But only GBA games.

Quote:Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge was revealed a long time ago, but once Microsoft took over Rare things got a little hairy. Good news for Nintendo fans that still want some Rare games. Some time ago we passed along to you that Rareware would be using THQ to release its GBA games that are in development. This turns out to be correct as EBGames now lists Banjo-Kazooie for GBA with THQ as the publisher. The release date is September 15th, 2003. We also told you before that Rare changed Diddy King Pilot into Banjo Pilot, so we'll watch for that and other Rare GBA titles.

Quote:Nintendo reports that in the 1st business quarter of the year (April to June) 3.24 million Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Advance SP units were sold, quite a large number compared to the only 800,000 Gamecube units sold in that same period. At the end of the business year in March Nintendo reported a 37% decline in net profit, but with higher profit in the 1st business quarter at 11.45 billion yen ($95 million) their 15 billion yen goal for the first half of the year was met. Overall sales are up 5% from the same period last year. As far as operating profit, only 21% of their 35 billion yen goal for the first half has been achieved. "Although we are keeping our full-year forecast unchanged, we think we can expect upside potential," said Yoshihiro Mori, Nintendo's Senior Managing Director.

Nintendo also said that the low reported sales of the GameCube are because that number represents orders from retailers, and many retailers still have a large inventory left over from last year. Analysts predict the number of GameCubes in inventory at somewhere between 5 and 6 million units. Because if this high number Nintendo has temporarily haulted the manufacturing of the GameCube, but plans to resume as usual in the fall.

Nintendo plans to have a news conference on Thursday in which President Satoru Iwata will discuss the business strategy of the company. I think one business analyst spoke for us all when he said, "We want to hear something new and specific from Nintendo on Thursday to tackle rivalry with Sony."

These always fall apart but still
If you answer right then you get to make a new question, if nobody answers right within 24 hours then the answer is revealed but the person who asked the question and they ask a new one
So here's the first question

Which US President Was Rumored To Have Been Born In Canada?

Quote:Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow will be released for the PS2, Xbox, Gamecube and PC. The game is scheculed to hit the shops sometime in the first few months of 2004, with a simultaneous release on all formats.

Quote:Nintendo of Europe is threatening legal action against retailers that import popular GBA titles like Advance Wars 2 and Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire. They say steps to prevent importing led to the Pokémon games selling over half a million units across Europe last weekend. Nintendo has issued cease and desist letters to retailers selling import copies of Advance Wars 2, which hasn't been released in Europe yet.

"If importing is left alone it could spiral out of control and harm sales," said Nintendo UK general manager Andy Williams. "As well as having a knock-on effect on the European launch, it harms legitimate sales for retailers who are abiding by the rules."

Quote:First up is a rumor that says that the Japanese gaming publication Nintendo Dream is reporting that Nintendo will possibly announce a new game on August 7th in Japan. So is there any truth to this? Nintendo Dream does report that Nintendo will have a meeting to go over their management policy. But this rumor says it is a press conference, it is not, and as far as I know Nintendo Dream has not gone on to say anything about new first party games. Is there a possibility that Nintendo will reveal a new game at a management meeting? Very unlikely. This may just be creating something out of nothing.

The other, more substantiated rumor comes from an interview in a French publication (which release far too many rumors to stay credible) that is being reported by JeuxFrance. According to the interview Nintendo has been going around to big publishers looking for someone to take up work on particular Nintendo franchises. Shigeru Miyamoto stated that Capcom's Shinji Mikami (worked on Resident Evil 4) would gladly develop a franchise title with Nintendo. Miyamoto also confirmed that Metroid Prime 2 would be released in 2004.

Not this AGAIN! Argh!

For anyone who doesn't notice, we've got the 'new posts don't show up on the forum lists' problem. Again. And Weltall isn't around much.

When I came back from the Bradshaw Family Funhouse I discovered that my beloved PC was brutally raped and murdered by a bolt of lightning. Therefore, my prescence within these hallowed halls will be quite limited for an unforseeable length of time. I'll do my best to try and keep track of goings-on but until I can pony enough GP to replace my pooter, I'm going to have to pretend to be Ice-9 for awhile.

But at least I have a good reason.

In the old Tendo City tradition I thought it would be nice to start a topic about what game is currently in your Gamecube (or any of your other systems); what have you been playing the most lately.

And we need some more casual video game topics, you know? Not everything has to be news-related.

GC: Mario Golf. I got the game at Circuit City for only $35 by using a $5 Best Buy coupon (they accepted it, much to my surprise) and getting that $10 gift certificate from them for buying Mario Golf (the deal expired today). Well anyhow, it's a very fun game and gets very tough. I haven't been this close to throwing my Wavebird up against a wall since... well since ever, actually. It's not so much that it's very tough than that the characters you compete against jump for joy when they win, which really gets on my nerves. If only there was lightgun support. :woo: The only dissapointing aspect of MG is that they took out the mini golf mode from MG 64, which was a ton of fun. But ah well, I guess I'll have to buy back that game to enjoy some mini.

X-Box: KOTOR. After playing it for 21 hours in just three days I kind of burned myself out so I took a little brake from it to enjoy Mario Golf. I'll beat this awesome RPG soon. I just don't want to finish it all so fast.

GBA: Four Swords. I've been playing a lot of this lately and I can't believe how much fun I'm still having with it. I know that the upcoming Gamecube version won't have online support, but if it did... damn. I'd never leave my room... so I guess that's kind of a good thing then, huh?

PS2: Onimusha 2. I picked it up at Circuit City a few weeks ago for a measly $10, and I was very surprised by how much fun it is. I didn't really care for the first game too much since the whole soul tug-of-war thing was really tough on my fingers (tap tap tap like mad!), but Oni 2 fixed that problem and the result is a much better experience.

PC: A whole lotta' Battlefield mods. From Eve of Destruction (best BF mod yet, IMO) to BF Pirates to the brand-new Star Wars BF mod, I've been playing a whole lot of Battlefield lately. Thank you, mod community.

N64: Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon. After having rented it a bunch of times several years ago, I finally found a used copy for real cheap at Blockbuster a few weeks ago so I immediately bought it. It's a very fun game, a great mix of Mario and Zelda with a great, insane feudal Japanese setting. IIIMPAAAAACTUUUUUUUU!

PS1: Parasite Eve. I started playing it a few months ago and have enjoyed it a good deal, but kinda stopped playing like I do with so many other games. I should really finish it before I move onto something else...