new trailer shown at the Tokyo Game Show. This new trailer shows off a ton of action sequences, which have been directed by acclaimed Japanese action film director Ryuhei Kitamura. Be warned though, because this trailer contains a good deal of spoilers. So, watch at your own risk.

Nintendo blazes into new market territory with a very interesting product.

China is well known as a breeding ground for software pirates and pirating tools, a fact Nintendo is all too familiar with. With its large population China is potentially a very lucrative market, however, and Nintendo proved its determination to reach Chinese homes yesterday at the Tokyo Games Show 2003 with its untraditional new console, the iQue Player. See the controller for yourself in this photo, provided by GAME Watch

Japan always gets the tasty goodies.

At TGS, Bandai is showing off special "Char" editions of the GameCube and GBA SP. "Char" refers to Char Aznable (aka "The Red Comet"), a character from the Gundam universe's Duchy of Zeon. Like most of these special editions, these red beauties probably won't make it out of Japan, but at least you can take a nice long look at them here thanks to GAME Watch.

Now you can get your link on without the mess.

Nintendo recently announced at the Tokyo Game Show a wireless link adapter for the Game Boy Advance and GBA SP. The device will allow players to link up just as if they are using a standard link cable, only without the wires involved. The adapter's signal can reach several meters, but no specific distance is known yet. It was developed in conjunction with Motorola.

It looks like Sony's snatched this one up for Europe, but PGC gets the full story on the US release.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) recently announced I-Ninja as a PS2 exclusive, releasing Q1 2004. We were surprised by the news, as Namco had already begun advertising the title for other platforms, and it seemed a bit late in the development cycle for such a deal.

We checked with... Read more...

One of Capcom's surprise TGS announcements is a new Mega Man RPG...this one starring Mega Man X and pals, and it's not for GBA.

Famitsu.com has a single screenshot and details on one of Capcom's big TGS announcements. Rock Man: Mission Command is an RPG for GameCube and PlayStation 2, to be released sometime in 2004 in Japan.

The game features RPG gameplay for the first time in the Mega Man X sub-series. Battles allow... Read more...

Straight out of TGS, an unexpected announcement from Square-Enix.

Going into the Toyko Game Show, most people were expecting two big pieces of info out of Square-Enix: Kingdom Hearts 2 and Final Fantasy VII-2. Well, both were shown (FF7-2 is actually a DVD movie, not a game), with the addition of another surprise.

Kingdom Hearts, the Disney-Square collaboration,... Read more...