Another Pokémon movie is slated to make millions for Nintendo in the Summer of 2001 (Japan).

Nintendo has announced the fifth movie in the Pokémon series: Pokémon: Serebei's Time Adventure (rough translation). The movie will open in Japan on July 7th. Of course, that's the same month that the GameCube is scheduled to launch in Japan. July looks to be a very good month for Nintendo and Nintendo fans alike, in Japan anyway.

La Femme Nikita is coming to "multiple next-generation consoles" with team based coop play to boot.

Infogrames, through a licensing agreement with Warner Bros., will release a La Femme Nikita game for multiple next-gen platforms. Players will be able to play as either Nikita or Michael (a member of an antiterrorist group). The designers intend to integrate action and cooperative team play over the course of multiple missions.

Xbox technologies just happened to register the trademark before M$... oh what to do now!?

No, it's not Bizarro World. Thanks to Magic Box, we're here to report more problems for X-Box. I don't want to seem like we're "system bashing" here at the Planet, though the state of the competition is relevent to Nintendo. On top of that, with rumors that Nintendo is afraid of Microsoft’s upcoming console, it’s good to point out reasons why it has no reason to be. Check it out:

I could do without Charlie Brown...

Infogrames have proudly announced that they have obtained the rights to create games based on & around Charlie Brown, Snoopy & other characters from the popular comic strip, Peanuts. The first title to be announced is Snoopy Tennis, slated for the Game Boy Color. Infogrames also have rights to do... Read more...

Yet another Player's Poll contest in Nintendo Power.

The Player's Poll contest has been a staple in every issue of Nintendo Power magazine since it debuted in 1988. The first grand prize back in 1988 was 10 games of your choice. What's the grand prize this month? Why, it's a trip to E3 of course! Nintendo will provide transportation for two to Los Angeles,... Read more...

Pretty please?

PlanetN2000 has been demanding a U.S. release of Treasure's Sin & Punishment ever since Billy (and many others) started giving rave reviews back at Spaceworld 2000. A high action shooter with tons of bosses and off-the-hook insanity, S&P features English voice acting & would be a perfect release for... Read more...

Paper Mario is da BOMB!

If you didn't already know, Paper Mario should be in stores now, ready for you to purchase! Billy is totally hooked on the game & if you read his recent impressions, you'll understand why he's thrilled. For even more details on the game, Nintendo's new Paper Mario site is now officially open. For those of you who have bought the game, share YOUR impressions via talkback!

Our aussie boy got published! Check it!

Congrats goes out to our Aussie correspondant Kosta Andreadis for getting on the staff of the Austrailan Mag, N64 Gamer. Not that you can pick it up here in the US...but if you are one of people down under make sure you snag copies of the January 2000 and the February 2000 issues to read his fine work. I just got the two copies of the mag in the mail and it's great! A very well put together Nintendo exclusive mag!

You win some, you lose some.

Since this is official I might as well post it. Two more people have been added to the Planet Team, one more person is gone and another person is taking a vacation. First off, welcome David Trammell (AKA Rize) to our group. You’ll be seeing a lot of content goodies from David this week and will find yourself agreeing that I had little alternative but to add this talented fellow to our already overcrowded ranks.

GBC carts will stick out the top of the Game Boy Advance...

IGN has posted some interesting GBA pictures from the Nürnberg Toy Show in Germany. One picture showcases the GBC and GBA next to each other. Two more pictures feature a lovely demo GBA cart, showing off how compact those things are. Yet another picture is of the Pokemon Yellow game being played... Read more...

Hitmaker wants to make younger oriented titles for the GC...(grr)

The fine folks at SegaWeb have posted some interesting information they gathered while visiting Sega's Hitmaker Studios. The team seems eager to develop "younger-oriented titles" for the GameCube. Although it is sad to see them consider the GC as a kiddie system while planing to create Crazy Taxi... Read more...

PlanetChat antics.

OK, so it’s super early in the morning and I’m kicking it in #planetchat with a few readers and all of a sudden, "BayouTapeWorm" drops a true revelation. Call me crazy, I had to share it with all of you.

BayouTapeworm: remember that thing that Bowser flew around in in the super mario world game? I just figured out what it is!

I hope I'm not wrong here cause this would be really cool.

Nintendo has updated their GBA section to include new shots of Mario Advance, F-Zero, Napoleon, and Golden Sun. Click the names to see the pics.

What really grabbed me was this screen shot.

This is obviously some sort of menu selection screen. What I believe this is stating is that... Read more...

Is Paper Mario all that? Billy sure thinks so. See all the drool...

First off, I have to admit, I have never played Super Mario RPG. So, when I first played Paper Mario, I was a Mario RPG virgin. After investing 8-10 hours into Paper Mario, I wish I would have played Super Mario RPG! Paper Mario is a must have for anyone that is a Mario fan, as well as either a casual or hardcore RPG fan.

The makers of Iridion 3-D show us what the GBA can do on the sound front.

An little known company out of German know as Shin'en, who is also developing Iridion 3-D, has released a demo of Game Boy Advance audio. The demo is running on the GAX audio software they have developed for the GBA. The demo mp3 they've released is super bombad impressive. It sounds truly epic and... Read more...

Mainstream press recognition of Nintendo before E³? What's going on here/

CBS Marketwatch put up a story today taking a peek at the future of Nintendo, specifically regarding the Gameboy Advance and Gamecube. There's no new info in it, but it's pretty interesting reading nonetheless. They asked various financial analysts in Japan about Nintendo and the results seem to speak... Read more...

Sega speaks in tones slightly less cryptic than usual.

Videogames.com have landed an interview with Charles Bellfield, vice president of marketing and corporate communications at Sega of America. While talking about Sega's restructuring and moving to "platform agnostic" status, he makes several comments of note. One such comment talked about which consoles would be heading to which consoles:

Square/Nintendo relationship still looking possible.

We got an interesting report saying that Square has responded to Yamauchi's recent statement. Here's what Square's president had to say:

"We're not expecting to be accepted by Nintendo right away, but we're doing everything to get the relationship positive again. The most important thing about... Read more...

Solid confusion.

The other day, I mentioned the news that Metal Gear Solid 2 will be the last MGS. Well, it seems that Hideo Kojima has repeated this, alongside news that Metal Gear Solid X (the version for X-Box) would be a mix of MGS2 and the first game. How exactly this will be done is unknown, though it seems... Read more...

Finally, a real Xbox comparison.

As if you didn't already know that the XBox is huge. At first we thought that maybe the Xbox/GameCube size-up might actually be showing how small the GameCube was. Now we see this picture from Daily Radar, of all places. If you thought the PS2 was big just wait till you see Microsoft's fat baby. The... Read more...