Meant to post this one a while back-Old School's about to make a serious comeback on GCN this fall:

quote 411mania.com

Midway has officially revealed what will be appearing on their Midway Arcade Treasures 2 compilation disc. The game will be released this fall on the PS2, GC, and X-Box for $19.99, and include the following titles:
• A.P.B.
• Arch Rivals
• Championship Sprint
• Cyberball 2072
• Gauntlet 2
• Hard Drivin’
• Mortal Kombat
• Mortal Kombat II
• Mortal Kombat III
• NARC
• Pit Fighter
• Primal Rage
• Rampage World Tour
• Spy Hunter 2
• Steel Talons
• STUN Runner
• Timber
• Total Carnage
• Wizard of Wor
• Xenophobe
• Xybots

I just read this, Viewtiful Joe, 1 and 2 are being made for PS2 and GC. And the PS2 version has exclusive characters. I think PS2 should get their own exclusive games, or give GC some of theirs. (such as GTA S.A)

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June 01, 2004 - One of the biggest crazes amongst Japanese fan sites is to keep track of trademark filings from your favorite game companies. This practice has resulted in numerous finds for game-related products prior to official announcement. Notables include Sega's Shining Tears trademark, which turned into the Game Boy Advance game of the same name, and Nintendo's Origin Of Our TV Games, which, while a total mystery at first, turned into the catch copy for the Famicom Mini series of titles and is stamped onto every game in the series over in Japan.

Nintendo's latest filings have people even more confused (and intrigued) than the "Origin Of Our TV Games" trademark. Registered recently in Japan were the following: "COMMANDERPACK," "COMMANDER," "MISSION," "Manebito/Camera," "Ningen-Copy/Manebito," and "Peach Hime."
The last trademark is the easiest one to explain. Hime is Japanese for Princess, making the trademark read "Princess Peach" in English. We're not sure why Nintendo has chosen to patent the name of Mario's favorite princess-in-distress now, but perhaps an all-girl platformer is in the works.

The first three trademarks seem to be connected to one another and are so mysterious that we can't even conjecture what they could be. The first two are written both in English and in Japanese Katakana characters while the third is just in English.

The remaining two would be just as mysterious had Nintendo not provided images with their registration. Ningen Copy translates to "Person Copy," with Manebito translating to "Someone who imitates." Given that the word "Camera" appears along side that, one gets the feeling that Nintendo may be planning a camera peripheral of some form. Perhaps this is the big GameCube peripheral that the company has been speaking about.

For now, we can do nothing but speculate. The two pictures for "Manebito/Camera" and "Ningen-Copy/Manebito" can be seen below. Look closely at the bottom picture and you'll note what seems to be a GameCube inside the second kanji that forms the word for "Person." Hmm...



A camera is attached to the
"Ka" character in "Camera."



"Ningen" (person) is written with a camera
attached to the first character and a GameCube
forming the center part of the second character.

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I bring Release dates, and newly announced games

Splinter CellT sometime in June 2004
Fire Emblem Winter 2004
Star Fox 2 Winter 2004
LOZ (mature) 2005
MP2:E Q1 or Q2 2005

Game Announcements
Ty the Tazmaninan Devil 2
Call of Duty Finest Hour
Advance Wars Under Fire
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron (developing title)
Need for Speed Underground 2
Dreamworks Shark Tales
Donkey Konga
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
Fairly Oddparrent (no name announced)

quote The Video Game Geek

Splinter CellT sometime in June 2004
Fire Emblem Winter 2004
Star Fox 2 Winter 2004
LOZ (mature) 2005
MP2:E Q1 or Q2 2005

I heard some interesting stuff about that "Jungle Beat" title-like how it will use those bongos from "Donkey Konga" (of course you can buy more separately) as the controller or the game. Reminds me of the old "Power Glove" and "U-Force" NES accessories from the late 1980s.

Konami took a poll of European gamers the results are in the link

[link name=]http://www.ningc.com/news.php?Article=5396[/link]

Aside from you stunning linkage skills, the link didn't lead directly to the article

Here's it quoted for ease of readage:

Quote- NingGC.com
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Konami's favorite console poll

Konami Europe's official websites hold a poll each week, and this one's about what console European people prefer to play, guess which one is winning.

The official Konami of Spain website's poll of the week is asking gamers which console is their favorite game system, and the console that's winning the poll is none other than GameCube. With a steady lead, the GameCube's got 68.2% of the votes, Xbox has 21.2%, Game Boy Advance gets 8.1, PS2 has 2.9 and finally 0.6% of the people voted for PC.

Konami's UK website's poll results are not too different, the GameCube is still winning:

41.6% prefer to play GameCube, 26.7 say the PS2 is what they like to use for entertaining, 17.9 say Xbox is the best, 11.1% love PC games more than anything and 2.7% love their GBA's.

Le French seem to like the GameCube better than the others, as the GameCube got 71.7%, the PS2 14%, PC 6.5, Xbox 6.1 and GBA got 1.7%.

The German voted for GameCube the most too:

GameCube: 38%
PS2: 25.6%
PC: 20.1%
Xbox: 13.1%
Game Boy Advance: 2.8%

It seems that the users from Europe that visit the European Konami sites like the GameCube better than the other consoles.
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So, what are the new games coming out? Any new sonic games for the gamecube. (Don't tell me about the sonic game for the DS)

Really?I thought Playstation 2 would get best console.Turns out it was the opposite.2.9%...That's darn small!

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News: Nintendo Rocks The US!
By Iun - Jun 27th 2004 17:24

Nintendo succeeds in software stateside!

Where other fail, The Cube succeeds! The US software market has hit a year on year slump compared with this time last year. Gamecube software sales have increased by about 21 % compared to the same period a year ago. This success can be prinicpally attributed to the recent releases of Pokemon Colosseum and Custom Robo.

However, it's not all wine and roses: The Game Boy Advance has hit a shocking slump, down as it is 23 % on last year. But put into context, Pokemon was still a ffairly new title, as was Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. Whereas there are very few inspiring titles on the handheld at the moment. For some reason the prospect of another Sonic Advance sequel was not appealing toour brethren across the big pond.

Both PS2 and XBox have taken slumps too, PS2 had a drop of 19 % and the XBox 8 %. All in all, not bad news for Nintendo to see their main rivals slowing down!

Taken from nintendojo.

Japanese Hardware & Software Sales

Time to check out how the console sales are panning out over seas.
The following charts below are listed for the week ending June 20th 2004.

1. GBA SP 27,641 1,358,796
2. PS2 26,853 1,372,389
3. GC 4,690 387,943
4. GBA 2,181 152,575
5. Xbox 493 21,006
6. PSOne 264 11,575
7. SwanCrystal 89 N/A

Now for the software titles that are making big waves and jumping into cusumer's shopping bags.

1. *NEW* Silent Hill 4: The Room PS2--- 41,014
2. Jissen Pachislot: Fist of the North Star PS2--- 39,890
3. Mario vs Donkey Kong GBA--- 27,584
4. Famicom Mini 20: Ganbare Goemon GBA--- 19,567
5. Pikmin 2 Gamecube--- 18,746
6. *NEW* Gunslinger Girl vol.2 PS2--- 17,265
7. *NEW* Slotter Up Core 3 PS2--- 12,395
8. Super Robot Wars MX PS2--- 12,131
9. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City PS2- 11,410
10. NEW Espgaluda PS2- 9,785

Hey guys, there is gonna be a Mario Party6! and, if you go to the forum, Nintendo is thinking about making you control the game wiuth your mind. Weird hu? No, I am not lieing. But, I tihnk they won't be able to that I hope it is better than the last Mario Parties

I've heard it may use an Eyetoy like camera, but anything is possible.

Also coming out 2006 from Buenevista games (a brand of Disney) for GC The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, and Chicken Little. Activision is coming out with another Spiderman game, and also Activision has announced one of the first announced (that I've heard of) Revolution games Spider Man 3

All info from the last paragraph is from Nintindo Power issue 182.