What do you want to see in the Prime sequel? Nintendo wants to know!

Right now, Nintendo.com's gamepage for Metroid Prime 2 is a bit empty. Naturally, the game has just been revealed, and no info is available yet. That won't stop Nintendo from asking the people what they want, though.

Further down the page, there is a poll asking readers what they'd want to... Read more...

The developer of the Medal of Honor and James Bond game series gets some new blood, including some ex-Nintendo employees.

Electronic Arts Los Angeles -- EALA -- Hires Acclaimed Creative Talent from Film and Video Game Industries

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 2003--Electronic Arts, the world's leading interactive entertainment software company, has again attracted the best and the brightest from Hollywood and the computer/video games industry with the company's most recent hire of five professionals for its Los Angeles studio.

What's football without the Blitz? Or the running play? Or the penalty flag?

Midway Sports Debuts Reinvented Football Franchise with NFL Blitz Pro

For the First Time NFL Blitz Pro Features 11-on-11 Authentic Online Play and Cover Athlete Terrell Owens of the San Francisco 49ers

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 2003-- Midway Sports(TM), the sports brand of leading... Read more...

Five-on-five hockey from Midway? Foul!

Midway Sports Reinvents Top Hockey Franchise with Debut of NHL Hitz Pro

New NHL(R) Hitz Pro Goes Online with Authentic 5-on-5 Gameplay and Cover Athlete Nicklas Lidstrom, Star Defenseman of the Detroit Red Wings(R)

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 2003-- Midway Sports(TM), the sports brand... Read more...

Did they pan out? Well, good news and bad news.

Here's what the Associated Press had to say:

TOKYO - Japanese game manufacturer Nintendo Co. lowered its earnings forecast for the recently ended fiscal year on Monday, citing slower-than-expected sales of its GameCube console.

The Kyoto-based maker of the Super Mario and Pokemon video... Read more...

Another Cartoon Network member heads to the GBA!

BAM! ENTERTAINMENT BRINGS THE HIT TV SHOW ED, EDD n EDDY™ TO THE VIDEO GAME MARKET

BAM! Continues to Expand its Cartoon Network™ Portfolio

San Jose, Calif. (April 7, 2003) – BAM! Entertainment™ (NASDAQ: BFUN) today announced it is shipping the hit Cartoon Network TV show Ed,... Read more...

Check out info on the cities and tracks of the new F-Zero for GameCube.

This week's Famitsu revealed some details on the courses in F-Zero GC, which is scheduled to be released on July 25 in Japan. Five cities and the circuits in them

are introduced.

Mute City – It is the biggest city (population of one billion

people) in the Space Nations. New circuits have been built since the old

In an attempt to reach a broader audience, Midway has decided to make the next installments of NFL Blitz and NHL Hitz more realistic.

Midway Sports Announces New Direction for Sports Products; NFL Blitz and NHL Hitz are Reinvented to Give Sports Fans an All-New Experience in the Sports Genre.

CHICAGO, April 7, 2003. Midway Sports(TM), the sports brand of leading software publisher and developer Midway Games Inc. announced today... Read more...

College students in Tokyo will have a chance to learn game development from the masters.

Nintendo is calling for applications for Nintendo Game Seminar 2003 (in

Japan), a 10 month seminar on game development. Thirty people from the

applicant pool will be selected. The classes will be free.

Nintendo’s development staff will discuss about game design, programming,

sound, and the necessary knowledge and skills related to game development.

Planet Trivia is back! And we've got a big prize to give away to tonight's winner! See what it is inside.

We're back! After a longer hiatus than we would have liked, the longest-running Nintendo Trivia contest in the world is here again!

We'll still be asking you 30 Nintendo-related questions in our chatroom, and it's still at the same time like it always has been, but this week, we've got a nice prize to give away! Here it is:

So says a Japanese Newspaper. Is it true? PGC has the details.

Earlier today in Japan, Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun reported that Capcom is reconsidering its strategy on the GameCube platform. One of the reasons cited was that Biohazard (known as Resident Evil outside of Japan) did not perform well overseas as expected.

Regarding this story, Capcom replied on... Read more...

We have the scores, the news and more!

According to Famitsu, the GBA SP and GB Player sold approximately 98 000 units and 100 000 units apiece from March 17th to the 23rd.

Here's a partial list of the Famitsu Top 30 during that timespan:

1) FF X-2 (PS2)

2) Made in Wario (new)

3) Arc the Lad (PS2)

4 Jissen Pachisuro hissyou hou! Salary Man Kintaro (PS2)

Those waiting to hit the streets in the third installment of the Driver series are going to have to wait a little longer.

Atari and Reflections Interactive (an Infogrames studio) announced today that the release date for Driver 3, the highly anticipated third installment of the smash hit Driver franchise, has been moved to Spring 2004. The game was previously slated for release during the 2003 Holiday season.

"Driver... Read more...

Now you too can create your own epic RPG full of vague existentialism, right in the palm of your hand.

Today, Japanese developer Enterbrain confirmed that they are making a version of their popular game, RPG Tsukuru (RPG Maker), for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance handheld. The series has already had multiple incarnations released across various platforms. RPG Maker allows players to create an entire world... Read more...

Rick mananged to grab a few clips of WrestleMania XIX in action last weekend. Now see what Rick was so excited about!

Rick got to spend a couple of hours checking out an early build of WrestleMania XIX for GameCube this past weekend, and while the game was still in pre-alpha state, it moved very fluidly. But why don't you check it out for yourself? We have seven videos below for you to check out

Don't forget to right-click the link and save the movie to your computer:

The first rule about Vendetta: Don't talk about Vendetta.

EA and Def Jam Announce the Highly Anticipated Release of Def Jam VENDETTA

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 1, 2003--Enter the world of underground fight clubs through the release of Def Jam VENDETTA™ for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system and Nintendo GameCube™.... Read more...

Which Pokemon gets the honor?

The Pokemon Centers in Japan have announced a new Special Edition Pokemon Center GBA SP, to celebrate their 5 year anniversary.

The Pokemon “Torchic” gets the nod as the first Pokemon to be emblazoned on a Game Boy Advance SP. The metallic orange 5th Anniversary GBA SP goes on sale on April 11th at Pokemon Centers in Japan, and online through their website for the regular GBA SP price of 12,500 yen.

Check out telepathic bad-ass Nick Geller in our new movie of the game!

Midway has just announced their new Metal Gear-type title, ESPionage, and Planet GameCube has the first movie of the game! In the movie, you can see the hero, Nick Geller, use his Psi powers to see through walls, set people on fire, and lift baddies into the air. He also does something pretty damn cool at the end... but you're going to need to download the movie and see it for yourself!

Nobody shakes her booty like Vanessa Schneider.

We recently got our

copy of P.N. 03 from Video

Game Depot, and ripped a few direct feed movies for you.  Check out

Vanessa laying waste to the first level, and then witness Billy getting killed

because he was more absorbed by Vanessa's sweet rump.

*You will need Windows

Media Player to view the Windows Media Files.

Come see why Viewtiful is beautiful!

We got our copy of Capcom's P.N.03 from Video

Game Depot, and on the disc is a brand new trailer for Viewtiful Joe. 

We've decided to encode this trailer 2 ways:  Windows Media 9, and MPEG. 

Don't forget to right click and save this file to your computer.

*You will need Windows