Microsoft and Nintendo slash prices, Steam enters the game retail business & Germany thinks about banning Counter Strike

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 May 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: April 2002 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/april-2002-67235902 Turns out our Department of Corrections got it wrong and F-Zero AX was published by Sega: https://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/f-zero-ax https://web.archive.org/web/20050909152548/f-zero.jp/f-zero_ax/index.html 2002: GBA to go online Edge 110 pg. 17 https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/54188-gameboy-owners-will-surf-the-web https://web.archive.org/web/20060321032545/http://www.x-trafun.com/home.htm Gameboy gets game downloader Edge 110 pg. 22 Sega licenses ports to THQ Edge 110 pg. 22 https://www.mobygames.com/game/altered-beast-guardian-of-the-realms

Nintendo cuts price of GBA https://archive.org/details/gamepro-issue-164-may-2002/page/n31/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Advance

Microsoft cuts price of Xbox in Europe https://archive.org/details/MicromaniaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue88/page/n10/mode/1up?view=theater http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1936791.stm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_(console)

Xbox has the force https://archive.org/details/Computer_and_Video_Games_Issue_0246/page/10/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/game/star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic

GDC subdued Edge 110 pg. 10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Developers_Conference Steam starts selling games https://archive.org/details/pcgames200205/page/n9/mode/1up?view=theater Edge 110 pg. 18 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(service) Sims sales numbers confirmation https://archive.org/details/pcgames200205/page/n10/mode/1up?view=theater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims_(video_game)

German authorities consider Counter Strike ban https://archive.org/details/pcgames200205/page/n10/mode/1up?view=theater https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/erfurter-schulmorde-killer-spiel-counterstrike-wird-nicht-indiziert-a-196419.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike

Netflix is growing by leaps and bounds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix#Launch_as_a_mail-based_rental_business_(1997%E2%80%932006) https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_214/page/n44/mode/1up?view=theater Angel of Darkness previewed Edge 110 https://www.mobygames.com/game/lara-croft-tomb-raider-the-angel-of-darkness/mobyrank

Software 2000 is no more https://archive.org/details/pcgames200205/page/n27/mode/1up?view=theater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_2000

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