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May 3, 2025
Riven Gives World Hunger the Boot
  The folks that brought you Myst are getting into the holiday spirit with the Riven Charity (online) Auction for World Hunger.   Visitors to the auction web site can place bids for items such as a Toshiba Tecra 740CDT laptop computer, a Compaq Presario, a JVC XV-1000BK DVD player, replica costumes...
May 3, 2025
Ultima Goes "Offline"
  The owner of a Toronto-based Internet publishing and new-user consulting company is about to implement his own solution to rampant Pkilling and oft-discussed lag time encountered in Ultima Online.   RyNet Computer Services President Ryan O'Sullivan and Origin Systems are hammering out the details Monday of the anticipated Tuesday beta launch...
May 3, 2025
GT Teams With Empire
  UK publisher Empire Interactive is getting a little help from GT Interactive.   GT has entered into an affiliated label agreement with Empire, the maker of games such as Combat Chess, Flying Corps. Gold, The Golf Pro with Gary Player, and Pro Pinball: Timeshock, which will see GT sell, distribute, and...
May 3, 2025
Brazilian Brass Puts the Brakes on Carmageddon
  It's not just US congressmen who are trying to put the brakes on games they deem to be digital poison.   The Brazilian government late last week gave retailers 72 hours to remove Interplay's driving game Carmageddon from their shelves. And Brasoft, the game's Brazilian distributor, has decided to comply.   Which...
May 3, 2025
Journeyman 3 Is Golden
  Hoping to increase the buzz about its upcoming Journeyman 3: Legacy of Time adventure game, Red Orb Entertainment has launched an online sweepstakes where it'll be giving away 100 24-karat-gold copies of the game.   You can register at the Journeyman 3 web site. Winners will be selected at random throughout...
May 3, 2025
Where's the Mission?
  It has disappeared and reappeared during the past year, but Mission: Impossible is still on, according to an Ocean spokesman. Development on the game is currently going on in France, and it's expected that it will be ready for release sometime in 1998.   After seeing GoldenEye, of course, the standards...
May 3, 2025
First Look: X-Men vs. Street Fighter
  We've gotten our hands on the latest Capcom 2D fighter for the Saturn, X-Men vs. Street Fighter.   This is also the first game to support the new 4MB RAM cart, and the benefits are very clear. The conversion from the arcade to the Saturn is nearly perfect, and there is...
May 3, 2025
Ocean's N64 Destiny
  While N64 gamers wait for Mission: Impossible (see today's Mission story), Ocean's got two new games to make players happy during the beginning of 1998. Ocean stopped by today to show off two of its newest N64 games, Fighter's Destiny and Wetrix, and both look very promising.   Fighter's Destiny is...
May 3, 2025
New Gretzky Hits Stores
  Midway announced Wednesday that it has shipped the update to Wayne Gretzky 3D Hockey, titled (appropriately), Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey '98. The game features NHLPA and NHL licenses and boasts all the teams, logos, uniforms, player names, likenesses, plus updated team and player information including all recent off-season moves, giving...
May 3, 2025
EA Sportster Goes it Alone
  Don Traeger, one of the founders of EA Sports, hasn't announced what new games he is working on, but he has announced the formation of his new company, Don Traeger Productions, and that his company has signed a development deal with Sony Interactive Studios of America.   Traeger did let slip...
May 3, 2025
Madden October, QBC November
  Wednesday, Acclaim Entertainment announced that its NFL Quarterback Club '98 N64 title ranked number one for all formats on the NPD Group's TRSTS Video Game Flash Report (which covers the first half of November). This past weekend, both companies ran an advertising blitz during football telecasts, with their spokesmen Brett...
May 3, 2025
Ultima Stays Online, Not Off
  Origin Systems, which was founded in 1983 by Richard and Robert Garriott in their parents garage, has put an end to the home-brew product of a kindred spirit.   Marcus Rating, a 19-year-old German lad about to enter his first year of college, certainly got his fair share of attention this...
May 3, 2025
MicroProse Becomes Even More Civilized
  Although it has published Sid Meier's Civilization all along, MicroProse solidified its association with the Civilization brand yesterday when it acquired Hartland Trefoil Ltd., the creator and publisher of the original Civilization board game.   Game designer Francis Tresham founded the company in 1971; the Civilization board game was published in...
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