Jonnyboy is the big 2-3!

Today is the 23rd birthday of one Jonathan Metts: aerospace engineering student, Bob Dylan fan, and director of Planet GameCube.com. The whole staff would like to extend our birthday wishes to Jonathan. He's done a fantastic job keeping everything here together. He's successfully brought us through two E3 expos and is already hard at work prepping for E3 2005.

Nintendo's new handheld arrives down under next month.

Nintendo Australia Pty. Limited has announced the first official information about the Australian DS launch. The system will be released on Feb. 24th for $199.95 AUS. Nintendo will have two first-party launch titles: Super Mario 64 DS and WarioWare Touched!, with Pokemon Dash available soon thereafter. The rest of the launch lineup will be announced at a later time.

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap is on its way to a store near you.

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap Sets a Small Link on a Huge Adventure

Nintendo likes to do things big. Bigger battles, bigger bad guys and

bigger adventures. The Legend of Zelda(R): The Minish Cap, launching

today, takes all these larger-than-life elements and shrinks them to

microscopic size. The result is a huge quest on a tiny scale.

Take a look at what's coming for DS, GameCube and GBA for the first half of 2005.

Today, Nintendo of America announced the official release schedules for its three platforms through Q2 2004 (April-June). As always, the list is subject to change as new games are announced and announced games are delayed.

Nintendo DS

-- Feb. 14: WarioWare(TM): Touched! from Nintendo

-- March 14: Pokemon(R) Dash from Nintendo

Versions for GameCube, GBA, DS, and other systems are based on the upcoming animated film.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Activision has revealed Madagascar, a cross-platform game based on the upcoming movie. It centers around four animals from the Central Park Zoo who have various adventures in New York City and the African island nation of Madagascar. The console versions are being developed by Toys for Bob, while the GBA and DS versions are being handled at Vicarious Visions.

Mario gets ready to lose the pounds.

Nintendo and Konami announced today that not only is DDR finally coming to GameCube, but that Nintendo's number one plumber will be throwing his weight into the project (which seems to be becoming a trend lately). Dance Dance Revolution with Mario is being co-developed by Konami and Nintendo, published... Read more...

Enjoy the official announcement.

KONAMI'S RENOWNED CASTLEVANIA SERIES TO DEBUT ON THE NINTENDO DS SYSTEM

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - January 6, 2005 - Konami Digital Entertainment - America, a division of Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., announced today a new Castlevania game for the Nintendo(r) DS. Set in the year 2036, the... Read more...