Australian gamers are getting lucky this year. Nintendo of Australia will be updating its website soon with these release dates, but Cube-Europe wanted to bring you them first.

Mario Kart: Double Dash!! will be released in the second week of November 2003 in Australia. This means the land down under will get the game earlier than in the US and Europe. The only country beating Australia to it is Japan.

F-Zero GX has been pushed back to a release in October instead of September.

Also, those lucky Australians will get Animal Crossing in October this year. This mean all of us Europeans will be able to import a PAL version of this game.

The Sonic Team is releasing two games in November. Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg will hit the shelves November 28th. And Sonic Heroes will be released November 30th.

Last but not least, the e-card reader will be released this October.

For a full list of release dates for Australia and all the other regions, head on over to our Release Dates section.