Our resident Managing Editor and PR Guy Jonny Metts is celebrating a birthday today. How old is he?

Happy Frickin' Birthday, Jonny. I have to admit, I was a little stunned when Billy not only reminded me that today was your birthday, but that you were turning just 21 today. How does TEH SEXIES MAN stay so young? Must be all that clean living and late night debates.

Billy would have posted this himself, but he was on his way out for another busy day in Vegas. He'll stop by later to add his birthday wishes too, I'm sure.

And it doesn't look like they'll make it to Australia either.

Things are looking worse for a local release of Animal Crossing with Nintendo commenting today that it will never make it to Europe. This is bad news for Australia too, as we rely on Europe for their PAL games.

Nintendo said that there would be problems with localisation (remember, entire seasons... Read more...

In retaliation for Nintendo announcing a front-lit GBA, the pioneers cut the price on the AfterBurner ...

Triton Labs has posted a message on their website, in addition to e-mailing customers, informing them of a $10 price drop on the AfterBurner. Below are the relevant points.

"As of January 9, 2003, we are proud to announce that the price of the Afterburner kit has been lowered to $25. We intend... Read more...

Billy just phoned in from CES. Here's the skinny on the newest in the Game Boy line!

Billy's had a very busy day in Las Vegas today, but he made sure to take a few minutes to phone in and give you guys the scoop on Game Boy Advance SP. He'll be back later with more detailed impressions, photos, and maybe video, but for now, here's a little snack:

The original Name for the Game Boy Advance SP was "Game Boy Advance DX".

According to the ELSPA, UK video games sales reached an all time high in 2002 boosted by the launches of GameCube and Xbox.

VIDEO GAMES SALES REACHED AN ALL TIME HIGH IN 2002

Latest Figures for Year 2002 from The Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Association

Thursday 9th January 2003

ELSPA (The Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Association) has announced today that UK sales of leisure software and hardware products reached an all time high in 2002 with values reaching £2,074m, an increase of 8% up on the previous year.

Previously announced Sonic Adventure DX and Virtua Fighter Quest are due out in 2003, says the company's Japanese website.

Though both were initially announced quite a while back, Sega's Japanese website now offers the first new information on Sonic Adventure DX and Virtua Fighter Quest. The former is obviously an enhanced port of the original Sonic Adventure for Dreamcast, though there is no word on what improvements... Read more...

Fresh from the mouth of the foremost videogame journalist comes the details about Nintendo's update to the popular handheld ...

Skimming the article, here are the details. We'll have more info when the official announcement comes tomorrow.

Self-contained LCD screen light, Flip-Up Screen

Initially available in 3 metallic colors: Indigo, Black, and Silver

Light is able to be turned off

Built in rechargeable lithium ion battery pack, 10 hours with the light on, 18 with the light off

OMG! IS THIS THAT MEGATON ANNOUNCEMENT!!!111>?

Rumors have been floating around the Internet that Nintendo is holding a press conference in New York this upcoming Tuesday.

While we can confirm that there will be a press conference, we’re not exactly sure what will be revealed at this time. We’ll have up to the moment updates within the next 48 hours.

A year older and a year (hopefully) wiser, Desmond Gaban gets b-day wishes...

A big bad Happy Birthday goes out to our imports guy Desmond Gaban.

He's currently enjoying One Piece right now, and getting his anime love on. So leave him be. He's got work to do. Right Des?

Anyhoo, on behalf of the staff here at PGC, we'd like to wish Desmond a very happy birthday!

Reports say the Japanese will get a GameCube Pokemon game this summer...

According to Nikkei Keizai Shimbun, Nintendo will release a Pokemon game for GameCube by the end of summer. The GC version of Pokemon will require a GBA and a copy of Pokemon Sapphire or Ruby.

The price of the game is expected to be cheaper than Pokemon Sapphire and Ruby (around $40 US in Japan).

Vroom? Vroom? Well on a tiny scale at least. We've got some movies of Takara's Choro-Q!

We picked up an import copy of Choro-Q! from Video Game Depot, and captured

some movies for you.  We've skipped the intro and have ripped direct feed

of a couple tracks and their replay counterparts.

Don't forget to right click and save these files to your computer.

*You will need Windows

Beat up people for treasure, race through bear traps, and even get in some Soccer. A very strange, but fun party game from Bandai.

We've imported a copy of From TV Animation One Piece: Treasure

Battle from our good friends at

Video Game Depot, and ripped a few

direct feed videos for you. It's a fighter/party game set in this Anime's

world. Impressions coming soon, but check it out in action...

The first movie is the opening cinema, and the rest of the files are all