SHiNE = Seeking Harmony in Neighborhoods Everyday. Huh? Wah? New Mario Nintendo contest ahoy! What's this? Shine.com? SHINE GET BABY!

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Nintendo's Mario Searches Nationwide for Teens Who 'SHiNE'

"Make My Community SHiNE" National Contest

Asks Teens To Beautify Their Communities And Create Neighborhood Art

REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 2, 2002--Mario(TM), the world's most celebrated video game hero, and the national youth organization SHiNE (Seeking Harmony in Neighborhoods Everyday) are

Are you freaking out because you have only a couple blocks free on your memory card? Want to know how many you'll need for Super Mario Sunshine? Well fret no longer Timmy!

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Super Mario Sunshine takes a mere 7 blocks. Not too shabby. Heh, if you're still worried, go nab a Memory Card 251!

Santa Monica, Calif.-based SongPro plans to launch a device for under $99 that will play digital music in various formats on Game Boy systems.

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The Game Boy line-- both the older Game Boy Color and the newer Game Boy Advance-- is a product of Japanese game giant Nintendo and it has a virtual monopoly on the handheld gaming market worldwide. The company says it has Nintendo's support for first-of-its-kind device.

Now available in English with a MUCH better translation. Brand new Sonic Adventure title to hit GameCube! W000T! Not a rehash!

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SONIC ADVENTURE 2 BATTLE AND SONIC ADVANCE SHIP ONE MILLION UNITS WORLDWIDE;

NEW SONIC THE HEDGEHOG TITLES ANNOUNCED

"Sonic Mega Collection" and a new "Sonic Adventure" game announced for

Nintendo GameCube; "Sonic Advance 2" announced for GameBoy Advance

After thorough testing with numerous PS2s and TVs we’ve pinpointed the actual issue. If you ordered the PGC DVD, and you’re planning on watching it on a PS2, READ THIS!

Remember last Friday? Pretend that never happened.

It appears that if your PS2 is hooked up to any direct-view television, there’s no problem.

If you have a really big rear projection television, HDTV or not, you will see the

problem. Everyone we know who has these televisions also have a “real” DVD player,

Some lucky people just landed the coolest summer job in the world.

After advertising for months, going through countless resumes and even letting Nintendophiles vote on applicants, the Nintendo Street Team has been finalized. This was a pretty exciting opportunity for fans in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas and Seattle, as they will be showcasing Nintendo products to the public this summer. Check out the full release below and congratulations to Nintendo’s new summer hires!

Some lucky people just landed the coolest summer job in the world.

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After advertising for months, going through countless resumes and even letting Nintendophiles vote on applicants, the Nintendo Street Team has been finalized. This was a pretty exciting opportunity for fans in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas and Seattle, as they will... Read more...

The Japanese DVD/NGC hybrid gets cheaper.

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Following GameCube pricedrops around the world, Panasonic has finally dropped the price of the Panasonic GameCube/DVD player hybrid “Q” by 5000 yen, from 39,800 yen to 34,800—approximately $290 in U.S. Dollars. Exciting news for importers, as Panasonic does not plan to release the Q in North America. Check this translated story from Famitsu.com for more.

New classic Sonic games for NGC! (And something new for GBA!)

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Sonic Team recently announced they’d be unveiling a new game for the GameCube this month. Well, we're just into July and it looks like official confirmation of Sonic Team’s plans have already come to light. According to Famitsu & a press release on Sega’s page... Read more...

Among other games, the GameCube Zelda and Mario will be playable at the Japan Expo in Paris next week.

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At the 4th Japan Expo in Paris, France Nintendo will be exhibiting some of their newest GameCube games during July 5-7. Games on display include Super Mario Sunshine, Legend of Zelda, Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, Mario Party 4, Animal Forest and Star Fox Adventures with 25 consoles playable.

Check out what kinds of music Activision has licensed for their next BMX game.

Today Activision announced the songlist for the upcoming Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 2, due this summer. The tracks include LL Cool J, Iggy Pop, and Ice-T, plus many others. Check out the full press release below for the whole list.

ACTIVISION ROCKS GAMERS WITH IMMERSIVE SOUNDTRACK

FOR MAT HOFFMAN'S PRO BMX(tm) 2

N-Styles has video of 2 of the new Super Mario Sunshine commercials currently being played on Japanese TV.

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With the game releasing in just about 20 days, Nintendo has started running TV ads for Super Mario Sunshine in Japan. N-Styles has 2 of these new commercials avaliable for download right now. Both files are under 2MB and are very good quality.

Check them out here, or you can download them here...

Attention DVD customers! If you are planning on watching the PGC E3 DVD in a Playstation 2, please read this immediately.

Attention DVD Customers:

It has been brought to our attention that the Planet GameCube E3 2002 DVD is NOT COMPATIBLE with the Playstation 2. When we tested the master, it worked just fine, but after replication, for some reason the playback quality is poor. The DVD does work in the PS2, but... Read more...

Activision has announce the list of rocking tunes that will grace the second Matt Hoffman title.

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ACTIVISION ® ANNOUNCES ROUSING RUMP-THUMPIN’ NEWROCKS GAMERS WITH IMMERSIVE SOUNDTRACK FOR MAT HOFFMAN’S PRO BMX™ 2™

Santa Monica, CA -- June XX28, 2002 -- The Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) is setting the stage for high-flying action in Mat Hoffman’s... Read more...

Check out this cool interview with the development team of EA's upcoming college pigskin title.

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Nintendo.com has a lengthy and pretty interesting interview with the development team at Tiburon responsible for EA's NCAA Football 2003. Hit the link above for the goods! Here's a quick excerpt:

NP: Will the individual player attributes of a specific team match real-world players?

The newest Ricky Carmichael game is now available on your GameCube.

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MX Superfly featuring Ricky Carmichael is the first motocross game available on GameCube. It has a career mode, mini-games, multiplayer, and a freestyle track editor. Here's the full press release:

THQ SHIPS MX SUPERFLY FEATURING RICKY CARMICHAEL

FOR GAMECUBE

Sarge's platoon has been melted, and he's ultra-pissed.

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If you like your Army Men games "harder edged" than what 3DO usually offers, perhaps Sarge's War will be right up your alley. The company says it's the sequel to the two Sarge's Heroes games on N64, which sold over one million copies combined.

This time around, Sarge's... Read more...

Robots for Everyone...on the handheld system that almost everyone owns.

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3DO Announces Cubix(TM) Robots for Everyone: Clash 'n Bash for the Game Boy(R) Advance System

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The 3DO Company (Nasdaq: THDO - News) today announced the shipment of Cubix(TM) Robots for Everyone: Clash 'n Bash(TM)... Read more...

The popular card game and handheld RPG game will become an animated series this fall.

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Interactive Imagination has announced the Magi-Nation animated series, debuting this fall with a minimum of 23 episodes. The cartoon has been planned as part of the Magi-Nation property for years, and now it's finally happening.

You may recognize Magi-Nation as a... Read more...

New details emerge about Capcom vs SNK 2 EO in Japan!

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Since Capcom vs SNK 2 EO is a port of an older game, Capcom will be selling it for 4,800 yen--the same price as a GBA game. What's more, Capcom's fighting game comes with its own Memory Card 59! Such tactics will surely boost sales when it comes out July 4th.