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Apr 30, 2025
First Look: Magic the Gathering: Armageddon
  Acclaim Coin Operated Entertainment has been hard at work on an action-fighting arcade game based on the popular card game Magic the Gathering. The game has two dueling wizards cast spells on each other until one is suitably dead. Magic the Gathering: Armageddon's controls are interesting, as it's the first...
Apr 30, 2025
Interplay Seeks Blood
  Interplay will kick off the launch of Carmageddon - its tongue-in-cheek driving game that rewards players for running down pedestrians - by hosting a blood drive for the American Red Cross at its Irvine, CA headquarters next Tuesday. The company will give away copies of the game to all donors....
Apr 30, 2025
Paraguay Foils Video Pirates
  Officials in Paraguay announced that they seized a shipment of counterfeit Nintendo software and joysticks on July 10, a cache of goodies that added up to US$1 million in pirated merchandise.   This is the second biggest bust in the country in a month, and officials said yesterday that they believed...
Apr 30, 2025
Senate Votes to Ban Gaming by Federal Employees
  Incensed by the cost of lost productivity due to federal employees playing computer games, Senator Lauch Faircloth introduced an amendment yesterday that was passed unanimously by the US Senate. It requires that all computer games be removed from federal government computers.   The amendment was attached to the Treasury and General...
Apr 30, 2025
Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha Lands in Japan
  Released this week in Japan, Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha tosses many of the familiar Street Fighter characters into a 3-D world and adds in a great bunch of new fighters.   The graphics from the arcade rendition have been slightly improved, and there are a few new characters, including Sakura...
Apr 30, 2025
Ten Million and Counting
  In Japan, Bandai announced that the Tamagotchi has sold over 10 million copies domestically - and the keychains are still selling strongly. The Tamagotchi also has continued to sell well in the US, where the game has stiff competition from Tiger's Giga Pets and Playmates' Nano Pets.   Bandai debuted a...
Apr 30, 2025
G-Squad Strikes Ontario Mills
  In celebration of the GameWorks Ontario grand opening this Saturday, the G-Squad has been unleashed on Ontario Mills. The team, which will arrive at the center sporting GameWorks gear on Vespa motorbikes, will confront consumers with premium giveaways at ten local stores over five days.   Saturday marks the opening of...
Apr 30, 2025
iMagic Looks at Fallen Heroes
  Sources at Interactive Magic say the company has been talking to A&B Entertainment about publishing Fallen Heroes, a shareware fantasy strategy game.   Fallen Heroes took top honors in the Puzzle, Logic and Strategy category at the Ziff-Davis 1997 Shareware Awards. ...
Apr 30, 2025
Postal Goes Beta
  Postal, an action-strategy splatter fest developed by Running With Scissors, begins a month-long open beta test today.   Gamers who are interested in signing up for the test can do so via the official Postal web site. Publisher Ripcord will be giving away prizes to beta testers.   The shareware version of...
Apr 30, 2025
Report From Texas:They Came for Quake
  PLANO, TX - Youichi Shibuya traveled all the way from Japan for it. Ryan Sparrow and Adam Blake planned their summer road trip around it.   They came, the three of them, along with more than 500 of their fellow Quake fanatics - from North America, Germany, Australia, and England, as...
Apr 30, 2025
Report From Texas:Sleep? Who Needs It
  PLANO, TX - The tables are strewn with empty soda cans and beer bottles and crumpled up bits of paper. The ballroom of the Holiday Inn Plano smells of stale adolescent sweat, of too many people having spent too many hours sitting in front of their computers.   It's 1:45am Saturday...
Apr 30, 2025
Can You Say @&%$#
  Interplay has released a Cuss Pack add-on for Redneck Rampage that replaces the existing character dialog in the game with outtakes from voice-over sessions originally deemed too crude for the final retail version of the game. Users may also customize the pack, deleting particular files or inserting their own.   The...
Apr 30, 2025
Rabid Readies Septerra Core
  Last week, Rabid Entertainment showed two of its latest projects - Violent Seed, an overhead shooter for the Sony PlayStation, and Septerra Core, a role-playing game for the PC CD-ROM (and hopefully a console release as well).   The Septerra story takes place in a land created by a mysterious ancient...
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