Celebrate 7 years of PGC by entering our contest! It's over! Winners will be announced this weekend!

As everyone should know, this month marks the 7th Anniversary of Planet GameCube. We’re so excited to present to you, our dearest readers, a wonderful new contest that’s bound to blow the roof off the Internet and let the bodies hit the floor.

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The grand prize winner will be going retro with these goodies.

Earlier this week, we announced the big contest to celebrate PGC's seventh year of existence, and we promised that more prizes would be announced during the contest period. Now, we have confirmed a great set of prizes from our importing partner, Lik-Sang.

First, a very popular import game for the Nintendo DS system already included in the grand prize pack:

Matt from IGN explores a preliminary Revolution development kit.

It is well known that Nintendo has shipped over a thousand Revolution development kits and that many of those kits consist of peripherals for current GameCube development kits. Recently Matt Casamassina had a chance to study the development kit hardware.

While details about the preliminary kit... Read more...

Submit your questions now for Shigeru Miyamoto to answer in a web-chat at www.webchats.tv

On Friday 17th March, Shigeru Miyamoto will be taking part in a webchat on the website www.webchats.tv.

Questions may be submitted to him from the website starting from now, and you can watch him answer as many as he can on the 17th.

It is expected that he will answer questions about the Nintendo DS and the latest DS games including New Super Mario Bros.

The DS puzzle game Polarium gets a sequel to be released on GBA in Europe very soon.

Challenge Yourself With A New Puzzle Every Day Of The Year

Polarium Advance launches on the Game Boy Advance

07 March 2006 – If you like puzzle games you are in for a real treat this year, with the launch of the highly addictive Polarium Advance on the Game Boy Advance. What's more, this... Read more...

Seven? Are you kidding? That's about 120 in Internet-years!

Update: A little birdie told me that we actually started on March 7th, not the 6th...oops. So this article is getting post-dated. So much for quality control! ;-) Or maybe we're just becoming forgetful in our old age.

Planet GameCube began its tumultuous life as N2000HQ on March 7, 1999.... Read more...

Original Generation and Original Generation 2 heading to your GBA this year.

ATLUS U.S.A., INC. ANNOUNCES "SUPER ROBOT TAISEN: ORIGINAL GENERATION(TM)" FOR THE GAME BOY(R) ADVANCE

Giant Robots Wage Intergalactic War in Two Heavy-Metal Strategy RPGs

IRVINE, CA - March 3, 2006 - Atlus U.S.A., Inc., a leading publisher of interactive

entertainment, today announced the acquisition of the North American publishing rights to Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation and Super Robot Taisen:

Long lines, quick sellouts and a Nintendo apology.

Nintendo launched the DS Lite revision of the Nintendo DS hardware in Japan yesterday, and it should come as no surprise that just about every unit in the country was sold out in minutes.

Despite only one of the three Lite colors launching, the white DS, people still queued up in lines that were hundreds strong. Some even stayed in line when they knew that there was a good chance they wouldn't get one.

Not content with just the Dogz, Ubi gives cat lovers an option on the GBA.

UBISOFT TO PUBLISH CATZ® VIDEO GAME EXCLUSIVELY FOR GAME BOY® ADVANCE

Game Boy Advance Owners Will Get Their Paws on the First Kitten Simulation Game in March 2006

SAN FRANCISCO –MARCH 2, 2006– Today Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, announced that it will... Read more...

Whether it's at launch or in the months after, Midway wants in on the Revolution.

With the Revolution coming up toward the end of the year, many people have been wondering who else would come out into the open and proclaim that they'd be supporting Nintendo's new system.

Midway has been around the game industry for a long time now, supporting many a Nintendo console along... Read more...

Lik-Sang gets a single test unit and answers nearly all remaining questions about the system: brightness, stylus, Micro charger, battery size, etc.

Online importer Lik-Sang has received a single preview unit of the DS Lite (their full launch stock is expected in the next few days), and they have put up an extensive article with new information and comparison photos, at the link above.

Among the observations of the final system:

The lowest brightness setting is as bright as the original DS. The brightest setting may burn your retinas. (Not really...we hope.)

Nintendo announces that Metroid Prime: Hunters will have online Hunters Licenses to track player stats and help find opponents at your skill level.

Note: The Metroid Prime: Hunters official game website has also been updated with many new gameplay videos.

Players Can Battle Wirelessly and Talk Smack With Metroid Prime Hunters

The new Metroid(R) Prime Hunters launches March 20 and is an action-

packed first-person adventure game for Nintendo DS(TM). Up to four players

FUNimation and Namco are working on a game adaptation of Samuel L. Jackson's TV adaptation of this sci-fi samurai comic.

Navarre's FUNimation Entertainment Acquires Rights to Afro Samurai

Unique, Dramatic Mini-Series to Premiere on Spike TV in 2006 With DVD Expected in Early 2007

FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FUNimation(R) Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Navarre Corporation... Read more...

Crossbeam Studios Entertainment is on board the Revolution train with at least two games.

Nintendo's platforms haven't always been the first choice for smaller, independent developers, but this may soon be changing with the Revolution. Most recently, Crossbeam Studios Entertainment updated their About page to include that they're working on three new projects on various platforms, "most notable, Nintendo Revolution." Two games that have info so far, Orb and Thorn, seem to be action/adventure games with dark, moody themes.

The Nintendo exec has some interesting things to say about the Revolution, and the GameCube too.

Perrin Kaplan is Nintendo of America's VP of marketing and corporate affairs. One of the job requirements for her position is to deflect questions sent her way by the media, but the Next Generation crew tried their best to penetrate those Jedi defenses.

The hot topic during the interview was E3 and the Revolution, of course. Here's a quick snip of the interview:

Mario, Luigi, and Bowser cha-cha to your Tata.

Taiko no Tatsujin 8, the latest in the series of Taiko Drum Master arcade rhythm games, is coming soon to Japan. While chock full of the latest J-Pop hits as expected, the surprising revelation is that Namco is including tracks from video games by Nintendo, Square-Enix, Taito, as well as their own.... Read more...

Those who pre-ordered Ice Blue and Enamel Navy DS Lite systems will have to wait nine more days.

Nintendo NCL has once again apologized for DS-related distribution problems. Due to manufacturing problems, the company will be unable to ship its Ice Blue and Enamel Navy units to retailers by March 2nd. The white model will still come out on March 2nd, however, which will undoubtedly increase demand for the flagship Crystal White model and complicate current pre-orders for all three colors among retail outlets.

Two are better than one. Right?

KONAMI SHIPS YU-GI-OH! DOUBLE PACK

Combining Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards and Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction Onto One GBA Game Pak For The Ultimate Card Battling Experience

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – February 22, 2006 – Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., announced today it has shipped Yu-Gi-Oh!... Read more...

Geist 2? Whatever they are, they're Rev-bound.

In a recent article in The Orlando Sentinel, the publication notes that n-Space is expanding its territory by 7,000 square feet, no doubt to accomodate their search for new employees, also mentioned in the article. The real news here, though, is that this is all due to n-Space working on new titles; Revolution titles.

Sonic and friends air boards their way to American shores.

SEGA SHIPS SONIC RIDERS TO NORTH AMERICAN RETAILERS

Sonic Masters Air Board Riding in Pursuit of Racing Glory on the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Nintendo GameCube

SAN FRANCISCO (February 21, 2006) -- SEGA® of America, Inc. today announced the release of Sonic Riders for the PlayStation®2... Read more...