Visitors to the Tokyo Game Show watch a demonstration of new video
games for Microsoft Corp's new game console Xbox and Sony Computer
Entertainment's PalyStation 2 in Makuhari, east of Tokyo, on October
12, 2001. Japanese game software publisher Sega Corp said on Friday it
would make an announcement on an extended alliance with Microsoft Corp
in their game business. REUTERS/Kimimasa Mayama

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