At the GDC, Eiji Aonuma offered insights on recent developments in the Zelda series and teased the audience with a brief reference to the Wind Waker 2.

Wednesday afternoon at the Game Developer's Conference in San Jose, Nintendo's Eiji Aonuma delivered a lecture entitled "The Evolution of a Franchise: The Legend of Zelda" in which he presented a retrospecitve on the Zelda series, offered some ideas as to what makes a game "Zelda-esque", and shared some amusing insights on the development of recent Zelda games.

Starting this week and leading up to E3, you can get your game on at a university near you.

Video Game Tour Invades College Campuses!

LARGEST COLLEGE VIDEOGAME, PC & WIRELESS TOUR TO DATE

"2004 Spring College Tour" Features Top Unreleased Titles from Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Midway, U.S. Army, RockStar Games and Nokia

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - March 23, 2004 - Game Live Events,... Read more...

Split yourself up on June 7...

DID YOU KNOW? - ZELDA FRANCHISE GIVES BIRTH TO QUADRUPLETS

March 22, 2004 -- One hero just isn't enough to tackle the challenges found in The Legend of Zelda®: Four Swords Adventures™, coming June 7 exclusively for Nintendo GameCube™. So everyone's favorite champion, Link, uses the power of the Four Sword to split himself into four copies. The four Links must work together to save Princess Zelda™.

A major bug has caused Nintendo to indefinitely delay the latest GBA Kirby game.

Previously planning to release Kirby Mirror (Hoshi no Kirby: Kagami no Daimeikyu) just this week, Nintendo announced on Friday that a critical bug has been found in the game, forcing them to delay it until the problem can be fixed. They apologize to everyone who was planning on picking up the game for Spring Break.

For those of you who need even more space for your game saves.

According to Game Informer, Nintendo is planning on releasing a new official memory card for the GameCube. This new card will weigh in at more four times the size of the Memory Card 251. This card will hold 1019 blocks of memory. Finally, enough room to save a ton of Madden data.

This new card... Read more...

If you're seriously thinking about becoming a game developer, you might want to give USC a call.

ELECTRONIC ARTS ANNOUNCES MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR GIFT TO USC SCHOOL OF CINEMA-TELEVISION’S INTERACTIVE MEDIA DIVISION

Funds Will Expand School’s Global Leadership in Computer Game Research and Education

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 22, 2004 — Electronic Arts announced today that it... Read more...

Turns out that you don't have to purchase a GameCube to get the Zelda Collector's Edition disc after all.

Nintendo Australia has announced that existing GameCube owners will be able to get their own free copy of the Legend of Zelda Collector's Edition bonus disc. The offer closes on the 31st of May, 2004, and is as follows:

Current and New Members of the Nintendo website will be eligible to receive... Read more...

Nintendo announces "new" prices for GameCube in Japan, as well as some minor changes to the hardware. UPDATE: New information from Nintendo of America.

According to an official release by Nintendo Co. Ltd. in Japan, as well as a report by Famitsu's website, there are some changes being made to the GameCube in Japan.

The system's price has been modified to now include tax. The actual price points are unchanged, but tax will no longer be added on top, so this is effectively a price cut of a few thousand yen. The change will be effective on March 22nd.

Pikmin 2’s boxart may hint at a previously undisclosed feature…

A rather interesting logo can be seen on Pikmin 2’s Japanese boxart on the bottom right:

The logo resembles a GBA with an e-Reader attached to a GameCube. Nintendo has yet to comment on the game’s e-Reader support, but potential uses range from unlocking or uploading special items... Read more...

Japanese gaming mag Game Science reveals some new Nintendo tidbits.

Game Science has updated their site with a translation of the latest new from the Japanese video game magazine, Nintendo Dream. The article reveals quite a bit about what's coming up in Nintendo's future. Here are a few of the interesting pieces of information; check out Game Science's article for more.

PGC staff member Jeff Shirley, a.k.a. Deguello, has entered the terrible twenties.

Jeff Shirley

US Release Date: 03/17/1984

JPN Release Date: TBA

Our long-time Staff Writer and Release Date guru, Jeff Shirley, is turning twenty years old today, though he'll always be just a bit younger than the Famicom. And nobody knows what "Deguello" means, after all these years. But that's okay, we still love him!

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles is the top game of the month, and Nintendo reveals that the North American warehouse is out of GameCubes.

DID YOU KNOW? - NINTENDO CONTINUES TO DRIVE INDUSTRY GROWTH

March 16, 2004

What's driving the video game industry? Three words: games, games and games!

And who's driving the growth in the games market? Nintendo!

According to the independent sales data just released by the NPD Group, in February:

Well, more like three and a half, but Metroid Prime is dropping another $10 this April.

DID YOU KNOW? - NINTENDO BOLSTERS PLAYER'S CHOICE LIBRARY

March 16, 2004 -- A golf date with Mario is about to get a lot more affordable, as Nintendo announces a new MSRP for four popular Nintendo GameCube™ games, including Mario Golf™: Toadstool Tour. The games will join more than 35 other... Read more...

Australia plays catch up to the rest of the world and finally gets the bonus collector's disc.

Well, it looks as though the fabled Legend of Zelda Collector's Disc is making its way to Australia at long last. After months without an announcement, the Collector's Disc quietly popped up in Target's upcoming catalogue (18th - 24th March) as part of a GameCube bundle.

Taking up a quarter of the page on page 19 of the catalogue, the bundle comes with the following items:

Australian golfers had better get their putters prepared!

Nintendo Australia's site has been updated with details on their upcoming "Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour" secret challenges. Although US gamers have experienced similar challenges to these previously in Mario Golf 64 and Mario Tennis 64, this is the first time that a similar hidden competition mode has been added to the local release of the game. In previous titles, the Password Screens were removed.

It's the boxes. So hypnotizing... there is nothing in the box.... nothing in the box....

Now that Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes has been released, it looks like Konami is a little bit interested in finding out just who Silicon Knights are. So, they decided to send one of their secret agents to infiltrate SK HQ.

Sneaking around like a certain other Konami "agent" their man successfully... Read more...

It's a pool player's paradise.

PARADISE – FOR THE PRICE OF EIGHT PINTS

Ignition Entertainment Offers Latest Archer Maclean Opus At Mainstream Price

Monday 15 March 2004/... As Archer Maclean's Pool Paradise heads to the duplicators for final mastering, publisher Ignition Entertainment can reveal that the game – already... Read more...

Kodak's new Stereoscopic Imaging Display would be ideal for a new Virtual Boy...

Kodak Demonstrates Revolutionary 3-D Display System; Ideal System for Gaming, Entertainment and Other Intensive Visualization Tasks

Exhibitor Show 2004

Game Developers Conference

ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2004--Eastman Kodak Company today showcased a significant innovation... Read more...

Australia due to have four-player Final Fantasy soon!

FINAL FANTASY®: CRYSTAL CHRONICLES

Melbourne, Australia, March 12th 2004 – For the first time in over a decade, Final Fantasy® has returned to a Nintendo console. Final Fantasy®: Crystal Chronicles™, exclusive to the Nintendo GameCube™, launches nation wide on March 19th, 2004.

In a bizzare turn of events, Europe actually gets a game before any other country.

Rare's second Game Boy Advance game that disappeared off the radar for a while, Sabre Wulf, has finally resurfaced. The game is now available in European stores, with it being released in Australia next Friday (the 19th). Bizzarely, no-one's quite sure about the US release, with no solid release date confirmed at this stage.