Yamauchi steps down Rare abandons Gamecube The US Army wants you... to play their game

These stories and many more on this episode of the VGNRTM

This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in August 2002. As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events.

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Corrections: July 2002 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/july-2002-71386109 https://www.mobygames.com/game/resident-evil https://www.mobygames.com/game/gameboy-color/resident-evil-gaiden https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/Resident_Evil_(Game_Boy_Color) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Channel_F https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fifa-soccer-video-game-ea-sports-license/ https://www.ea.com/news/ea-sports-fc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_tracing_(graphics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_behavior

2002: Xbox 's lackluster sales hit suppliers Edge 113 pg. 13 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_(console) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_Logic https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/02/business/technology-briefing-hardware-cirrus-sales-fall-58.html?searchResultPosition=1

Xbox gets hacked https://archive.org/details/GDM_August_2002/page/n3/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Huang_(hacker) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_(console)

Xbox 2 to be ready by 2006 https://www.devuego.es/pres/revista/hobby-consolas/131 pg 17 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_(console) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer Nintendo shows off its big guns at E3 https://archive.org/details/electronic-gaming-monthly-issue-157-august-2002/page/32/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameCube

Yamauchi steps down amidst record profits https://archive.org/details/GDM_August_2002/page/n3/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Yamauchi

Iwata goes after Square https://ln2.sync.com/dl/aab3eedc0/b8g46qyy-5zvfaacx-br6ixi3p-d68p3awa/view/default/5859274840013 pg. 71 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoru_Iwata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_(video_game_company)

Rare to leave Nintendo fold https://www.devuego.es/pres/revista/hobby-consolas/131 pg 17 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_(company)

Infogrames cuts jobs in Sheffield http://www.kultmags.com/mags.php?folder=TUFOIUFDLzIwMDI= August, 2002 pg. 52 https://www.mobygames.com/company/infogrames-studios-limited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_SA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremlin_Interactive

PC to console anouncements abound https://archive.org/details/GDM_August_2002/page/n3/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/electronic-gaming-monthly-issue-157-august-2002/page/32/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/game/black-white https://www.mobygames.com/game/star-wars-jedi-knight-ii-jedi-outcast Gordon Walton Part 2 - EA - Origin - https://www.patreon.com/posts/53726080 https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/star-wars-galaxies-series

GBA to get camera https://archive.org/details/electronic-gaming-monthly-issue-157-august-2002/page/32/mode/1up https://mobile.twitter.com/nintendomemo/status/780508204912566272?lang=en https://videogameresource.fandom.com/wiki/Stage_Debut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_(1983_video_game)

Gamehouse claims sales record http://www.gamesurge.com/archive/august2002.shtml https://web.archive.org/web/20030212091532/http://www.gamehouse.com/collapse_buy.jsp?AID=11 https://www.mobygames.com/game/browser/collapse____ https://www.mobygames.com/game/super-collapse

Counter Strike sales surge in Germany https://archive.org/details/pcgames200208/page/n10/mode/1up?view=theater https://www.mobygames.com/game/counter-strike

US Army deploys at E3 https://archive.org/details/PC_Zone_118_August_2002/page/34/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/game/americas-army-operations https://www.giantbomb.com/friendly-fire/3015-2243/

New financing models may save gaming Edge 113 pg. 6 https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_217/page/n49/mode/1up https://web.archive.org/web/20080430011950/http://www.roma-victor.com/about Nvidia introduces Cg Edge 113 pg. 16 https://archive.org/details/pcgames200208/page/n13/mode/1up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/pcgames200208/page/n13/mode/1up?view=theater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cg_(programming_language)

Fatal Frame gets picked up for the movies https://archive.org/details/electronic-gaming-monthly-issue-157-august-2002/page/46/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_Frame

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