Squaresoft talks Ogre Battle Saga, Final Fantasy Tactics...

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According to Gamers.com, Yasumi Matsuno of Squaresoft has announced in Weekly Famitsu that the company has acquired the rights to the Ogre Battle Saga, the series of immensely popular games which saw its start on the SNES.

In the same interview, Matsuno also mentions... Read more...

Nine games confirmed by Electronic Arts for Australian launch or shortly thereafter.

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Here's the current list of Nintendo GameCube games that Electronic Arts currently has lined up for the GameCube's launch - please note that they are shipping dates (which is why some are before launch) and are all subject to change.

Fifa 2002 World Cup - April 19, 2002

GameCube now has its first car-based racing game, inspired by last summer's movie.

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BAM! Entertainment's Driven racing game should be available for GameCube this week. Fans of race cars and/or Sylvester Stallone might want to check it out. Here's the official press release:

BAM! ENTERTAINMENT SHIPS DRIVEN FOR GAMECUBE

First True GameCube Racing Game Hits North American Retailers This Week

The last part of the Famitsu interview with Shigeru Miyamoto. Lots of Metroid talk, Eternal Darkness, and Zelda!

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Miyamoto-san speaks out about Metroid Prime, Eternal Darkness, and Zelda in

the latest issue of Famitsu. In case you

missed it, he also spoke about Mario Sunshine, and Star Fox Adventure, which

can be found here. Sit back and enjoy some more Shiggy goodness!

Thanks to our readers, I've been flooded with reports of GameCubes all around Australia! Here's the current list. UPDATED: Huge list update (inlcuding NZ!) along with Component Cable details.

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Well, I got a LOT of mail after my first news post, as people have been telling me playable GameCubes have been around for two weeks. (Thanks for the heads up!) Anyway, thanks to plenty of Aussie readers, there's now a list of GCN demo units:

VICTORIA

Myer, Melbourne

An editorial written by Steven Kent which includes quotes from Miyamoto regarding Pikmin, online gaming, and the connection between the two. What more do you want?

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Courtesy of the Chicago Tribune, Steven Kent has contributed an article discussing the possible outcomes of the GameCube going online, and Miyamoto's opinions on the subject.

"Taking games online is one way of making them more interesting, of making games more fun,"... Read more...

You'd think it was someone's birthday. Well guess what...

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Happy 22nd Birthday to David Trammell, aka Rize! WOOOHOOO! The gallons of umbrella drinks this man is going to consume tonight...hoo boy.

Actually, word has it he got Soccer Slam as a b-day gift. Guess what he's going to be doing today.

Well Rize, on behalf of the staff here at Planet GameCube we wish you a very Happy Birthday!

It's so huge it scares Louie the Cat! PGC's got the official word from Infogrames.

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INFOGRAMES BRINGS TITAN-TO-TITAN COMBAT TO GAMECUBE WITH GODZILLA(R): DESTROY ALL MONSTERS MELEE

Massive City-Wide Scale, True-to-Movie Monsters Highlight B-Movie Style Fighting Game

LOS ANGELES – March 25, 2002 – The largest movie franchise of all time... Read more...

Call it a gift from the heavens, or Captain Olimar himself...free flowers from Pikmin.com!

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It's officially spring, and the Pikmin flower will be available in stores soon!

Want a FREE Celebrate Spring with Pikmin package? Head over to Pikmin.com, and you can print out a mail in form. You'll get a seed stick to grow your own flowers and more!

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We’ve got another Miyamoto interview, this time from Weekly Famitsu. Who can complain though—especially when Shiggy is giving new info on Mario Sunshine and Star Fox Adventures!?

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Famitsu interviews Miyamoto-san to round up its series of interviews with GameCube developers. Miyamoto-san talks about Mario Sunshine, Metroid Prime, Star Fox Adventure, Eternal Darkness, Zelda and game development. Read on to see what Miyamoto-san has to say about Mario Sunshine and Star Fox Adventures.

TechTV's Extended Play got a chance to talk with Shigeru Miyamoto. If you want to see Shiggy on TV...click now.

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If you didn't get a chance to see it, Extended Play got to interview Shigeru Miyamoto, and it originally aired last Friday on TechTV. Still want to catch it? You can once again this Friday 3/29 at 11 a.m., 1:30 p.m., and 6 p.m. All times Eastern. Here's an excerpt...

Is this good Monday news or what? You think that's it? How about a new Hardware announcement that we told you about Months ago!? Confirmed SFA and ED dates? CLICK NOW!

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NINTENDO GAMECUBE Product Update

What do MTV, Britney Spears and Mario(TM) have in common? They

were all born in 1981 and will be celebrating their 21st birthdays

this year. Not only will Mario turn 21, but he will also make his

NINTENDO GAMECUBE(TM) debut later this year. Other personalities will

Going going gone? Just a mere 7 left. Don't have our video sets yet? What the heck are you waiting for?

We've got just 7 E3 2001 combo sets left, and our good friends at Video

Game Advantage still have a few Japan Experience 2001 CD sets, so if you haven't ordered one and are interested...there are only a few remaining.

I'm personally selling off the final E3 Videos. Video

Game Advantage is stocking the remaining Japan Experience CD sets. Contact them to order the Japan Experience Video.

Are you an Aussie gamer that needs to satisfy their GameCube cravings? Well now you can! Click here to find out how.

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While exploring Melbourne's centre with a friend on Sunday in 30 degree heat, we decided to check out Myer to see if there actually was a playable GameCube on display in the city. And yes, the rumours are true! Heading straight for the Electronics department (Myer Melbourne... Read more...

Hot damn, Nintendo is on a roll in Japan.

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Early last week, we posted some review scores from major Japanese magazines, including GBA games from the mother Famitsu review crew. However, now they've updated their website with the two GameCube releases of the week over yonder, and here they be:

NBA Courtside 2002 (GCN, Nintendo) - 32 Gold (8 8 8 8)

A lot of people liked the Cube Clubs, including some important people, it appears.

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Nintendo of America was awarded the 2002 Gold Reggie for Event Marketing for “The Nintendo Cube Clubs.” Presented by the Promotion Marketing Association (PMA), the leading nonprofit trade association representing the multi-billion dollar promotion marketing industry,... Read more...

EA Sports and EA Big have announced a pile of new games that we should be expecting this year. Some may surprise you...

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Electronic Arts has updated it's release dates to reveal new titles that will be coming to GameCube this year:

2002 FIFA World Cup - April

Freekstyle - July

F1 2002 - May

NCAA Football 2003 - Summer

Madden NFL 2003 - Summer

NHL 2003 - Late Summer

Nascar Thunder 2003 - Fall

It's Friday, so that means Planet Trivia at 9pm CST in #planetchat. There's a prize tonight too!

Hey hey hey Planet fans! Tonight is trivia night! If you haven't yet played a game of Planet Trivia you really should start. Its quite a good amount of fun, I assure you. We've got a prize tonight too. Biohazard Rebirth (Resident Evil here in the states) was just released on the 22nd in Japan. To... Read more...

4 Medabots GBA titles in 2002!

UBI SOFT AND NATSUME TO BRING MEDABOTS AX TO THE ADVANCE

22nd March 2002- Ubi Soft® Entertainment today announced an exclusive deal with Natsume® Inc. to exclusively distribute four titles based on Corus Entertainment's Nelvana's Medabots animated Series, which is currently airing in Canada... Read more...

New games pop up on Nintendo of Australia's website -- keep the third-party support comin'!

Since Nintendo of Australia's official GameCube website was recently updated, an expansive list of games to be released at launch as well as future-release titles has been publicly posted. It just so happens that 13 of these titles have not yet been confirmed (some not mentioned) by Nintendo or third-parties. Here is the list of these newly -mentioned titles below: