July 2001

Nintendo undercuts with Gamecube Playstation is coming to Dreamcast Namco, Enix and Square team up

These stories and many more on this episode of the Video Game Newsroom Time Machine

This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in July of 2001. As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events.

Peter is on vacation so we have the pleasure of being joined by our guest co-host Jon from the Retro Games Squad

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Time Codes: 7 Minutes in Heaven: 7:30 Corrections: 16:57 Time Jump: 33:48

Links: 7 Minutes in Heaven: Video version - https://www.patreon.com/posts/54638964 https://www.mobygames.com/game/ps2/star-wars-super-bombad-racing Corrections: June 2001 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/june-2001-53567695 https://www.mobygames.com/game/harry-potter-and-the-chamber-of-secrets____/mobyrank https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usme3xqyBBg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Glass_Studios https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/tomb-raider-series/offset,150/so,1d/

2001: E3 News: Gamecube to launch at $199 https://archive.org/details/NextGen79Jul2001/page/n7/mode/2up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameCube https://www.giantbomb.com/e3-2001/3015-3433/

Richard Garriott is going to wipe the slate clean https://archive.org/details/PC.Games.N106.2001.07/page/13/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/richard-garriotts-tabula-rasa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Warcraft Bleem finally makes it to Dreamcast https://www.retromags.com/files/file/4461-electronic-gaming-monthly-issue-144-july-2001/ pg. 28 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleem! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_(console)

Windows XP to introduce Microsoft Product Activation https://archive.org/details/MicromanaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue78/page/n25/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Product_Activation

Codemasters wants piracy to fade away https://archive.org/details/MicromanaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue78/page/n7/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FADE

Edge magazine recommends The Dot Eaters Edge July 2001 https://thedoteaters.com

Microsoft buys Ensemble https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_204/page/n32/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_Studios

Namco, Enix and Square announce mutual stock purchases https://www.retromags.com/files/file/4461-electronic-gaming-monthly-issue-144-july-2001/ pg. 36 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Enix#Merger_(2003) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_(console) https://retrogamesquad.libsyn.com/rgs-055-role-playing-games-part-2

Digiscents has been 'scent' to the grave https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_204/page/n104/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISmell#Digiscent

Indrema dreams no more... https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_204/page/n105/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indrema

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Sound Effects by Ethan Johnson of History of How We Play and Enzo Maida.