The LA Times breaks free from the normally awful main-stream game reporting and asks some insightful questions to Miyamoto and Iwata.

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We all know that the mainstream media does, most of the time, a piss poor job covering the game scene. But the LA Times has bucked the trend in their recent interview with Shigeru Miyamoto and Satoru Iwata.

Q: Can you comment on the state of technology in the video game industry--where it's going and what kinds of games it will allow you to make?

Majesco has revealed a new boxing game that is coming to PS2 and GameCube!

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Majesco are planning a new boxing game for PS2 and GameCube called Black & Bruise, which will combine arcade boxing with cartoon humor. The game is a sequel of sorts to last year's Boxing Fever on GBA, from the same developer. Black & Bruised features cartoon-like graphics, arcade-style gameplay, and a full two-player mode. Read the release below for more info.

The popular set of development tools will soon make GBA development easier.

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MetroWerks has announced that its popular CodeWarrior middleware will ship for GBA in April, and will be shown for the first time at the upcoming Game Developers Conference. CodeWarrior is a development environment that makes it easier to create games. It is often used... Read more...

The famed Sega Sports brand finally has a GameCube presence.

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Xbox and PS2 owners have already been enjoying NBA 2k2 and NFL 2k2 for a few months, but Sega didn't forget GameCube fans. Now the latest basketball sim from Visual Concepts is available on all systems, and Nintendo fans have an alternative to Courtside 2002 and NBA Street. Here's the official press release:

It looks a heck of a lot like Star Fox on SNES, but if it plays just as well, we won't complain. Here's the official word from Bam!

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BAM! ENTERTAINMENT SHOOTS FOR THE STARS

Star X™ To Launch On Game Boy® Advance This Spring

Bath, England.--(March 20, 2002) BAM! Entertainment (Nasdaq: BFUN) today announced that it will publish the action game, Star X, for the Game Boy Advance. Currently... Read more...

From Software gives us some info about Rune and its next RPG for GameCube.

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Last week GameCube Inside had a chance to talk to representatives from From Software about Rune and Gold Star Mountain. According to From Software, Rune, GameCube’s first RPG, has been in development for about a year. Game development has ended, and the game is now... Read more...

Various review scores for all of the upcoming Gamecube and GBA games this week have been leaked early. Check out what they are

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Weekly Famitsu:

Fire Emblem Fuuin no Tsurugi: 9 9 8 10 (GBA)

Battle Houshin: 8 9 8 8 (GC)

Shining Soul: 8 8 6 8 (GBA)

Biohazard Gaiden: 6 5 6 5 (GBC)

Hamster Club 3: 7 7 6 7 (GBA)

Magical Houshin: 8 7 7 8 (GBA)

Doraemon: 4 4 4 5 (GBA)

Dorimaga:

Capcom is to bring their classic series to the Game Boy Advance.

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According to Gaming-Age, Capcom will be bringing a Ghosts and Goblins game to the Game Boy Advance, possibly as early as August. Because of the recent success of Maximo on the PS2, Capcom had decided to put out more Ghosts and Goblins games. Currently, it is unknown if this GBA game will be a brand new game or a remake of the SNES game Super Ghouls and Ghosts.

...say that three times fast.

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The arcade-style soccer game from Visual Concepts (NFL 2k2, NBA 2k2) and Black Box (NHL Hitz 2002 for Midway) should be available soon at a retailer near you, provided you live in North America. Planet GameCube should have impressions and a review very soon. Until then, you know the drill...

Sega's Home Run King for GameCube and Baseball Advance for GBA have been shipped to retailers across North America.

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Sega is making sure Nintendo fans are fully ready for the upcoming Major League Baseball season with these two new games. Note that Baseball Advance is the newest Sega handheld title to be distributed under their deal with THQ. Here are both press releases, for your reading pleasure:

PGC brings you the second half of Famitsu's interview with Producer Mikami. Read on about the game's difficulty, Biohazard 4, and some spoiler info inside.

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the first part of this interview please click here.

Famitsu: We think the gamers that will be playing this game are quite

different from those when the game was originally released. Did you tweak

the difficulty of the game?

Mikami: We made the game a bit simpler. It is only natural that times have

The word on the streets says Star Fox Adventures will be delayed.

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Accoring to IGN Cube, Star Fox Adventures has been delayed until September. This news has not yet been confirmed with Nintendo, but we'll be looking into it.

The N64 helped make Blitz a household name. Now the series is ready to go for GameCube.

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Midway will be shipping the GameCube and Xbox versions of NFL Blitz 2002 tomorrow. Look for it on store shelves before the end of the week.

Midway Sports Enters the Red Zone With All-New NFL Blitz 20-02 for Xbox and Nintendo GameCube

Next-Generation Adrenaline-Style Football Game has Evolved to Deliver Over-the-Top Football Action and All-New Features

Well, it would be kind of hard to have an online game for a system if that system wasn't online...

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Sonic Team guru Naka-san was in London last week, and to put it bluntly, he said that if Nintendo wouldn't release the GameCube modem soon, alongside with the release of PSOv2, he might yank out the online stuff and make it a straight 4-player split screen game. This is what he had to say about it:

BAM! picks up Wolfenstein 3D for the GBA! The press release inside...

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BAM! ENTERTAINMENT AND ID SOFTWARE BRING A CLASSIC TO THE GAME BOY® ADVANCE

A Pioneer Of The Genre, Wolfenstein 3D® Enters The Handheld Market

Bath, England.--(March 18, 2002) BAM! Entertainment (Nasdaq: BFUN) today announced that it has obtained the rights... Read more...

MS had Sony's PlayStation rigs shut down at CeBit. Though unrelated to GameCube, I thought it was an interesting newsbyte. Read about the bickering children here.

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Microsoft executive, Richard Roy, complained to a CeBit organizers about Sony's use of playable demo units on the CeBit show floor, a gadget and technology-based show in Germany, which is not unlike US's Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

It's considered against show... Read more...

PGC brings you the first half of Famitsu’s interview with Biohazard’s producer, Shinji Mikami.

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The latest issue of Famitsu features an interview with Biohazard’s producer, Shinji Mikami, regarding GC’s Biohazard, which will be available in Japan in a couple of more days. Turn off your lights, grab your safety blankets, and read on.

Famitsu: What were some difficult parts about remaking Biohazard?

Haven't ordered one of our video sets and wanted to pick one up? Here's the run down of what is still available....

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Complete Video Update! We've got just over 15 E3 2001 combo sets left, and our good friends at Video

Game Advantage have the Japan Experience 2001, so if you haven't ordered one and are interested...there are only a few remaining.

I'm personally selling off the final E3 Videos. Video

Another one is legal to vote and get into E3. And get arrested. Hopefully not at E3.

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Happy 18th birthday to Jeff Shirley, AKA Deguello! He's been hanging in trivia for ever, as well as helped keep our release dates up to date.

In a very non-thrilled way, his first words after announcing his birthday were, "Well... I get to vote and stuff. Yay. And Max won't have to argue with the E3 guys to get me in."

Let's not forget about our favorite handheld, now...

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By now, you've read that Famitsu scored Biohazard a 39/40. Along with that, and three other GameCube games, the magazine got their grubby little mitts on some GBA games too, with one of them getting an impressive score of its own.

Nakayoshi Pet Advance Series 2 (GBA, MTO) - 24 (6 6 6 6)