Mad Catz will be making 11 products for the Game Boy Advance.

Mad Catz will be making products for the Game Boy Advance including an MP3 player, a PDA, and a car adaptor. They will be avaliable in multiple colors. More information will be revealed at E3. From FGN:

"The Game Boy accessories category expanded by almost 60 percent last year and shows... Read more...

One of our favorite developers shows up with new info for the first time in almost a year. Lego adventure game, anyone?

One of the surprise games shown at Camp Game Boy Advance was Lego Bionicle: Tales of the Tohunga. The oddly titled game is apparently an adventure set in the Lego universe, according to IGNpocket's hands-on impressions from Camp GBA. What's interesting is that Saffire is behind the new game. We've... Read more...

The Hanger and Marsailles in all their GBA glory!

The Tony Hawk GBA preview was updated recently with hands on impressions from IGN Pocket. Now we have the screen shots to match those impressions. The game is a direct gameplay port of Tony Hawk 2, and it looks amazing!

You've seen it before but now it's official.

Nintendo unveiled the final US packaging for the Game Boy Advance in the USA. Not surprisingly, it's the same box that we pictured a few months back and said was rumored to be the box. So, anyways, here's the juice:

Nintendo's Ken Lobb speaks out on the development of the GBA answering such questions as: why no back light?

Ken Lobb speaketh:

"When we shipped the Game Boy Pocket, it was clearly a better thing than the Game Boy original. That size was seen as really important – the Game Boy was just a little bit too big. It wasn't very comfortable sitting in your back pocket…it was a little too long and a little... Read more...

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon and Konami Krazy (Wai Wai) Racers are BOTH coming to a GBA near you in June!

When NOA released the first official GBA launch schedule for North America, the list of fifteen games was missing several notable games, especially from Konami. Now the popular third-party publisher has rectified that situation by announcing both Castlevania: Circle of the Moon and Konami Krazy Racers as North American launch titles, according to GameSpot. Expect more third-party launch announcements soon.

What does Enix think of Nintendo and it's next gen powerhouse? Read this and find out.

IGNcube, the lucky bastards they are, recently snagged an interview with Kogi Taguchi. Taguchi is the director and head of software planning at Enix of Japan. Here's a transcript of the interivew.

IGNcube: How would you describe the relationship between Enix and Nintendo?

Enix Japan:... Read more...

GameSpot.UK has posted a feature called "The Godfathers of Gaming." Not surprisingly, Shigeru Miyamoto made the list on Day Two.

GameSpot.UK's list of the Godfathers of Gaming doesn't appear to be in any sort of order, but Nintendo's own resident genious Shigeru Miyamoto pops up on Day Two. Of course, this list is very complete, and is an excellent read for any gamer.

Sony likes emulation when it isn't a PlayStation being emulated.

Game Boy is coming to PS2 thanks to Datel of the U.K. The product, named “Game Studio,” will come out in England in April. The product consists of emulation software, a GB/GBC to Memory port adapter, and 6 built-in games. But the British company isn’t stopping there—it has found a way to... Read more...

Ph33r of Pokemon spreads.... but for a different reason!

Pokemon was banned in Saudi Arabia by its government. Saudi Arabia's Higher Committee for Scientific Research and Islamic Law banned Pokemon over the weekend. It said that the videogames and cards featuring the popular Pokémon characters contain religious symbols that include the Star of David, crosses, triangles significant for Freemasons and symbols of Japan's Shintoism. On Egyptian parent living in Saudi Arabia stated:

The Blue Bomber will reach the US on the GBA!!!

Great day in the morning (er, afternoon actually)! I just got the April issue of Nintendo Power and it states that "Mega Man Battle Network" is set for a July release in North America!!! It also gives up some plot tid bits. Check the Preview!

Bad news for the US, is good news for Europe.

FGNOnline is reporting that the US allocation of GBA units for launch has been reduced to 500,000 ... half of what was originally expected. The reasoning given is saving units for the European launch.

Last week we posted the first GBA accessories pictures. Now here's juice about the new peripherals.

We posted a truckload of large pics of import GBA accessories last week. Yet, out side of the Hori items, there was a new company called Nichigan that released some new products that we didn't have any details on. Now we do....

Nichigan, a Japanese company specializing in peripherals for video games, has recently released five new convenient GBA add-ons for their "GBA Accessory Series."

Robert X. Cringely talks about how Nintendo can steal developers from Sony, and win this next battle.

Always fun to read an article from a guy with an 'X' as a middle initial, Cringely is always throught-provoking and a great read. Check it out.

Thanks to middleware developer SN Systems, I got my hands on a prototype of the GameCube Controller.

Special thanks to Andrew Weatherton (NShooters and NGenres) for spotting a GameCube controller at middleware developer SN Systems' booth in the GDC Expo. Well, technically it was a prototype controller (looking a lot like the one Thomas Engel used in the GameCube audio lecture the day before) but... Read more...

Australia to get GBA in July and with their own set of colours? Click here to get the scoop...

First things first, that's not a spelling error in the headline and this being a news article relating to Aussie gamers I thought I'd use correct spelling (the Australian way of course).

No official date has been set for the launch of GBA in Australia but sources clsoe to PlanetGameCube have let us in on some information. The news below is not to be taken as fact but as a reliable rumour.

NOA confirms that Metroid is not a port and some interesting GBA news involving Rare.

Camp Game Boy Advance. Can the GBA get anymore exciting!? You read correctly the first two times! There is an upcoming Metroid game for the GBA, and it is a new game, not a port! There is no word on who is developing it yet.

This was revealed by Ken Lobb who said some other interesting things.... Read more...

The system hasn't even been out for a week and there's already emulation?!

French Game Boy site GB corner has posted the first pics of an early Game Boy Advance Emulator.

The emulator is called iGBA, and so far they got F-Zero Advance already up and...almost running.

Granted there aren't currently any roms or emulators to download, but it looks like the people are trying to make this is reality. I'm sure the folks at Nintendo won't be too thrilled about this.

We're on the road to giving our readership better opportunities to share their opinions and feedback... here's your first stop!

We'd like to cordially invite everyone, even if you've never been to our Forums before, to come on over to our new and improved Reader Forum. While it may take some getting used to at first, we're hoping that the overall benefits it offers will outweigh the small number of negatives.

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With consoles becoming as powerful as PCs for games, is it possible that the console is the wave of the future? Rick Powers explores the possibility ...

It's long been the debate that with consoles costing roughly one-fifth the money of a PC, that once they became powerful enough, consoles would start to erode the PC gaming market.

As the article at C|Net explores, it's not quite that cut and dry. The long and short of it is, consoles are better suited to short bites of gaming, while long, drawn-out epics are better on PCs. Racing on consoles, sims on PCs.