It was hoped that we would know more on GameCube import pricing by the end of this week. Here's a pre-mature look...

Buy Rite is the first US distributor to announce pricing plans for import Japanese GameCubes. There's no official price yet, but they are listing a tentative package price between $349.99 - $399.99. This package will include....

One import Nintendo GameCube console

One Controller

One digicard

There are now technically more announced Batman titles for the GCN than Mario Brothers games. Yay?

Ubi Soft announced today that Batman: Vengeance and Disney's Tarzan will make their way to the GameCube. No dates were announced for the two titles, but the two games should hopefully arrive within the GameCube's first year. While both games are currently also under development for the PS2, expect Ubi Soft to reveal some GCN exclusives in the near future, as there are still a whopping 17 other games to come from the French publisher.

Some rather disappointing news, as well as a plea for your help! Free pizza? Naked chicks? CLICK NOW!

Dear Planet GameCube readers,

As you’ve noticed, we’ve got a Pay Pal ad up on our website asking for donations to help get us to Space World. I’d like to thank the 10 people out there that donated money already. Planet GameCube not only is a lot of hard work to keep going, but it costs us quite a bit of money for server costs, and taking trips to E3, Space World, etc.

Activision is bringing Minority Report to every next-generation console and GBA!

Yesterday, Activision announced that they have earned the rights to the upcoming movie "Minority Report," a science fiction film featuring Tom Cruise. Activision has the rights to next summer's Speilburg film for five years on every console and the PC, and will no doubt take advantage of it. Below is a quote from Activision's press release.

In a translated interview from Nintendo Dream, the presidents of Sonic Team & Amusement Vision talk about likes, dislikes and other cool stuff.

Over at ye ol’ Tendo Box, the “Galloping Gaijin” has struck again with his latest column. As part of it, he runs a translated interview with Sonic Team president Yuji Naka & Amusement Vision president Toshihiro Nagoshi from Nintendo Dream magazine. These two Sega legends will be showing off their GameCube projects at Nintendo’s fast approaching SpaceWorld show but here reveal a more personal side… Enjoy!

Price Fixing is bad, m'kay ...

In what amounts to a slap on the wrist, Japan's Free Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered Sony to stop the practice of pressuring Wholesalers and retailers to sell it's PS2 at specific prices, a practice known in the US as "price fixing."

Why is price fixing such a big deal? It denies a retailer... Read more...

We are almost done editing the video & moving to production. Yay! So what’s next? What are some of the highlights of video? How much longer until it is done? The answers are here.

Since a long time before E3 2001 took place, we were planning and pimping our E3 video. Well, it’s been a long and crazy road since then. However, the next two days should see the E3 video getting out of my hair, and into production. I am very happy to be able to say this!

Rob Avery and... Read more...

Namco's super-popular fighter will make it's debut at Space World, on the Game Boy Advance.

Nintendo Company Limited updated their Space World software lineup list. Added to it was Tekken. "Tekken" is currently a working title and will probably change. But most likely, the new title will have the word "Tekken" in it. More info will be available close to Space World.

Audio of the event is now online!

Bellow is an MP3 featuring the last six and a half minutes of the Pokemon Spelling Bee. Check it out to hear Ben pronounce Pokemon names (and sometimes get corrected)! Any MP3 player should work... just click to download!

Gotta spell them all! (1.1 MB)

LucasArts lets another company publish Rogue Leader in Japan.... with Japanese vocals!

New information regarding Rogue Leader has been revealed. It seems the Japanese version, scheduled for a late December release, will feature Japanese vocal acting to go along with the translated text! Interestingly, LucasArts has announced that it will not publish the title overseas: EA/Square will do the job instead. For not supporting GCN yet themselves, Square seems to be publishing quite a lot of GameCube titles...

Not entirely unexpected just a couple weeks before SpaceWorld, Nintendo's server buckles due to a hardware problem ...

Registration was scheduled to begin this morning at 11AM Pacific Time for Camp Hyrule, Nintendo's week-long online chat event for gaming enthusiasts.

However, server problems have forced Nintendo to reschedule registration for 11AM tomorrow. Why all the fuss about Camp Hyrule?

That's simple... Read more...

Gigantic Japanese publisher of Castlevania buys a stake in the creators of Bomberman. Gothic multiplayer insanity: Q3 2002. Joking.

Konami, the largest third-party game publisher in Japan, has bought out 38% of Hudson Soft, making them the major shareholder. Hudson is probably best known for the long-running Bomberman series.

We heard this as a rumor last week, but now the Magic Box has confirmed it. Konami has generally... Read more...

The PGC Server is getting worked over like Billy on his Birthday. Read on to find out why ...

Folks, the Planet GameCube server is getting hit HARD today, harder than usual. And the reason why is simple. We've been Slashdotted.

It's actually quite an honor. Slashdot is the foremost resource for the high-tech industry, and getting Slashdotted is quite the sign of respect. Unfortunately, that means that you all get to learn about ... The Slashdot Effect.

True believers beware, new shots from Rogue Leader are worthy of losing all bladder control.

YOU MUST GO TO IGN CUBE NOW! New shots from the Hoth level of Rogue Leader is all that has to be said but if you're still reading all one can do is try to stammer out a sentence while drool puddles on the desk below your frothing mouth.

Nintendo Select Infinium CRM to do.. Market stuff... And Web-based... Aww heck.. Just read the article.

Albeit written in greek, Nintendo has a new marketing firm. Here's the goods from Core Magazine...

Nintendo has selected Infinium CRM to power its Retail Marketing Program in an effort to maximize channel marketing efforts and enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty. As part of the strategic... Read more...

Nintendo shells out the big numbers for North America. Plus: Japanese launch colors confirmed.

As originally reported by Nikkei News, then revealed to us by the Mips36 Nintendo GameCube News Page, and finally clarified by GameSpot VG (whew!), here are new GameCube launch details:

- The Japanese launch will consist of 500,000 units, all purple.

- Further colors will be available at a later time in Japan.

We still don't know jack about Rune for GameCube, but at least now we know who's making it.

Nintendo's Japanese Space World site updated today with the name of the company behind the recently announced Rune. The developer is From Software, a Japanese company traditionally affiliated with Sony.

This still doesn't give much insight into what Rune might be, but From Software has experience with mech-combat games (Armored Core) and RPGs (King's Field, Evergrace).

Before E3, PGC told you LucasArts was planning a second Star Wars game for Cube. Now it’s been confirmed & will be based on Episode II!

Thanks to IGNCube, we have a report that confirms a second Star Wars game is in the works for GameCube, something PGC told you about just before E3. As suspected, the next game will utilize the Episode II license. LucasArts’ President, Simon Jeffery, confirmed the game’s existence during an... Read more...

There've been crazy, yet exciting rumors regarding Sega & Nintendo recently. Find out what Sega prez, Peter Moore had to say about two of them: a Sega/Nintendo RPG & Sonic in SSBM...

Ever since Sega left the hardware business and even months before, there have been rumors of exciting possibilities involving Sega & Nintendo. Just a little under a year ago, there was a rumor of a Nintendo / Sega RPG in the works. There have also been rumors of Sonic the Hedgehog appearing as a hidden character in Super Smash Bros. Melee, a possibly well chronicled in our Smash Melee preview & discussed in our latest Mailbag.

Rick's gotten questions about his scores for ChuChu Rocket, so he takes some time to explain how our review system works ...

I've gotten several pieces of mail from folks wondering why my scores for Graphics and Control in my ChuChu Rocket review were so low.

First, they're my opinions. Those scores are absolutely arbitrary, and reflect how I felt the game did in those areas at the time I wrote the review.

Second,... Read more...