Rumors have been flying around about Nintendo getting back into the arcade business. More fresh squeezed goodness inside...

Could we start seeing more Namco arcade ports? Looks like this may be a possibility. According to GameSpot Nintendo is working with Namco on Arcade hardware utilizing GameCube technology. Here's the juice....

GameSpot has learned that Nintendo is currently collaborating with Namco to create... Read more...

Tomorrow, Amazon will be holding its second online GameCube pre-orders. Better get ready!

About 10 days ago, Amazon.com held it’s first round of GameCube pre-orders, which sold out in 5 minutes. If you missed out, fear not. Tomorrow morning, Amazon will be holding another pre-order session. PGC reader A. Smith (AKA dilbert627) sent this email from Amazon in, which we figured we’d share with you:

NOA has posted its first GameCube commercial online, as well as a schedule for when you can watch it on TV!

Let there be no doubt, Nintendo is putting its GameCube promotion into high gear. Now hitting the airwaves are full “Born to Play” commercials. NOA’s website has posted a schedule of when the ads will air. For your convenience, we’ve reproduced the schedule below.

10/17 during South Park on Comedy Central 12:30-1:00 AM

Yesterday we told you EB online was doing pre-orders. As predicted, they sold out IMMEDIATELY.

With the ever-increasing GameCube hype, it doesn’t take Miss Cleo and her baby-eating psychic ways to foresee a sell-out. Yesterday, shortly after two GameCube pre-order packages were made available on EB World, the site quickly posted the following:

“Nintendo fans have spoken! Because... Read more...

Good news! Advance Wars plot for World Domination is still on track. PGC confirms Nintendo’s latest, greatest GBA game is not cancelled in Europe, nor discontinued in the USA.

Although reports in the UK Nintendo Official Magazine would have you believe that Advance Wars has been cancelled for Europe, it has actually been postponed until 2002. No further information has been released about the game or the reasons surrounding the delay.

The only first party GBA game for release in Europe this year is Wario Land 4, due for mid-November.

We're pushing out a new Mailbag! Get your last minute questions in to mailbag@planetgamecube.com!

Yeah. Do it.

Whaaaat? One of the best GBA titles this year is cancelled for European gamers?

Cloudchaser Nintendo says it all:

The british Nintendo Official Magazine has announced that Advance Wars "indefinitely cancelled" due to the events in New York.

Although it might still come out some time next year it seems unlikely.

Lufia. Sinistrals. Game. Heaven.

Nastume announced the other day that Lufia Gaiden was announced and is scheduled for release for Februrary 2002.

Take a look a the gorgeous graphics:

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The game will feature 4 player capabilities and as in Lufia II, you can train and use capsule monsters in battle. Also, the dungeons will be randomly generated: much like Lufia: The Legend Returns for GBC.

Jim Henson strikes again in the gaming world!

The award-winning children's show Bear in the Big Blue House has fallen into Ubi Soft's hands, and the company plans to bring the franchise to Playstation and both of Nintendo's next-generation systems.

Yves Guillemot, president and CEO of Ubi Soft, said, "Children are some of the toughest critics... Read more...

Probably by the time I post this, they will be sold out. Electronic Boutique has now begun to sell pre-orders for GameCube bundles, and more!

EB World is now selling pre-order bundles! Click

here to get over there to pre-order your GameCube bundles!

Here's what they have set up right now...

Indigo Bundle - $399.99

GameCube System in Indigo

Luigi's Mansion

Wave Race: Blue Storm

Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader

Having just returned from the local EB, Justin's here to say that quantities are limited and people are interested.

We've been reading the news of pre-ordering going fast and furious in both the on-line and local retail sectors... believe the hype, people want a Cube. What does this mean to you? Well, if you want one on launch day either you should be hauling your butt to your local EB with the $100 for putting... Read more...

Better than magazine scans, too!

The official Bloody Roar site has lots of new Bloody Roar Extreme screens up, check 'em out. Look around the rest of the site too, there's character profiles and something about a comic.

The PS2 may be flooding the list, but Nintendo is hanging in there!

Though Famitsu doesn't include every single retailer in Japan, their sales rankings are usually quite accurate. Below is the latest list for the top 30 (Japanese names). For games with two numbers, the first is the sales for the week, followed by overall sales.

2. Super Robot Wars A (GBA) 161272

From software has posted some beautiful wallpaper from their forthcoming GameCube title, Rune.

Just follow this link to From Software's site. Although it is in Japanese, you can clearly see the links "1024" and "640" to the right of each image.

Thanks to a very observant reader, we have the first screen of Darth Vader's Tie Advance in action!

A couple of weeks ago, PGC reported in this story that Darth Vader would be a playable character in Rogue Leader. Now we have a screen!

The screen was taken from yesterday's Rogue Leader 2 trailer (so pardon the quality). At about a minute and fifteen seconds into the trailer, you can see a brief clip of footage demonstrating the playable Tie Advance.

Come check out the ultimate Rogue Leader movie.

With Rogue Leader having gone gold just a few days ago, Lucas Arts and Factor 5 have assembled a final trailor showing off clips of footage from almost every level in the game (including a lot of previously unseen footage). The resolution of the video could be higher, and the music (which is not in the actual game) is very weird for Star Wars, but the new footage is absolutely stunning.

What's this? A Sega RPG on a Nintendo console?

Well Sega just updated their homepage and it shows "Eternal Arcadia" slated for GameCube in the future.

Better known as "Skies of Arcadia" in English territories, it appears to only be a port. Still, it's nice to see that Sega isn't afraid of putting an RPG onto Gamecube.

The two giant companies will co-publish 16 GBA titles between now and 2003. New game announcements inside!

Today Sega announced that they will be co-publishing all their GBA titles with THQ until 2003. The agreement includes 16 Game Boy Advance games, ten of which are still unnamed. The confirmed titles are:

Sonic the Hedgehog Advance

House of the Dead Pinball

Columns Crown

Puyo Pop

Unnamed Major League Baseball Title

The ever-increasing stable of GBA colors gets another resident ...

Thanks to a tip from Jon Li, we now have yet another GBA color coming out soon. The new color comes out on Oct. 27 and can be ordered online (presumably for Japanese residents only).

It's a very slick Silvery color ... kind of like the one in the picture below.

OK, it's EXACTLY like that picture. Japanese Readers can find more information at Tsutaya Online.

Best Buy HAD GCN bundles available ...

Best Buy had Bundles of Jet Black GameCubes left for preorder, but due to an interesting flaw in their bundle system, you could remove all of the bundled items leaving just the GameCube.

we've just ordered one ourselves, in order to test it. If Best Buy backs out because of the "unbundling," we'll let everyone know. This might have been a great option for those that just needed the machine, or wanted to take a stand against bundles.