EIFG04 will run from 8th – 22nd August 2004 with the first four sponsors announced as Nintendo, PlayStation 2, NVIDIA and Xbox.

INDUSTRY BACKS EDINBURGH

EIGF04 dates confirmed: 8th – 22nd August 2004

Friday 26 March 2004/... The EIGF04 (Edinburgh International Games Festival 2004) committee today announced the first four official sponsors for this year's festival. EIGF04, set to run from 8th – 22nd August, launches... Read more...

Tickets for the Game Stars Live consumer games show in London this September are now available.

GAME STARS LIVE GOES LIVE

Tickets go on sale for the UK’s biggest gaming event… ever!

Friday 26 March 2004/... Although the weather might hint otherwise, summer is not far off – and the nation's games-players, young and old alike, should already be making plans for how to... Read more...

The combined television network will focus on gaming and cater to a larger market.

Comcast today announced its purchase of Tech TV, home of "X-Play" as well as other technology-focused programming. Tech TV will be merged with Comcast's own G4 channel, which is geared specifically towards video gamers but has floundered with a smaller distribution network. The new, combined network... Read more...

Includes a revealing 1:44 minute trailer.

In preparation for the April 29th release date in Japan, Nintendo has now opened up the official Pimkin 2 website. Along with the website is a new trailer, showing off a lot of the environments, critters, and game modes. Please watch it.

Gentleman, start your modems.

According to Game Science Chunsoft recently announced that their upcoming GameCube RPG, Homeland, will have an online mode. The game will ship on two discs, one for offline play and the other for online play.

The online version of Homeland will be free to play. Instead of connecting to servers... Read more...

The Game Developers Choice award ceremony was held Wednesday night at the GDC. Who were the winners and who got snubbed?

Wednesday night at the GDC, the International Game Developer's Association hosted the 4th annual Game Developers Choice award ceremony. The awards serve as the ultimate in peer recognition, as it is the members of the game development community who acknowledge the very best of the past year's games.

At the GDC, Eiji Aonuma offered insights on recent developments in the Zelda series and teased the audience with a brief reference to the Wind Waker 2.

Wednesday afternoon at the Game Developer's Conference in San Jose, Nintendo's Eiji Aonuma delivered a lecture entitled "The Evolution of a Franchise: The Legend of Zelda" in which he presented a retrospecitve on the Zelda series, offered some ideas as to what makes a game "Zelda-esque", and shared some amusing insights on the development of recent Zelda games.

Starting this week and leading up to E3, you can get your game on at a university near you.

Video Game Tour Invades College Campuses!

LARGEST COLLEGE VIDEOGAME, PC & WIRELESS TOUR TO DATE

"2004 Spring College Tour" Features Top Unreleased Titles from Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Midway, U.S. Army, RockStar Games and Nokia

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - March 23, 2004 - Game Live Events,... Read more...

Split yourself up on June 7...

DID YOU KNOW? - ZELDA FRANCHISE GIVES BIRTH TO QUADRUPLETS

March 22, 2004 -- One hero just isn't enough to tackle the challenges found in The Legend of Zelda®: Four Swords Adventures™, coming June 7 exclusively for Nintendo GameCube™. So everyone's favorite champion, Link, uses the power of the Four Sword to split himself into four copies. The four Links must work together to save Princess Zelda™.

A major bug has caused Nintendo to indefinitely delay the latest GBA Kirby game.

Previously planning to release Kirby Mirror (Hoshi no Kirby: Kagami no Daimeikyu) just this week, Nintendo announced on Friday that a critical bug has been found in the game, forcing them to delay it until the problem can be fixed. They apologize to everyone who was planning on picking up the game for Spring Break.

For those of you who need even more space for your game saves.

According to Game Informer, Nintendo is planning on releasing a new official memory card for the GameCube. This new card will weigh in at more four times the size of the Memory Card 251. This card will hold 1019 blocks of memory. Finally, enough room to save a ton of Madden data.

This new card... Read more...

If you're seriously thinking about becoming a game developer, you might want to give USC a call.

ELECTRONIC ARTS ANNOUNCES MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR GIFT TO USC SCHOOL OF CINEMA-TELEVISION’S INTERACTIVE MEDIA DIVISION

Funds Will Expand School’s Global Leadership in Computer Game Research and Education

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 22, 2004 — Electronic Arts announced today that it... Read more...

Turns out that you don't have to purchase a GameCube to get the Zelda Collector's Edition disc after all.

Nintendo Australia has announced that existing GameCube owners will be able to get their own free copy of the Legend of Zelda Collector's Edition bonus disc. The offer closes on the 31st of May, 2004, and is as follows:

Current and New Members of the Nintendo website will be eligible to receive... Read more...

Nintendo announces "new" prices for GameCube in Japan, as well as some minor changes to the hardware. UPDATE: New information from Nintendo of America.

According to an official release by Nintendo Co. Ltd. in Japan, as well as a report by Famitsu's website, there are some changes being made to the GameCube in Japan.

The system's price has been modified to now include tax. The actual price points are unchanged, but tax will no longer be added on top, so this is effectively a price cut of a few thousand yen. The change will be effective on March 22nd.

Pikmin 2’s boxart may hint at a previously undisclosed feature…

A rather interesting logo can be seen on Pikmin 2’s Japanese boxart on the bottom right:

The logo resembles a GBA with an e-Reader attached to a GameCube. Nintendo has yet to comment on the game’s e-Reader support, but potential uses range from unlocking or uploading special items... Read more...

Japanese gaming mag Game Science reveals some new Nintendo tidbits.

Game Science has updated their site with a translation of the latest new from the Japanese video game magazine, Nintendo Dream. The article reveals quite a bit about what's coming up in Nintendo's future. Here are a few of the interesting pieces of information; check out Game Science's article for more.

PGC staff member Jeff Shirley, a.k.a. Deguello, has entered the terrible twenties.

Jeff Shirley

US Release Date: 03/17/1984

JPN Release Date: TBA

Our long-time Staff Writer and Release Date guru, Jeff Shirley, is turning twenty years old today, though he'll always be just a bit younger than the Famicom. And nobody knows what "Deguello" means, after all these years. But that's okay, we still love him!

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles is the top game of the month, and Nintendo reveals that the North American warehouse is out of GameCubes.

DID YOU KNOW? - NINTENDO CONTINUES TO DRIVE INDUSTRY GROWTH

March 16, 2004

What's driving the video game industry? Three words: games, games and games!

And who's driving the growth in the games market? Nintendo!

According to the independent sales data just released by the NPD Group, in February:

Well, more like three and a half, but Metroid Prime is dropping another $10 this April.

DID YOU KNOW? - NINTENDO BOLSTERS PLAYER'S CHOICE LIBRARY

March 16, 2004 -- A golf date with Mario is about to get a lot more affordable, as Nintendo announces a new MSRP for four popular Nintendo GameCube™ games, including Mario Golf™: Toadstool Tour. The games will join more than 35 other... Read more...

Australia plays catch up to the rest of the world and finally gets the bonus collector's disc.

Well, it looks as though the fabled Legend of Zelda Collector's Disc is making its way to Australia at long last. After months without an announcement, the Collector's Disc quietly popped up in Target's upcoming catalogue (18th - 24th March) as part of a GameCube bundle.

Taking up a quarter of the page on page 19 of the catalogue, the bundle comes with the following items: