Thanks DDS for sending the patches!

• Spring 2002 launch GameCube in Europe
  Nintendo will be holding off on the European launch of the GameCube until Spring 2002, The releasing Japan is in July 2001 & in the US in October 2001...
• SCE Plans Pirate-Buster
  This summer Sony (SCEI) will introduce a system that uses the PS2 online capability to strengthen game copyright protection. With the system, known as DNA-S, game CDs and DVDs will be imprinted with a unique ID. When a user puts the disc into the PS2, the software ID and equipment ID will be verified over a network through an authentication server. Games that are not authenticated will not work...
• IBM wins Playstation 3 contract
  IBM has won the contract to produce the next generation of micro-processors for Sony's Playstation 3 games console. The new chip will be designed for the broadband era, allowing the games machines and other "intelligent" devices to communicate with each other or connect to the internet...
• PlayStation CPU to shift to 0.13 micron
  Sony and Toshiba are migrating the PlayStation 2's Emotion Engine CPU over to 0.13 micron fabrication process. The shift will also be applied to the console's Graphics Synthesiser (GS) chip...

Thanks ToNiMoRo/CHeNCHoTRoNK, YURSOFT TEAM, Masterdream, David & Fr4nz for sending the patches!

Thanks to Elissaios K. & CopyDog for sending (& creating) these utilities!

• Clock ticking for Australian PS chippers
  Amendments to the Australian Copyright Act make it illegal to tamper with an electronic device for the purpose of playing pirated goods - and that includes chipping consoles from vendors such as Sony, Sega and Nintendo...
• PCCW Japan in Online Games Deal with Circadence
  The Japanese unit of Hong Kong-based Internet and telecoms firm Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd said it would acquire part of U.S.-based Circadence Corp to roll out online games in Asia as early as this summer...
• Nintendo's Next Handheld
  Set to be released on June 11, right around the time that school gets out, Nintendo's much-hyped machine will likely soon be kicking into high gear. They have already taken more than 2 million advance orders in Japan, where it goes on sale March 21...
• Microsoft Lands Top Worldwide Developers for Xbox
  Microsoft  announced that six world-class design studios plan to create exclusive games for the Xbox video game system, all of which will be published under the Microsoft label...
• Nintendo Eyes New Game System for Next Game Boy
  Japan's NintendoCo Ltd began whetting game players' appetites for its next generation hand-held player on Wednesday, unveiling plans to create a high-tech interactive game system for the successor to its best-selling Game Boy player...
• Microsoft Declines Comment on Xbox Profitability
  Microsoft declined to address a recent report that it would take five years to reach profitability with its new Xbox video game console, saying the forecast by Merrill Lynch was based on assumptions that were the brokerage's own....
• Will Xbox drain Microsoft?
  Microsoft could lose as much as $2 billion on Xbox--potentially selling the game console at a loss for three years or more--before breaking even in fiscal 2005, according to a Merrill Lynch report...
• Microsoft's Heavily Hyped Xbox Gets Family Friendly
  Amid the considerable buzz over Microsoft's highly anticipated Xbox, few have taken notice of the unglamorous announcement that Microsoft will solder a V-chip-style control inside the video game console, which is slated for introduction this fall...
• PlayStation 3 to be Sony's convergence box, not PS2
  Sony's PlayStation 2 may not be the digital doorway between the home and a world of online entertainment the company originally planned it to be...