Nintendo to start its own eCommerce for selling GBA software in Japan…

Early this morning, Nintendo announced that will plans to start selling game software for its popular new handheld, the Game Boy Advance, over the Internet starting Friday. The effort is apparently an attempt to lure older players who frequently shop online, said a company spokesman.

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After yesterday's run-down from a GameStop employee, we now have another employee from a competing retailer writing in to give us another point of view.

Another retail report has come in, covering many of the same issues touched on by SillyMrMan. Now, we have a new contributor from a rival-retailer writing in and since it's pretty informative, we have no problem passing the information along to you. Today, we hear from someone dubbing himself "The Crazed Rabbit."

In this new age of subscription content, PGC wants to know if you'd pay for supplemental content. Get to the Forum and Voice your opinion in our Poll.

With the recent decision for IGN to start selling "premium" content, but going about it in what we feel is the wrong way, plus our need to offset our costs, we've been throwing around the idea of an E3 Preview magazine.

The current plan is for 16 pages, with previews, pictures from last year's... Read more...

Thanks to an elite PGC reader/retail employee, we have NGC pre-order poster shots and a info-laden retailer report! Good stuff!

PGC has gained the assistance of a longtime reader turned l33t retail reporter, a gentleman calling himself "SillyMrMan" (and we'll leave it at to protect his anonymity) who has emailed us several promotional posters received from Nintendo. Since he was nice enough to hook us up, we got in touch and were all to happy to see what he had to say about the posters and other information from the retail front.

Interplay has announced its adventure game Galleon, from the creator of the original Tomb Raider. And it's headed to GameCube AT LAUNCH.

Whilst announcing its company earnings today, Interplay confirmed that its long-developed Galleon is being readied for release alongside Nintendo GameCube in October. The game has been in development for years, with Tomb Raider's original designer behind the wheel. The third-person adventure game focuses on pirates and features an entirely new graphics engine.

Nintendo is spinning off a new magazine to cover the Game Boy Advance!

We recently got word that Nintendo will be creating an entirely new magazine devoted to the Game Boy Advance. The first issue will be out in June and the magazine will be titled "Nintendo Power Advance." Clever title, isin't it? But, this new magazine raises some questions. Such as this one posted by Bloodworth, who alerted us to this story, in the forum.

Nintendorks is BACK! Let the toilet humor begin...oh yeah, baby.

I just happened to type in http://www.nintendorks.com in my browser today to see the latest update report on how the site's revitalization is going, and lo and behold, the friggin real site loaded! Jon Miller says that not all features are back to their former selves, and apparently the message board is kaput until they can get it hosted separately, but Nintendorks is back!!!!

I AM ONE LAZY KITTY CAT!!! Louie SI BACK babies 2 do some RUMArz on GBA games u may or may not see if u don’t live in JAPAN!!

The games for the U.S., European and Australian launch of the Game Boy Advance are being chosen… Some games will be released outside of the country, some won’t.

Box art has recently surfaced at IGN Pocket for all the U.S. GBA launch titles. Come see what's in store for the handheld crowd!

Let the games begin!

And it's earlier than you may think! Kangaroo's are jumping and Olympic swimmers are playin' guitars. But when and how much?

Nintendo Australia has confirmed the GBA will release down under on June 22.

The price has been set at $180 AUS (around $90 US).

Nope! Rumor debunk time: 52 seconds.

So after posting leaked Thunder Rally screens & getting in trouble with IGN since they were going to charge for 'em, we've decided to be a bit more careful and meticulous while recovering from this potential disaster. As things settled back to normal, the planet mailbag was chock full with more "hacked... Read more...

The Big N announces a multi-million dollar marketing compaign for the GBA.

Come the end of this month, it'll be impossible to not know about the Game Boy Advance. Nintendo will be spending $25 million on marketing the launch of the Game Boy Advance which will be titled "Life Advanced". By the end of the year, the company will have spent around $75 million on GBA marketing alone.

Happy Friday the 13th! Editor-in-Chief Max Lake apologies to IGN.

Early this morning, PGC posted screenshots of Thunder Rally that had been posted to our forum and had been leaked all over the Internet. However, these shots were high profile shots for debut tomorrow on IGN Insider, IGN’s new subscription service. By publicizing the leakage we made things even worse for IGN Insider’s debut, something we had not intended to do. We had no right to run the screenshots and should not have done so.

Square will not be showing any products for Nintendo systems at E3 2001. But is this as bad as it sounds?

Nintendojo's MSTAnon has learned from a Square US representative that the giant software publisher will not be showing any games for Nintendo systems or any other non-Sony systems. (Doesn't make much sense to show Wonderswan Color games at E3, since it hasn't and probably won't be released in the US.)

Hey, this is who we are people. This is our name. It's not Planet GAMECUBE. What's with the Caps thing anyway? Read about our name. I promise you. It's exciting.

Well, it's been over a month that we have been Planet GameCube, and since Nintendo has made there rather odd CaPs StAtEmEnT on HoW to SpElL GAMECUBE. Here's how to mention our name....

Planet GameCube

There ya go. A shortened version is also accepted...

PGC

That's it. And yes, as Tendo Box is...Planet GameCube is two words.

Mortal Kombat's Ed Boon is impressed with the GC's power.

Read the headline.... MK5 is multi-platform as of now, and from the sound of things, it will be coming to GCN...

Microsoft's managing director gives an educated guess on GCN's Japan price at launch.

Although Microsoft has no inside information when it comes to Nintendo's business, Hirohisa Ohura's job is to know what hardware costs. So when asked what the Japanese price of the Xbox would be, he stated that it all depends on its competitors' prices.

"...the price of Nintendo's GameCube, which I personally think will fall around 19,800 yen ($160)."

As the GIA says, it truly is the Land of the Rising Fun. GBA sales numbers are in, and all is well.

GameSpot VG reports that Famitsu's GBA sales numbers are in, and they show the fledgling handheld breaking the one million mark in Japan. In about three weeks of availability, Famitsu has recorded 1,132,612 Game Boy Advance units being sold in Nintendo's home country. Note that Famitsu sales data is usually less than the actual statistics, because of the sampling method used.

You may think you've signed important petitions in the past few days... but this one tops them all!

In the past week the Nintendo faithful have been taking up the charge to do their part in securing GameCube's deserved place in the next generation. Whether it be valiant attempts to get mature titles made, Square developed titles made, for it to release on time in Australia... by making people's voices heard hopefully Nintendo and other developers will take note!

The incredibly popular skateboarding series is headed to GBA twice over...but where's the GameCube love?

Activision has announced that the third Tony Hawk's Pro Skater game will be released for an amazing six systems: Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Playstation, Playstation 2, PC, and Xbox. Great news for the GBA, especially since its version of Tony Hawk 2 looks so awesome, but the lack of a GameCube... Read more...