One of the largest North American publishers is obtaining a new internal developer.

THQ, the publisher responsible for many popular wrestling and Nickelodeon-based games, as well as distribution of Sega's GBA titles over the next two years, will soon acquire Rainbow Studios as an internal developer. Rainbow Studios is known for Motocross Madness on PC and ATV Offroad Fury for PS2. They are currently working on Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX and Star Wars Racer II: Racer Revenge for other publishers. Here's the skinny from THQ:

We love Game Arts. Game Arts loves us. MORE LUNAR LOVE!

Game Arts is porting Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete to the GBA. It appears to be a port of the PSX/Saturn remake. Obviously there's going to be some things cut. Here's what The GIA had to say:

GameArts recently announced that it would be porting its popular title Lunar: Silver Star Story... Read more...

The mod to switch between JPN and USA GameCube software is found! MORE Details inside.

Big thanks go out to Raymond Souza ... also known as PsyCHo-RaGe, for the first details on the GameCube import mod. And big thanks to our source at Nintendo who let us know that this is indeed the real deal. (Razzes to Billy for refusing to do it to his Japanese GCN. Thhhhppppttt ...)

Raymond... Read more...

The developer of Dave Mirra BMX is currently working on an "agressive in-line skating" game for all next-gen consoles.

Today Acclaim Max Sports, a division of Acclaim Entertainment, announced Chris Edwards Agressive In-Line for all next-gen consoles. The game is being developed by Z-Axis, the company responsible for the highly popular Dave Mirra BMX and its sequel on PlayStation 2. (A GameCube version of Dave Mirra... Read more...

The awesome game columnist is back, and this time he has reviews on all 3 consoles.

If you've been reading PGC for any amount of time, you probably know who Steven Kent is. Kent is a writer for MSNBC.com who covers video games. He's extremely good at it too. His articles are always insightful and really cover the industry well, as opposed to most main-stream media. He has returned... Read more...

Two exciting handheld games from Lost Boys have received a publisher for two of its GBA games. Details within.

Lost Boys Games has just announced that Xicat will publish two of its titles – Black Belt Challenge and Invader. These games may not sound too familiar, but it’s because that they have both been renamed. Black Belt Challenge was formerly known as Fire-Eaters while Invader used to be known as Kaisertal. Both games are scheduled for a 2002 release for Europe.

Yes, that goofy Canadian bastard is now of legal age.

Mike Orlando turned 18 today. Mike is our Canadian correspondent and probably the tenth guy who has joined our staff that has the name “Mike.” Now that he is 18, we can actually get him into E3 ourselves instead of having him enlist in IGN’s rent-a-journalist program. Although Mike is usually... Read more...

Back at E3, it was announced Nov. 5th was the GameCube launch date. The upside is that we are now into the final drag!

As some of you probably well know, today was the day that GameCube was supposed to hit stores across North America. E3 2001 gave birth to a date, a launch date for GameCube which was specifically known as November 5th... At Nintendo’s pre-show press conference, Peter Main was asked if they were joking about this date and he said no. It seemed to be set in stone.

Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami has revealed his next project.

Capcom mastermind Shinji Mikami has been working on a top secret GameCube project since September. The game is an action-adventure title. It has quite the odd title though. It is called CAS Ra. Work on the title is said to be coming along quite well.

Many people who ordered Rogue Leader from Lucasarts.com have gotten the game in today. Now if only they had GameCubes...

Lucas Arts has begun shipping Rogue Leader pre-orders that were placed on their website. Many lucky (?) gamers have gotten the game today and are busy reading the instruction booklet and marveling at the tiny GameCube optical disc. Oh the torture!

Some of the more attentive ones have spotted... Read more...

Nintendo has begun advertising individual games. Read on to find out how the new commercials relate to the previous ones.

Nintendo has kicked off the next phase of their TV ad campaign by playing game specific ads for Luigi's Mansion and Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II (and possibly other games). We'll post links to movies of the commercials as soon as we can, but for now you can read the following description of the Luigi's Mansion commercial as spotted by PGC staff writer David Trammell.

Analysts estimate Microsoft losing $1 Billion before breaking even ...

A typically bad mainstream press article about gaming again ...

C|Net's News.com is saying that analysts estimate Microsoft to lose at least a billion dollars before managing to break even on X-Box, something that won't happen until 2004.

However, the numbers in the article are rough, and... Read more...

Hell yeah! Is it wrong? Naw! All is fair in love, war, and video games....

According to our good friends from Cloudchaser, the Panasonic Cube Club vehicles stopped by the Xbox Unleashed event over the weekend. Guerilla tactics rule! Here's the juice...

As a couple of our editors were straggling out of the New York City Xbox Unleashed event, they witnessed Nintendo... Read more...

That's what Nintendo is screaming today. Nintendo's looking to be rather profitable this year.

Due to cheaper GBA parts prices, Nintendo has announced that they will be seeing extended profits for the half year that ended in September. Read on....

TOKYO, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Japan's Nintendo Co Ltd said on Monday that falling prices for key components in its Game Boy Advance game console would boost its profits for the half year that ended in September.

Watch out, Billy! Two more colors are being made for Japan, though they aren't exactly new...

In order to provide all (Japanese) gamers with a color co-ordinated video game network, Spice Orange and Jet Black will be added to the GBA's already huge list of colors on December 14th.

If any Japanese colors are going to make it overseas, Jet Black will almost definately be among them.

Billy calls in from the Minneapolis Cube Club with info on the Darth Vader secret level in Rogue Leader ...

Billy took time to call and let us all know that he's seen the Darth Vader secret level of Rogue Leader first hand at the Minneapolis Cube Club.

It's pretty much like the Death Star Trench Run ... except from the other end. You're flying in Darth's Tie Advanced prototype, with control over wingmen.

Panasonic announced today that there are no plans to release its DVD player/GameCube hybrid in North America.

It has long been suspected that the GameCube/DVD hybrid, now known as “Q,” was a Japan-only product. These suspicions were confirmed today in a statement made by a Panasonic spokesperson, reports Reuters.

``It's simply a Japan device. ... Right now there are absolutely no plans for U.S. marketing,'' said Kurt Praschak, a Panasonic spokesman

Cube kiosks are hitting more stores across North America and we’ve got pictures!

Since breaking word that GameCube kiosks are finally beginning to appear, we’ve received several more kiosk-encounters from readers. Almost everyone who wrote in remarked how great it is to finally be able to play the GameCube. Thanks to Blinky's "R" Us for the pictures!

The craziest, most dedicated GameCube fans have shown just how far they’ll go to win a GameCube… And the winners have been selected.

Nintendo’s GameCube launch contest “What would YOU do for a Nintendo GameCube” has come to a close, with the five finalists all completing their wacky act of Nintendo devotion to walk away with a Nintendo GameCube early. Grand prize winner was Corey Olcsvary, who shaved his head, wore a leaf,... Read more...

We're putting the final touches on the PGC Spaceworld/Launch video, and we wanted to give you a little taste of what we’ve cooked up...

Just as our E3 video will be reaching your hands, we’re taking the wraps off our new Japan video. There are no price details, and we aren’t taking pre-orders. This time we’re not announcing jack until the video is complete, and ready to ship. We’ve learned a lot from our production woes of the E3 video, and we’re doing things a lot differently this time around.