What's this? The Blue Bomber is starring in an all-new animé adventure?

According to the GIA, an all new animé based on the popular GBA game will begin airing March 4th, 2002 on TV Tokyo Channel 12 in Japan, and every monday thereafter at 6:30 PM.

Supposedly the plot will remain close to the game's storyline.

Indiana Jones is coming to platform near you with The Collective in the driver's seat.

LUCASARTS CHOOSES THE COLLECTIVE TO DEVELOP NEW INDIANA JONES® GAME FOR NEXT GENERATION

CONSOLES AND PC

The Collective to Leverage Innovative Technology in Return of Renowned Indiana Jones Action-Adventure

There's a new BMX game on the way in the vein of Dark Summit.

Toxic Grind is a story/mission-based BMX game to be released on GameCube and Xbox in Q2 2002. Your character, Jason Hayes, has been poisoned in a future where BMX is illegal, and the only way to save himself is to compete in a popular game show. Think of Ah-nold's The Running Man on bikes. The... Read more...

Attention Kmart shoppers, can you spare a dime?

Kmart, America's number two retail chain store, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday. This means that while it is in debt, and that it owes many suppliers money, it can continue business as usual while it begins to restructure and repay its debts.

What this means for Nintendo is that it's... Read more...

Robotech comes to the GBA!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TDK Mediactive Announces First Robotech® Game

Game Boy® Advance title: "The Macross Saga" to Debut Summer 2002

CALABASAS, CA - January 22, 2002 - TDK Mediactive, Inc. (OTC: TDKM.OB), a

global publisher of entertainment software, announced today that its first game

It ain't coming, and never was.

Several readers emailed us last week asking about The Thing's status for GameCube, since that system wasn't mentioned in recent announcements for the game. Today we contacted Universal Interactive to check for sure, and they told us that The Thing is not coming for GameCube, and for that matter,... Read more...

You've played Pikmin. You love Pikmin. But enough to write a song in their honor? Or enough to buy one?

"Ai no Uta" (Love Song) débuted in Japan in November of last year, accompanying Nintendo's Pikmin television commercial. It isn't music taken from the game, but rather a sweet little guitar and vocal piece written and performed by the duet Strawberry Flower. Although at first listen it seems uncharacteristic... Read more...

Former bigwig at Sony CEA and Sega of America has just become President and Chief Operating Officer of BAM! Entertainment.

The name Bernie Stolar is a persistent one in the gaming industry, and he'll be particularly familiar to longtime Sega fans and early Dreamcast owners. Stolar left Sega shortly after the DC launch, and there were rumors that Nintendo was picking him up, but he eventually landed at Mattel Interactive... Read more...

You thought the days of ignorant mainstream console comparisons were over. You thought wrong.

We're not exactly sure when Popular Science's "Battling Boxes" article was printed, but you can read it here. Here are a few excerpts to whet your appetite:

"I'm already a PlayStation 2 ($299) junkie, so I didn't need a lot of saddle time with the deuce."

Right, and that makes it okay to completely ignore PS2 in your article.

The latest Nintendo Power has a list of 15 developers that are now developing for the GameCube. Get the full run down, including what some of the games could be…

The latest Nintendo Power includes an informative listing of the latest development companies signed up to develop for GameCube. Thanks to TendoBox, we’ve got a transcription of the complete list, accompanied descriptions on each company and even hints at what some of the GameCube projects might be!

A couple of GBA games fall just short of a shiny dendo award.

A few Famitsu scores to report on this weekend, Americanized for your convenience.

Guilty Gear X (Sammy)- 29 (8 7 7 7)

Tomato Adventure (Nintendo) - 29 (8 7 7 7)

How well did Nintendo fair this week in Famitsu? A couple climbers, and fallers in this week's list!

Game Title

System

Maker

Last Week's Rank

Week Before Last

This Week's Sales

Total Unit Sales

1

Dairantou Smash Bros DX

GCN

Nintendo

3

6

238,931

928,700

2

Gran Turismo Concept 2001 Tokyo

PS2

SCE

-

I know every single one of you have been waiting for this game announcement for a very, very, very, long time.

DUALSTAR INTERACTIVE AND CLUB ACCLAIM ANNOUNCE

‘MARY-KATE AND ASHLEY GIRLS NIGHT OUT’ FOR GAME BOY® ADVANCE

America’s #1 Selling Girls’ Video Game Property from the Mary-Kate and Ashley Brand

Brings Hip Fashions and Dance Floor Action to Next-Generation Hand-held Game System

Nintendo president, Hiroshi Yamauchi spoke candidly about GameCube, his developer fund, the competition and his retirement today… Find out what he had to say!

In an interview with Mainichi Interactive that was posted today, Nintendo Co. Ltd’s 74 year-old president, Hiroshi Yamauchi spoke on a variety of topics, from GameCube’s performance over the holidays, to his retirement and what comes next. As usual, Mr. Yamauchi was anything but reserved in expressing his point of view—but we expect nothing less from Nintendo’s top dog. Thanks to GamePro for posting a translation of the interview!

Just when Sega's GameCube support begins to be questioned, Wow Entertainment opens its doors to reveal Home Run King for Nintendo GameCube!

SEGA ANNOUNCES HOME RUN KING

NEW BASEBALL TITLE TO BRING FAST, FUN GAMEPLAY TO NINTENDO GAMECUBE

Sega® today announced that "Home Run KING(tm)" is coming to the Nintendo

GameCube(tm) in March, so put down that bag of old, uneaten sunflower seeds

you've been sitting on and get your game cleats out. This fully licensed,

Tactics Ogre Gaiden gets a US date, new publisher, and a surprising name change.

The latest entry in the popular SRPG series in Japan, Tactics Ogre Gaiden is now being released as Tactics Ogre: The Knights of Lodis, by Atlus, in May. For the record, the original subtitle is actually "The Knight of Lodis", so the minor plurality change and the dropping of Gaiden from the title come as a surprise, especially from a company like Atlus.

Pretty soon, there are going to be a million reasons why this game is Nintendo's best Japanese seller.

Nintendo has just announced that it has shipped one million copies of Super Smash Bros. DX (Melee, for us North Americans) to retailers throughout Japan. Of course, the actual number of units sold is actually lower (around 800,000), but still, it's a rather sigificant milestone for Nintendo.

When... Read more...

Chessmaster is coming to the GBA! We've got the first details about this classic game heading to your favorite portable.

Ubi Soft Brings Its Legendary Chess Franchise Chessmaster® to the Game Boy® Advance!

15 January 2002 - Ubi Soft Entertainment®, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, today announced that it is developing a version of its world-renowned Chessmaster franchise for the Game Boy... Read more...

The Mummy's spinoff is getting its own games, and they're headed to Nintendo's systems.

Here's a quick background check on the Scorpion King: first appeared in 2001's The Mummy Returns. Played by The Rock of WWF fame. People's Elbow, etc. Now he's getting his own movie, with Vince McMahon as executive producer, and Chuck Russell directing. The screenplay was written by Stephen Sommers (director of both Mummy films), Will Osborne, and David Hayter (yes, the guy who voices Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid games).

How does a million GameCubes a month tickle your fancy?

Nintendo is currently producing about 600,000 GameCubes per month out of its Japanese factories. However, it's just been discovered that starting in April, it will up the production to one million GCNs a month for worldwide distribution. According to GC-Inside, Nintendo will be opening up another production facility in China to reach these kinds of numbers.