Tom Clancy sells to UbiSoft AOL gets sued by its volunteers and Uwe Boll sets his sights on games

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 November of 2000. 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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Links: Corrections:

2000: Gamecube demos shown at Space World https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20136%20%28November%202000%29/page/n35/mode/2up https://www.mobygames.com/game/legend-of-zelda-the-wind-waker

Sega keeps pinning its hopes on SegaNet https://www.retromags.com/files/file/4319-gamepro-issue-146-november-2000/ pg. 36 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast_online_functionality#SegaNet_(United_States) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66jCFAm6WBU http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/the-untold-history-of-sega/

WonderSwan Color announced https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20136%20%28November%202000%29/page/n51/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WonderSwan

Dragon's Lair is coming to the GBC https://www.retromags.com/files/file/4319-gamepro-issue-146-november-2000/ pg. 38 https://www.mobygames.com/game/gameboy-color/dragons-lair____ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XiUvMowedA

Infogrames announces joint venture with Hudson https://archive.org/details/MicromanaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue70/page/n7/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/company/infogrames-hudson-kk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Soft

Ubi Soft buys Red Storm https://archive.org/details/NextGen71Nov2000/page/n10/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/company/red-storm-entertainment-inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Storm_Entertainment

AOL Volunteers wanna get paid! https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_196/page/n38/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Community_Leader_Program#Department_of_Labor_investigation https://archives.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/aol_settled_with_unpaid_volunt.php

Sierra sues Tolkien and Tolkien sues back https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_196/page/n50/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/inspiration-author-j-r-r-tolkien/offset,25/so,1d/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_(1967_film)#cite_note-companion-1

Pogo.com to by bought by Excite@Home https://archive.org/details/NextGen71Nov2000/page/n10/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo.com

Square isn't done with Hollywood https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20136%20%28November%202000%29/page/n51/mode/1up House of the Dead is coming to theatres https://archive.org/details/MicromanaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue70/page/n9/mode/1up https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?companies=co0062103 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317676/?ref_=adv_li_tt

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