Japanese gamers will have to wait a little longer before getting their hands on the finished product.

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Sega and Sonic Team announced today that Phantasy Star Online Episodes I & II will be coming to Japanese stores over a month later than previously expected. The GameCube’s first online game is now scheduled for a September 12th release. Because of this delay, the... Read more...

Let's just hope Billy doesn't go crazy and order them all.

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According to our import partners, Lan-Kwei, Nintendo will be releasing a special edition Mario GameCube to celebrate the Japanese release of Super Mario Sunshine. The only picture revealed so far shows only the box that this special GameCube comes in. Also not known at... Read more...

Sega’s executives are looking to adopt a few publishers and make them a part of their family.

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In a very bold move, Sega has announced its plans to aggressively pursue the acquisition of other third party publishers in an attempt to become the second largest video game publisher in the United States this year and the largest by fiscal 2004. Sega of America Vice... Read more...

Planet GameCube is hosting its first ever Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Monkey Ball Tournaments during the Twin Galaxies’ Video Game Festival at the Mall of America.

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Planet GameCube is hosting it's first ever Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Monkey Ball Tournaments during the Twin Galaxies’ Video Game Festival at the Mall of America.

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A tentative list of what retro games we'll be getting in Sonic Mega Collection has surfaced...

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After digging around the net a little, it seems we may have found a tentative list of games that will appear on the recently announced Sonic Mega Collection. The info was posted by Intensity Magazine, who claim to have received a tip from Sega of Japan. The collection will include:

Why not play Zelda, Metroid, Star Fox, and Mario Party 4 when you're pickin' up your Mario Sunshine?

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Nikkei Financial Daily reports that beginning on July 19th, Toys R Us stores across Japan will feature kiosks with playable demos of Mario Party 4, StarFox Adventures, Metroid Prime and The Legend of Zelda.

Yes, note the fact that's the same day Super Mario Sunshine releases in Japan. It's no Spaceworld, but it's at least getting Nintendo's new games out in the public more.

Nintendo's Street Team have been chosen, and begin work this weekend.

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The Nintendo Street Team members have been chosen from the finalists and will begin this weekend visiting malls and other locations in their quest to promote the latest Nintendo games. Their uniforms will either be playable GameCube set ups with a 15-inch... Read more...

According to Professor Akio Mori of Nihon University, the longer people spend time on video games, the less activity they show in the prefrontal region of their brains.

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Universal Interactive's little purple dragon is finally going multi-console.

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Last year Universal Interactive announced that Spyro the Dragon would be going multiplatform, but no specifics were mentioned. Now the company has finally confirmed that their upcoming game in the series, Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly, will be available for GameCube as well as PS2. Hit the link above for the full press release, with a few details on the game itself.

Check out one of the weirdest GBA designs yet.

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According to GameSpot Japan, Nintendo is releasing a new GBA design to coincide with the July 13 opening of the newest Pokemon movie. The new GBA is alternately colored blue and red, with the primary casing blue and most buttons and triggers red. There are also small... Read more...

A company called Logik State has announced their 3D engine for GBA, with screenshots.

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UK developer Logik State is showing off its new 3D polygonal engine for GBA, with screenshots at the link above. The screens show a car racing demo and a snowboarding demo. These could eventually become actual GBA games, but so far there is no publisher for them.

This one somehow slipped under the PGC radar. A new Bubble Bobble game is releasing later his month!!!

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The name of the game is Bubble Bobble Old & New. For anyone who loved Bubble Bobble on the NES, this definitely sounds like the game for you. This new title has reproductions of all the classic levels from the NES game, as well as new levels made just for this version.... Read more...

The word on the street is that Super Mario Sunshine could be shipping from import stores early. Who the hell doesn't want to get their Shine on ASAP?!

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Various import stores are reporting that Super Mario Sunshine could be shipping 3-4 days early.

I spoke with our partner retailer Lan Kwei about this today, and they said that they expect their shipment of Super Mario Sunshine 3-4 days early.

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Here's a quick biography of Nalin Sharma, who conceived ZooCube.

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Acclaim UK sent out this press release with a lot of info on Nalin Sharma, president of Puzzlekings and creator of ZooCube. Thanks to Games Press for snagging it. PGC will have more on ZooCube and Mr. Sharma soon.

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Brits can expect to see lots of GBA ads in the coming months, because Nintendo wants you to play games in the sun.

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With summer arriving in full force and many people (although not necessarily us gamers) spending more time outside, Nintendo wants you to know that the GBA doesn't have to be left behind. The company's UK subsidiary is launching a marketing campaign in Great Britain,... Read more...

Amusement Vision is bringing Virtua Striker 3 v.2002 to arcades on Triforce hardware.

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Sega and Amusement Vision are bringing Virtua Striker 3 v. 2002 to Arcades, powered by Nintendo, Namco and Sega’s Triforce board. The game is a port of the GameCube title, and no updates or enhancements have been mentioned. It is currently unknown if the Arcade edition will be released outside of Japan.

To honor the release of the free soundtrack, we're having a listening party! LOUIE RADIO IS BACK AND BROADCASTING LIVE!

1) Make sure you have Winamp, Real Player,

Windows Media Player, or even iTunes for Mac users.

2) Open up one of those programs

3) Choose "Open Location" and paste this in the box:

http://www.live365.com/play/163792?membername=jonnyboy117&session=jonnyboy117%3A0&pid=1100&SaneID=24.8.178.75-988082068548&lid=803-usa

Europe's big game show unleashes it's first exhibitor list. Come check out who's plannin' to show the goods.

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TOP NAMES AT ECTS 2002

ECTS 2002 announces 100 exhibitors so far with seven weeks to go

Konami, Ubi Soft, Capcom, THQ and Activision are among the first of many huge names in the interactive entertainment industry to confirm they will be exhibiting at ECTS – Europe’s premier interactive entertainment expo - when it returns to central London from 29 – 31 August 2002.

Remember to throw the firecrackers after you light them.

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As usual, even though it’s a holiday weekend we’ll be keeping the updates coming. They might be a little sparse today and tomorrow, because I am urging the staff to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday. But we’ve got a couple things cookin’ for you this weekend. Don’t you worry. Like we can keep all this Nintendo love bottled up! Pfft.

We've got a bit of new info on the upcoming Mickey Mouse games in development at Capcom.

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Today Capcom confirmed to us that both Magical Quest Starring Mickey and Minnie for GBA and Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse for GameCube are being developed by Capcom in Japan, but will be published by Nintendo. This isn't really new info, but we weren't totally clear on the publisher situation, and we thought maybe some of you readers might be confused as we were.