INSIDE GAMES & ENTERTAINMENT UPDATE
Volume 2, Issue 59

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3DO: ACQUISITIONS CONTINUE--FAVORITE GOES TO 3DO
We have long followed the career of Jon Van Caneghem, founder of New World
Computing. The company is part of NTN Communications and has been
responsible for some of the best FRPGs ever created for desktop computer
systems. Their Heroes of Might and Magic remains one of the best-selling
such games, with the sequel due soon. A Letter of Intent to acquire the
assets of New World Computing has been signed by Trip Hawkins' 3DO company
with NTN Communications. This move will certainly add new strengths to
future 3DO PC and Macintosh environments and we wish all the best in this
new blending of forces. New World Computing, at least in their dealings
with us, has been an extraordinarily cooperative and fine company with
which to work, and we hope the acquisition by 3DO does not change--too
radically--the company's personality. A special hats-off to Scott McDaniel
at NWC and his tireless efforts to ensure New World Computing products
received the attention they deserved!

A&M Records: WEB CATCHES A CROW, A TRAVELER AND STING
Sting, Soundgardern, Blues Traveler, Sheryl Crow, Dishwalla and Del
Amitri--these favorite record stars for many are now represented on the
Web. A&M Records, together with BoxTop Interactive (www.boxtop.com), a
developer of Web sites in Southern California, have created a Web site
filled with content from  A&M's recording stars, plus their ongoing
projects. The site, located at http://www.amrecords.com, debuted with a Gin
Blossoms online trivia contest, offering prizes that ranged from an
autographed guitar to Gin Blossoms T-shirts. Visitors to this site will
encounter multimedia applications such as downloadable audio snippets,
video files, live online chat sessions and customizable digital postcards
for sending to friends online.

Acclaim Entertainment: E3 EXPLOSION
With more than 1,700 products debuting at E3 over three weeks ago, the
plethora of product continues to weigh heavily in our in-basket. Here are
Acclaim Entertainment's newest product introductions.

COMIC COLLISION: In cooperation with Marvel Comics, Acclaim is bringing two
popular comic book super heroes into your hands with the release of Iron
Max/X-O Manowar In Heavy Metal. This video game is for the Sony
PlayStation(TM), Sega Saturn(TM), Game Boy(R), Game Gear(TM) and PC CD-ROM
machines. This title features Marvel's Iron Man and Acclaim Comics' X-O
Manowar and is the first time that a comic book xover, or clash between two
icons from different companies, has been brought to interactive
entertainment media. The game features Acclaim's advanced motion picture
technology, SGI 3D rendered graphics and more than 30 levels of play. You
assume either role as you battle the evil forces of the Marvel and Acclaim
comic book super heroes/villains, including Baron Zemo and Mistress
Crescendo, who have joined forces to resurrect the most powerful object
created by man--the Cosmic Cube. This is an action-packed fighting,
shooting and flying game with object scaling and rotation techniques for
realistic visual depth. A comic book will be published by each company in
June to enhance the launch of this game.

MAGIC MANIA: The most successful interactive/trading card game, reaching
billions across the world, is Magic: The Gathering from Wizards of the
Coast. Acclaim now has the rights develop this title for PCs, video
consoles and coin-ops. The game will be a real-time game of strategic
combat with a variety of play options that will allow you to not only cast
a card, but watch the characters, spells and strategies come to life in 3D
computer animation. In addition to a base deck of interactive cards
containing more than 220 of the most popular MTG cards, the game will also
feature special cards from Wizards of the Coasts' highly anticipated
Mirage(TM) expansion set. Duel and Campaign modes will be offered, as well
as customizable creature and spell combos. As many as four players may game
together and characters and their built-up powers will be transferable to
future sequels.

DINOSAURS FOR NEW SYSTEM: Few companies have been given the green light by
Nintendo to develop titles for the new Nintendo 64 system which will debut
later this year. Acclaim is one of the companies so awarded and they will
release Turok: Dinosaur Hunter(TM) on September 30th. You assume the role
of Turok and you must stop The Campaigner and his army of Bionosaurs from
controlling time with a device called the Chronosceptor and taking over the
Lost Land. Only Turok knows the device is flawed and will destroy the
universe if activated. There are nine levels organized into three chapters.
The game was developed by Iguana Entertainment and offers computer-rendered
polygonal characters and first-person perspective action that includes
running, climbing, swimming and fighting. You'll be able to explore your
environment with 360-degrees of movement and manage a true arsenal of
weapons, from the low tech bow and arrow to a futuristic tek bow. There are
various maps and pieces of equipment that can aid you throughout the game.

AD&D FIGHTER: The first 3D fighting game set in TSR's AD&D(R) Ravenloft(R)
world is coming from Acclaim. Entitled Iron & Blood, this title combines a
detailed medieval theme with strategic elements and 3D game technology. The
game was developed by Take 2 and features 16 fantasy characters including
gargoyles, dwarves, werewolves, gladiators, goblins and wizards. Every
character in the game consists of an average of 4,000 complex polygons,
giving the game a truly realistic appearance. THe game can also process
225,000 polygons per second on the Sony PlayStation. Each character is
equipped with weapons and magic distinct to their character, whether such
be body parts such as spikes or claws, magic, or weapons like maces,
rapiers and tridents. You can save characters as you win battles and build
up strength and hit points. There are also 16 different artifacts
throughout the game that you should try to find to enhance your power.
Watch for this title's initial release in September for PlayStation, with
the PC CD-ROM and Sega Saturn versions available later in the fall.

COMIC MONSTERS: It's not every day you team up with Frankenstein, Dracula
or more than 40 other monster favorites, just to escape from the clutches
of an evil movie mogul. But such is the case with Night of the Monsters, a
new graphic action/adventure game from Acclaim. The monsters have turned to
you for help and you'll encounter challenging puzzles, more than 60 classic
locations for exploration, plus a ghoulish soundtrack.

Activision: ACTIVISION PREPARES TO DELIVER NEW TITLES
The following Windows 95 titles under development, when combined with a 3D
accelerator card, will be transformed into Direct3D titles:

(. . .drum roll.....)

MechWarrior 2: The Mercenaries (Windows 95 and DOS)is a sequel to
MechWarrior 2 and continues the exploration of FASA's BattleTech(R)
Universe with fighting sequences and new special effects that incude smoke
trails and explosions and ultra-reaslistic 3D geometry. MercNet(TM) will be
included, so that players may compete via a modem or over a LAN for up to
eight players.

HyperBlade, a futuristic multi-player sports game (available for Sony
PlayStation in '97) will have more than 18 teams in their native arenas. Up
to four players battle each other in this 21st century contact sport.
Players are armed with high-speed blades and custom body armor and there're
new obstacles that include ramps, trenches, bumps, traps and jumps.

Interstate 76, a combat-simulation game based in the 1970's.

Blast Chamber, a multi-player action game.

Planetfall, a Pitfall sequel with an original chapter in the Planetfall
universe re-casts players in the role of a Lieutenant on Stellar Patrol of
the Third Galactic Union. There will be mayhem when folks are promoted
through a bureaucratic mishap to the rank as thepresident. Then an
accident totally wipes out a neighboring planet and it's up to the gamers
to risk everything to reveal a conspiracy that could decimate the entire
Galactic Union.

MechWarrior 2 Expansion Pack: Ghost Bear's Legacy

MechWarrior 2 will also be available for the Sony PlayStation and Sega
Saturn this winter.

Sacred Ground is the second in a series of role-playing mysteries is which
Native American, Latin American and Western cultures together weave a tale
of intrigue that the player must solve. The basic storyline revolves around
a wealthy socialite, Randa Tasker, who is kidnapped from her estate and
suspician is aroused when her husband plans to develop a posh ski resort.
Clues indicate these two well-to-doers were not well respected in the
community.  The husband, Martin, is killed and now it's up to the player to
find Randa and her husband's murderer. To be released in early '97 for
Windows 95, MS-DOS and Macintosh.

Muppet Treasure Island CD-ROM, a multi-million dollar title, is the first
game to be based on a Muppet movie. Muppet Treasure Island will be
available in the summer of '96 and stars Kermit the Frog,  Miss Piggy, Tim
Curry and many other Muppet characters AND a new Muppet character who makes
his debut in this game, Stevenson the Parrot.

Folks interact with the original cast in four fantasy worlds. Each person
stars in this fantasy world while looking for buried treasure. The
captivating game and awsome visuals will draw not just the kiddies but
other folks as well. The  game provides interactive gameplay and combines
over 20 clever puzzles and activities with live-action video. For Windows
3.1, Windows95, Mac Quadra or Power PC.

Activision: MECHWARRIOR DWANGO-IZED
We continue to harp on this point--game publishers continue to harp on this
point--consumers continue to harp on this point--online multiplayer gaming
capabilities for digital entertainments is crucial to a title's success.
Activision has heard and is going to be integrating DWANGO (Dial-up Wide
Area Network Gaming Operation) access software into NetMech, the company's
MechWarrior 2 network offering. Coming later this month, this software will
let you play MechWarrior 2 over the DWANGO network. Plus, this package deal
will give gamers five hours of free DWANGO service. Activision's NetMech
lets you play against a friend via a modem, or enable eight folk to game in
real-time over the network. And you couldn't ask for a better product for
net access. Already, MechWarrior 2 has shipped around 2.2 million units.
You can check out the DWANGO client software and download the free app at
http://www.dwango.com.

Adobe: GETTING GIFFED
The importance of technologies that are enabling as far as bringing
graphics to the WWW cannot be understated. The twists and turns and various
editing routines required by designers and artists and page developers can
sometimes cause a great deal of personal, mental havoc! Adobe has just
brought forward a brand-new plug-in for Adobe Illustrator 6.0, a plug-in
that enables you to create GIF files in a single-step. The importance of
this GIF89a format is the finished file's transparency, as backgrounds
appear to be a critical design element in most pages these days. This
plug-in automatically rasterizes artwork created by Illustrator and you can
select adaptive, exact and system color palettes, or even use your own
custom RGB palette, when using this enabler, which also offers video
interlacing. The plug-in may be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com.

Alias | Wavefront: GAME DEVELOPER TOOLS SUPERCHARGED
Game developers require a diverse set of development tools to piece
together their multimedia offerings these days. The tools come in a variety
of sizes and colors, dependant upon the development platform, and all need
to be able to bring home to the developer ease-of-use, power and be
supportive of all manner of creative needs. Alias|Wavefront has now
launched a new set of tools specifically for video and interactive media
developers with their PowerAnimator(TM) Version 7.5. Not only are there impr
ovements in system speed and workflow, but MetaCycle(TM) debuts, a new
approach to character animation that is best suited for cycled movements.
ARtist can define and edit specific character movement cycles, such as a
kick or a punch, and generate transitions that blend the cycles together.
The type of transition can then be selected between an unlimited number of
cycles, and the number of frames for each transition edited. There's also a
new Texture Space Editor for mapping textures on a polygonal model, plus
new polygonal display and modeling features. PowerAnimator's features have
already been used to develop some of the biggest selling game titles, such
as Donkey Kong Country, Killer Instinct, MechWarrior 2, Quake, and Wing
Commander IV. Version 7.5 will ship in July.

America Online: GETTING EVEN BETTER
Already the commserv leader, America Online is planning a major upgrade to
their client software. To ship this month, AOL 3.0 has a more colorful user
interface that incorporates more hypertext links and Microsoft's Internet
Explorer. This means full support for HTML version 3.0 extensions, font
mapping and frames. Additionally, the new AOL will support Netscape's
Navigator extensions. For Windows customers, the Rich Text Format is also
supported. This means you'll obtain colored text and you can size text as
well. The Macintosh version of AOL 3.0 will arrive later this year and will
include similar upgrades. AOL also has a new pricing plan that gives you 20
hours of online usage each month for a price of $19.95.

AnyRiver: EA PRO STARTS NEW COMPANY & TITLES
Electronic Arts has long been known as a highly successful digital
entertainment company. One of the driving forces behind that company's
success was a gentleman named Stewart Bonn. He has now started his own
company called AnyRiver Entertainment, which is based in San Francisco. One
of the investors in this company is Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The
company is currently working on the following goodies...

Flying Saucer, which is a real-time, 3D action adventure game. You'll fly
alien spacecraft and explore all of the extra-terrestrial bases on the
planet. Plus, you'll have the inside track on knowing why human abduction
and brain browsing occurs. To authenticate this project, a team of UFO
experts has been assembled. The game will incorporate documented cases and
accounts of extra-terrestrial contact. There might even be an abductee or
two involved in this game's design. A leading animation company, Wild
Brain, and a special effects house, Tippett Studio, are involved in the
game's creation as well. ThinkFish, an engineering and design team, are
involved in perfecting saucer flight dynamics.

Also enroute from AnyRiver is A Fork in the Tale, an immersive, full-motion
video experience that features seamless audio and video, even when a 2x
CD-ROM drive plays the game. You are transported to an irreverent, mythical
universe called Eseveron. You confront bad buys and you must select the
correct "forks in the tale." Because that is the only way in which you'll
find the path of true power and save both Eseveron and our world! Cary
Odes, a Bay Area improv comic, provides player point-of-view as the
voice-over for the game's hero.

Apple: QUICKTIME OOPS
With Java the language seemingly poised upon every developer's tongue,
Apple has created a new class library for the language. The code-name is
Biscotti and adds QuickTime functions to the programming language and they
will submit this library to Sun Microsystem's Java development group,
JavaSoft, before June. Naturally, Apple hopes this library will be included
as part of the Java media APIs. 3D graphics, animation, styled text
imaging, sound and video playback is provided by Biscotti which will play
QuickTime and QuickTime VR movies, Macintosh sounds, as well as .AU, MIDI,
MPEG and .WAV files. Transition effects, such as dissolves and fades,
wipes, and multiple refresh rates will also be enable with this class
library. Delivery is expected to start during Q2 of this year.

APPLE SHINES WITH MISSION IMPOSSIBLE SITE
An average of two million hits per day from Internet surfers around the
world, including folks from the British Parliament, the U.S. Congress, NASA
and the U.S. Armed Forces, have rushed to become a part of Apple Computer's
Mission: Impossible -- The Web Adventure site at
http://www.mission.apple.com and Paramount Pictures' Mission: Impossible,
website at http://www.missionimpossible.com. Paramount's constantly
evolving site is so popular the company has expanded the number of servers
from one to three so websufers won't encounter busy signals as they try to
reach the studio's Mission:Impossible Internet address. Paramount's
Mission: Impossible website uses the latest technology to recreate the look
and feel of the top-secret intelligence computers seen in the movie with a
variety of information, sound and video clips, as well as images -- both
moving and still. Apple Computer's Mission: Impossible -- The Web Adventure
is an interactive experience that plunges guest agents into similar
adventures faced by Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise's character in the film). Here
agents get various branching options or selections that unfold in front of
them. They are able to choose which path to take as they embark on an
interactive adventure into the world of espionage and intrigue.

Apple: NO MATTER HOW YOU SLICE APPLE, IT'S AHEAD OF THEM ALL
Apple Computer was the No. 1 multimedia PC vendor in the world in 1995 for
the third consecutive year. Apple outsold its nearest competitor, Packard
Bell, by almost one million units worldwide. However, because of the huge
growth by non-U.S.-based vendors into their own regions, all U.S.-based
multimedia PC vendors lost worldwide market share, with Packard Bell and
Apple showing the largest decline. According to a Dataquest survey, the
worldwide multimedia desktop PC market grew from 10.3 million units in 1994
to more than 20.8 million units in 1995, fueled largely by growth in the
Pacific Rim and Europe.

BAM WITHOUT THE PAPER
One of the foremost publications covering all aspects of the West Coast
music scene is BAM Magazine which has been around for 20 years. Now the
publication combines its efforts with Pacific Bell Interactive Media
(PBIM). This partnership between the two companies will provide information
on artists and bands playing clubs, on record stores, even bands for hire,
covering Southern and Northern California.

PBIM and BAM Media have entered into this content partnership for the At
Hand web site where BAM Media provides top quality information and
editorial for PBIM's Entertainment and Leisure section of its online guide.
At Hand is scheduled to launch this summer. The new, innovative partnership
promises to be less of a simple electronic directory and more of a unique,
personal solutions guide.

BBC: GET A PIECE OF THE ROCK--LITERALLY
A British film team were set adrift on an ice sheet that broke away from
the main icescape in Canada's Arctic while filming a documentary for the
British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) about polar bears. The blokes were
rescued, goose bumps and all, and were picked up by a bush plane and taken
to Arctic Bay in Canada's Northwest Territories, a remote outpost on Baffin
Island near Canada's border with Greenland. The ice shelf where they were
filming began to break apart and they found themselves stranded on an ice
sheet about five miles long and wide, surrounded by frigid Arctic water.
The crew had planned to be on the ice shelf for three weeks and were
well-equipped with camping gear and food, including two snowmobiles with
equipment and supplies. The Canadian authorities say that this is common in
the Canadian Arctic in the early summer when the temperatures mostly remain
below freezing, but the ice becomes less solid and prone to break-up.

Blue Pearl: SCREAMS CAN'T BE HEARD ON THE WEB
Blue Pearl Entertainment and HBO Independent Productions have signed an
agreement to turn Techno3, one of their online cyber thrillers, into a
television series. This creates the first Internet property to be
translated to a TV series and gives HBO Independent Productions the
television rights for Techno3 plus a first option on rights for a
full-length feature film. Blue Pearl Entertainment has launched its third
cyber thriller entitled Media Secrets and is in pre-production to produce
four more in the coming year.

Techno3 deals with three femme fatales who, by day, are a lawyer, a media
relations director and an A&R person for a record company. But by night
they are controlled by a ruthless cyber terrorist. In this secret world,
the women do not know each other, but they know of one another and they are
extreme and deadly hacker rivals. The plot thickens once the three women
meet in real life and become best friends.

Box Office: CRITICS DO HARD TIME ON THE ROCK
This reporter announced that last week the top movie critics were taken to
Alcatraz to view the premiere performance of The Rock. This event has come
and gone, the seagull stuff has been removed from the tuxedos, and the
folks that are the experts have given it a thumb's up.

The movie also ran away with the box office gross, reaching $23.5 million,
and is the biggest live-action opener for the Walt Disney Co. The following
is the list of top ten box office hits.

 1. (new) The Rock (Disney) $23.5 million
 2. (#1 last week) Mission: Impossible (Paramount)  $14.5 million
 3. (#2 last week) Twister (Warner Bros.)  $11.8 million
 4. (#3 last week) Dragonheart (Universal)  $7.1 million
 5. (#4 last week) Eddie (Disney)   $5.4 million
 6. (new) The Phantom (Paramount)  $5.0 million
 7. (#6 last week) Spy Hard (Disney)  $2.5 million
 8. (#5 last week) The Arrival (Orion)  $2.1 million
 9. (#7 last week) Flipper (Universal)  $1.0 million
10 (#8 last week) The Truth About Cats & Dogs (Fox) $650,000

Columbia: ALL RIGHTY THEN--IT'S A RECORD HARD TO COMPREHEND
It's difficult to understand why Jim Carrey demands, and gets, $20 million
per movie. Add to that the fact that more than 3,400 prints, a record
number, have been released by Sony Pictures for the June 14 opening of
Columbia Pictures' The Cable Guy starring Jim Carrey. All this hoopala over
what? Never mind.

These 3,400 prints pf The Cable Guy are an all-time record for a Columbia
or TriStar, and they will play in 2,500 locations on approximately 4,000
screens (pass the Tums). The co-star is Matthew Broderick, making this a
seemingly unlikely duo, and the film is directed by Ben Stiller and written
by Lou Holtz Jr.

Corel: KNIGHT TIME
A magical, medieval land is the destination for Nikolai(TM) and
Neow-Neow(TM), the two friends who star in Corel Corp's new Nikolai in
Time: In the Time of Knights(TM). This also happens to be one of the first
children's CD-ROM titles that not only operates on your computer, but also
your home stereo. The disc contains 12 original soundtrack compositions
that can be played on any audio CD player. Plus, this is a hybrid CD,
meaning it runs on Macintosh(R), Windows 3.1/95 machines. Designed for
youngsters aged four to ten, there are 17 interactive storybook pages in
full color, plus various educational tools. Your children may select to
have the story read to them by the narrator, or explore each page at their
own speed. Hot spots on each page lead to amusing and informative
animations, while others play a tune, or medieval history lessons, or to a
fully interactive environment where your youngsters can design and the
print their own coat-of-arms or compose new tunes using medieval
instruments. This title was developed for Corel by ABCD's, which is a
division of I. Hoffman & Associates in Toronto.

Corel: COOL CHESS
The continual introduction of new chess sims has us somewhat baffled. With
most of the games now incorporating high-level algorithms and Artificial
Intelligence, what separates the kings from the rooks in this vertical
market? Undaunted, Corel Corporation has now released their Corel(R) Chess,
a 32-bit, interactive chess game suitable for novice and grand master
players. You may compete against your opponents over the Internet, a
network, or via modem, or play directly against the computer. For Windows
3.1/95 machines, this title offers a fully rotatable chess board with both
overhead and side-board views. The game backgrounds are
elaborately-rendered and there's full 3D action with 24-bit color graphics.
Six classic board and piece sets are included: Romanesque, metallic,
frosted glass, wood, art deco, and marble. A customizable user interface
lets you simultaneously display different perspectives which may be scaled
to any size you wish or at any angle you desire. There's even background
music! You can also swap sides during the game and, for true authenticity,
there are separate time clocks and time constraints for each player. You
can obtain more information at Corel's home page at http://www.corel.com.

Creative Tech: I CAN'T HEAR YOU--I'VE GOT A SOUND BLASTER IN MY EAR
Here they come! A complete line of Sound Blaster(R) Speakers designed for
multimedia and gaming enthusiasts from Creative Technology Ltd. The four
speakers are subtly named (for ease of consumer identification, no doubt)
SBS380, CS200, CS46. These units are available now and the SBW500 Subwoofer
will be available in July.

DreamWorks: HANGING AROUND
With the aerospace industry flattening out in southern California, an
enterprising group at DreamWorks SKG movie studio took over the hangar that
Howard Hughes' used for his Spruce Goose airplane. While the aerospace
industry has gone bust, economically, the movie industry has burst forth
with new growth. The latest Hollywood expansion program was announced when
NBC unveiled plans to build six new studios on its Burbank campus.
Entertainment's new economic clout results partially from its link to
high-technology special effects industry and multimedia entertainment where
the rapid technological advances constantly are creating new demand.

Electronic Arts: RACING AWAY
Multimedia companies attempt to do all in their power to gain more and more
attention from consumers. There are general, broad sweeps of marketing
division brushes in print and other media, and then there are the more
specific strokes that are intended to garner a specific market segment.
Electronic Arts is attempting the latter with racing fans. The company has
now announced they're going to sponsor Mario Andretti in the 24-hour LeMans
Race. This sponsorship will result in the EA Sports(TM) logo on Andretti's
helmet, race uniform and his Courage Porsche. In fact, EA has signed an
exclusive license with entire Andretti family to developer a new racing sim
called Andretti Racing 97. This should ship in September for Sony
PlayStation video consoles and will be a head-to-head racing sim that'll
offer both Indy and Stock car competition. There will be 16 different
courses that will include four, world-class street and oval tracks.
Interviews with Mario and Michael Andretti will be included in the game,
and Jeff Andretti will be the in-game expert with tips on how you can
improve your racing performance. Additionally, James Brown of Fox Sports
will handle the pre-race intros and then turn the live racing action over
to Derek Daly and Bob Jenkins of ESPN. They'll give you up-to-the-minute
race results. By the way, the LeMans race occurs on June 15th and 16th in
France.

Engage: RENDER UNTO CAESAR
With online games all the rage of late, even though anyone has YET to show
a stunning profit, the ability to truly become involved in gaming is coming
to roost on your personal computer. Engage Games Online has signed a new
content provider/partner, none other than Caesars World. You'll be able to
engage in some of the world's most popular casino games: Black Jack,
Roulette and Craps to name just three. Plus, you'll obtain live coverage of
celeb events that emanate from Caesars World properties such as Caesars
Palace in Vegas. There will also be a CD-ROM version of Caesars World,
developed by Interplay, Engage's founding company. Engage states they'll
have as many as 15 games online by year's end. The access will be via a
Windows 95 3D interface, whether through a commserv on the net itself.
There will also be a 2D version made available for faster downloads.

ForeFront: OFFLINE ENTHUSIASM
Thousands of us are engaged in the enormously popular "profits to the phone
company" practice of staying online for eternities at a time as we maneuver
throughout the various pages on the WWW. Many times, our cruisings reveal
naught has changed upon our arrival at several sites, an appalling
condition that does little to offset the pain of paying a Baby Bell for
those wasted, precious moments. Enter ForeFront, who have now intro'd
WebWhacker 2.0(TM) for Windows 95. Versions for Macintosh and Windows 3.1
will be available soon. This is an offline browsing product. You preselect
the WWW site you want to monitor and then set a schedule for this
information to be delivered to your PC, automatically and unattended.
Information needed for WebWhacker is how often you want this content
updated, how you want the sites categorized, what WWW sites you want to
monitor, and how much of the info do you want collected. The product seems
to be quite appealing--in fact, Microsoft has licensed this technology. You
see the gain here? Once these sites have been downloaded to your desktop,
you can cruise through the material OFFLINE, and that's where you save time
and money. You can download a "preview" version of this app at
http://www.ffg.com.

Forte Technologies: MOVING INFO
One of the leading peripheral manufacturers is on the move. FORTE
Technologies is now located at 2615 West Henrietta Road, Rochester, NY
14623. Their new phone number is 716-427-8595 and their fax is
716-292-6333. You can also check out their WWW site at
http://www.fortevr.com. This company is best known for their VFX1 Headgear
and CyberPuck.

Future Endeavors: HUNTED--TO THE CORE
Seems as though this lethal Tracer virus has decided to pursue you
unmercifully. As one of four available, rather ambitious, hired hackers,
your job is to reach the computer's data core to eradicate whatever ails
the system, and that includes the likes of seeker viruses and corrupted
sectors. You must match stepping stones of like colors to move through the
50 levels of cybermazes whose complexity intensify the deeper you go. This
title also has a Level Editor so you can create your own levels, plus as
many as eight folk may play simultaneously when gaming over a network.
Called Tracer, this title was developed by the Canadian firm of Future
Endeavors for PC CD-ROM and is the first result of that company's