Sega of America's VP of marketing, Charles Bellfield drops some major bombs. Do not miss this article.

Long story short, GameWeek has interviewed Sega's Sega of America's VP of marketing and communications, Charles Bellfield. Now READ!

GW: Let me get right to it: was there any truth to the reports Nintendo was looking to buy?

CB: (long pause) Yeah. So were Microsoft, so were Sony.

However,... Read more...

It's another holiday, so Max touches on it & tells the world about a pretty cool celebratory idea.

OK, so it's Valentine's Day. A lot of people take this holiday seriously, mainly girlfriends hoping to get stuff, boyfriends having to have stuff, retailers selling holiday junk or single people care because they're in a funk and don't have anybody to buy stuff for. Ah, the capitalistic life of... Read more...

NOA shoots down reports of a GameCube delay to November, stemming from a marketing calendar shown at Toy Fair '01.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have just received official word from Nintendo of America that the November launch date shown at the New York Toy Fair is wrong. Here's what they told us:

There was inaccurate information released regarding the North American launch date of Nintendo GameCube. Please note,... Read more...

IGN Pocket gets a Game Boy Advance! Where's ours!??!

First off, I'd like to say sorry for not posting this story sooner. With that out of the way, IGN Pocket somehow got their grubby little hands on a Game Boy Advance. So, they've decided to show us what the Game Boy Color games look like on (and in) it. On a side note, they've also got pictures of... Read more...

Go get Paper Mario now! How much proof do you need!?

While Billy has already contributed his own two cents on this topic after playing this game for a few days (and having to fight with my wife who generally HATES games for playing time) I can't say enough about it. Which game? Paper Mario of course!

While the major review houses like IGN64 and... Read more...

Scribes once again hints at Rare's secret plans; this time, it looks like Perfect Dark 2 may not feature Joanna at all!

Rarewhere, the official site of Rare Ltd., has possibly one of the best mailbag sections ever conceived. Against all odds, someone wrote into the newest Scribes with a question about an actual Rare game, and even more conspicuously, the reply contained both concrete, non-sarcastic information and... Read more...

Is it true? Yes! Well sorta....this is weird.

A bunch of cool GBA import news comes our way from NCSX. Sega is making a GBA accessory called the Light Boy. It will be available in Japan on March 21 at a price of Y2680. Basically it's a light for your GBA since it doesn't have a backlight. So when are we getting them Maracas Sega?

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Seven GBA game boxes for your viewing pleasure.

IGN Pocket has stumbled received box art for not 1, not 2, but 7 Game Boy Advance games. Six of these shots come from upcoming GBA games by Konami. So, without further ado, here they are:

Pretty slick.

Wow, IGN Pocket is just running rampant with news lately. This story is a few days old. After some internal debate we've finally decided to post something about it. Nintendo of Canada has released a picture that appears to be the North American box for the Game Boy Advance. Though nothing has been... Read more...

Hot off the heals of a nonspecific release date we get this news from IGN Pocket.

News from IGN Pocket, confirming the story posted earlier on MIPS, also reveals a precise US release date for the Game Boy Advance. The handheld system will release on June 11th, 2001.

NGPC = Neo Geo Pocket Color.

Higher Voltage, another site that uses '1' deliberately, reports that ...

SNK announced that they will resume the operations of SNK Asia, closed after Aruze acquired the company last year, in March. SNK Asia will continue to sell the handheld, Neo Geo Pocket Color and develop sequels of the firm's arcade games. Their first two projects will be the promotion of Super Real Mahjong Premium Collection for NGPC and King of Fighters 2001!!!!1

Nintendo Shows up at the 2001 New York Toy Fair with some big news in tow!

The 2001 New York Toy Fair started today. Nintendo of America was there to boot. Not only were they there, they were there with information concerning the release dates of their two upcoming systems, the Nintendo GameCube and the Game Boy Advance. The Game Boy Advance will now be released a month earlier in June 2001. The GameCube finally gets a date for November 2001.

Giles Goddard, the lead programmer on 1080º Snowboarding tells IGN Cube his life story... and a few more interesting things involving our beloved Cube.

The good people at IGNcube scored an interview with Giles Goddard. For those who don't know, Giles was the lead programmer on 1080º Snowboarding. He's good friends with many important people at Nintendo (including Shigeru Miyamoto) and he is in the unique position of having first hand knowledge of the PlayStation 2 and the GameCube hardware. Check out this excerpt from IGNcube's interview:

Ubi Soft swallows up Blue Byte Software.

Thanks to GameSpot, we have news that Ubi Soft has just announced the acquisition of German games-development studio Blue Byte Software. Under the terms of the acquisition, Ubi Soft adds such Blue Byte franchises as the Settlers series and the Battle Isle series to its roster. Ubi Soft plans to release games under those two particular franchises for multiple next-generation consoles, including the Sony PlayStation 2 and the Nintendo GameCube.

Now we know why Square wants to get its hands in Nintendo's GBA pockets... Could GameCube support be far off?

From FGN Online this morning comes reports that Square is suffering its first major financial losses ever. Now, Square may have more reasons to want to align themselves with Nintedo and Microsoft instead of siding only with Sony. The massive budget for the Final Fantasy movie, The Spirits Within is being blamed as one of the reasons for the losses.

First screen of Sonic Advance!

Sonic Team has finally raised the curtains on their GBA titles a little. As well as a whole page on Chu Chu Rocket Advance, they have released the first shot of Sonic in his 32-bit handheld glory!!!

Sonic's looking better than ever in Side-scrolling form for his 10th anniversary! This looks like a whole new level to me.... We'll post more pictures as they come.

Sega takes steps towards recovery.

Famitsu recently interviewed Testu Kayama of SEGA, and it has now been translated for your reading pleasure! Although a lot of the interview is about SEGA, stuff about Nintendo creeps in. Below is a quote from Mr. Kayama. Check the full thing here. And don't forget to check the page tomorrow for the second half of the interview!

It looks like Mario Advance won't make the GBA luanch, but Mario Kart will...

From NCSX comes an interesting report that Mario Kart Advance has replaced Mario Advance in the GBA launch. Shortly after Mario Advance was confirmed both it and MKA were set for the Japanese GBA launch on March 21st. Then, online play was confirmed for Mario Kart Advance and it was seemingly delayed... Read more...

The Matrix is coming to multiple, but unspecified next-gen platforms. It's to be developed by Shiny and published by Interplay.

IGNcube published a story today on yet another next-gen game using a popular license. Did everyone forget how to be original all of a sudden? No matter. At least this license is awesome, unlike some previously mentioned licenses. Yes, the Matrix will be coming to "...all major next-generation platforms..."... Read more...

Square wants a peice of that GBA pie so bad...

Unless you live in Japan, you've probably never heard of Digicube. Digicube is a major video game retailer in Japan. Beginning this Wednesday, Digicube will finally be offering Game Boy games. Now, you may ask, "Mike, what does his have to do with Square?" Well I tell you! Digicube's parent company... Read more...