A couple different things have been going around, so here’s some solid info on the next blood-spilling, spine ripping installment of Mortal Kombat.

Last week, the Younger Plumber posted this story regarding the fifth installment of Mortal Kombat. I knocked the story off the front page (“C’mon TYP, we confirmed this ages ago”) yet the press release was recent and the report was being posted elsewhere. This caused a couple people actually write in asking about what was up with Mortal Kombat 5 on GameCube.

...and hoo boy do they have some GC lovin to spread around!

Tendo Box's Japanese correspondant Steven Langhorn regales us all with an interview from the latest Famitsu, with Yuji Naka of Sonic Team, and Toshiro Nagoshi of Amusement Vision.

Yuji Naka: (laughs) I want to do something interesting now because I'm working on GameCube.

Famitsu: Will it be possible to play Dreamcast users [on the GC port of PSO]?

Nintendo's latest issue of Nintendo Power doesn't just talk about the upcoming Nintendo titles. Nintendo talks frank about the emulation scene as well ...

In Volume 145 of Nintendo Power magazine, there is a letter to NP talking about emulation (a follow-up to a question from Volume 143). The author basically says that copying a ROM that you own is legal, and brings up the "24 hours rule. Lastly, they also suggest that it's OK to copy games if they are not available in stores any longer (and are, therefore, public domain). Here's Nintendo's response, in it's entirety:

NCL's Director and General Manager Satoru Iwata talks about online gaming, Super Smash Brothers Melee, SpaceWorld and more!

The editors over at IGNcube recently had the chance to sit down with a few good men over at Nintendo, mainly Mr. Iwata, Perrin Kaplan, and Jim Merrick. The chat revealed a few details about Nintendo's upcoming online strategy, among other things.

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Nintendo's "Main" man sits down for an interview with c|net. See what he has to say.

Nintendo's Executive VP, Peter Main, recently sat down with David Becker of c|net News.com to talk about Nintendo's stance on the next generation of video games. The interview is quite good and talks about a wide scope of topics. Everything from handheld gaming to what Mr. Main thinks is totally wrong with the industry.

Mike S got his new NP issue today, but something is missing.

I've been waiting for the June issue of NP for quite some time now. According to the May issue, all subscribers were to receive a free copy of Nintendo's new magazine, Nintendo Power Advance. Well, I sure didn't. The new NP is looking slick. The logo has changed (actually, it changed a few issues... Read more...

The fellahs at PGC wanted to say thanks to a couple people, organizations, and a few material things for their love at E3 2001. In memory of E32K1 we give thanks....

E3 2001 has come and gone. The staff of Planet GameCube want to thank all the people, things, and organizations that helped up with everything we needed. Without further ado, here are our sincere thanks!

Billy would like to give thanks…

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Our CloudChaser brothers at RareNet have had a tough year so far, but things are looking good for a comeback.

A few days ago the guys at RareNet posted a notice about the status of their site, saying that myriad server problems have plagued them for the past few weeks, but they're looking for a new server and will soon "relaunch" with a couple new features and somewhat regular updating. This is despite some talk that the site was shutting down for good. We're glad to know that RareNet is still alive and will soon be back in business!

Nintendo NCL posted the price of the GCN hardware, but Camelot has stated the price of the software.

Camelot has posted the Japanese GCN Software price on its most recent news update. It seems that the magical number is 6,800 Yen. That's about $56 US. Not too bad, considering games usually cost more over there.

NCL is set to stop shipping opaque GBA colors in Japan.

According to The Magic Box, Nintendo has decided to unify GBA color selections by taking the opaque Japanese models off the market. TMB says this will take place "after April"...dunno if that means now or starting May 2002. Anyway, those solid purple import GBAs might be a collector's item before too long!

Though we already knew it existed, the new issue of NP has further confirmed a GameCube Bomberman and its multiplayer support.

The newest issue of Nintendo Power contains a whole section about GameCube (damn, time to renew...), and nestled within that section is a little morsel of info that we thought you'd like.

"Hudson has created Bomberman for Nintendo GameCube--another title that's big on multiplayer interaction."

Earlier this week, NCL’s President, Hiroshi Yamauchi had a question & answer session with a Japanese newspaper. Check out his post-E3 thoughts!

With E3’s true debut happening at E3, many might wonder what Nintendo’s President, Hiroshi Yamauchi might have to say. Well, thanks to iemag (formerly GameWeek) translating an interview, we now have the answer!

The following is a question and answer session between the Nihon Keizai Shimbun and Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi, regarding the highly anticipated next-generation game console from Nintendo, the GameCube:

Konami and Universal Interactive are trumpeting Jurassic Park III in a big way, with three different GBA games based on the upcoming movie!

Last week during E3, Konami announced that it would bring not one, but three games to the Game Boy Advance based around on Universal Pictures’ and Amblin Entertainment’s upcoming Jurassic Park III, the third installment in the studio’s most successful film franchise ever, scheduled for release on July 18, 2001.

Game Boy.com adds new "America, Advanced." portion to Gameboy.com. But where the hell are they going?

Nothing that new here, but they've added a new animation. Hopefully they'll be updating while they are in DC so we can track them down.

Could the truck house a GameCube for demo purposes. Planet GameCube will be decending upon Washington D.C. this weekend to try to locate Team Advance. Where exactly they will be is still unknown...

One of PGC's readers emailed Treasure regarding Sin & Punishment and got a response! Here's what Treasure had to say...

I just got this email from reader “jazz411” who emailed Treasure regarding Sin & Punishment. Since I became addicted to the game during E3 (Billy brought his import copy) I’ve been hoping that the game would make its way to North America. Clearly, I’m not the only one. Here’s jazz411’s email!

$150 bucks can buy you the hardware to illegally duplicate GBA games. Nintendo can't be happy about this. Full details inside.

I came across a site that will be selling an item called the Flash Advance Linker, and the Flash Advance 64M card.

What will you be able to do with these items?Here's the specs for the linker...

-Highspeed printer port connection

-Can be used with 4 AA standard batteries

-Cool transparent design

Mortal Kombat 5 is official--and it is preferred for GameCube.

Midway recently put out a press release during E3 stating that Mortal Kombat 5 is in the works:

This new version of Mortal Kombat is scheduled to ship for Nintendo GameCube™ and other next-generation game systems in Fall 2002.

Midway went on to mention:

This title is not yet proposed to Sony Computer Entertainment America.

If you thought the new GBA ads in the US were cool, check out what the people see on the other side of the pond.

Euro-Nintendophiles are seeing some excellent new GBA ads pop up on TV and in magazines.

A cool new slogan is featured inside, "Gaming 24:7". Hell yeah brother! Will the US get this new phrase? This looks to be used instead of the "Life Advanced" campaign.

Interesting how these ads seem to target a much older demo. Advanced Peeing? Not really for kids. NOE seems to be a little more gutsy with their advertising.

Tonight on TechTV they will be airing more footage from E3 2001. Keep it on in the backround while you lose at Trivia!

Tonight at 8:30pm Central TechTV's "Extended Play" will be airing the rest of their E3 2001 footage. MMmmmmmm. E3 TV is such good TV!

Extended Play should have a lot more footage than was shown earlier on their program Fresh Gear.

If you live one the west coast and 6:30 is a bit early for you, don't worry. The show will rerun at 11:30pm and 2:30am Central time.

Nintendo plans to sell four million GameCubes by March 2002, along with ten million GameCube games. Lots of numbers await inside...

Early this morning in lieu of its financial meeting, Nintendo Co Ltd forecast a 41.7 percent jump in its group operating profit in the current year to March 2002 to 120 billion yen ($999.7 million) upon its launch of the GameCube system, on September 14th in Japan and November 5th in the U.S.

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