The famed director was recently honored for his work with Starlight, which places Nintendo Fun Centers in hospitals for children.

Film director Steven Spielberg was honored Thursday night for his work as co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Starlight Starbright Foundation. Nintendo of America is another key partner with Starlight Starbright, providing portable Fun Centers (mobile kiosks with a GameCube and DVD player) for hospitalized children throughout North America.

It's time to wish Happy Birthday to Chris Bethea and David Trammell!

Here at PGC, we like to post these little notes when one of our staff members has a birthday. Well, today is a special occasion, with not one but TWO birthdays on the same day!

Chris Bethea started as our Japan Correspondent while studying abroad there. After coming home to the States, he's... Read more...

Nintendo Power talks online and shows off new titles.

Nintendo Power Volume 191 features a big DS blowout with more details regarding online plans for Nintendo DS, new games shown off for the first time, and several developer interviews.

The online announcement echoes Iwata’s GDC speech, with one important distinction: Nintendo is partnering with... Read more...

Watch Japanese women play with their very own Nintendogs.

Nintendo has recently updated their Touch DS site with the official Japanese commercial and diaries of two girls and their new puppies.

The commercial shows a woman coming home to a firelit living room and greeting her puppy - on Nintendo DS. A quick burst of gameplay footage and the release date are shown, and the new DS colors are displayed as well.

The Sonic spin-off is coming at the end of 2005.

SEGA SHINES LIGHT ON SHADOW

Action-Platformer from the Sonic The Hedgehog Series Features New Lead Character; Dark, Unique Story

SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON (March 23, 2005) – SEGA® of America and SEGA® Europe Ltd, today officially announced Shadow The HedgehogTM, an exciting new spin-off... Read more...

According to The European Games Developers Federation, Europe will lag behind culturally without sufficient financial support.

EUROPEAN GAME CREATORS PRESS THEIR RESPECTIVE GOVERNMENTS TO SUPPORT EMERGING CULTURAL MEDIUM

Brussels, Belgium, March 24th 2005 – The European Game Developers Federation, representing the video game creation communities in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Denmark and Netherlands, call on the Governments of its Members to financially support the video game creation industry.

NCL has just released a new video for the game, and it sure looks pretty.

It's the game that Nintendo-loving strategy fans have been waiting for. Fire Emblem for the GameCube will be released in Japan on April 20, but Nintendo knows that no one can wait that long. Thankfully, they've released a new video showing off some of the goods.

Click here for the video

Silicon Knights and SEGA are collaborating on a new franchise for next generation systems.

SEGA Partners With Silicon Knights To Create Next Generation Content

Acquisitions of Western Content Prime SEGA for Growth

SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON (March 23, 2005) – SEGA of America, Inc. and SEGA, Europe Ltd. today announced an agreement to acquire and publish next-generation game content... Read more...

Awful at games? Soon you won't have to put in any effort!

CodeJunkies have announced that their latest incarnation of their popular cheating devices will be soon be available for the Nintendo DS. The device is known as the "Action Replay Duo", because of its ability to cheat for both Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance titles. Here's the news from the CodeJunkies site:

Spike TV is holding an "open casting call" for fans of Metroid Prime 2 Echoes. You could get gaming swag and a chance to contribute to Metroid Prime Hunters!

Are you a Metroid Prime fan? Are you in the Los Angeles area on Monday? Well, you're in luck! Although the details are unclear, Spike TV is looking to for Metroid fans and will give away cool gaming stuff for your pad! All you have to do is bring photos of your home and be enthusiastic about Metroid... Read more...

Lots of sequels coming to all current platforms and next-gen.

Ubisoft released a list of most of the big titles planned for the next year, including sequels to the Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia lines as well as a few surprises such as a new Lunar game for Nintendo DS. Here is the full list.

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Students in Japan can apply to a ten-month game design course at Nintendo's Tokyo office.

Nintendo recently revealed a comprehensive "seminar" in which selected students will work regularly on a Nintendo DS game for ten months. Students will go through a rigorous application process, and apply for specific areas such as graphics, sound, programming, or directing. Nintendo is covering 100% of the cost for selected applicants.

Yep, the third game in Free Radical's marquee series has gone gold.

The GameCube isn't known for its wide selection of first-person shooters, but many Nintendo fans cherish their copies of Timesplitters 2, developed at Free Radical by some of the chaps who worked on Rare's legendary Goldeneye 007.

EA dropped us a line today to say that the third game in the Timesplitters series, Future Perfect, has gone gold and will be shipping on March 22nd. Here's a handy list of features according to EA:

Cowabunga, gnarly, etc. TMNT: Mutant Melee ships to stores.

KONAMI‘S TMNT™: MUTANT MELEE™ ARRIVES AT RETAIL STORES

The Ultimate TMNT ™ Party Experience Comes to Xbox, GameCube And PC

REDWOOD CITY , Calif. – March 17, 2005 – Konami Digital Entertainment – America, a division of Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., today announced that... Read more...

Our resident Release Date hound turns 21 today!

Big shout-out to Jeff Shirley a.k.a. Deguello, the guy who tries his damnedest to keep our release dates up-to-date and organized, who turns the big two-one today. (I think I just ran out of hyphens.) Jeff also volunteers to review a lot of games that no one else wants to deal with, always hoping to find that diamond in the rough (like Ninja Five-O). Bless your heart, Deg.

We may see AND 1's famous Mix Tape property coming to consoles very soon.

UBISOFT TEAMS UP WITH AND 1 TO BRING GAMERS THEIR OWN MIX TAPE TOUR

Adds Second Sports License to its Roster

SAN FRANCISCO - March 16, 2005 - Today, Ubisoft, one of the world's largest videogame publishers, announced that it has signed an exclusive licensing agreement to make videogames... Read more...

Marvel Nemesis is a fighting game combining Marvel superheroes with original EA characters created by comic writers and artists.

EA ANNOUNCES MARVEL NEMESIS: RISE OF THE IMPERFECTS

EA Taps Top Comic Talent Including Renowned Artist, Jae Lee, to Unleash the Ultimate Super Hero Fighting Videogame

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – March 15, 2005 – Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: ERTS) announced today that Marvel Nemesis™: Rise... Read more...

It's a dictionary! It's a translation tool! It's a brain teaser! It's a math tutor! It's all for your Nintendo DS!

Nintendo Japan has just announced three new games for the Nintendo DS. Well, they're actually not really games. They'd much better be classified as applications for the system.

The first, titled Nou o Kitaeru Otona no DS Training ("Brain Training for Adults on the DS"), will use the game's... Read more...

Now you can try to match screenshots and maybe win a Nintendo DS!

Nintendo has launched a contest in conjunction with WarioWare: Touched! Simply sign up, and you're entered to win. Then, try to find an item linked to each WarioWare: Touched! screenshot from the list of possible games. There's only a couple days left to play and win, so go check it out!

More fuel for the Nintendo inferno.

A new trailer for the hotly aniticipated Legend of Zelda has surfaced and can be found on the official Zelda website.