Andriy Shevchenko, Fernando Morientes, and Oswald Sanchez to grace this year's box art.

ANDRIY SHEVCHENKO, FERNANDO MORIENTES AND OSWALDO SANCHEZ ANNOUNCED AS COVER ATHLETES FOR EA’S FIFA SOCCER 2005

Soccer Stars from Around the World Endorse Best-Selling EA SPORTS Soccer Franchise

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Monday, October 4th, 2004 – Electronic Arts (Nasdaq:... Read more...

PGC attends the sold-out show at The Wiltern Theater.

Sunday night, Nintendo’s Fusion Tour stopped at The Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles with a rather large caravan of tour busses and semi-trucks. We attended to see what Nintendo has cooking on this tour, and were pleased to eventually learn that the show had been sold out.

As we drove up,... Read more...

Namco has posted Japanese sites for Pac Pix and Mr. Driller DS.

Namco recently opened new sites for both Pac Pix and Mr. Driller DS.

The Pac Pix site gives a basic rundown of how the game works, showing how to draw Pac Man, and how to make him turn directions. You can also make Pac Man stop by touching him with the stylus after you've drawn him. Completely... Read more...

A new character is revealed, and a bunch of frighteningly beautiful screenshots are now up on Capcom's personal webspace.

The official Resident Evil 4 website has been updated with a few interesting tidbits of info for those who can't get enough of it.

A new character profile has been added. Apparently, the village that Leon makes his way to in the game has a chief. The individual featured in the profile is also... Read more...

Nintendo’s Japanese Mario Tennis page is up, showing off some of the game’s characters, the control system, and in-game footage.

Today Nintendo posted its Mario Tennis GC website for Japan. Along with an explanation of its simple controls (borrowing from the N64 and GBC games) and the different character types, the site has screenshots and a video featurette showing off the game’s different modes and courts.

Interesting... Read more...

Four years after the game's release, a new game mode is unearthed. Dust off your Nintendo 64!

Well, who would have thought it? Turns out that after all these years, there was still something hiding in Banjo-Tooie. The secret is actually a new game mode called "Bottles' Revenge". In it, the evil spirit of Bottles the Mole follows the players throughout the world of Banjo-Tooie as they play.... Read more...

Another 3rd party manufacturer pledges to provide cases, styluses, headphones and more.

Hip Gear(TM) announces full line of accessories for Nintendo DS

TORONTO, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Hip Gear(TM), a division of Hip Interactive Corp. and Canada's largest third party accessories provider, today announced its full line of accessories for the new Nintendo DS(TM) console... Read more...

Click this headline if you enjoy classical Japanese literature.

Today, Hiroshi Yamauchi announced a plan to create an advanced new animation studio for theatrical releases, which will be formally proposed to the board in October.

The first production will be based on the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, a famous collection of classical Japanese poetry. There will be an opening ceremony at the famous villa, named Shiguretei, where the collection was compiled.

Plus, more details on how big the Metroid demo will be.

There you go. Nintendo of America has included a logo for Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt right on the Nintendo DS's box, but the company is saying that later shipments of the system may have a cleaner look...

In addition to the built-in instant-messaging PictoChat feature, Nintendo... Read more...

The GameCube LAN tunnelers are moving on to more fertile grounds. We spoke with the Project Manager to get a cleaner angle on all the crazy rumors.

Chad Paulson, Project Manager at Warp Pipe Technologies, has been stirring up quite a lot of controversy this week. His posts at the Warp Pipe forums, along with some comments by Dean Bergmann of N-Sider, have ignited a blizzard of rumors and speculation in the online community. Bergmann worked forum posters into a frenzy with this cryptic teaser:

Fusion Tour Bands and Celebrities Party Nintendo Style

Late Monday afternoon, we unexpectedly received an invitation from Nintendo to a party in Hollywood with the bands from Nintendo’s Fusion Tour and a host of other celebrities. Since the tour’s been on the road for several weeks now, it does seem a bit puzzling that they’d call it a kickoff, but no matter, Steven Rodriguez and I decided to attend.

Nintendo’s new commercial finally shows off the new L and R buttons, as well as the stylus’s home. Screen captures included.

Two days ago Nintendo of Japan launched its promotional Nintendo DS website with the first Nintendo DS commercial. Today, Nintendo posted a second commercial which provides our first good look at the back of the redesigned Nintendo DS

Although we already know that Nintendo ditched its... Read more...

Release of game to coincide with release of Disney movie in early 2005.

UBISOFT TO LAUNCH WINNIE THE POOH RUMBLY TUMBLY ADVENTURE ON CONSOLES, JOINTLY WITH THE MOVIE

London, UK – September 23, 2004 – Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, today announced plans to launch Disney's Winnie the Pooh Rumbly Tumbly Adventure – one of Disney's most... Read more...

Learn more about the completely redone combat system.

Q&A

1) Why did you choose to enhance the fighting system in Prince of Persia Warrier Within?

Essentially we wanted the game to feel like a thriller, to generate a sense of fear and oppression. We made the Prince more powerful and we put him in a darker, mysterious and oppressive environment, with fiercer and frightening enemies ... He has to fight for his life and so has trained to become a master warrior.

The largest third-party accessory company is fully on board with Nintendo's new handheld.

Mad Catz Announces Accessory Lineup for the Nintendo DS

SAN DIEGO--Sept. 24, 2004--Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. (AMEX/TSX:

MCZ), the world's leading third party video game accessory

manufacturer, today announced its prominent lineup of accessories for

the much anticipated Nintendo DS(TM). The accessories will begin

Check out these videos of the new Dynasty Mode, Three-Point Shootout, and Slam Dunk Contest. Dr. J in the house!

Courtesy of Electronic Arts, we've got some huge 640x480 movies of NBA Live 2005's new Slam Dunk Contest, Three-Point Shootout, and Dynasty Mode. Left-click to download!

Dynasty Mode (67 MB, Quicktime format)

Three-Point Shootout (76 MB, Quicktime format)

Julius "Dr. J" Irving - Slam Dunk Contest (48 MB, Quicktime format)

The basketball game is gold and ready for release next week.

EA announced today that its NBA Live 2005 for the Nintendo GameCube and other consoles is in production and will ship to retailers on Tuesday, September 28th.

EA Canada’s new basketball game, released under the EA Sports brand, improves on last year’s edition with improved graphics and new gameplay modes such as a Freestyle Air and Slam Dunk Contest mode.

Yeah, the Will Ferrell movie.

ELF TO SPEND THE HOLIDAYS ON

NINTENDO'S GAME BOY® ADVANCE FROM CRAVE

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - September 23, 2004 - There is an Elf coming to Game

Boy® Advance and his name is Buddy! Crave Entertainment, a leading publisher

of videogames, announced today that they will release a handheld game based

See two stages in both story and classic mode in the latest Tony Hawk game.

THUG 2 lets you skate either in the "World Destruction Tour" story mode or in the classic mode, which has all the old-school goals and two-minute runs. The movies below show off both ways to play for each of two levels in the game. Left-click for your free downloads.

Barcelona - Story Mode (15 MB, Windows Media format)

If you're still not sure what this multiplayer action/RPG is all about, this video should clear things up quite nicely.

To accompany this week's launch of X-Men Legends, Activision has provided a launch trailer that does a good job of summarizing the game's features and style. Left-click below to download it for free.

X-Men Legends Launch Trailer (24.5 MB, Quicktime format)