American Cube release dates

By Tom Bramwell Published 22 July, 2005

Fire Emblem, Pokémon, DDR.

October is set to be a busy month for GameCube owners in America and *cough cough* those of us who import things with three of Nintendo's bigger Cube titles now cemented on the release schedule.

The one we're likely to be most interested in is the US version of Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Intelligent Systems' first GameCube take on the cult strategy-RPG series, due out on October 17th. Released in Japan earlier this year, it's highly stylised and extremely promising, and the translated demo sections on display at the E3 trade event in May held our fanboyistic attention longer than virtually anything else.

More interesting for those of us without a Fire Emblem fetish is the news that Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness - the first proper GameCube Pokémon RPG - will be out in the States on October 3rd.

Finally, Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix, the Cube's first stab at a dancing game - as part of the series better known to European gamers as Dancing Stage - will be out on October 24th.

We're still waiting for a firm date for several other Cube titles, including the big one, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, which is still listed as "Holiday 2005" by Nintendo of America and similarly in Europe.

However Nintendo has already announced that n-Space's long overdue spectral first-person shooter Geist will be released in the States on August 15th, followed by Advance Wars spin-off Battalion Wars on September 19th.

Mario Party 7, meanwhile, is set to come out in November, although as many of you know we tend to subscribe to VG Cats' take on this sort of thing.

As soon as we have firm European dates for the above, we'll let you know.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (11) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • Hicksy #1 7 years ago

    good news indeed :)

  • Blerk #2 7 years ago

    including the big one, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, which is still listed as "Holiday 2005" by Nintendo of America and similarly in Europe

    Is it, now?

    /smells another '60hz only' sticker

  • jlaakso #3 7 years ago

    I find that I'm actually very interested in the Pokémon game. Sounds like brainless yet fulflling activity for the coming autumn. However, the angst spin on the Gameboy recipe does not bode well for the series.

  • Sid-Nice #4 7 years ago

    /smells another '60hz only' sticker

    What's wrong with 60Hz Blerkicus? It's amazing how people go on about HDTV, then moan about the Revolution not supporting it. When Metroid Prime Echoes was launched at (60Hz only) everybody moaned about their TVs only supporting 50Hz.

  • Blerk #5 7 years ago

    What's wrong with 60Hz Blerkicus?

    Nothing. I'm perfectly happy for it to be like that. I can see the backlash if it is, though.

  • Epitaph #6 7 years ago

    Looking forward to Fire Emblem, and strangely enough, the Pokemon game as long as it has full-fledged monsters and doesn't require link-up bollock-fuckery or somesuch alchemy.

  • Sid-Nice #7 7 years ago

    Yes like I've said " Everybody moaned about MP Echoes. " I wonder if there'll be backlash for the Xbox 360, when the games look shite on an old 50Hz TV? :)

  • smelly #8 7 years ago

    I was REALLY looking forward to pokemon game.. until i read ign preview.. and it sounds like pokey colleseum..

    pah..

  • Darkedge #9 7 years ago

    thought it was time for the monthly release for the cube

  • Sid-Nice #10 7 years ago

    I was REALLY looking forward to pokemon game.. until i read ign preview.. and it sounds like pokey colleseum..

    pah..

    I think IGN are right.

  • Xerx3s #11 7 years ago

    Err, doesnt every tv support 60 hz? Thats been a second standard for almost 6 or 7 years now. I could be wrong of course, it could vary from country to country.