Nintendo of America and 4Kids Entertainment announce a new licensing agreement, chock full of exciting possibilities.

Yesterday, Nintendo of America announced an agreement with 4 Kids Entertainment that grants exclusive merchandising licensing agent for Nintendo game systems until 2005. Furthermore, the agreement also grants 4Kids exclusive rights to license live action or animated features for home video, TV or motion pictures. Here’s the press release with all the details!

The popular B-ball series will be dribbling on the small screen this holiday!

Slated for release this holiday season, Digital Creations' NBA Jam 2002 will grace the GameBoy Advance with fancy moves and tons of features, including every NBA team and multiple modes of play.

"Having sold more than six million units worldwide, NBA JAM is one of the most beloved and successful... Read more...

AV has a new Virtua Striker 3 movie ready for downloading!

Straight from the source, this short clip features a score, the consequential victory dance and the replay. The compression is hideous, but the clip suggests that the real deal has great detail. Make sure to watch the stands for some impressive spectator animation.

If you're having trouble viewing the movie, make sure you have an unzipping utility!

As of today, Rogue Leader is 100% complete and ready for mass reproduction. Read on for more details.

Lucas Arts sent out a press release today stating that Rogue Leader has been approved for manufacturing. This comes as great news for the hopelessly pessimistic who might have thought that the game could somehow miss its November 18th release date.

Additionally, Lucas Arts reveals that a special trailer of the game's footage will be available for download from their Rogue Leader page on Friday.

Genki has a racer in the works for GameCube ...

GameSpot has information that Genki is going to show a GameCube version of Togue Battle at the upcoming Tokyo Game Show.

This is one of three titles Genki will show at TGC, including one X-Box title. The third is unknown, and may or may not be a GCN title as well.

Fans of the long-running epic Sega series rejoice!

Shining Force returns! Sega just recently revealed that there is a new title in the series currently known as "Shining Soul".

It's said to be an Adventure game, and that would be the first since Shining Wisdom some time ago. While there's few details, it is understood that the current release date is for sometime early Spring 2002.

THQ announces official details and GameCube release date for its snowboarding title.

THQ’s Dark Summit has been on our release list for awhile and knew it was a unique snowboarding game but we hadn’t dug up much concrete information outside of that until just recently. Versions are planned for PS2 and X-Box and this week THQ finally confirmed it would appear on the GameCube as... Read more...

Nintensity has managed to snag pictures of all the “translucent cube” ads appearing in print magazines.

As part of its Nintendo launch advertising campaign, Nintendo has begun placing very creative print ads utilizing a giant transparent Cube in various popular magazines. The first was a GameCube system ad with the gamer inside the cube immersed in bliss, discovered in Rolling Stone. Now new ads showcasing all of Nintendo’s first-party games for 2001 have been revealed thanks to the efforts of Nintensity.

Portable pokemon fun is hitting Japan very soon...but when? How about getting some extra goodies?

The Pokemon Mini will be released on November 27th for a price of 4800 yen ($40 US). There will be three games available on launch at 1200 yen a piece ($10 US)

If you have the opportunity, you can pre-buy your Pokemon Mini online through the Pokemon Center Online site. If you do so, you get a really cool strap for your Pokemon Mini. Unfortunately at this time, this is limited to people who live in Japan. Boo.

An anonymous TRU clerk clues us into their plans for the GCN launch ...

I just got back from the most interesting of conversations with a clerk at a local Toys 'R' Us chain. Here's the juiciest of the tidbits he tossed ol' Rick ...

TRU stores will NOT be pre-selling GameCube units, and more importantly, will NOT be selling it in a bundle of any kind, and is a corporate... Read more...

Electronics Boutique has finally put together their plans for the GameCube launch, whether it is good or bad will be a decision for the consumer...

With news of various outlets who've taken pre-orders to date being quickly overrun with people any red-blooded Nintendo fan has to have begun to worry a little. Oddly enough, the store of choice for many gamers out there to date hasn't had any solid plans for if/when/how they would handle pre-orders. Now that has changed, and here's the skinny...

It's a little late, but the GameShark has finally arrived for Game Boy Advance.

Originally expected for launch, InterAct has finally released the GBA GameShark. New features include a PC link-up cable for downloading codes directly from GameShark.com...you'll never have to manually enter codes again (though you still can, of course). The product comes pre-loaded with codes for 25 GBA games, mainly the launch titles with a few more that have been released since then.

Suddenly, I have to own this game.

Today Acclaim Entertainment announced that Terry "Hulk" Hogan, one of the most famous pro wrestlers of all time, has signed on to endorse the upcoming Legends of Wrestling game, which is coming to GameCube as well as other systems.

“I’m proud to work again with Acclaim and be a part of ‘Legends... Read more...

We now have exact dates for Courtside and Star Fox, as well as several other titles.

Nintendo of America has updated its release date, and without further ado, here are the goods:

NBA Courtside - January 14, 2002

Eternal Darkness - February 11, 2002

Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet - March 25, 2002

On the GBA side of things...

Golden Sun - November 12, 2001

Yes, we have the first word on the streets on the exact date. Click here for offical word from NOA.

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem will be delayed until February 11, 2002 for a MSRP of $49.95.

According to our sources deep inside Nintendo, the reason for the delay is to add more polish to the title.

Or are they? Following the Sony & Square announcement Square’s president dropped hints…

Thanks to Video Senki, we have more information regarding the Sony / Square deal; namely, translated highlights of the Q&A session following the announcement. Two questions answered by Square president Nao Suzuki are of particular interest to Nintendophiles.

Q: Are you limiting yourselves to the PlayStation platform with SCE's investment?

Pikmin hits Japan this month and Shigeru Miyamoto is on hand to discuss his little ant-plants with Famitsu Weekly.

Cloudchaser’s Galloping Gaijin’s latest column has arrived and addresses Nintendo’s low-key GameCube presence in Japan, even as Microsoft prepares to storm the Fall TGS. It also features a translated Weekly Famitsu interview with Shigeru Miyamoto on the subject of Pikmin!

Here’s an excerpt:

According to the popular Japanese news site GC Inside, Konami will be showing off 2 GameCube games at TGS 2001!

GC Inside has confirmed that Konami will be showing Jikkyou World Soccer 2002 and ESPN International Winter Sports 2002 for GameCube at the Fall Tokyo Game Show 2001. Though their progress was not mentioned, it is very likely that at least one of the two games will be playable on the GameCube. With two GCN games from a major developer at TGS, Nintendo is showing the public that it truely does have third party support.

…And the prospect of Square games returning to Nintendo systems once again looks quite unlikely indeed. UPDATE: A glimmer of hope?

There have been rumors flying that Square might be announcing some games for Nintendo systems in the near future, possibly as soon as the fall Tokyo Game Show. Although such reconciliation between companies has been looking increasingly likely, it now seems impossible. Sony has just invested in... Read more...

Nintendo GameCube will barely make an appearance in this fall's Tokyo Game Show. More cell phone games to be shown than GameCube? What tha?

According to Core Magazine, here's a breakdown of how many games will be shown per platform. Doesn't look like there will be a whole lot of GameCube kiosks on the floor...

PlayStation 2 - 87

PSone - 83

Game Boy Advance - 51

PC - 33

Xbox - 20

Cellphone - 14

GameBoy Color - 11