Console: All-Star Baseball 2002 PS2
updated 11:30 am EST, Fri March 16, 2001
Morning console news: Acclaim Sports' All-Star Baseball 2002 ships today for the Playstation 2; Nintendo has announced that it has increased the amount of Game Boy Advance handhelds it will ship at launch from 1 million to 1.1 million in the face of strong demand (2.7 million had already pre-ordered in January); and Isao Okawa, the chairman of Sega who offered to spend $730 million of his own money to help the bleeding company after announcing that it would discontinue production of its Dreamcast console, died of heart failure on Friday at the age of 74.


