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Apr 30, 2025
It's in the Mail
  By the end of this week, Origin expects that all 25,000 Ultima Online beta test discs will be in the mail en route to gamers. Teresa Potts of Origin told GS News Monday that the early test of Ultima Online went exceptionally well and resulted in many tweaks that the...
Apr 30, 2025
Bandai Unleashes 64-bit Pet
  Bandai said today that it will release a Tamagotchi title for Nintendo's 64-bit system. A Bandai spokesman told the Reuters news service that the decision was made to release a software version of the game because the Game Boy version has sold so well in Japan.   The price and release...
Apr 30, 2025
Daikatana Slowly Taking Shape
  ION Storm definitely has an interesting policy with releasing new screenshots and videos of its first game Daikatana.   No sooner than ION Storm releases a picture on its site, two unofficial additional shots appear all over the Web. And until gamers have an alpha or solid beta to play with,...
Apr 30, 2025
Get Salamander Over the Net
  Good shooters are hard to come by. Especially from Konami. The company has always felt that shooters were a niche market in the US and therefore chose to release few its fighting titles here. However, with the successful US release of two Konami RPGs, Suikoden and Vandal Hearts, the company...
Apr 30, 2025
Tekken and Myst Come to Comics
  Newbie comic publisher Knightstone has announced that it will begin an eight-issue Tekken comic book series this fall. The comic will follow the events that took place within the Namco fighter trilogy, including such characters as Paul, King, Nina, Jack, Heihachi, and Kazuya.   In September, the company will ship Tekken...
Apr 30, 2025
Child's Play
  I Can Be an Animal Doctor, from Cloud 9 Interactive, features a virtual animal park in which children seek out sick or injured animals for treatment. At a field hospital, players examine their patients and perform tests on blood and skin. A veterinarian provides help with the diagnosis and suggests...
Apr 30, 2025
Flight Unlimited 2 Web Site Revs Up
  Anticipating a September release of its Flight Unlimited sequel, Flight Unlimited 2, Looking Glass is seeding the skies with a FU2 web site. LG says the site will contain new screenshots, additional information on the flyable planes, and details of the game's terrain.   The world size itself is about 300...
Apr 30, 2025
Konami Coming to San Francisco
  Sources tell GS News that Konami of America will be setting up a development studio in San Francisco.   The company's North American headquarters, however, will remain in Buffalo Grove, Illinois.   The new facility will be set up and in operation sometime this fall. And while it hasn't been decided how...
Apr 30, 2025
Nintendo Pres Outlines Departure
  In a recent Asahi Newspaper interview, Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi, 69, stated when and why he would be leaving Nintendo Co. Ltd.   I will work until the year 2000, he told Japan's Asahi Newspaper.   Yamauchi will time his departure to follow what he claims will be a giant leap forward...
Apr 30, 2025
New Lineup From Acclaim
  Acclaim stopped by the VGS offices recently to show off the latest versions of its work in progress. Here's what it brought.   Forsaken: Forsaken is set in the post-apocalyptic future. That's when you and other scavengers decide to go and get the goods. But scavengers aren't the nicest people in...
Apr 30, 2025
War Games Get Real
  The ultimate tank simulation isn't a simulation at all. That was the logic behind a Novalogic event Wednesday that offered a first look at the forthcoming Armored Fist II: M1A2 Abrams and, for a lucky handful of journalists, a dusty nighttime ride inside the real thing - courtesy the California...
Apr 30, 2025
Derby Stallion Tops a Million
  The day before Derby Stallion's scheduled release in Japan, ASCII says that orders for its new PlayStation horse racing simulation game have topped one million.   While horse racing simulators have not appeared on US shores - imagine the uproar from Congress, attacking a game based solely on gambling - this...
Apr 30, 2025
Activision Releases Merc 2 3Dfx Beta Patch
  Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries fans have waited a long time for a Direct3D patch so they could soak up the power of the powerful 3Dfx board. Early this week, when the special 3Dfx version was released to stores and a 3Dfx patch was released to folks who didn't want to buy...
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