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Apr 30, 2025
In the Zone
  Microsoft's Internet Gaming Zone announced today that it is planning to expand its offerings to gamers, with events such as the introduction of its first two premium games, Microsoft Fighter Ace and Asheron's Call. Both games were designed specifically for the Internet. The first is a World War II dogfighting...
Apr 30, 2025
New Pitfall 3D Designer Diary
  In the latest entry of the VGS exclusive Pitfall 3D: Beyond the Jungle Designer Diary, project director David Pass explains the preparation his team went through for E3. Game designer Aaron Cammarata reveals the process and tools used to create the game's level layout – which support amazingly quick level...
Apr 30, 2025
Psygnosis Highlights PC Games at E3
  Psygnosis is planning to make a big splash in a really huge pond, otherwise known as this year's E3 show. The company will have a 6,000 square foot booth with a canopy reflecting images from new games, showcasing titles like the PlayStation's Colony Wars, along with PC games. The company's...
Apr 30, 2025
PlanetWeb Introduces Chat Client
  PlanetWeb, whose browser software is packed in with such Internet appliances as Sega's NetLink, is set to unveil a new addition to its software package: chat.   Internet Relays Chat (IRC) lets people from across the country and across the world chat about various topics, all in one community over channels....
Apr 30, 2025
Turok Goes to the Top Spot
  Acclaim's Turok: Dinosaur Hunter has worked its way to the top spot among N64 titles sold in Japan, Acclaim said today. The company says total retails sales of the title worldwide exceed $60 million. The title was released in Japan on May 30. ...
Apr 30, 2025
New Xenogears Screens
  Square's next RPG is the futuristic Xenogears, which mixes sprite-based action with polygonal monsters and combines them into one tight package. The battle system has two parts - each character can battle enemies hand-to-hand with a real-time combat system, or can send in super-powered mechanized attack units to crush the...
Apr 30, 2025
VGS Reader's Poll Results
  In last week's VideoGameSpot Twitch poll, we asked you what the best puzzle game is and I'm delighted to say that 62.5 percent of you agreed with me: Tetris is it...and so I do win my lunch after all.   A little more than 12 percent of you thought Tetrisphere was...
Apr 30, 2025
XING's New RPG
  XING Entertainment is planning a November release of its new PlayStation game called Asuncia: Strategic Fantasy Role Playing Game. The company hopes to take role-playing games to a level that hasn't successfully been reached yet on a console, combining pure military strategy with the gripping storyline and action of a...
Apr 30, 2025
Sales of MMX Portables Increase 200 Percent
  Portable computers featuring Intel's MMX technology are growing in demand.   According to the July Retail Hardware report compiled by PC Data, MMX portable computers captured 23 percent of portable unit sales, up from less than 8 percent in April when the portables first appeared on store shelves and in catalogs....
Apr 30, 2025
CUC Profits
  CUC International, parent company of Sierra On-Line and Davidson & Associates, which owns Blizzard Entertainment, today announced a 21 percent increase in revenues for the second quarter over the same period last year.   Revenues for the second quarter ending July 31, 1997, were US$672.7 million, as compared with $555.7 million...
Apr 30, 2025
Dark Sun Online Upgrade
  Total Entertainment Network launches the latest version of Dark Sun Online on Friday. The upgrade includes a major new quest, new magic items, and a player's pub. ...
Apr 30, 2025
Xena and Hercules Get Increased Bandwidth
  Chest-heaving TV idols Xena and Hercules, both noted Universal Pictures properties, will be the basis for a new multiplayer online title from Simutronics to be launched in mid-1998.   Simutronics says it will create a mythological game environment, complete with creatures and places identified in the TV programs. In addition, the...
Apr 30, 2025
GT Promotes Abe
  GT Interactive announced Wednesday that it is launching a US$10 million global ad campaign to promote the release of Abe's Oddysee. It is GT's most expensive marketing program to date, and will feature advertising over all media, including TV, print, retail and via Internet promotions. Abe's Oddysee is scheduled for...
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