Twin Galaxies referee wants to pay you to set world records on various games.

Have you ever wished you could be paid to play games? Robert Mruczek, Chief Referee of Twin Galaxies, has promised cash bounties for proof of high scores on a set of classic (and a few modern) video games, including several games among the NES, Super NES, and N64 systems. The bounties range from $25... Read more...

Man, the Japanese always seem to get the awesome deals.

Konami and Nintendo are preparing a special collection for those looking to pick up Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes when it hits Japan on March 11.

For 21,000 Yen ($200-ish), you'll get a special MGS:TT GameCube, the game, a special 44-page booklet on the game series, and a special disc which includes, among other things, the original NES version of Metal Gear.

North American gamers will finally get a chance to play Team 17's international hit next month.

Update: Although the press release does not mention specific platforms, we contacted Acclaim to ask about a GameCube version. The publisher has recently withheld GameCube versions of some of its games, citing poor sales of third-party software on the system, but Acclaim will indeed publish Worms 3D on GameCube in North America.

You'd better get a bag of popcorn and find a nice, comforable couch to watch it on.

Everyone knows how Konami puts these movies together, especially the ones for their Metal Gear Solid series. They've just released another one to promote the new Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes for GameCube, and somehow, defying all logic, this trailer clocks in at an astounding twenty-seven minutes long.

The company announces GameCube hardware figures for the holiday 2003 sales season. Plus: Mario Kart races to the million mark.

Nintendo of America said today that GameCube was a huge success for Christmas 2003. We spoke today with the company to get all the latest data. According to information gathered from retailers and Nintendo’s projections based on November sales, the company says 1.1 million GameCube systems were... Read more...

The classics are back. Update: There's a matching system too.

Nintendo has recently announced a series of Game Boy Advance games. These games are all re-releases of classic Famicom games from way back when. The titles will include both first and third party games. They are priced at 2000 Yen ($19) a piece and will be released on February 14th. Here is a list of the first batch.

The equation is x=4. There will be a test later in the week.

When Capcom first showed off Resident Evil 4 a while back, the end of the movie trailer showed off a release in the year "200X." It obviously didn't mean 2003, and many people suspected that the game wouldn't come out until 2005. However, thanks to a rather unusual way of telling everyone, Capcom has revealed that the latest in their flagship survival horror will indeed come out this year.

The publisher adds a small French developer to its internal development studios.

The publisher of Prince of Persia and Beyond Good & Evil is getting bigger. Ubisoft announced today that it has acquired French developer Tiwak. The company is a small team of only 17 employees who were (and may still be) developing Tork for Microsoft's Xbox. Tiwak was formerly known as Yeti Interactive,... Read more...

It's not exactly the comment you've been waiting for, but at least it's something.

You know that mysterious product Nintendo plans to reveal at this year's E3 Expo? The one that's not going to be the next-gen GameCube or GBA? Well, in an interview with a Japanese newspaper, Nintendo president Satrou Iwata let out a little hint of what we might be expecting in a year or two when talking about that mystery Nintendo product.

More card-battling coming to GBA.

KONAMI ANNOUNCES YU-GI-OH!TM VIDEOGAME LINE-UP FOR SPRING 2004

REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. - January 9, 2004 - Konami Digital Entertainment - America, a subsidiary of Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. today announced three new games to be released in the blockbuster Yu-Gi-Oh! series. Further expanding... Read more...

Nintendo's Japanese website reveals which games it will display on the 19th.

Nintendo will be showing off its multiplayer muscles at this year's World Hobby Fair, starting January 19th in Osaka. Nintendo will promote the already-released Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and Mario Party 5 with ongoing competitions. Winners will earn stamps in order to redeem special Nintendo prizes.... Read more...

Iwata said Nintendo would sell a certain amount, and he's sticking to his story.

In a small newsbyte on Yahoo! Japan, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata was quoted as saying that Nintendo will meet its worldwide GameCube sales goal of 6 million units for the fiscal year, which finishes up in March. "The target is in sight, [but] it won't be an easy victory," he said.

Thanks... Read more...

I hear you get $10,000 for going "Back to Baghdad".

The Gathering, a publishing division of Take Two Interactive, has now shipped Conflict: Desert Storm II: Back to Baghdad for the Nintendo GameCube. The title was released on other consoles late last year. The sequel sends players back to the sands of Iraq for more squad-based urban warfare, in which... Read more...

Are you otaku enough?

One of our contacts at Capcom alerted us to this crazy eBay auction, and we thought our readers would be interested in it. It's a giant collection of Capcom action figures and toys, apparently quite exhaustive. The seller is a former Capcom employee who displayed the items in his office for years.... Read more...

The games industry in the UK is continuing to grow, with the highest sales ever recorded last year of 1.26 billion pounds spent on software.

VIDEO GAMES CONTINUE TO GROW

ELSPA, the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association, today announced the continued buoyant growth in the UK computer and video games market. UK sales of leisure software products reached an all time high in 2003, with values reaching £1.26 billion, an increase of 7.1 per cent over the previous year.

A Chinese supermarket hosted a two-day event to help promote Nintendo's oddball game device.

On November 22nd and 23rd, Nintendo held a launch event for its China-only gaming system, the iQue. It was a competition featuring Mario Kart 64 and Wave Race 64, with the winners of each receiving some iQue gear, with the grand prize winner getting something special, a framed Shigeru Miyamoto autographed picture of Mario.

Again, nothing you gamers would care about, but good to know for our industry audience.

MIDWAY GAMES ANNOUNCES NEW APPOINTMENTS TO NORTH AMERICAN MARKETING AND SALES TEAMS

Marketing, Sales, and Media Relations Appointments Bring Talent from Industry Leaders - Industry Veteran Steve Allison named Chief Marketing Officer

CHICAGO - January 7, 2004 - Midway Games Inc., a leading... Read more...

The BBC is turning their hit franchise into a set of games for PC, PS2, and GBA.

Innovative TV tournament FightBox comes to PC, PlayStation 2, and Game Boy Advance

BBC Multimedia is set to launch FightBox as a multi-format gaming title on February 6, 2004.

Based on the TV series airing on BBC Two, FightBox brings together computer gaming, Internet and TV technology to create a new entertainment format.

A state assemblyman is hoping that two new bills will keep violent games out of the hands of the kiddies.

The fight to blame videogames as the sole reason for violence among young children has no end in sight. In the state of California, State Assemblyman Leland Yee from San Francisco is introducing two new bills that he hopes will help to get M-rated games out of the hands of those who shouldn't be playing them.

Nothing too terribly interesting if you like videogames, but we thought you'd ought to know.

MIDWAY GAMES APPOINTS TWO NEW DIRECTORS TO ITS BOARD

CHICAGO - January 6, 2004 - Midway Games Inc., a leading interactive entertainment software publisher and developer, announced today the appointments of Robert N. Waxman, CPA, 67, and Jay N. Whipple III, 47, as two new independent Board directors,... Read more...