Future Gamer Issue 66

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• X-Box Revealed
• Black & White Confirmed for Dreamcast
• Dreamcast Prices Slashed in Germany
• PlayStation2 Backward Compatibility
• Half-Life Official For Dreamcast
• Homeworld: Cataclysm
• 200,000 Online Dreamcasters in Europe
• Milia 2000: Sega President Delivers Keynote Speech
• Call to Power II
• Dinosaur
• Sega Under Threat from Media Optik
• Back On The Grid
• Espionage Agents Coming
• Sega of Japan Issue a Firm Warning Regarding Shenmue
• Lemmings Revolution
• The Sims Downloads
• Dark Sector: The Next Big Online Juggernaut?
• Connectix Win Against Sony Injunction
• Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths & Legends
• Coming Soon From Hasbro and Majesco
• Nibbles

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Issue 66 - February 17, 2000

News

X-Box Revealed

Mr Gates, with this console you are really spoiling us

Microsoft have set out the hard facts about their elusive X-Box at a secret meeting at their Seattle headquarters. The console will be Microsoft branded and will launch in the US by September 2001, shortly followed by a European release. A price has not been set, although it could be as little as $149 (about Ł100), depending on the price of Sony's PlayStation2.

The specifications, as revealed in the February 11 edition of trade paper MCV, are as follows:

In-built DVD, fully compatible with DVD movies

Windows-derived operating system

56k modem

Up to 1GHz processor

64Mb RAM

4Gb hard disk drive

That sounds like a pretty serious piece of kit to us, especially the 1GHz processor. But if this really was a "secret meeting", how come we've heard about it? Could it be just another underhand attempt at stealing Sony's thunder?

Black & White Confirmed for Dreamcast