Here is some news
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Metal Solid GEAR?

According to several sources, Hideo Kojima would be working on a Remake of Metal Gear Solid for GameCube, the play would be planned for 2003, an official advertisement should be made soon. It should be noted that Konami the U.K. seems not to be with the current of this possible Remake of Metal Gear Solid on the console of Nintendo.

Here is some news on GameCube 2
Source: Newtechnix.com

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GameCube 2

According to an article published by service Bloomberg the news, Nintendo envisages to join the giant of electronics NEC to design the successor of GameCube whose name remains still unknown and who should leave in 2005 with PlayStation 3 and Xbox 2. NEC will develop the LSI Chips (Broad Scale Integrated Circuits) of the future console. NEC is the second Nipponese manufacturer of semiconductors at the origin in particular of graphic Chip of Dreamcast de Sega, the company also worked on the GameCube project. This partnership between Nintendo and NEC should counter similar alliance between Sony and Toshiba.

(Source: Bloomberg)

i herd that Nintendo will make a "megaton announcement" on tuesday. http://www.ultimategamez.com/newspro/fullnews.cgi?newsid1039891686,18130, according to rumers on cube-europe it may be that Nintendo is buying Sega and Capcom.

Here's some UK release dates:

December-
Mystic Heroes- 13th
Hot Wheels Velocity X- 13th
Knockout Kings 2003- 20th

January-
Star Wars Bounty Hunter- 24th
The Sum of All Fears- 24th
Blood Omen 2- 24th
Disney's Sports Football- 24th

February-
Rally Championship- 6th
Legends of Wrestling 2- 7th
Barbarian- 7th
Robocop- 7th
Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance- 14th
Robotech Battlecry- 14th
Hunter: The Reckoning- 21st
Defender- 28th
Super Monkey Ball 2- 28th
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon- 28th
Vexx- 28th

quote JHAE HOVA

Here is some news
Source: Newtechnix.com

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Metal Solid GEAR?

According to several sources, Hideo Kojima would be working on a Remake of Metal Gear Solid for GameCube, the play would be planned for 2003, an official advertisement should be made soon. It should be noted that Konami the U.K. seems not to be with the current of this possible Remake of Metal Gear Solid on the console of Nintendo.

Hope you enjoy

Source: NewTechNix.com

Nintendo has just published its program for next Jump Festa 2003 which will begin on next 21 December in Japan.

Play Test:
- Zelda No Densetsu: Kaze No Takuto (NGC)
- Nintendo Puzzle Collection (NGC)
- Mario Party 4 (NGC)
- The Legend of Zelda: In Link to the Past/The Furnace Swords (GBA)

Training course Vent:
- Zelda! Zelda! Zelda! Live Dance hall
- Final Fantasy: Special Chronicles Hook Training course: Presentation of Public garden (the play would not be playable)

The RPG Info Man strikes again

Well it looks like the Cube is getting Red Faction 2 from the PS2. Here's the article from IGN.

Here is some news for you guys!

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Microsoft's overweight console pulling ahead of Nintendo's bite-sized purple cube.

December 20, 2002 - Xbox executives can pop a bottle of champagne. Apparently, people are diggin' the Xbox. The proof doesn't come from some over-enthusiastic PR spin or anyone's personal numbers. All you need do is take a look at the numbers and you'll see that Xbox is in the midst of crushing the GameCube.
According to the NPD Group, one of the most respected market research firms in the industry, November marked the seventh consecutive month Xbox outsold GameCube in terms of hardware and has outsold GameCube in software in all thirteen months of its existence. Selling nearly 500,000 consoles in November, Xbox nearly doubled its sales numbers from October. Xbox consoles have edged GameCube by 20% in total sales, a considerable gap, especially when you look at the great first-party titles Nintendo has managed to release this year.

In November, Xbox saw it's second best month of software sales to date, with 2.4 million units selling. That's 10% more than the GameCube, but still far below the might of PS2. In terms of GameCube versus Xbox, though, Microsoft's console has sold 34% more software overall than GameCube. The Xbox also maintains the highest attach rate to date for a console that's thirteen months old, with 4.7 games per unit sold.

Further proof of Microsoft's growing dominance over GameCube comes when comparing the two bundle offers. Microsoft's Xbox bundle that comes with Sega GT 2002 and Jet Set Radio Future has outsold the GameCube Mario bundle by 335,000 units or 131%. However, it should be noted that the GameCube bundle is not nearly as widely available, which could contribute to the wide gap.

The GameCube is often saddled with piss-poor ports of multi-platform games and it shows in terms of sales. The Xbox has managed 58% greater third-party sales than GameCube according to Microsoft.

Though Microsoft has yet to come close to the PS2 in terms of installed base, the big MS can take comfort in knowing their online programs has bested PS2 from the get-go. Comparing their first month of sales, Xbox Live outsold PS2 Network Adapters by 14% and the three major Live titles (Ghost Recon, MechAssault, and Unreal Championship) sold over 300,000 copies combined in just the last half of November and managed an astounding attach rate of 80%.

With far bigger titles on the horizon for Microsoft next year and very few big franchises left in Nintendo's bag for 2003, it could be an even merrier X-Mas for Microsoft a year from now.

Time To Play With Monkey Balls Again!

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Returning to the Nintendo GameCube is the Infogrames classic, Super Monkey Ball. Going under the imaginative moniker Super Monkey Ball 2 (says us with the original headline), the game promises even more simian action. Your monkey can now participate in ten-pin bowling, golf, billiards, kayaking, dogfighting (in planes, not dogs), tennis, football (our kind, not the Yank version) and baseball. Showing enough variety to be considered more than just a chi(m)p off the old block, SMB2 looks set for classic status.

Special Reserve would like this opportunity to formally apologise for the quality of our monkey jokes. So, we apologise for our monkey jokes.

You all probabbly know this if it is true. But I heard that Nintendo are sueing Sony for bracking their contract for the making and marketing of Playstaion. So is it true I just want to know cause for some reasen I can't get onto www.Nintendo.com.
And please tell me where that music is comming from it is driving me insane.

This message was edited by Smokeymcpot on Dec 21 2002.

There's no official word, but its generally assumed false.

...are you dissing the classic zelda music?

Today the JUMP Festa 2003 has opened its doors. Many Japanese companies are showing off previously announced or already available titles at the JUMP Festa 2003 in Tokyo this weekend. Below you will find a run-down of what has been exhibited on the show's first day.

Here are the Gamecube titles:

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicle, Square, GC, spring 2003
The Legend of Zelda: Kaze no Takuto, Nintendo, GC, available

The JUMP Festa 2003, which takes place in Chiba's Makuhari Messe will run through tomorrow.

The RPG Info Man strikes again

I have a whole bunch of release dates:
It will be the name of the game followed by its release date
Army Men Air Combat- 2/3/03
Army Men Sarges War- 3/3/03
Batwan Dark Tommorrow- 3/4/03
Baattlebots- 2/4/03
Black and Bruised- 1/28/03
City Racer- 3/18/03
Conflict Desert Storm- 2/18/03
Cubix Robots for Everyone- 2/3/03
Disney Sport Basketball- 1/14/03
Dragons Lair 3D-12/30/02
Enclave- 3/11/03
Evolution Snowboarding- 2/25/03
Freaky Flyers- 2/3/03
Gladius- 5/10/03
Haven Call of the King- 3/3/03
High Heat Baseball 2004- 3/3/03
The Legend of Zelda- 2/3/03
Micromachine- 3/11/03
NBA Ballers- 3/3/03
Rally Fusion Race of Champions- 1/1/03
Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc- 3/4/03
Resident Evil 2- 1/7/03
Resident Evil 3- 1/7/03
Risk- 1/28/03
RTX Red Rock- 3/17/03
Shaun Murrays Pro Wakeboarder- 3/4/03
Skies of Arcadia Legends- 1/28/03
Tankers- 3/3/03
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon- 1/28/03
Tom Clancy's Rainbox Six Raven Shield- 3/4/03
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell- 3/18/03
Top Angler II- 3/4/03
Vexx- 2/11/03
Wario World- 1/31/03
XIII- 3/4/03

Some of these dates are subject to change.

Here Some News
Source: Newtechnix.com

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Nintendo Japan comes officially announce Animal Crossing 2, Pikmin 2, and Mario Kart GC on GameCube. No date of exit and no detail concerning these plays n/a revealed for the moment. Nintendo also announced Mario Golf and Mario Tennis on Game Boy Advance.

Japanese Planning GameCube:
- Nintendo Puzzle Collection (February 7, 2003)
- Metroid Precedes (28 February 2003)
- Giftpia (April 2003)
- F-Zero GC (May 2003)
- Final Fantasy Hook Chronicles (Spring 2003)
- Wario World GC (Be 2003)
- Kirby' S Airland (Be 2003)
- Mario Golf GC (Be 2003)
- Mario Tennis GC (Winter 2003/2004)
- 1080° Avalanche (Winter 2003/2004)
- Starfox
- Mario Kart GC
- Pikmin 2
- Doubutsu No Mori 2 (Animal Crossing 2)

Japanese Planning GBA:
- Metroid Fusion (February 14, 2003)
- Zelda Link to the Past (March 2003)
- Gameboy Gallery 4
- Gameboy Music
- Luna Blaze
- Mario Golf
- Mario Tennis

Some more news today
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According to the list of the next exits on GameCube available on Internet site of Nintendo, Bandai would be developing a play Digimon on GameCube.