ieMag corners Beth Llewelyn and gets her to explain why on earth Nintendo would launch a console without Mario ...

ie Magazine, like most of us, was baffled when Nintendo chose to change a legacy of launching new machines with a Mario title by ditching the plumber for his brother.

Determined to get to the heart of the matter, ieMag interviewed Nintendo's Public Relations Director, Beth Llewelyn, about why Nintendo made that decision ...

We still get e-mails about Square daily. More news why Square and Nintendo won't be getting in bed any time soon....

Magic Box has a report from Bloomberg stating some of the reasons why Nintendo and Square still aren't seeing eye to eye...

Bloomberg reported that Square and Nintendo have been exchanging ideas on developing for the Nintendo platforms. At the current state, Square does not have plans to develop... Read more...

Bloody Roar gets a publisher, and a tenative release date! Enter for the full details!

ACTIVISION ACQUIRES PUBLISHING RIGHTS TO BLOODY ROARÔ: PRIMAL FURY FOR THE NINTENDO GAMECUBE

Popular Fighting Series Makes Its Debut On A New Videogame System

Santa Monica, CA - December 12, 2001 - Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) announced today it has acquired the worldwide publishing... Read more...

Sega is releasing Columns Crown in Japan this week. How about getting to try it out now for free?

Flash games are getting rather predominant around game releases. This one isn't that bad! Click

here to test out Columns Crown! Advance Columns (the US version) will be released in North America on January 24.

Do you like gardening? Do you like Pikmin? Do you like combining totally disparate markets into one really clever marketing scheme?

We all know that the Pikmin concept started while Shiggy was working in his garden, right? Well, now you can relive that experience and maybe find your own inspiration in the dirt. Nintendo is teaming up with S&G Flowers/USA to release a totally new breed of flower in April 2002...and they shall... Read more...

Ty Shughart said it best. You didn't get your GameCube yet? No worries. More Cubes on the way!

NCL said today it would be increasing its GameCube shipments 13% for this fiscal year. Originally, the company had planned to ship four million units by March '02; now they will output an additional 520,000 systems for a grand total of 4,520,000 by March. Most of the boosted shipments will go to... Read more...

Spaceworld 2001. The NCL Building. The UNIQUE Japanese GameCube Launch. 100% Nintendo goodness. 2 CDs! 4 HOURS! And it's shipping NOW!

SHIPPING NOW! It's Planet GameCube's Japan Experience 2001! Experience Spaceworld 2001 through our eyes. Visit Nintendo Co. Ltd. up close and personal! Watch the GameCube's VERY unique Japanese Launch as it happened.

An experience like we've never had before. Want a preview of video gaming Utopia? Click here to download the 5 minute trailer! (13 megs, Actual product has TWICE the picture quality.)

It's not coming out until 2006! Too bad suckas! Kidding...relax. Take your meds and get ready for a heck of a Spring.

According to Games Radar (the new version of Daily Radar UK) Nintendo has reconfirmed that the GameCube will be hitting the UK in the Spring of 2002. Here's the skinny...

Nintendo have finally confirmed that Gamecube will hit shelves in the UK this spring. In typically understated fashion, a... Read more...

James Pond used to be a big fish on 16-bit platforms, and his startling comeback is sure to excite at least a few gamers.

Swing! Entertainment and Creature Labs have announced the workings of not one, but two James Pond titles! Always a multiplatform critter, James Pond will make his fishy reappearance to the gaming scene in late 2002 via "James Pond: Codename Robocod," a GBA remake of the second James Pond game (Super... Read more...

The latest Famitsu stats are in.

Famitsu #679 stats

Even though Dengeki and Media Create's stats for the week 11/19-11/25 were released earlier, Famitsu has only now recently released their list.

Hardware sales (from John Ricciardi's homepage)

Gameboy Advance - 31,083 (total: 3,516,218)

Gamecube - 129,377 (total: 428,788)

Check out one of the most thorough and practical GameCube hardware analyses we've seen.

AnandTech.com has a new piece-by-piece analysis of practically every component in the GameCube hardware.

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1566&p=1

There are lots of real-world comparisons to the Xbox hardware as well, for those interested. The gist of the article is that GameCube... Read more...

The Pikmin have arrived—in more ways than one! Teams of colorful costumed ant-like plant creatures have been spotted in a handful of public appearances.

Corey Olcsvary may have been the first “human Pikmin,” but you had better believe that he isn’t the last! Now that Pikmin is available, Nintendo has dispatched its own squad of costumed Pikmin people, and the critters are popping outta the ground at events all across the country! Here’s the info:

The SD Memory card itself has been added to Nintendo's list of GCN peripherals. What can be deciphered from this new page?

The SD Memory card and adapter have been the most elusive GCN peripherals since they were first announced. Nintendo has now added a SD-Card page to compliment its old SD-Adapter page. The heading reads, "Increase your memory capacity!" while the description claims, "Using the SD-Memory Card Adapter,... Read more...

Check out the commercials for Nintendo's two newest GameCube games!

Nintendo has posted two more GameCube commercials on its site featuring the lovely Super Smash Bros. Melee and Pikmin. Both movies rank in at 5 MB and require QuickTime. If you haven't seen them yet on TV, be sure to check them out online. Better yet, download those suckers to your HD for easy access all the time!

Get ready to drool like a zombie at a brain eating contest over this new Biohazard media from Capcom.

New Biohazard media is up for your viewing pleasure from your pals at Capcom. There is plenty of images and movies to check out, but here are some must see flicks in several sizes. Right click, save, and enjoy! Pick your poison:

Jill Valentine in action:

(160x120)(8.6 MB)

(320x240)(16.6 MB)

Konami's keeping busy these days with their ESPN titles and others. What's in the pipeline for GameCube and GBA lovers?

January 2002

-ESPN Winter X Games Snowboarding -- GBA (Jan. 17)

-ESPN International Winter Sports -- GameCube, GBA (Jan. 29)

February 2002

-Yu Gi Oh! Dark Duel Stories -- Game Boy Color (early Feb.)

-Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars (formerly ZOE: Testament) -- GBA (Feb. 12)

March 2002

Well we new this last week, but Rogue Leader was the #2 selling game for the GameCube launch. Now we present...TEH PRESS RELEASE!

LUCASARTS' STAR WARS ROGUE SQUADRON II: ROGUE LEADER BLASTS AWAY

COMPETITION IN FIRST WEEK OF SALES

Star Wars Flight Action Game Debuts as Top Third-Party Title,

Second Overall for Nintendo GameCube

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- December 5, 2001 -- Star Wars Rogue Squadron

II: Rogue Leader, from LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC, blasted apart

As if SSB:M wasn't bringing enough happiness into your life already.

The fine folks at Penny Arcade have seen fit to tackle Nintendo's latest and greatest game with their usual wit and such.

Foul language warning! Check it out right here. While you're there, look back into their archives to see some other great stuff on the recent console launches and other popular games. Don't forget to visit the well written main page too.

Better than Star Wars Episode II trailer? It's true. Check out the next PGC blockbuster coming to a PC screen near you...

It's on it's way to the distributor as I type this. More information about our Japan video coming later this week, including pricing, and complete ordering details. Just in case you haven't seen it before, we've decided to re-post the trailer.

Mike Hrusecky has taken all 328572394825 hours of footage that I gave him, condensed it all into a SWEET two CD set, and put together a 5 minute trailer.

Toshihiro Nagoshi, the President of President of Amusement Vision will be delivering one of the keynote speeches at next years GDC! All the goods inside...

For the past couple of years Nintendo hasn't been all that involved with the annual Game Developers Conference. This year doesn't look that much different so far.

One of the things Nintendophiles should look forward to is the President of Amusement Vision, Toshihiro Nagoshi's keynote speech on level design. A look into the mind of the man who helped design Super Monkey Ball's levels should be interesting indeed.