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Apr 30, 2025
Sony's PlayStation Puzzler
  A huge hit in Japan, Intelligent Qube is a one to two player 3-D puzzle title for the PlayStation where players must clear a stage of onrushing cubes while avoiding forbidden black squares, falling off, and being crushed.   Sony Computer Entertainment America intends to bring the title to the US...
Apr 30, 2025
NBC Vice President Joins TimeSink
  In an effort to draw more mainstream advertising to online gaming, Harrisburg, Penn.-based TimeSink has hired Kevin F. McAuliffe, a former vice president of marketing and promotions at NBC, as vice president of marketing and sales. TimeSink's first release is WarSport, an action-strategy game designed by Dani Bunten Barry, designer...
Apr 30, 2025
Looking Glass Technologies Bought?
  Unconfirmed reports circulated Tuesday that an acquisition of Looking Glass Technologies by Intemetrics, a high-end information systems software developer based in Cambridge, Mass., was imminent.   When contacted, Intemetrics Chairman and CEO Michael Alexander had no comment.   In addition to developing online infrastructure for Engage Games' network, Intemetrics has built high-end...
Apr 30, 2025
EA To Close Down Maxis South
  Just one day after Electronic Arts dotted the i's and crossed the t's on its acquisition of SimCity developer Maxis, the 26-member staff of Maxis South, located in Austin, Texas, was told that EA had decided to shutter the division.   On Monday, the Austin staffers were told by Maxis South...
Apr 30, 2025
New Book for Top Players
  Back in the days of Pac-Man and Tempest, high scores were everything. In those days, the higher the score you got, the better the view society had of you. Well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but a new book from Twin Galaxies looks to bring back the days of when high...
Apr 30, 2025
SegaSoft Promotes Three
  Sarah Mason has been promoted from director of marketing to vice president and general manager of Heat, SegaSoft's online gaming network. Clay Swartz has been promoted from director of network development to vice president of technology. Sean Ryan has been promoted from director of business development to vice president of...
Apr 30, 2025
Star Wars Giga Pets
  As the craze for virtual pets continues, Tiger continues to develop new and different Giga Pets to add to its lineup.   This holiday season, Star Wars Giga Pets will be landing at toy stores across the nation. Players can choose from three different models of the Star Wars licensed pets...
Apr 30, 2025
Management Shift at Gateway 2000
  Gateway 2000, a company with a loyal base of computer gamers, announced Monday that its president and COO, Richard Snyder, has resigned to head up a venture capital fund in Michigan. Snyder will continue to serve on the company's board of directors, and a successor has not yet been chosen....
Apr 30, 2025
Virtua Fighter 3 Gets Upgrade
  At the recent Virtua Fighter 3 Java Tea Battle Koshien, AM2's Yu Suzuki revealed that an upgrade to Virtua Fighter 3 is indeed in the works. The name of the new version will be Virtua Fighter 3 Team Battle, and it will include a slew of new features and refinements...
Apr 30, 2025
Intel and AMD Price Drop Comes Early
  Intel and AMD slashed prices on all their chips, Reuters has reported.   Intel announced on Monday that it had dropped prices on several Pentium and Pentium II processors a few days before the August 1 date that was reported earlier.   What can you expect to save on your next system...
Apr 30, 2025
Sega President Invests in Lease
  Sega Enterprises President Hayao Nakayama plans to buy an 11.5 percent stake in Lease Electronics Co., a personal computer wholesaler. A total of 41.5 percent of the outstanding shares will be sold by Lease President Koji Kawamoto and his family, the Nikkei news service reported.   Nakayama will be the largest...
Apr 30, 2025
MK4 Shots and Video!
  As part of Midway's Mortal Kombat 4 Road Tour, the game was put on display at Golfland USA in Sunnyvale, Calif. GameSpot News was on hand to put MK4 to the test.   The graphics have taken a step into the third dimension with visually stunning 3-D polygon graphics. The characters...
Apr 30, 2025
Radical Development
  Vancouver's Radical Entertainment has set up a development studio in San Francisco's China Basin. Radical's recently released games include Powerplay '97 (another version to will be released shortly) and The Divide: Enemies Within.   Radical's CEO Mike Ribero, former vice president of sales and marketing at Sega of America, seeks to...
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