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Video Game Buyers Not Effected By Slower Economy This Holiday Season

Consumers Will Buy the Same or More Games This Year Than Last, Reveals Recent Survey of Holiday Game Buyers

San Francisco, CA – 11/26/02 – A recent nationwide survey of video and PC game buyers revealed that 3 out... Read more...

What Color would retail chain Target want for a Game Boy Advance?

Just in time for the Holidays, Target has a new special edition Red Game Boy Advance available in US Stores.

Dubbed "Exclusive Target Red," this new GBA is available now for $69.99.

Special thanks to Takumi86 for the heads up.

Mikami speaks on Capcom's new lineup, creating new game concepts, and Biohazard 4 (RE4).

The latest issue of Famitsu featured an interview with Producer Mikami from Capcom. Highlights translated below:

Famitsu: If you’d let me give my opinion, honestly, I want a Cube now!

Mikami-san: Your words are very kind. Please buy a Cube! Buy two of them, even three!

F: Well,... Read more...

Top 30, reviews, and more.

Following last week's Zelda announcement, the big news this week is the

announcement of 5 new Capcom games for the GameCube. The magazine includes

a DVD featuring trailers from Biohazard 0, Biohazard 4, Killer 7, Viewtiful

Joe, and Dead Phoenix. According to the magazine, P.N.03 will be the first

Win one of those fancy home theater-type prize packages (and GameCube stuff), because Metroid Prime deserves to be played that way.

Update: A few of our Canadian readers have informed us that this contest is open to Canadian residents only. PGC would like to apologize for any mix-up that we might have caused our readers, but it should be said that we blame Canada for this anyway.

Nintendo and MuchMusic.com are bringing us a sweet contest. Here are their details in a nutshell:

We've got 2 brand new Legend of Zelda: Kaze No Takuto commercials here for you....just in case you may be interested....

The new The Legend of Zelda: Kaze No Takuto commercials have begun airing in

Japan, and we've uploaded both of them to our media server.

Check out heaps of

new gameplay, enemies, bosses, and environments.  

Don't forget to right click and save these files to your computer.

*You will need Windows

Capcom released trailers to their newly announced games...and we got 'em!

We've uploaded trailers for all of the newly announced games from

Capcom.  

Check out trailers for Biohazard 4 (Resident Evil 4),

Viewtiful Joe, Dead Phoenix, Killer 7, and Product Number 3.

Don't forget to right click and save these files to your computer.

Biohazard 4

Movie 1

Spyro the Dragon is finally ready for his GameCube debut.

UNIVERSAL INTERACTIVE SHIPS

SPYRO THE DRAGON'S NINTENDO GAMECUBE DEBUT,

SPYRO: ENTER THE DRAGONFLY,

TO RETAILERS NATIONWIDE

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., November 20, 2002 - Universal Interactive, Inc., a studio of Vivendi Universal Games, announced today that it has shipped "Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly" for the Nintendo GameCubeT to retailers nationwide.

This Monday, November the 25th, see what shiny, cube-like object you can win if you can prove that you've got the brains of a Nintendo master.

We told you we were planning something for our Three-Year Anniversary. We warned you to get your practice rounds in. We kept telling you that you couldn't afford to overlook Planet Trivia. Well on Monday, November 25th, on the exact day of Planet GameCube Planet Trivia's 3rd birthday, we're celebrating the only way we can.

Due to the high yen and lack of demand for consoles, Nintendo’s profits fall from last year.

Nintendo revealed it’s financials today, which were lower due to high yen, and weak demand for consoles.

Nintendo’s profits fell 44.8%, and they lost 29 billion yen ($236.4 million) in losses on foreign currency assets.

Operating profit shrank 45.5% due to the GameCube price cut in the US and Japan, Senior Managing Director Yoshihiro Mori announced in a news conference.

We'd like to welcome our new in-house advertising supporter, Games For Rent.com!

A quick shameless plug for our new friends at Games For Rent.com, who have just signed up to advertise on Planet GameCube.

Are you too lazy to head to the video store and rent your games? Don't want to deal with the headache of late fees? How about no due dates?

Games For Rent.com currently has a free 2 week trial, and FREE shipping!

UPDATED: Sega returns to profitability, but may halt development of sports games for GameCube.

Sega earned $8.3 million (1.01 billion yen) in the six months through September in contrast to a loss of 20.87 billion yen in the first half a year ago.

Sales totaled $777 million (95.1 billion yen), down nearly 3 percent from 97.8 billion yen a year ago. Sales dropped 36 percent overseas, although sales in Japan edged up 6 percent.

Another secret NES game for Animal Crossing owners - this one's a real obscure 'classic'.

Well, it's that time again - Animal Crossing owners are in for a real treat with the revelation of another NES game, Donkey Kong 3. This rounds out all the Donkey Kong themed games available within the game (the others being Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr. and Donkey Kong Jr. Math).

Donkey Kong... Read more...

Super-hero action in your pants! (Or backpack, suitcase, purse, etc.)

Today Midway shipped Justice League: Injustice for All on Game Boy Advance. The action game features seven playable characters and twelve levels.

Players can control Batman, Superman, The Flash, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Hawkgirl, and Martian Manhunter, and you can switch from one member... Read more...

The new isometric multiplayer brawler is being released under the Atari brand of Infogrames.

On the heels of Godzilla's GameCube debut last month, Infogrames and its Atari label have shipped Godzilla: Domination for Game Boy Advance.

Domination is a four-player isometric brawler in the style of the classic King of the Monsters for SNES. You and three friends can battle it out with Godzilla... Read more...

Official NOA Press Release ... for your reading pleasure.

REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 19, 2002 - The most successful video game system in history is finally ready for its debut on the big screen. Nintendo of America Inc. today announced it will introduce the Nintendo GameCube Game Boy Player in May 2003, allowing a library of more than 1,000 games designed for... Read more...

"Nintendo GameCube Game Boy Player" for GameCube to be launched March 2003 in Japan. Play GBA games on your television.

Discuss it in TalkBack!

Details are still a little sketchy right now, but here's what we can tell you about this "Nintendo GameCube Game Boy Player":

Releasing Spring 2003 (March) in Japan, May 2003 in the US.

Approximately 5000 Yen (around $49.99 USD)

Sits under the GameCube and plugs into the High Speed Parallel Port

Nintendo's marketing plans for Europe this Christmas and a few release dates for next year, including Metroid Prime.

Today a number of release dates were announced for high profile titles in 2003. Firstly, Metroid Prime and Resident Evil 0 will be available from March 2003.

Here are a few quarter specific releases:

Quarter 1 2003

Phantasy Star Online

Super Monkeyball 2

Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon

Today is the official release date of Metroid Prime, and some stores have recieved shipments ...

Don't shoot the messengers if your particular store still doesn't have it, but several of the Electronics Boutique and GameStop chain stores have managed to snag their shipment of Metroid Prime. Several more stores are reporting getting their shipments later tonight. The rest will have the game Tuesday.

Announcement coming at 4:30PM JAPAN time. That's 1:30AM for us in the Central Time Zone ...

Reuters is reporting this morning that Nintendo is holding an announcement tomorrow in Japan regarding "peripherals for its GameCube home videogame console".

While we don't know what the announcement is set to encompass yet, we do know that Nintendo is dealing with falling profits due to various... Read more...