"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.

So which GBA games got the highest reviews? It's probably not what you think.

Famitsu has given out this weeks Dendo titles (hall of fame) and it's interesting to see where each of the GBA titles came in.

Here's a quick rundown of the awards...

Dendo Gold

Power Pro-kun Pocket 3 - GBA

Dendo Silver

Battle Network ROCKMAN X - GBA

Mr. Driller 2 - GBA

The internet is a-buzz with the news that screenshots for the X-Box title "Amped" were faked. Rick Powers with the story ...

All of a sudden, the snowboarding title "Amped" for Microsoft's X-Box is looking more and more like Vaporware as screenshots are proven to be doctored.

The main screenshot in question is a close-up of one of the boarders. It looks incredibly detailed, as a matter of fact, a little too much so ...

Yamauchi said this morning, "I pity the fool who thinks we'll have a late launch!" And then he said,"Well maybe in Japan there might be a delay." We gots tha' juice.

In an interview today, Yamauchi stated that everything is still on schedule for the Japanese and US launch of GameCube.

He also said that they will be upping GBA production by 100,000 units due to the huge demand for the new portable powerhouse.

Japanese pre-sales for the unit have reached 2.7 million at the end of January.

Throw ball...hit person. It's hella fun. And it's less than a week away from hitting the GBA in Japan. See it in action!

You can find all kinds of cool stuff on the web lately on GBA. Here's 4 of them! Click here to go to Atlus's page for Super Dodgeball Fighters. Go to the bottom of the page where it says Quicktime movies! Click on the four images there for red rubber ball whippin' fun!

This game looks sweet as hell! PlanetGameCube will have impressions of this title (and more) next week!

Looks like Nintendo is planing the GameCube for the long haul.

IGN has received a leaked version of the GameCube SDK (System Development Kit) documentation. According to this SDK info, the GameCube will have the possibility of expanding it's amount of ARAM (Auxiliary RAM). Currently, the GameCube's ARAM is at 16MB. This number could be expanded to 48MB though. This means that the total system RAM could reach 75MB.

Following the launch of the new Zelda website, Louie drops in to discuss the new Hyrule history & how it might affect future Zelda games..

The "Official Zelda History" has been revised & the changes may have significant impact on future Zelda games.

Staff cuts or no, DR proves it's alive & well by posting some of the first in-game footage of Mario Advance

Lucky fellows that they are, Daily Radar has posted some of the first in game footage of the highly anticipated GBA launch title, Mario Advance. What are you waiting for? Check it out!

NOA's official Zelda site now has a substantial facelift.

Zelda.com has moved on from its Majora's Mask promo material to a much more rounded source of info on the Zelda series. You can get detailed plot and gameplay data for all the games, even the original NES smash. The primary interface is an odd little Macromedia Flash "game", where you guide Link... Read more...

Truckloads of Box Art for you for most of the GBA Japanese launch titles! The GBA launches in one week don't 'cha know?

Box Art baby! We got it all...with a little help from our good friends from Core Magazine. Gotta check 'em all!

I guess I'm a sucker for beautiful Japanese box art.

Here's what's updated...

Top Gear GT

Dodgeball Fighters

Wai Wai Racing

ChuChu Rocket

Golf Master

Napoleon

Mario Advance

Fight fight fight! Nintendo and WIPO fight for their right to...uh...GameCube.

"Timmy" buys GameCube.com. Nintendo crushes "Timmy". End of story. Well pretty much. Seems "Timmy" tried to sell the domain for $18,000. That's it? Timmy is a stupid bastard. Here's the juice.

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has sided with Nintendo in an ongoing lawsuit... Read more...

We already knew this. And Europe ain't happy. 2002?! Oh the agony. Here's the confirmation of the bad news.

According to Nintendo of Europe's David Gosen, he revealed in an official statement that Europe wouldn't recieve GameCube until spring of 2002.

Mario might just be talking in his latest game.

According to Tendo Box (two words), Mario Advance will feature voice samples. It's possible because of the GBA's far superior sound system. Also, according to TB, they Shy Guys have been reprogrammed to do their back flips like they did in Yoshi's Island.

Another .com downturn, as Future Publishing axes 75% of it's Daily Radar UK staff. Rick Powers has the story ...

Games are a luxury, an entertainment if you will, and so are gaming websites. Gaming websites are also very easy to run. So easy, in fact, that Future Publishing thinks that they can do it with TWO people instead of ten (if The Register's numbers can be believed). With the internet slowdown affecting even our folks in the United Kingdom, it seems that we'll see these sorts of stories a lot over the next few months.

Well you should! Want to make games for the GameCube? They've got the tools!

I ain't no developer...but Renderware's announcing their tools for building games for the GameCube (and other systems). Looks like a great tool to port one game to many systems. Here's the press release for you...

CRITERION SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES RENDERWARE PLATFORM

Audio and physics are the latest additions to the leading middleware