What you can do to help out those suffer in America terror attacks?

* Donate to America Red Cross
* Read full details here: A Plea on Behalf of the American Red Cross
* Donate to United Way fund to help the victims and their families.
* Donate to Salvation Army to help the victims, by calling 1-800-SAL-ARMY.
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- September 21, 2001 -

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- The latest Nintendo GameCube sales figures are out in the Dengeki Console Ranking Top 50 Chart. Nintendo's GameCube launch title Luigi Mansion has sold 133,677 copies, outselling Wave Race Blue Storm and Sega's Super Monkey Ball by at least 5 times. However, Namco's Ace Combat 04 has topped the sales of GameCube titles with 183,000+ sold copies. Capcom's Capcom Vs SNK 2: Millionaire Fighting 2001 is also doing quite well, with over 200,000 copies sold (PS2 and DC version combined).

- In the hardware department, Nintendo GameCube has sold over 133,700 units during the launch week, although not as ground breaking as expected, but it still outsold both GameBoy Advance and PlayStation 2 by more than 2 times during the past week.

- Update on Sega Hitmaker's Dreamcast / Naomi arcade tennis sequel Power Smash 2 (Power Smash 2 / Tennis 2K2). The game maintain the simple but depth operations, with improved quality and volume, this time it is possible to perform character training in the game. There are 8 male and 8 female professional players in the game. There are 3 game modes available: World Tour Mode allows you to use over 1000 player's patterns to create your own tennis player. After creating a custom character, you can train the player to join the match and get more experience. There are new mini games and Mix doubles so you can enjoy more and longer...

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- Namco announced 3 more hidden characters in the arcade version of Tekken 4, they are Nina Williams, Lei Wulong and Bryan Fury, all returning characters from the series.

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- Square has announced their upcoming Tokyo Game Show lineup, they will be showing:

PlayStation 2
Kingdom Hearts
All-Star Pro Wrestling II

WonderSwan Color
Dice de Chocobo
Hanjuku Eiyuu
Makaitoushi SaGa
Romancing SaGa
(and one mystery title)

- Sega and Namco announced an alliance in amusement arcade business, in order to cut development cost and create new entertainment services.

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- Hudson announced that they will release Bomberman Kart for PlayStation 2 in Japan this December, a kart racing game featuring characters from the Bomberman universe. This game supports up to 4 players simultaneously, and it is not just a racing game. There are also a few mini games included, such as Bomberman Soccer and Tunnel Racing. There are 5 playable characters in the game, including Bomberman, Dark Bomberman, Baby Bomber, Lady Bomber and Golden Bomberman.

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- Namco has released new details on their PlayStation fan game Tale of Fandom Vol. 1. This fan disc is for fans of Tales of Phantasia, Tales of Destiny, Tales of Phantasia Dungeons (GBC) and Tales of Eternia (PS), featuring an adventure game, a columns style puzzle game and a gallery mode. The adventure game is based on the TalesWeb drama in Japan, with full voice performed by popular radio actors / actresses. There is also an original character named Primula in the adventure game.

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- Eidos has postponed the release of Soul Reaver 2 for PS2 from September 25 to sometimes in mid-October, in order to polish the game.

- Enix of America will release the US version of Dragon Warrior VII (Dragon Quest VII) for PlayStation on November 1.

- Konami announced that their highly anticipated PlayStation 2 game Metal Gear Solid 2 will remain in schedule, for release in November 13. However, a scene which show the World Trade Center building will be removed from the game due to the recent terrorist incident. Konami also emphasized that the theme of Metal Gear Solid 2 focuses on establishment of peace, not terrorism, there will be no change to the game plot.

- Sony has pushed back the release date of their PlayStation stealth action game Syphon Filter 3, due to the recent terrorist events, they are planning to modify the marketing and advertising plans, in concern for the welfare of the victims and the involved people.

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- Capcom will release the GameBoy Advance port of Street Fighter Zero 3 Upper in Japan on November 30, for 4800 yen. The game is a complete port of the arcade version, featuring all 3 ISM modes, and unconfirmed news stating that the GBA port will feature 3 new characters from Capcom Vs SNK 2, they are Eagle (SF1), Maki (Final Fight 2) and Yun (SFIII). (From EG NTTPub)

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- Namco has pushed back the release date of their GBA fighting game Tekken Advance to spring 2002.

X B O X

- Microsoft announced a delay to the XBox launch in North America by one week from November 8 to November 15, just 3 days ahead of the Nintendo GameCube launch on November 18. Microsoft also announced that they have begun to manufacture the XBox console in Guadalajara, Mexico, which will be able to produce 100,000 units a week.

- Eidos announced that they will release TimeSplitters 2 for XBox in early 2002, shortly after the release of the PS2 version.

G A M E C U B E

- RUMOR: IGN reported that Nintendo has canceled the development of 1080 Snwoboarding for GameCube.