• Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty *DEMO* [PS2/JAP/NTSC] Swap Trick Patch
• ESPN Winter X Games Snowboarding [PS2/US/NTSC] NTSC-2-PAL Patch

Thanks ADRenaline UK & thebigman 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...