Sonic Team has two great videos of the new Sonic games just released in Japan!

The Sonic Adventure 2 Battle page is up and running...at least in Japanese. But the important stuff is easy access anyway, despite the foreign language. When you click on the link, you'll see two batches of MPGs at various qualities. The first features great footage of both games and detailed coverage... Read more...

A real quick easy way to wish all of you a very happy holiday season without sending out cards and junk! We're cheap bastards! Are we going to slack off and ignore you for 2 weeks? Hell no ho ho!!!!!

As you read this, I have just arrived home for the holidays, as has the rest of the staff of Planet GameCube. Our company Holiday party was a complete success. Max threw up on Santa, Ty made all the Reindeer write trivia questions, and Dragona kicked Tony Hawk out of the party because he was “wrong”. Good times were had by all. But now we’re off spending the holidays with our respected real families.

Though the details aren't all there, the GBA will be online in 2002... but not with Nintendo.

A few days ago, nReach announced its plans to bring Game Boy Advance online via Bluetooth technology, a popular form of wireless information transfer. Below is the press release.

2001-12-19

Golden, CO ~ December 19, 2001 ~ nReach understands that today's Game Boy Advance generation wants to... Read more...

Cyplex is a new TV series featuring a hardcore gaming tournament and a serious look into the gaming culture. Read the first details on the show and how you can be a contestant!

Cyplex is a new TV series featuring a unified PC/console gaming tournament. The show is scheduled to air 13 total episodes in the year 2002, and the pilot has just finished production.

The goal of the show is to present a serious look into the gaming culture and the people that drive it: gamers.... Read more...

It's that time again...

Latest Dengeki sales charts

These cover from 12/10 - 12/16.

Only Nintendo titles listed.

#-SysNameMakerGenreCostReleaseSalestotal

2-GBASuper Mario Advance 2NintendoACT4800y12/14/01126,918126,918

5-GCDoubutsu no Mori+NintendoETC6800y12/14/0194,97894,978

64GCDairantou Smash Brothers DXNintendoACT6800y11/21/0191,870595,870

The Internet is all abuzz about what the company Christmas card sent by Rare is all about ...

Games Radar has gotten a hold of Rareware's company Christmas card, and it's set the 'Net on fire with what it could possibly mean. All we know for sure are the facts.

The card is a take on the classic "Twelve Days of Christmas" theme, starting with "4 elements of power." The art is a pretty clear indicator of an upcoming GameCube title, "Kameo: Elements of Power."

Maybe not, but Nintendo will be using GBA for interactive trivia games in Japan.

In a partnership with the Nippon Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), Nintendo NCL plans to use the GBA in a whole new way. By connecting the GBA (with a specific game pak) to the Internet, Japanese GBA owners will submit answers to televised trivia questions for an scored evaluation. No further details about the system's versatility or trivia content have been commented on, but if done right the software could prove to be quite popular.

Shiggy's going to Vegas! Word! After so many days of cute Pikmin, it's gotta get to you. Drinks and gambling for everyone! Kidding. More info. inside...

REDMOND, Wash.--Dec. 18, 2001--

Shigeru Miyamoto and Satoru Iwata to Participate in 2002 Event

Nintendo of America today announced Shigeru Miyamoto and Satoru

Iwata, two of the key creative forces behind the best-selling new

video game console, NINTENDO GAMECUBE(TM), will participate in the

Rumors still abound concerning on just what Enix is thinking.

UPDATE: We apologize for this story having been published as a NEWS item. It was clearly a rumor, but a database problem posted it as news. We're going to try to rectify it, but the following is indeed a RUMOR.

GC inside is speculating that Enix will have some GC titles in the works... Read more...

Nintendo doesn't want anything being leaked out of their offices, and they're going to make sure nothing is.

Security at Nintendo is pretty tight. It's about to get even tighter. Nintendo of America has chosen a program called Mirage made by Alchemedia Technologies, Inc. to increase the security of documents passed around the company internally.

According to Perrin Kaplan, VP of Corporate Affairs at the... Read more...

What do you do when you have a red hot franchise like Tony Hawk? You keep releasing sequels. Not only that, but you release a press release....

ACTIVISION COMMENCES DEVELOPMENT ON THE FOURTH PRODUCT IN TONY HAWK’S PRO SKATER™ FRANCHISE

Premier Game Developer Neversoft Entertainment Set to Create Sequel to Top Brand

Santa Monica, CA – December 17, 2001 -- Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) confirmed today that the company is currently... Read more...

So you've ordered our E3 or Japan Experience videos from us. We need to know what you think!

If you've ordered our E3 2001 or Japan Experience 2001 video, we want to know your thoughts. We're putting together a little special deal, and if you've viewed these videos, please send us your thoughts!

Here's some of the things we are looking for:

1. What did you like about the video?

The industry's voluntary ratings organization has inadvertantly confirmed Line Drive Baseball from Sega...and it's coming to GameCube.

A sharp eye at SwirlVision has discovered a listing for Sega's Line Drive Baseball at the ESRB website. The listing can be found here.

The information in this listing is literally all we know of the game, because Sega has yet to officially announce the game or mention it at all. However, it's worth nothing that Line Drive Baseball isn't listed for any other systems at the ESRB site...just GameCube.

The guys at Famitsu have published their latest round of reviews. Any good games coming out soon in Japan?

GBA continues to impress as more and more hits are published. Thanks to TEH WINDEY DALE's observational skills we have a list of Famitsu's scores. Though many are just mediocre (as expected), a few Japanese gems stand out in the pre-Christmas GBA onslaught. Below are most of the Japanese games.

Yes indeedy! With a similar (but more difficult to reach) modification, the Panasonic Q can play your U.S. GameCube games!

The Q has shipped in Japan, and it didn't take long for various sources to crack it open and attempt to modify the unit to break down its territorial walls.

The Q is much more difficult to open, but not impossible. The actual modification is applied in the same way as the standard GameCube unit.

The well known publisher is bringing Imagineer's popular franchise State-wise.

Imagineer's Medarot series, known as Medabots in the US (the cartoon is shown on Fox Kids), is finally coming states-wise as Natsume has announced that they will be bringing the 2 Gameboy Advance Medarot games (already released in Japan) over here in time for Summer 2002. Natsume has also stated that a Gamecube version will be released in 2003.

My daddy can beat up your daddy! Yes he can! I swear! More official numbers about the GameCube launch direct from NOA

Nintendo Sales Update

REDMOND, Wash.--Dec. 14, 2001--Nintendo:

-- Total North American shipments of NINTENDO GAMECUBE(TM) have

now reached 1.1 million, with more than 800,000 sold through

in the U.S., Canada and Latin America markets.

-- While retailers report out-of-stock situations everyday,

Alright alright, so it’s still Spring 2002. But this is the closest yet to an official release month for the console. All this from NCL!

Reuters have reported that Nintendo Co, Ltd. said that the GameCube will release in Europe in Spring 2002, most likely during April or May. A Nintendo spokesperson said "We will be able to provide details of our Europe launch next month".

Sometime before this announcement, the website Asahi... Read more...

Business Week tackles the console war with a plethora of stories ...

Business Week is certainly doing it's homework, with a huge special report about the business of console gaming.

While we can't even begin to tell you everything there is to read over there, each article seems very well written.

They also take a look at some of the third-party publishers, and how they're handling the myriad of choices in this generation.

It's not Rare, but it should be a decent Bond title none-the-less. EA's porting their bond shooter to the GameCube. But when exactly?

Electronic Arts is porting yet another one of their PS2 titles to the GameCube. This time, it's James Bond: Agent Under Fire. It's scheduled to be released sometime in the Spring of 2002.

As far as if there will be any GameCube exclusive features or additions is still to be announced.