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Namco and Nintendo announce partnership

Nintendo and Namco announced today that the companies have entered a new agreement that will bring many franchises to the Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance, including a jointly-developed STAR FOX project.

Nintendo has agreed to publish the titles for Namco, as that company has fallen on some hard financial times of late. There are a total of six GameCube Namco games set for release before the end of 2003, and eight Game Boy Advance games in that time period.

Titles in development include:

Nintendo GameCube

• MR. DRILLER (working title) - November 2002
  
• SOUL CALIBUR 2 - January 2003
  
• RIDGE SERIES Racing Game (title to be announced) - March 2003
  
• STAR FOX (working title) - April 2003
  
• TALES RPG (title to be announced) - July 2003
  
• Original RPG (title to be announced) - December 2003

Game Boy Advance

• FAMILY TENNIS ADVANCE - June 2002
  
• FAMISTA ADVANCE - June 2002
  
• MR. DRILLER ACE - August 2002
  
• KLONOA OF THE WIND G2 - August 2002
  
• TALES OF THE WORLD: NARIKIRI DUNGEON 2 - October 2002
  
• KLONOA OF THE WIND (title to be announced) - November 2002
  
• Puzzle Game (title to be announced) - December 2002
  
• TALES OF PHANTASIA - December 2002

All the launch dates are for Japan, no US details have been revealed.