The UK's best source for online multiplayer matching, Wireplay, announced late on Thursday that it was restructuring itself for full gaming and free dial-up Internet access as of April 21, 1999.
Currently, Wireplay offers support for 100 titles including Quake II, Half-Life, Total Annihilation, and Age of Empires.
The new name of the service itself will be called Power Play, and it will be available to all UK users of Wireplay, regardless of telephone providers, through three access platforms: Wireplay Direct (a free Wireplay and Internet-access service), BT ClickFree (which as the name suggests is a free dial-up Internet-access service), and BT Internet (the subscription-based Internet Service Provider) Players from the rest of the world can pit their skills against Wireplay members in a special area called Open Play. All players will need to do is download the special Open Play software. So when April 21 hits, the Internet may see the next big British invasion - the UK gaming invasion.