The puppy powered portable picks up two awards, but two other DS games are beat out in their categories.

The sixth annual Game Developer Choice Awards were held on Wednesday night, and the winners are in. Unlike the AIAS awards, Developer Choice awards are voted on only by game developers.

Nintendogs won the award in the Best Technology category, and also picked up a special Innovation Award. ... Read more...

The official full transcription of Iwata's speech, covering Brain Training development, Revolution development, how the "Virtual Console" will provide new opportunities to developers, and more.

2006 GDC KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Thank you so much for giving me the honor of speaking before you again this year. In my job, I have to talk to a lot of people, but as you all know, since I still have the heart of a gamer, I have the most fun talking to you!

Once upon a time, way back in the 1980's,... Read more...

Katsuya Eguchi confirms that the series is headed for Nintendo's new console.

In a presentation at the 2006 Game Developers Conference, Katsuya Eguchi, the producer of Animal Crossing and the DS sequel, Wild World, mentioned plans for the future of the series:

"Our next challenge is to think of how to bring Animal Crossing to the Revolution."

Although it sounds like the game is still in the conceptual phase, this should be welcome news for fans of the popular "communication game".

But the biggest Revolution secret will not be revealed for a few more weeks (E3).

In his GDC Keynote speech today, Satoru Iwata said he wants Nintendo WiFi Connection to be like mySpace in terms of ease of use and popularity. He also compared Revolution's Virtual Console service to iTunes and said that once other companies saw it, they jumped on board eagerly. This claim was... Read more...

Breaking news from Iwata's GDC keynote!

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is the name of the first Zelda title for Nintendo DS, which features cel-shaded graphics like those in Wind Waker. The game may in fact be a sequel to Wind Waker, as Michael Cole reports that the video footage showed a steam boat similar to the King of Red Lions.... Read more...

Lucky Jump Games has completed Garfield And His Nine Lives for GBA.

Garfield And His Nine Lives Goes Gold

Emeryville, CA., March 20, 2006 - Handheld videogame specialist Lucky Jump Games announced today that it has completed development on Garfield and His Nine Lives for Nintendo Game Boy Advance. The Game Factory selected Lucky Jump Games to develop the... Read more...

Konami celebrates with a veritable cornucopia of Frogger for the entire year.

KONAMI’S FROGGER TURNS 25!

One of The Most Iconic Characters in The Video Game Industry Celebrates

25 Years Of Jumping, Hopping and Dodging Traffic with

New Products and a National Sweepstakes

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – March 17, 2006 – Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. announced... Read more...

Recent reports have led us to believe that Capcom’s lawyer adventure is boosting its availability. Is it the truth? Updated yet again with availability and pricing info!

If you’ve had trouble buying a copy of Phoenix Wright, Capcom’s fantastic lawyer game on the DS, lately, you’re not the only one. Much to the chagrin of potential buyers, the game’s been out of stock with retailers for some time, due to low production numbers in the United States. There seemed... Read more...

Finally, 100% official confirmation that Twilight Princess will have special control features when played on Revolution. The creator of Mario also discusses New Super Mario Bros. for DS.

In an interview with Nintendo's European branch, Shigeru Miyamoto has confirmed a feature often mentioned and sometimes disavowed by Nintendo execs: that The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess will be playable with the Revolution's motion-sensing controller.

The full interview is available at the link above, but only for NOE's "VIP Lounge" members. For everyone else, here are the juiciest excerpts:

The same game as Pokémon Trozei, out in Europe on the 5th of May.

PUZZLE YOUR WAY TO FREE POKÉMON!

All the greatest Pokémon characters in one place

14th March 2006 – Get set to experience a whole new dimension to the world of Pokémon, as Pokémon Link! the all-new slide action puzzle adventure launches exclusively on the Nintendo DS. Providing an exciting new addition to the Pokémon series, Pokémon Link! is available across Europe on the 5th May 2006.

Celebrate 7 years of PGC by entering our contest! It's over! Winners will be announced this weekend!

As everyone should know, this month marks the 7th Anniversary of Planet GameCube. We’re so excited to present to you, our dearest readers, a wonderful new contest that’s bound to blow the roof off the Internet and let the bodies hit the floor.

We here at PGC believe in the corporate ideal... Read more...

The grand prize winner will be going retro with these goodies.

Earlier this week, we announced the big contest to celebrate PGC's seventh year of existence, and we promised that more prizes would be announced during the contest period. Now, we have confirmed a great set of prizes from our importing partner, Lik-Sang.

First, a very popular import game for the Nintendo DS system already included in the grand prize pack:

Matt from IGN explores a preliminary Revolution development kit.

It is well known that Nintendo has shipped over a thousand Revolution development kits and that many of those kits consist of peripherals for current GameCube development kits. Recently Matt Casamassina had a chance to study the development kit hardware.

While details about the preliminary kit... Read more...

Submit your questions now for Shigeru Miyamoto to answer in a web-chat at www.webchats.tv

On Friday 17th March, Shigeru Miyamoto will be taking part in a webchat on the website www.webchats.tv.

Questions may be submitted to him from the website starting from now, and you can watch him answer as many as he can on the 17th.

It is expected that he will answer questions about the Nintendo DS and the latest DS games including New Super Mario Bros.

The DS puzzle game Polarium gets a sequel to be released on GBA in Europe very soon.

Challenge Yourself With A New Puzzle Every Day Of The Year

Polarium Advance launches on the Game Boy Advance

07 March 2006 – If you like puzzle games you are in for a real treat this year, with the launch of the highly addictive Polarium Advance on the Game Boy Advance. What's more, this... Read more...

Seven? Are you kidding? That's about 120 in Internet-years!

Update: A little birdie told me that we actually started on March 7th, not the 6th...oops. So this article is getting post-dated. So much for quality control! ;-) Or maybe we're just becoming forgetful in our old age.

Planet GameCube began its tumultuous life as N2000HQ on March 7, 1999.... Read more...

Original Generation and Original Generation 2 heading to your GBA this year.

ATLUS U.S.A., INC. ANNOUNCES "SUPER ROBOT TAISEN: ORIGINAL GENERATION(TM)" FOR THE GAME BOY(R) ADVANCE

Giant Robots Wage Intergalactic War in Two Heavy-Metal Strategy RPGs

IRVINE, CA - March 3, 2006 - Atlus U.S.A., Inc., a leading publisher of interactive

entertainment, today announced the acquisition of the North American publishing rights to Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation and Super Robot Taisen:

Long lines, quick sellouts and a Nintendo apology.

Nintendo launched the DS Lite revision of the Nintendo DS hardware in Japan yesterday, and it should come as no surprise that just about every unit in the country was sold out in minutes.

Despite only one of the three Lite colors launching, the white DS, people still queued up in lines that were hundreds strong. Some even stayed in line when they knew that there was a good chance they wouldn't get one.

Not content with just the Dogz, Ubi gives cat lovers an option on the GBA.

UBISOFT TO PUBLISH CATZ® VIDEO GAME EXCLUSIVELY FOR GAME BOY® ADVANCE

Game Boy Advance Owners Will Get Their Paws on the First Kitten Simulation Game in March 2006

SAN FRANCISCO –MARCH 2, 2006– Today Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, announced that it will... Read more...

Whether it's at launch or in the months after, Midway wants in on the Revolution.

With the Revolution coming up toward the end of the year, many people have been wondering who else would come out into the open and proclaim that they'd be supporting Nintendo's new system.

Midway has been around the game industry for a long time now, supporting many a Nintendo console along... Read more...