Yesterday, at the Interactive Entertainment awards in London, a couple of Nintendo games picked up awards.

This week was BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) week in the UK. Awards were presented for television, film and interactive entertainment. The Interactive awards have been running for four years now and many of the awards have been won by the games industry.

The successes this year include Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 for GBA winning the award for Games – Mobile and Conker’s Bad Fur Day taking Sound.

A Game Boy Advance title based on the Disney/Pixar feature film has shipped and should be available now.

With three blockbusters under its belt, Pixar has quickly become one of the most successful and consistent production houses of the film industry. Its fourth cooperative venture with Disney, Monsters, Inc., is debuting this month and will likely be yet another box office hit.

Naturally, Disney... Read more...

The Cube Club finally hit Minneapolis. Geeks, chicks, and dudes who wish they were geekier. Impressions of night #1, just moments after it happened…

I’ve sat at home for the last 2 rounds of the Nintendo Cube Clubs, and it was finally my chance to see Nintendo’s US Marketing strategy up close and personal. It was also a chance to get my hands on some later builds of games and, well, just have a good time gaming. At about 5:30 pm I left for... Read more...

Sony posts a rare loss, with PS2 being the lone bright spot in the forecast ...

Sony claims that the economic slowdown has had no effect on it's videogame business, nor have the terrorist attacks curbed this sort of discretionary spending.

However, despite the PS2's excellent money generating for the company, Sony posted a loss of $352M.

This quarter was the first quarter that the PS2 made money for Sony after six consecutive quarters operating in the red.

Reuters reports that the X-Box manufacturer is laying off 10,000 workers.

The Reuters report on Flextronics earnings report is anything but positive. Analysts expected earinings of 16 cents per share ... with Flextronics offering an estimate of 15-18 cents per share.

However, when final numbers came in, Flextronics sat at 15 cents/share ... not including charges.... Read more...

Super Monkey Ball isn't the only game to come out before the system anymore!

One-upping Sega, LucasArts and Factor 5 plan to put Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II on shelves November 7th. That's over a week before the system comes out! Considering the game's popularity, store-based consumers may want to consider purchasing the game before November 18th.

Acclaim's got some great stuff in store for the GameCube version of All Star Baseball 2002!

Baseball lovers, rejoice! The GameCube version of All Star Baseball 2002 has several GameCube exclusive features, including stadiums!

That's right, only on the GameCube will you see Safeco Field lit up for the 2001 All-Star Game, or the new Puerto Rico Stadium.

And a first in a baseball videogame, the GameCube version will include what Acclaim is calling "Broken Bat Technology."

Kawasaki Jet Ski Champs test drive the upcoming GameCube launch title, Wave Race: Blue Storm. Take a look at what they thought.

Earlier this month, two real life “wave racers” got to try NST / Nintendo’s latest jet ski wonder, Wave Race: Blue Storm. Chris MacClugage (left w/ yellow hat) and Dustin Motzouris (right, seated), World and National Champion title holders with the Kawasaki JET SKIR Racing Team go thumb to thumb in a "wave race" of the virtual kind at the 2001 Skat-Trak World Championships in Lake Havasu, Arizona on October 13.

Boston, Minneapolis, and San Francisco are blessed this weekend with the arrival of the Cube Clubs! Get the info you need to play till you can't stand.

That's right folks...Cube Clubs are heading all over the place. I'm obviously gearing up for the Minneapolis Cube Club in the Mall of America tonight. My magic ticket arrived just a few hours ago....

We'll have full coverage coming to you from Minneapolis, and San Francisco beginning tonight!

Not one, but TWO games in the infamous Mortal Kombat series are in the works for Nintendo's handheld.

Today Midway released a huge new release schedule, much of it unchanged from the last time they did so. However, there were some new GBA games on there, including Ultimate Mortal Kombat for a Q1 2002 release, and Mortal Kombat 5 for a Q3 2002 release. MK5 has already been confirmed for GameCube and will come out approximately the same time...perhaps they'll link up?

According to Left Field, the sequel to the N64 Snowboarding game is not currently being worked on.

Games Radar has heard from the president of Left Field, Mike Lamb, about the state of 1080° Snowboarding 2. After hearing rumors of the game being canceled, Lamb told Games Radar "We were developing a Gamecube snowboarding game for Nintendo but we have stopped work on the project. I really can't comment on the reasons."

It looks like “Pikalele” isn’t the only new, mysterious thing being registered as a trademark for Nintendo…

If you’ve followed our coverage recently, you’ll know about trademarks registered for Pikalele, something that seems related to music and Pokemon. It seems that this was not the only trademark . Ten days prior to the trademarks for Pikalele, NOA filed a trademark for “Poke Doll.” What Poke Doll is seems hard to say, though it does seem very artistically oriented. Here’s the trademark:

My question is, how are you going to be able to go to the bathroom?

Nintendo has posted a very funny commercial short on their website. Click

here to go to the page.

It's a small 5 meg Quicktime file.

Fluff up that mullet, toss on the Megadeth t-shirt, and strap on the super tight black jeans. Raise your lighters, and get ready to roxor your boxors!

Well not quite. Pikmin hits Friday, and we've gotten our hands on a song to get you in the mood.

We're not exactly sure where in the game this song will appear, but we're sure it's in it. Wanna rock out live in Shiggy's garden? Click here to download the 1:24 mystery song (576k).

Special thanks to Hardcore Gamers for the bandwith love!

EA’s cartoon vehicle combat game is no longer exclusive to the X-Box.

Cel Damage has just been announced for Nintendo GameCube. The cel shaded car combat game had previously been announced as a X-Box exclusive but there have been some rumors of a Cube version. The game will still premiere on the X-Box on November 15th and will hit NGC in December. The GameCube version... Read more...

Looks like the future of online gaming with Sega will revolve around money. Seganet news! Eat it up.

Sega has announced today that they'll begin charging gamers $9.95 a month to play games on their online network starting November 1. Reuters has the beef....

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The online arm of Japanese game publisher Sega Corp. (7964.T) said on Tuesday it would begin charging $9.95 a month as of Nov. 1 for unlimited access to its online network for multiplayer video games.

Looks like the future of online gaming with Sega will revolve around money. Seganet news! Eat it up.

Sega has announced today that they'll begin charging gamers $9.95 a month to play games on their online network starting November 1. Reuters has the beef....

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The online arm of Japanese game publisher Sega Corp. (7964.T) said on Tuesday it would begin charging $9.95 a month as of Nov. 1 for unlimited access to its online network for multiplayer video games.

If you placed some bad ju-ju upon us, and our video, please get the hell away from us and jump in front of a moving bus. One more quick video update.

We’ve been receiving a lot of e-mails, and I’ve been in very close contact with our good friends from Gaming Edge about the shipping of the E3 Videos. Yesterday I received my personal copy of the videos and CDs, and sat down and watched everything straight through. Let me tell you, even though... Read more...

Yep! Don't want to spend your monies? Sega can help deliver the GameCube love you desire...

Sega has started their contest for you to win a free GameCube, some controllers, and of course, a copy of Super Monkey Ball.

Click the link above to head to the site. You can play a pretty spiffy flash version of Monkey Ball Mini. It's not quite the same, but it should (key word there is should) tide you over momentarily.

Square recaps its fallout with Nintendo and realizes when you feast on arrogance, you get humble pie for dessert.

Before Sony bought 19% of Square, there were numerous Nintendo/Square rumors, supported several promising developments over the past few months, all overshadowed by statements made by NCL’s president Hiroshi Yamauchi earlier this year. After Square first publicly expressed interest in the GBA,... Read more...