Nintendo turns to dairy farming, continues milking Pokemon

Nintendo has announced Christmas plans for the GBA, with special limited edition packs featuring a GBA SP console, a copy of Pokemon Ruby or Sapphire and a matching carry case due for release in late November. <MORE From GamesIndustry. Biz...>

Pikachu Takes a Tumble

Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire no longer top the GBA charts, having been toppled by Finding Nemo. Ruby and Sapphire have dropped to second and third place respectively, while Super Mario Advance 4 enters the chart at number four.
Current top ten charts for all formats can be found at www.elspa.com.

Pokemon Nominated for BAFTA Game Awards
[by Magmar2000]
BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) has announced the nominees for their 2003 game awards. Pokemon Ruby and Pokemon Sapphire have been nominated in 2 categories. Those 2 categories are Children's Game and GameBoy Advance Game. Overall, Nintendo did pretty good with many different nominations. If you want to check out the complete list of nominations, including games that are nominated in the same categories of Pokemon Ruby and Pokemon Sapphire, you can check out the list [here]. We will let you know if we hear anymore about the BAFTA Game Awards.

Pokémon remakes on the way
 
Game Boy Advance remakes of Pocket Monster: Red and Pocket Monster: Green are planned.

TOKYO--Nintendo will release Game Boy Advance remakes of Pocket Monster: Red and Pocket Monster: Green, according to Dengeki Online.

These two titles were the first releases in the Pokémon series, dating back to 1996. The remakes will be named Pocket Monster: Fire Red and Pocket Monster: Leaf Green. These new GBA remakes will allow players to trade or engage in combat with current owners of the Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire games.

Pocket Monster: Fire Red and Pocket Monster: Leaf Green are also scheduled to be compatible with the upcoming Pokémon Coliseum on the GameCube,  released on November 21.