Planet GameCube goes deep undercover to find out what the GBA Import Scene is like from the importers themselves.

In my quest to find out more about the possible early GBA launch, I talked to one Import Store employee who was rather talkative about the situation as a retailer, and an importer. He wished to remain anonymous. He likes his job. I don’t blame him. Wish granted. Meet Mr. AnonyMouse.

Planet GameCube: So what’s the situation like from the Import Store point of view? Was it hard to get systems to sell in the US?

The first Mailbag of Planet Gamecube is on its way! Send your goodies to mailbag@planetgamecube.com!

The first Mailbag of Planet Gamecube is on its way! In the meantime, we want some more of your questions. Send your goodies to mailbag@planetgamecube.com!

According to IGN, Dinosaur Planet is a lock to appear on Gamecube.

While not confirmed by Rare yet, "sources" are saying that Dinosaur Planet was scheduled to becoming a Gamecube title around November of last year, undoubtedly to help pad Nintendo's launch lineup.

No word yet on if the rumors are true, and Nintendo is pushing Rare to turn Dinosaur Planet into a "StarFox" title.

Nintendo's Vice President of Marketing George Harrison pointed to this in a recent interview...

When talking to IGNCube about a completely different issue (well sorta...), George Harrison was asked:

IGNCube: Do you have any estimate for the number of GameCube titles to be shown at E3 and, for that matter, to launch in the US later this year?

George Harrison: Around April 1 Mr. Miyamoto... Read more...

Nintedo is sending letters to retailers, questioning placement of X-Box promotional materials. Rick Powers covers the story ...

Under the guise of promoting industry growth, Nintendo is sending out letters to retailers, questioning the placement of X-Box promotional materials.

Nintendo says that it could damage overall sales by convincing potential buyers to wait for a product that may never arrive.

Nintendo answers some of the questions posed by this letter over at IGN, but this seems to be an odd way to capitalize on Microsoft's recent screenshot faux pas.

As if you didn't know. But here are some pics that compare the GBA cart to other stuff.

SwirlVision has stumbled on a Chu Chu Rocket! cart. So, they took the liberity of taking photos of it next to other stuff. Here's the juice:

There are 2 more pics over in the Chu Chu Rocket Art section.

The GBA launch is just 2 days away! Here's a very intense look at it from the business standpoint.

It seems like this week in Japan, all eyes are on Nintendo to score big with the launch of the Game Boy Advance. Is Nintendo on the road to clean up? Read on....

TOKYO, March 19 (Reuters) - Japan's Nintendo Co Ltd is set to ignite the biggest battle yet in the video game market with its long-awaited launch on Wednesday of Game Boy Advance, successor to the world's top-selling Game Boy handheld machine.

The GBA launch is almost upon us (especially so in Japan) and Majesco's going to help Ed try one early.

Thanks to Majesco and their Editor's Day event, I'll be getting a chance to play the Gameboy Advance even before my Japanese import arrives. I'm especially eager to try Iridion 3d, which has looked beautiful in the movies I've seen. Hopefully all their games will look and play well so I can be in GBA nirvana for an hour or two. Look for impressions and updated previews after the press event.

Well, GDC is going to be going into full effect in a few hours, it's about time Ed put up some pre-show thoughts.

GDC 2001 will pretty much mark my first year of being involved with PlanetN2000/PlanetGameCube. Last year, I went to GDC to attend some tutorials and volunteered to help Billy dig up any news on "Dolphin." Of course, I didn't find out much and actually missed the big "delay to 2001" announcement since... Read more...

SK's president hints at future GBA support.

In a recent post at IGN's message boards, Silicon Knights president Denis Dyack, who reportedly may one day be Louie's father-in-law, mentioned that his company is looking into GBA development.

"Hey Denis, I was wondering what you think of the GBA and also does SK have any plans to develop for it."

What is Broken Saints? What does it have to do with GameCube? What's going on behind the scenes? Louie knows.

The online comic Broken Saints has some kind of connection to Nintendo GameCube.

What! Early? Nintendo to break the date?

According to EAGB, retailers in Hong Kong and Singapore have already recieved their GBA's. But looks like the Nintendo Police want no date breakers....

A check with a Hong Kong source and a Singapore supplier, confirms that the GameBoy Advance is already here in Hong Kong and Singapore but Nintendo agents here have been given strict warnings not to release it until the 21st or risk losing their distributorship.

Planet GameCube is getting you all set up for GBA release week! New artwork!

Game Boy Advance is just days away from Japanese Launch, and PGC's got some new GBA promo art for your perusal.

Come check out official Promo artwork, and a new ad for the Limited Edition Pokemon Center GBA!

PGC offers you one of the rarest games of all time, and for the good cause of getting somebody to E3.

If you want to help PGC get Ty's financially-handicapped arse to E3, and/or want one of the l33test, rarest gaming collector's items of all time, well, look no further.

We're offering you Panesian's Peek-A-Boo Poker for NES. Very, very few copies of this exist. This might be your only chance to get one. And hey, it's for a good cause, why not? ^^

"Say it ain't so!" says Street Fighters.

The Nikkei Telecom 21 reports:

Capcom will withdraw from the diminishing arcade market within the fiscal year. From prospects that the arcade industry will not recover from its current downfall, Capcom will retreat from the arcade industry and focus their development on games for home consoles.... Read more...

Jonny Metts interviews Matt Casamassina. But we'd never print that garbage! I'm KIDDING! Actually, for their fun lil' chat, you have go grab the latest Nformant newsletter...Don't miss it!

As many of you know, Jon Metts, hard working preview editor of the Planet is also the founder of Nintendo fan site, the Nformant, an entity just a hair older than the Planet. In the latest Nformant email newsletter, Jon interviews our buddy Matt Casamassina, Editor-in-Chief of IGN64 and IGNCube.

The Tokyo Game Show will be the place to be if you're looking for GBA love...

A whopping 59 GBA titles will be shown at this years Tokyo Game Show. 59 titles! Actually it's the second highest amount of games for a system. Playstation (why?) is #1 with 82 titles. Playstation 2 is #3 with 45 titles on display. Only 2 N64 titles will be on display.

The Spring Tokyo Game Show begins March 30th.

Yo buss dis. Yeah baby! I gets yo exclusive X-Box pic right here! Come see what Rick wuz talkin about...

We gets a tip 'boutthis secret pictua from our bad assed frien' A. Sloet 'boutthis amazin screen shot from Micro$oft$ new X-Box! Check out how amazin dese graphics is! Sheez!

The upcoming prequel chapter to the Resident Evil series was announced as an N64 exclusive. Now that it's NGC, will it still feature this coveted status?

Despite recent plans to bring its big titles to all next-gen platforms, Capcom plans to keep Resident Evil: 0 a "Nintendo exclusive" RE-game.

The Mario games are coming out of order on the GBA.

It seems that Mario Advance 2 will be a remake of Super Mario World. Earlier, it was confirmed that Nintendo would be making a remake of SMB3 as well. Interestingly, Nintendo is not releasing the games in logical order, saving SMB3 for later. Expected to be released this year, we will have more information as it becomes available.