Take a look at the first Japanese billboard ads featured during baseball.

Our friends at N-Sider have uploaded what is possibly the first 'official' GameCube advert as sanctioned by NCL:

As you can see it is a simple purple backdrop with the violet GC setup along with the NINTENDO GAMECUBE font logo. To the right there is Japanese writing which says "Nintendo GameCube" in katakana and then "Nintendo" in large kanji characters.

Yes, it's true. The cat is one year older. ALL BOW DOWN TO TEH KITTAH!!!!

Well technically, I'm not sure how old Louie really is. But 3 years ago today, I brought this little furball home from Milwaukee's Humane Society. The cat from hell is officially 3.

So Louie's decided to take a few days and relax with a fresh bag of catnip, and a 12 pack of glitter balls. Leave him alone. It's really a rough life he lives.

Yep, it's official...Import GameCube's will not play US software. Blame IGNCube for the bad news not us!

Not that this is really surprising, but imported GameCube's will not be able to play US software. At least without any future modifications that are still unknown.

This may change your mind on importing next month.

Planet GameCube will be looking into this further...but for now...it looks like importers will have to brush up on their Japanese.

Did you catch the Advance Team Tour and enjoy the wild outdoor fun? Expect a change in store for the GameCube introduction tour...

Amidst the updated information in Gaming Target's Advance Team coverage comes some skinny details on the tour Nintendo will be mounting in order to introduce people to the GameCube. While there's not a ton of information available just yet it appears that they're shooting for a more relaxed style... Read more...

We know it sounds crazy, but hear us out. There's a chance that gameplay footage of Bomberman Generations got mixed in with some GBA video back at E3 2001!

Today a popular Japanese site called GC-Inside posted a short preview for Bomberman Generations, which has been spotted on Space World software lists as a GameCube title.

What caught our eye was the pair of screenshots that GC-Inside posted with the preview. They are vid-caps from some footage... Read more...

The big cheese talks about post E3 thoughts, as well as GameCube! When the main man speaks...you bettah listen!

Core Magazine translated an interview that GB Advance magazine had with Minoru Arakawa. Arakawa talks about E3, third party software at launch and more! He's dodging bullets the whole way thru...yet it's a good read. Here's a clip...

GB Advance: What do you think truly distinguishes the GameCube from other consoles?

Hideki Kamiya doesn't think "Devil May Cry" will come to the 'Cube.

In NextGen's most recent magazine, they interviewed Hideki Kamiya of "Devil May Cry" fame. Apparently, Kamiya-san believes the game is not best suited for the GameCube, though he does think that a Xbox version would look better than its PS2 counterpart, if ever made.

Introducing the World Game Show, an international gaming expo set to debut in Paris next April.

A French site called GameCube-FR has received word that Paris will be the home of a brand new gaming expo called the World Game Show, or WGS. It's being touted as the European equivalent of E3 or the Tokyo Game Show. Here's the announcement, as translated by GameCube-FR. (Hit the link above to see the original version in French; we are not responsible for translation errors!)

Famitsu has published some interesting information, and Tendo Box has made it easily available for us!

Tendo Box's latest "Galloping Gaijin" cites Famitsu Magazine, which has revealed lots of little goodies involving Space World and Nintendo overall.

Besides the 81 displayed titles, Nintendo will reveal other titles not present at the upcoming show. The article also explains the different main... Read more...

Where's Willie Nelson when you need him. The GameCube you're dying for has a new theme song. I promise you, it's not from Louie the cat.

Okay, this may probably be the weirdest Monday news we've had here on Planet GameCube. You've been dying to get your hands on a GameCube...while you wait, why not listen to the The GameCube theme song?!

Strange, but very very true, there's a band from Sweden called the Ancient-3 who have made a theme song about...you guessed it...the GameCube. Here's the Lyrics if you want to rock out with your bad self...

Did you win? Did you play? DID YOU WIN?

Thanks for Participating in our Dragon Warrior III contest....

And the lucky winners are....

::Louie Drum rolls::

First Prize:

Trent Styrcula

Second Prize:

Agustin Lopez

Dan Veltri

Congrats! Your Dragon Warrior III love is on it's way! Special thanks go to Enix, and Prima for providing the goods!

The latest Dengeki Top 50 chart is out and we have the listings for the Nintendo console titles.

LastRankTitlePublisherSystemGenreSoldTotal

23Mario Kart AdvanceNintendoGBARacing93,950254,390

-6Baru Shooting BladeBroccoliGBCAdventure27,94227,942

37Fushigi no Dungeon: Furai no Shiren GB2Chun SoftGBCDungeon23,24391,200

58Yugioh Duel Monsters 5: Expert IKonamiGBACard22,056307,201

Nintendo can't get GBA screens fast enough! So, they're getting help from partner in crime Panasonic.

Sharp has been making screen for the Game Boy Color and the Game Boy Advance. Previously, they were hard pressed to meet the demand for the LCDs. Apparently, they have been so hard pressed that Nintendo is now going to be receiving screens from Panasonic as well. Sample screens have already been shipped.... Read more...

It was hoped that we would know more on GameCube import pricing by the end of this week. Here's a pre-mature look...

Buy Rite is the first US distributor to announce pricing plans for import Japanese GameCubes. There's no official price yet, but they are listing a tentative package price between $349.99 - $399.99. This package will include....

One import Nintendo GameCube console

One Controller

One digicard

There are now technically more announced Batman titles for the GCN than Mario Brothers games. Yay?

Ubi Soft announced today that Batman: Vengeance and Disney's Tarzan will make their way to the GameCube. No dates were announced for the two titles, but the two games should hopefully arrive within the GameCube's first year. While both games are currently also under development for the PS2, expect Ubi Soft to reveal some GCN exclusives in the near future, as there are still a whopping 17 other games to come from the French publisher.

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Dear Planet GameCube readers,

As you’ve noticed, we’ve got a Pay Pal ad up on our website asking for donations to help get us to Space World. I’d like to thank the 10 people out there that donated money already. Planet GameCube not only is a lot of hard work to keep going, but it costs us quite a bit of money for server costs, and taking trips to E3, Space World, etc.

Activision is bringing Minority Report to every next-generation console and GBA!

Yesterday, Activision announced that they have earned the rights to the upcoming movie "Minority Report," a science fiction film featuring Tom Cruise. Activision has the rights to next summer's Speilburg film for five years on every console and the PC, and will no doubt take advantage of it. Below is a quote from Activision's press release.

In a translated interview from Nintendo Dream, the presidents of Sonic Team & Amusement Vision talk about likes, dislikes and other cool stuff.

Over at ye ol’ Tendo Box, the “Galloping Gaijin” has struck again with his latest column. As part of it, he runs a translated interview with Sonic Team president Yuji Naka & Amusement Vision president Toshihiro Nagoshi from Nintendo Dream magazine. These two Sega legends will be showing off their GameCube projects at Nintendo’s fast approaching SpaceWorld show but here reveal a more personal side… Enjoy!

Price Fixing is bad, m'kay ...

In what amounts to a slap on the wrist, Japan's Free Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered Sony to stop the practice of pressuring Wholesalers and retailers to sell it's PS2 at specific prices, a practice known in the US as "price fixing."

Why is price fixing such a big deal? It denies a retailer... Read more...

We are almost done editing the video & moving to production. Yay! So what’s next? What are some of the highlights of video? How much longer until it is done? The answers are here.

Since a long time before E3 2001 took place, we were planning and pimping our E3 video. Well, it’s been a long and crazy road since then. However, the next two days should see the E3 video getting out of my hair, and into production. I am very happy to be able to say this!

Rob Avery and... Read more...