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| November 27 |
As recently reported, Square Soft and Enix (both major RPG-makers) are to be merged into one company starting April 1, 2003. The new company name will be Square Enix. Square Soft has a long list of excellent games, including the Final Fantasy series, the Secret of Mana series, Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, and even Super Mario RPG. Enix has a long list, as well, including the Dragon Warrior series, ActRaiser, RoboTrek, the StarOcean series, and Illusion of Gaia. It is not known what the fate will be of each company's current projects or what games will be released after the merger. |
| March 15 |
The following games are now released:
- Cel Damage (Electronic Arts)
- NFL Quarterback Club 2002 (AcclaimSports)
- The Simpsons: Road Rage (Electronic Arts)
- Universal Studios (Kemco)
- NBA Courtside 2002 (Nintendo / Left Field)
- ESPN International Winter Sports 2002 (Konami)
- Dark Summit (THQ)
- Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (Sega)
- Smashing Drive (Namco)
- Jeremy McGrath Supercross (Acclaim)
- NBA Street (EA Sports)
- Agent Under Fire (Electronic Arts)
- All-Star Baseball 2003 (AcclaimSports)
- 18-Wheeler American Pro Trucker (Acclaim)
- Pac-Man World 2 (Namco)
- Spy Hunter (Midway)
- Gauntlet Dark Legacy (Midway)
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| December 8 |
The following games are now released:
- Luigi's Mansion (Nintendo)
- Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II (LucasArts / Factor 5)
- Super Smash Bros. Melee (Nintendo / Hal)
- Pikmin (Nintendo)
- Wave Race: Blue Storm (Nintendo / NST)
- Extreme-G 3 (Acclaim)
- Super Monkey Ball (Sega)
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (Activision)
- All-Star Baseball 2002 (AcclaimSports)
- Batman: Vengeance (Kemco)
- Crazy Taxi (Acclaim)
- Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 (Acclaim)
- Madden NFL 2002 (EA Sports)
- NHL Hitz 2002 (Midway)
- SSX Tricky (EA Sports)
- FIFA Soccer 2002 (EA Sports)
- Tarzan Untamed (Ubi Soft)
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| August 31 |
Retro Studios, one of Nintendo's 2nd-party companies, is focusing their development on only one game: Metroid Prime. So, all of the other games that were previously being developed by Retro Studios are cancelled, including the much-anticipated RPG Raven Blade. |
| August 24 |
The Nintendo Gamecube has been delayed by about 2 weeks, making the new release date November 18th. |
| October 1 |
Nintendo has announced the date in which the company will show off the Nintendo Dolphin for the very first time: August 2000. This probably means that Nintendo will show it off at next year's Space World expo in Japan. This also suggests that the release date would get pushed into 2001, since (as IGN64 put it) game systems usually get released about a year after their first showings. That would put it well into 2001.
Also, 3DO has announced that it is planning on developing Nintendo Dolphin games, as soon as it gets the development kits. |
| September 24 |
Matsushita has decided to release the DVD-playback version of the Dolphin system only in Japan. This special system was to be released sometime after the main system. On it, you can play DVD movies and such. But, it looks as if Japan is the only place that will get it.
Also, Nintendo is hinting that the Dolphin system will more likely be released in the year 2001, instead of next fall. This is because the games are taking longer to develop than the system is. |
| September 20 |
Retro Studios, a new 2nd-party company, making Dolphin games for Nintendo, will have five games ready to be released at the launch of the system. At least one of them is a sports game, as known already. But just announced is that one game of the five is an RPG, which is big news for RPG fans. |
| September 2 |
Game Boy Advance (Nintendo's upcoming 32-BIT hand-held system -- click here for more info) will be able to connect to the Nintendo Dolphin system, somewhat like the way Game Boy Color can connect to the N64 via the 64GB Pak. What this means for gamers has yet to be seen.
Also, Nintendo Dolphin's tentative release date is late 2000. That's right, it's next year. Seems a bit too soon doesn't it? |
| August 11 |
Turok 3 has been announced as an N64 game, and not a Dolphin game. However, Acclaim stated that it is developing tools and software for the system. This means that there still could be a Turok game on the way to Nintendo's next system. |
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