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--- (,/ GAMING: 1993 - 2003 -----------
Key gaming events from 2002:
■ Microsoft's Xbox and Nintendo's
GameCube are released in Europe.
Neither console manages to dent the
PS2's market-leading position.
■ Microsoft further shook up thj market
by purchasing formerly Nintendo-
exclusive UK-based developeu Rare.
■ Digitiser upsets scores of Xbox
zealots somjhow by reporting the
news that the Xbox doesn't sell as
well as thj PlayStation 2. Pff.
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