- October 1, 2001 -

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- Update on Square / Disney's PlayStation 2 RPG Kingdom Hearts. The story takes place in two different worlds: one is Disney Castle, where all the Disney characters live in, another one is Destiny Islands, where the 3 main characters Sora, Riku and Kairi live. The battle system is greatly simplified, you will only be able to control Sora, the other two character will be controlled by the CPU. You can see the monsters in the exploration mode, and choose to avoid or contact them for battles. This time when you cast summon spells to summon many famous Disney mascots to battle for you. For example, Sora can summon Jumbo the Elephant to use his powerful water gun attacks...

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- Sony announced that they are expected to turn their PlayStation 2 game business into profit by the end of the fiscal year ending March 2002, lower production cost and profit from the game division has helped the company to recover from losses in manufacturing the console. Sony is expecting the shipment of PlayStation 2 to reach 20 millions by March 2002.

- Sega announced their PlayStation 2 software lineup for the upcoming Tokyo Game Show 2001 Fall:

• Jet Set Radio Future
• New Space Channel
• Rez
• Sakura Taisen 4
• Super Monkey Ball
• Virtua Fighter 4

- Konami has confirmed that they are planning to bring the latest PlayStation 2 RPG Suikoden III to US, the US version is scheduled for release in 2002.

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- Electronic Arts is working on a new action adventure game Buffy the Vampire Slayer for XBOX, based on the TV show, in which you play as a teenage high school girl who possesses slayer power, to challenge the demon army and prevent them from taken over the over world.

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G A M E C U B E

- Activision will release the GameCube version of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 in US this holiday season., the GC version will be identical to the PlayStation 2 version, including all the interactive stages and gameplay mechanics, including revert and balance oriented flatland tricks.

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A R C A D E   /   O T H E R S

- The Console Charts are updated, the sales of Nintendo's GameCube have dropped back to the third place to 29,209 units, seems like GameCube really needs more killer titles to push the hardware.